A brief wave of nostalgia...

I just watched the Semper Fidelis episode of Growing Pains- Boner's last episode. I hadn't seen it in probably 20 years- I forgot that it made me cry. And now it made me cry for a whole different reason. :(

I think a big reason Growing Pains went downhill after season 4 wasn't Kirk Cameron being born again and causing trouble on the set- it happened because they wrote out Andrew Koenig. Never, ever underestimate the importance of a supporting or recurring player on a long running television show! Mike and Boner was a good early example of a "bromance"- and with that team split up, some of the humor was gone.

I waited a while to watch this episode again- two weeks ago I couldn't have done it.

When I was in high school, the only two shows I would drop everything for were Family Ties (I always loved Michael J. Fox!) and Growing Pains. They're both still funny 20 years later.

My friends in school had pictures of Kirk Cameron as Mike plastered all over their lockers and bedroom walls...they thought I was insane for preferring Boner! I thought he was a sweetheart and not as smart-assed as Mike. Naturally, once he was gone, I lost interest in the show- I mainly watched the last seasons because of Carol, and even she disappeared (largely because of Tracey Gold's health problems).

I skipped Lost last night.

Oh, dear. It sounds like it was an important episode, too. Thank God for hulu!