Ashley Johnson has had such a good career since Growing Pains, like holy shit It's like such a better version of Wil Wheaton's story
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It just hit me with full force that the Zoomers most likely have no idea she was on Growing Pains, or what Growing Pains even was
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It's kind of impressive the extent to which Growing Pains has pretty much entirely vanished from the cultural consciousness of Gen-Xers and Millennials Like it's really clear that basically nobody derived any artistic inspiration from this show whatsoever
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Well, yeah. Growing Pains was BAD. It was the apotheosis of crappy '80s family sitcoms. It's what you watched if Family Ties was too edgy for you.
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I actually really like Leo's arc for what it was
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Leo is probably one of the very few instances of a Cousin Oliver actually working out
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Dawn was kind of a Cousin Oliver on Buffy wasn’t she?
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yeahhhhh but she was also kind of a deliberate deconstruction a closer example would be Connor
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Steve Urkel
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See the really successful ones don't get remembered as Cousin Olivers because they actually succeed at taking over the show and retooling it
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