Bonnie Franklin was shit

As a junior high kid, I had to turn that shit off.

Yeh really disliked her

Somewhere there’s music playing!

We haven't had a Bonnie/ODAAT thread for

*checks notes*

A whole 30 minutes

And somewhere there’s always a cheap seat to play to.

OP = Shelly Fabares

Yeah she was awful

It's why so many left after one season

I actually worked with both her and Mac…BF was indeed a cunt but MP was amazing- lovely, humble, full of great stories….loved her...

She is like me except the show was not in the top 5

Hollywood always promotes negative stereotypes of groups that scare them, and nothing scares a Hollywood Jew more than an independent woman who is not his sister.

Dammit, Julie, stop fucking your father!

Perhaps we should discuss this from the perspective of ‘what types of women appealed to Norman Lear that he cast in his shows?’.

That's interesting, r13 -- Lear seemed to prefer most the professional white males. His women were all fleshed out later.

A description of All's Fair, a single season sit-com by Norman Lear:

"The style of the show is "almost constant hysteria, the rapid pacing set to the sounds of argumentative shouting""

Someone take Bonnie's fried egg titties off the griddle already. They're done.

A most pleasing mushroom head

We wanted to write her out of our show, but we had gone through so many Marilyns there were no other actresses left

Dammit, OP! Leave Bonnie alone!

She was ugly and obnoxious and she thought she had a hot body.

Her mushroom hair and fried egg tittie-boom-booms made the market for omletts rise.

R22-She had the same hairstyle as Nicholas Bradford on Eight Is Enough.

It was her crossed eyes that really set me off. The show wasn't that great except for the pervy handy man.

And her fluttering blinking she would do if she thought someone was stupid or she was trying to make a point. We get it Bonnie, you think you are smarter than everyone else.

No bras, cameltoes, incessant chatterings....this show drove me to drink at age ten.

The 1970 clown clothes weren't the worst however, that Jimmy Walker "dynamite" show had the worst clown clothing, and Brady bunch.

I'm glad you're finally raising the topic of her, OP, because we NEVER discuss her on datalounge!

She was like the emporer's new clothes, everyone knew she sucked total ass but no one would admit it. Everything about her annoyed me. From running to open that front door in a matchbox size of an apartment (it was, like, three steps to that damned front door), to that mushroom hairdo, to that giant frog mouth, to her always seeming angry about everything. And the way she would draw out lines in that "whiny" way. HATED her as an actress.

Apparently Norman Lear's shrewish and bossy wife Frances fought CONSTANTLY at home with their teenage daughter in the 1970s, which is why he was interested in doing the show the way it was done. It was as if he wanted to foist his wife's and daughter's communication problems on the entire US population.

And Frances turned out to be mentally ill.

You're right, r28.

Datalounge should change its name to Bonnielounge!

FUCK YOU r32

What is it about Bonnie that so repels, yet at the same time attracts gay men?

She's a hausfrau who thinks she's a diva, displaying her failed masquerade on the public airwaves.

She sexually harasses men and gets away with it.

I was the ONLY reason anyone watched. Even the gays liked ME

I think the gays also enjoyed watching the trainwreck in slow-motion that was Mackenzie Phillips

r39

It was me the gays liked

What about me? I actually am gay.

Bonnie has a strong psychic pull for gay men of a certain generation because her shrill hectoring and breasts jouncing loosely in her cowl neck sweaters turned us gay.

r40

You are overlooking the fact that you are ugly

HAHAHAHAHA R42. God I hated that thirsty, annoying kid. He was also one of those actors they tried to shove in our faces. Along with that fugly Danielle Brisebois. Yuck.

To Franklin's credit, she didn't allow her ego to completely take over the show a la Linda Lavin the last few seasons of Alice. Aside from a few misbegotten talent show episodes, it was a pretty well rounded show. Franklin didn't even appear in half of the last season.

Speaking of Alice, watching Vera's wedding episode the other day. I love how Vera's entrance is given ten seconds while Linda Lavin gets a several minute long song done in close up a la Joan Crawford.

r43

Brisebois is a very talented singer / songwriter. She worked a lot with Gregg Alexander and has two highly sought after albums, 'Arrive All Over You' (get it?) and 'Portable Life.'

She was a good actress and good singer/songwriter

There’s a legit genre of gay porn based on the Schneider character.

Quite big tits.

She was awful!

Even I refused to go on her show.

She was my least favorite element of that mediocre show. Even when I was a 10 year old fag, I never found it funny.

Jesus Christ OP fucking stop it. You're not funny at all.

Enough.

FF OP.

Hiya, boys!

Honestly OP, you can't stand her and yet you keep watching her stupid show every night? Do you not have anything else to do?

Anyway I'm gay and I was completely immune to her and always thought the whole show was ridiculous so although I laughed at R41's comment I don't agree with him.

And I'm shocked at how mean-spirited, narrow and obsessive OP is.

I always got the vibe that she was a bitch? Has anyone heard anything about her negative of positive?

R51

He's funnier than Bonnie ever was

Exactly R56.

“Alright, Julie - DON’T come home.”

[quote]She's a hausfrau who thinks she's a diva, displaying her failed masquerade on the public airwaves.

My ex did her makeup on some project and said she was a sweetie.

You’d be upset, too, if you were made to wear itchy polyester sweaters and dirty pantyhose all the time.

There was was something about that show that forced you to watch it even though it was horrible.

She looked like she had a smelly cunt. How the hell did she get cast No appeal at all. Talk to Mary Louise Wilson. She has stories

Is it really any mystery that Mackenzie Phillips needed to practically OD on drugs just to face working with her each day?

Remember we don't like BONNIE FRANKLIN, that doesn't apply to the character of Ann Romano, well not necessarily.

Don't count the Ann Romano threads as part of the Bonnie Franklin threads.

I saw Bonnie Franklin in Applause and Carousel and liked her a lot. I hated Ann Romano. But I guess because it was one of those dreadful Norman Lear shows that always had a message.

I think since most of us have only seen Bonnie on ODAAT and have missed most of the other projects in her significant corpus (save her Applause number at the Tonys, where her characterization seems to bear an uncanny resemblance to MS. Romano), we tend to conflate Bonnie and Ann...

Why does DL NEVER EVER get tired of talking about Bonnie Franklin? It baffles me.

R67: In all fairness, they’re not exactly rushing to put those stage shows out on disc.

She was a nun on Y and R.