Millennials and Gen Z: How do you feel about Bonnie Franklin?

Dammit, OP! Of course I'm relevant! I'm a gypsy!

Adequate aesthetic surgery, however those dentures,.... 👄

I consider her to be incredibly important to my day to day life.

She was groundbreaking and a gamechanger! She 'Queered' the sitcom by subverting the notion that they should be funny by stripping every shred of humor out of them. She was the proto-keyboard social justice warrior with her depiction of a shrill, humorless, scolding, defensive white woman, anticipating and paving the way for the millions that would follow! Her "MS." Romano was the precursor to stating your pronouns!

*I* hit *her* in the head with a fondue pot.

I guess 36 was to Bonnie what 17 was to Janis Ian.

The first line of her IMDb bio is totally insane: "Bonnie Franklin, of the freckled, fair-skinned, hazel-eyed, rosy-cheeked, carrot-haired variety, could light up a room with her buoyant, folksy personality, but she could be quite serious in a take-charge manner when it came to purposeful acting work."

Who?

Well, r7, that's positively vomit inducing.

Who?

Dammit, OP!

* SLAP *

OP Could you provide a handy reference chart explaining which ages are which please? I dont know if Im a Boomer, Gen X, Gen Z, Millenial, Gen Alpha or what! These labels seem so important, please advise.

Sheesh, bring back the Liv Ullmann or Capucine stans.

One Day at a Time was an embarrassment for everyone involved. Just alot of screaming and overacting. I'm shocked it lasted as long as it did.

Never heard of her.

I barely know who she is and I'm Gen X

She hasn’t been relevant since her second episode of Gidget.

Even as a teenager on Gidget she looked 40.

Mannish and a twat with a grip that could open a jar of pickles.

I think that’s Barbara Hershey Highway alongside her in the r21 pic. [italic]Sans[/italic] lip filler.

I kicked her outta my show

Everyone knows that Bonnie Franklin topics are essential to this site.

Everyone.

I slapped the shit out of her after every performance of Applause backstage at the Palace she was so annoying. I would have had her fired but I've never found anybody anywhere who deserved to have the shit slapped out them more.

R26. Not even Marilyn Cooper?!

I have chronic Vaginal Dryness!

I despise her with the heat of a thousand suns. I was in a bar when I heard that she had died, and I bought a round of shots for everyone to celebrate her demise.

Oh OP. She wasn't even relevant THEN.

I'm Generation Jones and would be happy to never again see a Bonnie Franklin post.

I just did the math. The episode "Ann's Crisis" aired in 1977. But Bonnie was born in 1944 so that makes her only 33 years old at the time. That means that Ann and Bonnie were not the same age.

r35 That is incredible

If I only knew of DL's view of her - I'd guess that few people in the entertainment industry were more divisive than Bonnie Franklin.

Well it's critical that DL continue to keep her legacy alive, R37.

r38 Totally agree

Common showgirl! 🤣

Hold me, David.

David thinking: Well it's a job, I guess.

[quote] I'm Generation Jones

That’s not a thing, Boomer.

Murderer

Beast

Fish

Serious, who? And why are we talking about her?

Good Lord, man, let it go!

Angry ginger muppet with fried egg titties and a tendency to over act the fuck out of anything.

How this hambone got a lead role in a sitcom tells you how dreadful television was. In the 70s.

This cunt wasn´t relevant when she was relevant.

I´ll never understand the taste of some gay men for horrible female talent

Dear lord R63, R62 ,R64 get a hobby

R42 Generation Jones encompasses both late Boomers and Early Gen X, dumbass.

To the poster who suggested the Bonnie Franklin AI Troll "get a hobby":

It's pretty clear he has one.

I watch One Day at a Time on one of those Mesothelioma/Camp Lejuene/Reverse Mortgage/Age Related Macular Regeneration channels.

She had to be one of the orignal "Karens." Always ready to rip anyone a new one. She repeatedly slaps around family members, whines, complains and pouts. She also acts sultry even though she has the haircut of a 13-year old boy.

I don’t know who she is . She looks like Anne Murray

Well, she's no me. That's for fucking sure.

[QUOTE] She had to be one of the orignal "Karens." Always ready to rip anyone a new one. She repeatedly slaps around family members, whines, complains and pouts. She also acts sultry even though she has the haircut of a 13-year old boy.

Actually Ann Romano was not a true Karen because she confined her meltdowns to her nuclear family or those unlucky enough to be in their immediate orbit (Alex, and that older dude Julie was dating).

Random thread. She’s long dead.

She's one of DL's biggest icons, R82.

She’s in this. Very funny.

Does Gen Z approve of blowing their dad?

Asking for a friend.

Adored her old shows’ in reruns with DL fave Viv Vance.

^shows in reruns

She was a flat chested, shrill demon, who never learned that she was ON TELEVISION AND DIDN’T NEED TO SCREAM EVERY GODDAMN LIND.

And the fucking slapping-Julie should have grabbed her wrist and kicked her in the cuntbone.

There’s a reason she never starred on another TV show, there’s never been a lead actress that was less appealing-even LINDA FUCKING LAVIN is easier to tolerate. And I am convinced the only reason she got this shitty show is because her agent had compromising photos of Bill Paley.

[quote]r37 …few people in the entertainment industry were more divisive than Bonnie Franklin.

She drove young Mackenzie Phillips into a life of drug addiction, is what she did.

r89 Having to work with Bonnie Franklin would have pushed me over the edge as well.

r79 Oh god no - in Bonnie's dreams!

Everyone I know in the Industry says she was very professional on set, R90.

She excelled at carrying an unprotected cake above her head.

All I can say if that in the mid-90s I was working as a concierge of a 5-star luxury Manhattan hotel when on afternoon Bonnie Franklin stomped through the lobby a few feet away from me. I was startled because she was in a cheap, dirty coat and she looked like she just rolled out of bed. I was about to call security thinking a homeless woman had wandered in from the cold, and then realized, holy shit, that's Bonnie Franklin looking like she's auditioning for a remake of Stone Pillow. This was 15-20 years before her death so I don't know what was going on with her.

Was she related to me?

r92 "Everyone I know in the Industry"

You know more than one person in the industry that worked directly with her?

Riiiiiight.

Bonnie's tendency to overact in her scenes is just becoming evident in R93's video. But it would reach it's peak until ODAAT.

She Bony Franklin now.

Jus like her look-alike Uncle Ben.

r99 Thanks. I'd fry a couple eggs on it in the summer to honor her flat little tits she always proudly had on display.

Never heard of her.

Applause on the Tony Awards

Go inside her Encino home

Everything is an angry red in that house, like her.

R103 It must've taken so long to get that smell out. Bonnie smelled funny "down there".

[quote]Bonnie Franklin's Grave

No more getting whup on her feet for our beloved Bonnie.

Perhaps if she had loved to exercise, but hated to tap, she might still be with us today.

Mid-millennial who has no idea who this is.

R108, but you do, sweetie

R107 I see your photo of Bonnie's box and humbly offer the entire video for your pleasure.

With most stars, you hear about landmark projects they turned down - Angie Dickinson/DYNASTY, Michelle Pfeiffer/BASIC INSTINCT, etc.

But you never hear about projects Bonnie Franklin turned down. Did everyone in the entertainment industry really hate her that much??

r111 They really did. She had the appeal of a used diaper filled with Indian food. She was often dismissed in favor of someone more sexually appealing like the late, great Marty Allen.

Bonnie was supposed to have the Dickinson role in Dressed to Kill, but Brian DePalma realized that nobody would believe anyone would cruise her and fuck her.

And when the killer attacked and killed her character in the elevator, she wanted to yell “DAMMIT TRANNY” and slap the shit out of Michael Caine before escaping.

Bonnie told DePalma this is what American women wanted to see. He disagreed and the rest is cinematic history.

She did WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF in Pittsburg in 1999. (Can you get any further from Hollywood than that?)

god, I’d give practically anything to have seen it!

"Hold me, George ... I'm scared."

And when George calls Honey "monkey nipples," our Bonnie could scream, "I'VE GOT FRIED EGG TITTIES RIGHT HERE!"

R114 - Damn it, George! Damn it, Honey! Damn it, Nick!

[quote] But you never hear about projects Bonnie Franklin turned down.

She was up for the lead in Victor/Victoria, but Blake was afraid people wouldn't believe she was a woman to begin with.

She was elfin-like. When she visited my set, I asked a P.A. to pull up a toadstool for her.

R103 - Good Lord. She died in 2013, but seemingly hadn't done an update since 1983. Clearly she was influenced by One Decade at a Time.

10/10 recommend. Chef's kiss. No notes.

Bonnie in “Fatal Attraction” could have really been something!

Maybe they could rework the opening so Dan and Beth meet Alex when they go to her for tap lessons?

Damn she was fugly

[italic]”DAMMIT, R123!”

Bonnie was a pioneer in the LGBTQ+ community. And how do we repay? 🙄 Even now 10+ years after her death you are still kicking Bonnie around.

This thread is tantamount to the desecration of her grave!

r125 "Bonnie was a pioneer in the LGBTQ+ community"

She did zero.

Holding Out for a Hero is my go-to karaoke song.

[QUOTE] She did zero.

Yass yass she did. It has been stated many times in the DL community lounge that she was an outspoken voice for LGBTQ+ rights, and also donated money to many such causes.

Do not dismiss her just because she is straight white woman i.e. she doesn't fit into your Queer Studies paradigm.

r130 Meh, you tried

Bonnie Franklin looks like she smells like dirty pantyhose!

Pixie-like Bonnie, so spry and so sweet, Dreaded the treadmill, avoided the heat. Weights in the corner? A terrible trap— But oh, how she sparkled when starting to tap.

With toes that could chatter and heels that could sing, She danced on the floor like a bird on the wing. No gym could contain her, no yoga, no laps, For Bonnie found magic in rhythmic toe-taps.

So let others sweat for their strength and their tone, She'd find her own rhythm, her style all her own. Exercise loathed, yet she'd never collapse, For her heart was alive in the sound of her taps.

She could do a lot. Dance and sing. She was the Michael Jackson of her time.

Those gifs are really stupid. Please stop.

Thank goodness I'm not hated at DL like Bonnie Franklin!

How much semen was spilled by the red.blooded heterosexual men of America when this ginger sex dwarf provocatively suggested the flashing of a fried egg tit on this People Magazine cover?

Also, Bonnie was interviewed for this story about why Mackenzie was fired and she was a cold , nasty bitch in her quotes. Don’t kick a smack addict when she’s down you old cunt.

^^ The sweater she wore on that cover was up for auction a few years ago. I tried to crowd source for it here, thinking we could each keep it for 1 month out of the year or something, but curiously, no one bit : (

OMG - it’s still for sale, years later.

Now that’s sad.

R18

I laughed so hard, I woke up my dogs.

R135 Yes, they really disrupt the scholarly tone of the discussions taking place here. Wait right here and I'll get the manager for you.

Why didn’t anybody bother to tell that ginger asshole that she was overemoting and behaving in a most unpleasant manner? Did Valerie’s appeal carry the show for 9 years?

Ann Romano was so unlikeable. Shrill, a shitty mother, prone to violent rages, moving her daughters to a shitty apartment with a pervy super who probably sneaked in and stole their used panties when they left for work and school….she supposedly became an advertising executive, but still lived in that dump. Why?

R137. I love how it says the Nobel Sperm Bank in the bottom left. Very on the nose...

Bonnie was a very miserable person, with an inflated ego. She had a princess syndrome from her wealthy Russian father doting on her, and telling her she was so brilliant and talented. He paid her way through various schools, and bought attention for her. She never reconciled that this was the only reason for her mild success. She knew it - deep down - which turned her into a resentful and bitter bitch.

Do Bonnie's face on Gary Oldham as Dracula.

R144, please tell me you're really her stepson!

r146 Sure, I am! Ask me anything!

Which one of you bitches wrote this review of One Day at a Time on IMDB:

“ This series was okay but I find it hard to watch for one reason: Bonnie Franklin. She is utterly charmless. In episode after episode, men all her irresistible. She is the opposite of attractive; she is repellent. I am not only referring to he negligible looks but her personality and her delivery.

Every time she would utter her signature line "Oh my Gawd " stretching out "g-a -w-d ", i wanted to scream. And the ridiculous jokes about her having dyed her hair. She was obviously a redhead with her skin pigmentation. Why bother ?; it is not like Lucille Ball who was not a natural redhead. She is just so obnoxious.

During the course of the original run she was reported to have held out for extra money because she was the "star "; this is one case where not only could she have been replaced by another actress, I wish she had been.”

They could've killed off Ann after the first season and brought in Valerie Harper as a sister or cousin.

R149...That's what I do best!

[quote]R149 They could've killed off Ann after the first season

And the Mary Louise Harris character could have adopted the kids.

That would have been so much better.

r148 That made me smile. Thanks for sharing.

Bonnie you filthy miserable vaginal wart, I hope you're reading this down there.

Schneider would've preferred to pound Ginni's pussy.

[quote]They could've killed off Ann after the first season and brought in Valerie Harper as a sister or cousin.

They could have brought in a Muppet with red fur and it would have been preferable to Bonnie Franklin.

I like the way the set is SO grungy and dirty in art direction. Like the Honeymooners.

So Jed, are you closeted? I notice you have an Asian wife. We all know what that means!

Tell us some of the things Bonnie said and did over the years that made you hate her so.

R103: Her house looks like it hadn't been touched since the 80s and probably had had no significant modifications in the years before she bought it. All that wall to wall carpeting in those ugly 1970s--yikes.

r156 I am closeted, even though my parents were quite liberal (Bonnie and dad campaigned for Chris Dodd and many other democrats over the years - true story).

What made me hate Bonnie so much was that she demanded attention 24/7, and was highly inappropriate in front of my sister and me. To start 'sexy time' with my dad, she would spray Pam on a spatula and rub it against her nips, and moan "You want these fried eggs, baby?" to my dad.

She made us dye her hair, even though it was orange, she wanted it to pop. Also, the carpet did not match the drapes. She did not trim, so it looked like a chia pet was growing out of her cooch.

She really hated my sister, Julie, and she demanded that the sister on One Day at a Time be named Julie, so she could constantly scream at her.

We all had to take tap dancing lessons, which weren't even offered at our school. I wanted to play basketball, but it was always TAP, TAP, TAP.

She demanded APPLAUSE, APPLAUSE every time she entered our home.

I KNEW you were the real deal, Jed. And Bonnie... she's everything I ever hoped for. And more!

Who?

[quote]Mary Louise Harris

Oh, DEAR.

This discussion is ok, but it hasn't scratched the surface. What was it about Bonnie that allowed her to create one of the most iconic tv characters ever, one that is still talked about on Datalounge all these years later?

[quote]R151 Mary Louise Harris

[quote]R161 Oh, DEAR.

Yes! I must have typed that because I have a Mary Louise Harris in my family tree. I guess I zoned out halfway through the name : o

It’s not often I encounter a Mary Louise - -

[quote] It’s not often I encounter a Mary Louise

Or a Tina Louise.

[quote]It’s not often I encounter a Mary Louise - -

You're lucky.

[quote] Dammit, OP! Of course I'm relevant! I'm a gypsy!

You're no longer a gypsy.

[quote]What was it about Bonnie that allowed her to create one of the most iconic tv characters ever, one that is still talked about on Datalounge all these years later?

A severe lack of talent combined with a severe lack of any kind of personal appeal.

r167 and add in a massive, unjustified ego

The problem with Bonnie is you see the actors on television. Perhaps we wouldn’t be as cunty if this had been a radio program.

It strains credulity to believe this flat chested, violent ginger demon was so sexy and charismatic that every heterosexual man unfortunate enough to encounter her would instantly want to fuck her.

R169. Radio wouldn't help...we all could still tell Fanny Brice was a cunty whore.

Jed, why didn't Bonnie do much tv or film after One Day at a Time ended. I think she was only in her early 40s and other tv stars of her era like Linda Lavin did tons of guest spots and other tv, but not Bonnie.

R162 her astonishing tackiness and talent for irritating her fans.

R171 My stepmom made lots of money on One Day At A Time. In spite of all her faults, she was surprisingly very cheap. For example, we used to beg her to get rid of the shag carpet in our house. She would say “if I have to scream DAMNIT JED, we can’t have neighbors calling the cops!l If I’m tapping, we need sound proofing! “ When Norman Lear called her to say ”Hey, Hollywood Squares wants a shrieking ginger cunt, she’d ask, “ Well, as long as I’m center square!?” But, invariably, Triumph the insult comic dog would win out over her. I think she finally realized, I just need to return to my true passion - TAP.

Which one of you sickos defiled Bonnie's Wikipedia with the following:

"She debuted on Broadway in 1970 in the musical Applause, earning a Tony Award nomination.[2] Her recording of "Applause", the show's title track, was the most successful Broadway song of the season, vocally upstaging the star of the show, Lauren Bacall. Although she was on stage for only a fraction of the running time of that show, Franklin attracted a lot of attention."

Jed -- tell us about your appearance in what must be Bonnie's chef d'oeuvre?

In 1965 she looked like Stefanie Powers' short sister.

How can they be so cruel as to deny us the ability to watch this?

Michele Lee and Bonnie Franklin together. That is…. a lot.

R177. I love how Bonnie not only got the middle photo once, but a record THREE times.

I wonder what Bonnie's parents real names were. They came from Romania and Russia respectively, so I doubt 'Franklin' was their actual surname.

[QUOTE] It strains credulity to believe this flat chested, violent ginger demon was so sexy and charismatic that every heterosexual man unfortunate enough to encounter her would instantly want to fuck her.

But R169 I think that's more of a 1970s TV problem than an Ann Romano problem. Remember this same show was trying to portray homely Mac Phillips as a sexbomb who made straight men leave their wives.

This is not funny.

Valerie Bertinelli was the only reason anyone watched One Day At A Time. Ever.

Maybe it's time for a reboot? An excessively perky redhead from Indianapolis is going too tapdance straight into your fucking heart.

R184. They did a reboot Puerto Rican style with the equally divisive Ms. Rita Moreno.

R57- Yes- The 1970’s were a low point in television especially shows like All In The Family and The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

Exercise, a curse

Her laughter fills the silence

Some one hold her please

Slap echoes the room

Daughter's eyes wide with surprise

The air thick with truth

Tap shoes on the floor

Redhead charm, a fleeting breeze

Still, the smell remains

Tap, tap, tap! Let me out of this thing!

Dammit St. Peter!

Dammit Jesus!

Dammit God!!!

Do you think Timothy Hutton's father regretted the 3 way with Bonnie and Mac?

r193 Those were funny at first, now they're just kinda stupid.

Agree, R194, the old adage, less is more is true. Clearly no one ever told Bonnie this either.

R193, She looks like DL icon and People's 2028 Most Beautiful Man of the Year Barry Keoghan

Bonnie Franklin....a hemorrhoid on the asshole of Hollywood.

r197 With an ingrown hair in the hem

Those reface posts don't get tiresome at all.

The reface troll just needs to give us new ones, he keeps posting the same shit. For example, I think we all would like to see Bonnie as Sharon Stone in the Basic Instinct interrogation scene.

Clearly the BF reface troll has gone from a funny internet time waster to weird obsession.

Her red pussy made me cum like a geyser!

I just COULDN'T STOP FUCKIJNG HER!

Once, Glenn Scarpelli and the evil red dwarf were going to rehearse lines in Bonnie’s dressing room.

He went to her dressing room and the door was ajar. Bonnie had mistakenly not shut it completely.He walked in, and Bonnie, not expecting him so early, had just exited the shower, naked.

The combination of her fried egg titties, overgrown red pubic hair, and her screaming “DAMMIT GLENN!! KNOCK NEXT TIME!!” was too much for young Scarpelli, who ran screaming from the dressing and turned homosexual overnight.

Who the fuck knows who Glenn Scarwateeragghrhf was?

I saw her as Carrie in Carousel at Jones Beach. I found her so annoying I waited until after the performance and as she was leaving I pushed her into the moat.

Bonnie Franklin? Did he play Danny on the Partridge Family?

[quote] homely Mac Phillips as a sexbomb who made straight men leave their wives

Well, did make one leave her mom.

R177 - Oy vey, an hour of Bonnie Franklin and Michele Lee trying to out-perform each other? Like fingernails on a chalkboard. Was Bea Arthur not available?

I find it peculiar that a large segment of the gay male population has such aversion to Bonnie Franklin. Personally, I believe they are unnerved by the idea that BF may, in fact, actually be hot. It tests all their boundaries.

She’s the annoying cousin everyone has, determined to make it to EVERY family event. You can’t escape her.

You think she’s on coke or uppers, but she’s not. That’s just her.

R213, totally and she also prides herself on being THE connection between all the other members of the family, so you always have to call her to ask for such and such cousin's number...

R213, R214 and she's the only family member who knows the whole accurate family history. No one else knows the Franklins like Bonnie does.

It would have been great if another yelled at her “SHADDUP YA FUCKING CUNT! “

Alas, this pile was on CBS in the 70s.

[quote]I find it peculiar that a large segment of the gay male population has such aversion to Bonnie Franklin. Personally, I believe they are unnerved by the idea that BF may, in fact, actually be hot. It tests all their boundaries.

I think it's the stinky pantyhose.

We hadn't yet learned the Lucille Bluth eye roll in the 70s R212.

Isn't she dead? I've never seen anyone emote more on television than Bonnie Franklin, unless it was Linda Lavin making the goat noises in the closing credits of a season three episode of "Alice".

One Day at a Time costume designer on Bonnie:”She had a comedian’s body…her body could earn a laugh.”

Translation-she was flat chested ginger cunt no man wanted to fuck, so let’s make her funny!

[italic]“They’re all going to laugh at you!”

Yes the streets of Hollywood and Broadway were lined with the bodies of men who shot themselves because Bonnie refused to sleep with the. I saw it myself in front of the Palace theater when Applause played there. People were saying, 'There are straight men going to see Applause?'

R223. My eyes couldn't escape the camel toe...

R223 My browser still smells a little funny.

Millennials should know Glenn Scarpelli