SQUARE PEGS (1982)

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SQUARE PEGS (1982)

Posted: 1/26/15 at 8:55pm

Yeah, it was super-cheeseball with the laugh track and stuff, but still this was the ultimate early 80's sitcom. And the last time SJP was relevant.
Wonderful article on the one-season wonder of CBS' Square Pegs

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SQUARE PEGS (1982)

Posted: 1/26/15 at 9:04pm

Ha. No. No, it wasn't.

SQUARE PEGS (1982)

Posted: 1/26/15 at 9:09pm

Name me another sitcom that was cool enough to have a Waitresses theme song!

SQUARE PEGS (1982)

Posted: 1/26/15 at 10:15pm

I once had a nice email exchange talking about with Tracey Nelson and Merrit Butrick
And the impact of AIDS on a generation. She was great.

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Posted: 1/26/15 at 10:42pm

Meritt was adorable, but my favorite was Amy Linker.

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Posted: 1/27/15 at 5:16pm

I remember it being quite smart. And I wasn't THAT young in the 1980s.

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Posted: 1/27/15 at 5:39pm

I read that article the other day. I watched the DVD box set a few years back, and it's hardly surprising to read that things like rampant drug use on set (this was TV in the 80s afterall...) and other things played a big part in its downfall, though I can't see it having had much of a life even without that. As mentioned, that 2 parter episode is particularly awful--and yet much of the series still holds up.

And yes, Meritt was adorable.

SQUARE PEGS (1982)

Posted: 1/27/15 at 7:36pm

Fun fact: Aidan Quinn was also in the running for Johnny Slash.

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Posted: 1/27/15 at 7:37pm

Aidan Quinn later played a gay man with AIDS in An Early Frost.

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Posted: 1/27/15 at 11:19pm

I watched it strictly for Nelson and Butrick. Enjoyed seeing him as Kirk's son in the Star Trek movies. He looked adorable in that onesie.

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Posted: 1/28/15 at 8:47am

I remember liking the show all those years ago -- it was back when Sarah Jessica Parker looked and acted like an actual human being, pre-Carrie Bradshaw.

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Posted: 1/28/15 at 10:54am

I used to really like that show.

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