I had a HUGE crush on Ricky!! Whenever I hear the song Broken Wings, I always thing of Silver Spoons because there was an episode when he played this song because of a girl. LOL
I loved this as a kid. It is about as 80s as a show can be. Recently I've tried watching some reruns and for the most part, the writing is pretty terrible. But what stands out are the Jason Bateman episodes. Even then he just elevated everything, and the story goes that he had to leave the show because he was upstaging Ricky Jackass Schroeder.
Ooh, please share details! I've always heard such good things about him! Justine leans conservative in some shitty ways, but I haven't heard anything bad about Jason.
Of course she's allowed to have some conservative views. And I'm allowed to think that some of those views are shitty, just like she's allowed to think that my liberal views are shitty.
I actually agree with her on some things, such as aging naturally and the ethics of AI .
She said "in some shitty ways", and some of the shitty ways someone can be "conservative" include a lot of oppression, exploitation, discrimination, rejection of science... there are a number of possibilities. People care because those views create and perpetuate active harms. It's not theoretical, or like somebody picking a different football team: that's the reality of the impact of many of those "conservative views" that others take issue with.
I'm not trying to be combative here, and I won't be engaging in further discussion; I just wanted to answer your "why does anybody care about this stuff" question.
Well said! Many of us care about this "nonsense"--people's beliefs--because it affects our lives or the lives of people we care about, and because, like you said, those beliefs really can create and perpetuate active harms on a massive scale.
I blame Reddit. I never expected him to be perfect, but the total of sexual misconduct allegations, him defending Jeffrey Tambor, and something else that I just can’t remember right now honestly because it’s a sick day for me, all have just kind of soured me. Plus, to be honest, his face is too thin. I liked him when he had a little chub about him.
Loved Jason Bateman as Derek! I followed him into his next role in “ it’s your move” was one of my favorite shows! “The dregs of humanity” if you know you know! lol!
What's strange though is I remember Derek as being sort of a bully/jerk a lot of the times. The things that stick in my head is when the two boys opened a restaurant and he insisted on calling it "Der-ricks," and pretty much ruined everything being rude to customers. The other one was when Derrick was the ringleader behind the scheme to unlock the "dirty movie channel" on the cable box and everyone got in trouble. "Naked Nurses from Outer Space" I think was the movie they watched.
Exactly. Notice how anyone in Hollywood that's a conservative is XYZ but the liberal ones are just wonderful. As they're now eating their own in Hollywood.
Derek Taylor was such an annoying character. I liked Jason a lot better in the role of David on Hogan Family, a little bit older and a little bit nicer.
To me he's like Wally's friend that acted so sweet in front of Mrs. Cleaver, but was a total instigator of all the mischief. I'm forgetting his name. I liked him too. Did kid-me have a type?? [Rethinks my adult relationship choices...]
Doesn't he now host Americas Funniest Home Videos (From 15 years ago).
All I remember from Silver Spoons is that rich kid had a Dragons Lair video game in his house Caused me to feel much poorer than I was even though we were low middle class.
Dragon's Lair was the hardest 'video' game to play. I never got past the first 2-3 scenes. It wasn't until decades later when someone posted the entire game on YouTube did I actually see the full game.
I held onto to that poor kid vibe and when Dragons Lair starting releasing on DVD's playable by remote, I started getting them. I have Dragons Lair, Dragons Lair II, and Space Ace. All on the PS3. They are authentic and have easy and hard settings. Watching Space Ace as a cartoon is flipped out. I think Don Bluth was on LSD and blow when he drew Space Ace.
Dragon's Lair cost 2 quarters instead of the usual one quarter for most games, right? That game frustrated me so much that I wouldn't even try Dragon's Lair II and I don't remember Space Ace. I'll have to search YouTube that one.
I was happier saving my quarters for ColecoVision games rather than going to an arcade. It wasn't until Street Fighter that I went back into an arcade, and there was usually booze involved by that point.
DL was so obviously animated by someone with Disney experience. I was convinced it was a Disney video game for years until I read about Don Bluth.
That's right. It was 50 cents to play. I remember feeling sad and depressed sad, like a future adult who drank too much and gambled his take home pay away, putting a 1.50 into that machine in the span of 10 minutes and walking away getting killed by the spinning gate.
My first game was a zaxxon. I've had pacman, virtua fighter, Mortal Kombat 2, space invaders, lethal enforcers, galaga, hard driving sit down version, a full size skeeball machine, bubble hockey, and an F-14 tomcat pinball.
Holy Christ. Seeing Ricky Schroeder made me think of the movie "The Champ", I think with Jon Voight. That kid could act, he had a crying scene in that movie that would tear your heart out. Maybe that's why I couldn't buy him in Silver Spoons.
Found it an exercise in frustration. From memory he had several arcade machines in his bedroom. Did he ever play them? Not in the episodes I watched. (I might have been too fixated on video games.)
I remember an important physics lesson from the show. Ricky comes home with bad grades, Dad points to paper “Action” then to a scowl on his face “Reaction” gold 🤣
When I was a kid I wrote a letter to Ricky Schroeder and my best friend wrote to Scott Baio (thanks Tiger Beat). Scott wrote her back but Ricky ignored me and she thought it was soooo funny. I’ve been bitter ever since.
Anyway, when I joined BlueSky a couple of months ago, Ricky Schroeder followed me. NOPE - he can go straight to hell. For ignoring me in the 80’s and for his piss poor take on politics now.
When I was around 13 or 14 a friend and I went to the Sherman Oaks Galleria (yep, that one). We bumped into some girls we knew from school. They told us they had just met Ricky Schroder. He went up to them and said, "Aren't you going to say hi to me?". Even back then he was kind of a douchebag.
I remember the one where parental guidance was suggested. Ricky went on a hunting trip with grandpa (played by John Houseman). Young Ricky didn't have the heart to finish off a deer, so grandpa did it for him.
I was OBSESSED with Ricky Schroder...I cringe at how I got $500 for my 12th birthday and I spent it all on ordering posters of him. 🤦 The heartbreak and disappointment at what he has become is immense. Apparently even though I was a kid I firmly kept to my pattern of falling for Douchenozzles.
Never heard of this show but seeing the clip with Michael Jackson means it must have been quite popular… then I looked up the cast on IMDb and holy crap there were some stars on this show!
Classic episode: Ricky's friends are over for his birthday. His dad tells him his gift is in the garage. Ricky opens the door to the garage and sees a Porsche. He's stoked. The. His dad explains that the gift is the exercise machine by the Porsche. Ricky is crushed — in front of his friends. Hahaha.
And then there's time when John Houseman tried to pressure Ricky into shooting a deer. I bet Ricky would've had the strength to do it he'd have used that weightlifting machine his dad got him.
Here's something I've been doing with old shows I used to watch. I'll watch the very first episode, then the very last one. It's pretty interesting hearing and seeing how the production quality changes. Just did it with Silver Spoons. What I learned was that Erin Grey will always be beautiful.
They finally got a nice comfortable looking sofa in their living room in the last season after Edward and Kate were married and she redecorated. I like all the seasons of this show.
A lot of Gen X teen girls had major crushes on Ricky Schroeder. I think that helped the popularity of the show. I remember the rubber bracelet trend he started back then too…
Seriously. The Ricker is no bueno for me now, partially because of the Rittenhouse thing and partially for other reasons. He got arrested for domestic abuse at least once, he harassed various employees about their store's/restaurant's/museum's mask policies, he's an anti-vaxxer, he said that a demon was at the heart of Pride Month, etc, etc.
I mean, people are entitled to like him and support his opinions, but I want no part of them personally.
You know a jury found Kyle not guilty? And that this case was politicized to the point where people choose one side or another based on their party and not the facts? I'm sure glad we have a judicial system.
I remember when "The Ricker" was supposed to attend my child-star-friendly private high school in LA. Rumors were flying that he was going to be beat up on the first day. Schroeder never attended my school and I'm not sure that it was ever supposed to happen, but a lot of bullies hated him for some reason.
The bullies never beat up Kirk Cameron when he attended my school's prom (his prom date went to my school), and it turns out that they should have beat him up for what he turned into.
I remember a whiny little kid that had multiple arcade games and a train in his living room yet still managed to have problems. Fuck him. He had an arcade in his living room.
“Oh no, Ricky the girl at school I like wants me to let her cheat off my test. What should I do”
“I don’t care, Alfonso. I am going to play some arcade games at personal home arcade”
'anyone else see the made for TV movie he was in where he portrayed a young man who was coerced into telling a psychologist how he would commit suicide if he were to do it...before the character was institutionalized against his will for "admitting" suicidal ideation (by answering a hypothetical question)? That movie messed with my head. The loss of autonomy was so creepy...especially for someone who had a condition that medicalized them for a fair amount of time.
I lived in a Cooperative house my junior and senior years of college. My senior year, the first resident born in 1980 moved in. I remember a housemate telling him how said it was that he never got to "experience Erin Gray". 🤣
-SilverCrest-@reddit
I loved Silver Spoons back in the day. They had a giant toy train set through their livingroom!
greenheartchakra@reddit
and his race car bed, that was the stuff of dreams
-SilverCrest-@reddit
Agreed!
Frosty-Sorbet3698@reddit
I had a HUGE crush on Ricky!! Whenever I hear the song Broken Wings, I always thing of Silver Spoons because there was an episode when he played this song because of a girl. LOL
WaitingitOut000@reddit
I loved this as a kid. It is about as 80s as a show can be. Recently I've tried watching some reruns and for the most part, the writing is pretty terrible. But what stands out are the Jason Bateman episodes. Even then he just elevated everything, and the story goes that he had to leave the show because he was upstaging Ricky Jackass Schroeder.
LafawnduhDy-no-mite@reddit
That show started my Bateman appreciation, which was strong af until a year or two ago I learned he sucks as a human
anosmia1974@reddit
Ooh, please share details! I've always heard such good things about him! Justine leans conservative in some shitty ways, but I haven't heard anything bad about Jason.
MrsSchnitzelO@reddit
So Justine isn't allowed to have some conservative views? And so what if Jason did too. Why does this nonsense bother anyone?
anosmia1974@reddit
Of course she's allowed to have some conservative views. And I'm allowed to think that some of those views are shitty, just like she's allowed to think that my liberal views are shitty.
I actually agree with her on some things, such as aging naturally and the ethics of AI .
MrsSchnitzelO@reddit
Fair enough but you're one of the few who actually says this.
QueenSqueee42@reddit
She said "in some shitty ways", and some of the shitty ways someone can be "conservative" include a lot of oppression, exploitation, discrimination, rejection of science... there are a number of possibilities. People care because those views create and perpetuate active harms. It's not theoretical, or like somebody picking a different football team: that's the reality of the impact of many of those "conservative views" that others take issue with.
I'm not trying to be combative here, and I won't be engaging in further discussion; I just wanted to answer your "why does anybody care about this stuff" question.
anosmia1974@reddit
Well said! Many of us care about this "nonsense"--people's beliefs--because it affects our lives or the lives of people we care about, and because, like you said, those beliefs really can create and perpetuate active harms on a massive scale.
MrsSchnitzelO@reddit
And liberal views don’t harm anyone.
Got it.
QueenSqueee42@reddit
I didn't say that and neither did anyone else. I certainly don't assert that, and I'm only here to make that part clear. Peace be with you. 🙏🏼
LafawnduhDy-no-mite@reddit
I blame Reddit. I never expected him to be perfect, but the total of sexual misconduct allegations, him defending Jeffrey Tambor, and something else that I just can’t remember right now honestly because it’s a sick day for me, all have just kind of soured me. Plus, to be honest, his face is too thin. I liked him when he had a little chub about him.
anosmia1974@reddit
Ugh, that’s disappointing to hear about the sexual misconduct and the Tambor defense. 😕
MassEffectRules@reddit
How does he suck as a human?
Caffeinated_Narwhal_@reddit
For real???
MrsSchnitzelO@reddit
I fell in love with Bateman when he was on Little House. Then he became Derek on SS and was such an asshole I fell even more in love with him.
Richvideo@reddit
A Jason Bateman story for ya https://youtu.be/gDgbIfQSjQ8
mlgbt1985@reddit
Yeah Derek was a great character and Bateman killed it
right_bank_cafe@reddit
Loved Jason Bateman as Derek! I followed him into his next role in “ it’s your move” was one of my favorite shows! “The dregs of humanity” if you know you know! lol!
ChatnNaked@reddit
Almost a Ferris Bueller type..
JeepPilot@reddit
What's strange though is I remember Derek as being sort of a bully/jerk a lot of the times. The things that stick in my head is when the two boys opened a restaurant and he insisted on calling it "Der-ricks," and pretty much ruined everything being rude to customers. The other one was when Derrick was the ringleader behind the scheme to unlock the "dirty movie channel" on the cable box and everyone got in trouble. "Naked Nurses from Outer Space" I think was the movie they watched.
CaptainBeefsteak@reddit
It's Rick now. Yeah ok Ricky, whatever.
storm_the_castle@reddit
Ricky Schroeder is a douche canoe
FugginOld@reddit
So is Alyssa Milano. Your point?
MrsSchnitzelO@reddit
Exactly. Notice how anyone in Hollywood that's a conservative is XYZ but the liberal ones are just wonderful. As they're now eating their own in Hollywood.
FugginOld@reddit
Yup. My downvotes proves that.
MrsSchnitzelO@reddit
I gave you an upvote. LOL my Reddit life is downvotes and suspensions.
Son0faButch@reddit
Ricky Schroeder is in the show featured in the post. YOUR point in bringing up someome irrelevant to the discussion?
FugginOld@reddit
What is him being a douche canoe have to do with being on his show as a kid?
Brilliant_Bowl8594@reddit
lol get off your knees…..
MrsSchnitzelO@reddit
Why?
MrsSchnitzelO@reddit
Fell in love with Jason Bateman. Again.
Working_Tea_8562@reddit
Too bad he went to be a cop in my and got killed with Andy as his partner
shoetingstar@reddit
Where my Jason Bateman crush began.😅 I had good taste as a kid.
FastChampionship2628@reddit
Derek Taylor was such an annoying character. I liked Jason a lot better in the role of David on Hogan Family, a little bit older and a little bit nicer.
shoetingstar@reddit
Rick, is that you?!😅
To me he's like Wally's friend that acted so sweet in front of Mrs. Cleaver, but was a total instigator of all the mischief. I'm forgetting his name. I liked him too. Did kid-me have a type?? [Rethinks my adult relationship choices...]
SummerBirdsong@reddit
The name you're looking for is Eddie Haskell.
shoetingstar@reddit
Yes That's him!😅
Knut_Knoblauch@reddit
Doesn't he now host Americas Funniest Home Videos (From 15 years ago).
All I remember from Silver Spoons is that rich kid had a Dragons Lair video game in his house Caused me to feel much poorer than I was even though we were low middle class.
The_K_in_Klass@reddit
Dragon's Lair was the hardest 'video' game to play. I never got past the first 2-3 scenes. It wasn't until decades later when someone posted the entire game on YouTube did I actually see the full game.
Knut_Knoblauch@reddit
I held onto to that poor kid vibe and when Dragons Lair starting releasing on DVD's playable by remote, I started getting them. I have Dragons Lair, Dragons Lair II, and Space Ace. All on the PS3. They are authentic and have easy and hard settings. Watching Space Ace as a cartoon is flipped out. I think Don Bluth was on LSD and blow when he drew Space Ace.
cvtuttle@reddit
It’s an iPad app now…
Knut_Knoblauch@reddit
I've had them on the Playstation long before the iPad existed
The_K_in_Klass@reddit
Dragon's Lair cost 2 quarters instead of the usual one quarter for most games, right? That game frustrated me so much that I wouldn't even try Dragon's Lair II and I don't remember Space Ace. I'll have to search YouTube that one.
I was happier saving my quarters for ColecoVision games rather than going to an arcade. It wasn't until Street Fighter that I went back into an arcade, and there was usually booze involved by that point.
DL was so obviously animated by someone with Disney experience. I was convinced it was a Disney video game for years until I read about Don Bluth.
Knut_Knoblauch@reddit
That's right. It was 50 cents to play. I remember feeling sad and depressed sad, like a future adult who drank too much and gambled his take home pay away, putting a 1.50 into that machine in the span of 10 minutes and walking away getting killed by the spinning gate.
dong_spanker@reddit
upvote for Dragons Lair. DL2 is amazing. Space Ace was my all time fave
UpstairsCommittee894@reddit
That show made me want to have an arcade game in my living room. I did eventually achieve that goal.
Master-S@reddit
What game did you get ?
UpstairsCommittee894@reddit
My first game was a zaxxon. I've had pacman, virtua fighter, Mortal Kombat 2, space invaders, lethal enforcers, galaga, hard driving sit down version, a full size skeeball machine, bubble hockey, and an F-14 tomcat pinball.
hells_cowbells@reddit
But do you have a rideable train going through your house?
UpstairsCommittee894@reddit
Trains are for needs and old men. 😅 so maybe in another 25 years ill start working on the train
Exotic_Negotiation80@reddit
Ricky Schroder turned into a loony conservative asshat.
Pooks23@reddit
Can't be any worse than mega-asshat Kirk Cameron... holy hell!
Salty-Smoke7784@reddit
Bless your heart. Did Kirk hurt your feelings?
Exotic_Negotiation80@reddit
Cant argue with that. Kirk is a certified religious zealot lunatic. James Woods, Kevin Sorbo, Scott Baio, Mel Gibson... ugh...
AtariAtari@reddit
That’s S04, E09
davesToyBox@reddit
Clearly Mr. Stratton was part of the 1%
foilhat44@reddit
Holy Christ. Seeing Ricky Schroeder made me think of the movie "The Champ", I think with Jon Voight. That kid could act, he had a crying scene in that movie that would tear your heart out. Maybe that's why I couldn't buy him in Silver Spoons.
Alternate-Leigh@reddit
Found it an exercise in frustration. From memory he had several arcade machines in his bedroom. Did he ever play them? Not in the episodes I watched. (I might have been too fixated on video games.)
KitchenNazi@reddit
Just rode by that shit on the train and never played.
Alternate-Leigh@reddit
That double infuriated me.
davesToyBox@reddit
Ep 2.6 - “Ricky Gets The High Score In Frogger”
Alternate-Leigh@reddit
I had bailed by then. Better to play Frogger on the 2600 than sit through a season and a bit on the off chance he might play with his toys.
Mugwamp68@reddit
I remember an important physics lesson from the show. Ricky comes home with bad grades, Dad points to paper “Action” then to a scowl on his face “Reaction” gold 🤣
KarmicEnigma@reddit
When I was a kid I wrote a letter to Ricky Schroeder and my best friend wrote to Scott Baio (thanks Tiger Beat). Scott wrote her back but Ricky ignored me and she thought it was soooo funny. I’ve been bitter ever since.
Anyway, when I joined BlueSky a couple of months ago, Ricky Schroeder followed me. NOPE - he can go straight to hell. For ignoring me in the 80’s and for his piss poor take on politics now.
DepthCharge1969@reddit
When I was around 13 or 14 a friend and I went to the Sherman Oaks Galleria (yep, that one). We bumped into some girls we knew from school. They told us they had just met Ricky Schroder. He went up to them and said, "Aren't you going to say hi to me?". Even back then he was kind of a douchebag.
JenninMiami@reddit
I am still madly in love with Jason Bateman after all of these years. 😆
This_Fkn_Guy_@reddit
I remember his house was awesome he had a train and an arcade, the girl from buck rodgers, and Mr.T did am episode.
NoGood2154@reddit
"The Ricker"
postprandialrepose@reddit
I remember the one where parental guidance was suggested. Ricky went on a hunting trip with grandpa (played by John Houseman). Young Ricky didn't have the heart to finish off a deer, so grandpa did it for him.
Here we are, face to face, a couple of silver...
BANG!
Andovars_Ghost@reddit
If for no other reason than seeeing Col. Wilma Deering’s great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother.
Intelligent_Grade372@reddit
Oh my fucking god, why the fuck did I have to scroll so far down to see the ONLY REASON I watched that show?!?
ChatnNaked@reddit
Commercial_Wind8212@reddit
who wants to forget silver spoons??
Dead_Man_Redditing@reddit
Was this before MJ and Riberio did the Pepsi commercial?
GrapeMuch6090@reddit
I was OBSESSED with Ricky Schroder...I cringe at how I got $500 for my 12th birthday and I spent it all on ordering posters of him. 🤦 The heartbreak and disappointment at what he has become is immense. Apparently even though I was a kid I firmly kept to my pattern of falling for Douchenozzles.
Mail_Order_Lutefisk@reddit
No, how is this even possible?
westflower@reddit
My first crush…
Ambitious_Nomad1@reddit
Yes sir! Kinda weird that Ricky was a detective on NYPD stopped watching the show right after.
GSG2150@reddit
Never heard of this show but seeing the clip with Michael Jackson means it must have been quite popular… then I looked up the cast on IMDb and holy crap there were some stars on this show!
Gogurl72@reddit (OP)
Turns out it was an impersonator
skimmed-post@reddit
Ricky Schroeder gives strong Elon Musk vibes in this show.
PapachoSneak@reddit
Here we are
tuco2002@reddit
Ricky was known as the Ricker!!!
MyriVerse2@reddit
Airs on AntennaTV every Saturday.
DeepRoot@reddit
"Here we are, face-to-face, a couple of Silver Spoons..."
FastChampionship2628@reddit
"Hoping to find we are two of a kind..."
DeepRoot@reddit
Everybody! "To-geth-eeeeer, we're gonna find our waaaaay....."
phishftw@reddit
The Ricker, pops collar(s)
postprandialrepose@reddit
Classic episode: Ricky's friends are over for his birthday. His dad tells him his gift is in the garage. Ricky opens the door to the garage and sees a Porsche. He's stoked. The. His dad explains that the gift is the exercise machine by the Porsche. Ricky is crushed — in front of his friends. Hahaha.
FastChampionship2628@reddit
I felt bad for him in that episode. That was a lame stunt by Edward.
postprandialrepose@reddit
And then there's time when John Houseman tried to pressure Ricky into shooting a deer. I bet Ricky would've had the strength to do it he'd have used that weightlifting machine his dad got him.
kaxon82663@reddit
I have the complete series. We all knew Alfonso was gonna go somewhere, he did, he became the cousin to Will from Philly.
Alexandertheape@reddit
is that Carlton?
BeDeRex@reddit
Here's something I've been doing with old shows I used to watch. I'll watch the very first episode, then the very last one. It's pretty interesting hearing and seeing how the production quality changes. Just did it with Silver Spoons. What I learned was that Erin Grey will always be beautiful.
FastChampionship2628@reddit
They finally got a nice comfortable looking sofa in their living room in the last season after Edward and Kate were married and she redecorated. I like all the seasons of this show.
International-Nose33@reddit
Was that a baby Carlton?
edWORD27@reddit
The episode where Ricky and his friend Freddie become punk rock to impress some New Wave girls is peak Silver Spoons.
FastChampionship2628@reddit
I love this show. Ricky Schroder was one of my tv crushes.
jtrades69@reddit
i watched it simply because it was on, but wasn't into it. i didn't realize til just now that alfonso ribeiro was in it!!!
Pandabumone@reddit
This show was pretty shit imo.
Kid has multiple arcade boxes, and didn't once have a tournament with his buds? Rich kid behavior.
Gogurl72@reddit (OP)
A lot of Gen X teen girls had major crushes on Ricky Schroeder. I think that helped the popularity of the show. I remember the rubber bracelet trend he started back then too…
edogg01@reddit
Found this in a trunk in my parent's basement a couple months ago lol
CarrionWaywardOne@reddit
Ricky Schroeder in this show was my very first crush.
Now though? OMG no.
glitterandjazzhands@reddit
Same! I was too embarrassed to watch it with my family because I was blushing so much.
littleliongirless@reddit
Same. Who knew 30 years later Jason Bateman would be hotter to me?
biosfearmag@reddit
I remember that the shirt he's wearing was everywhere. I think the brand was Generra? Or was it Bugle Boy?
SojuSeed@reddit
Loved that show. Too bad about Schroeder, though.
FuckedUpYearsAgo@reddit
What do you mean? He is a alive and looks great
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Schroder#:~:text=Not%20to%20be%20confused%20with%20Richard%20Schr%C3%B6der%2C%20Richard%20Schroeder%2C%20or%20Ricky%20Schroeder%20(rugby%20union).
noxinboxes@reddit
Well, except for donating money to Kyle Rittenhouse, et cetera et cetera.
anosmia1974@reddit
Seriously. The Ricker is no bueno for me now, partially because of the Rittenhouse thing and partially for other reasons. He got arrested for domestic abuse at least once, he harassed various employees about their store's/restaurant's/museum's mask policies, he's an anti-vaxxer, he said that a demon was at the heart of Pride Month, etc, etc.
I mean, people are entitled to like him and support his opinions, but I want no part of them personally.
ChadWestPaints@reddit
How dare he support a kid who defended himself against a marauding pedo
FuckedUpYearsAgo@reddit
You know a jury found Kyle not guilty? And that this case was politicized to the point where people choose one side or another based on their party and not the facts? I'm sure glad we have a judicial system.
FuckedUpYearsAgo@reddit
"Stone him!"
Designer-String3569@reddit
Yeah, Rick turned into a dick.
The_K_in_Klass@reddit
I remember when "The Ricker" was supposed to attend my child-star-friendly private high school in LA. Rumors were flying that he was going to be beat up on the first day. Schroeder never attended my school and I'm not sure that it was ever supposed to happen, but a lot of bullies hated him for some reason.
The bullies never beat up Kirk Cameron when he attended my school's prom (his prom date went to my school), and it turns out that they should have beat him up for what he turned into.
phillymjs@reddit
Based on what Ricky Schroder became in later life, we can surmise that there was a lot of lead in the emissions of that little train.
Ok-Street7504@reddit
Like or dislike , Ricky was a great child actor. Check out the Earthing and The Champ, held his own with two of Hollywood's biggest hitters.
Gogurl72@reddit (OP)
The champ! He was very young then.
jAnO76@reddit
Didn’t that kid shoot a dog?
SmashEmWithAPhone@reddit
I enjoyed Silver Spoons back in the 80s. While Ricky Schroeder did NOT age well, Silver Spoons did have some things I fondly remember.
Erin Gray. No further explanation needed.
John Houseman teaching Ricky something about profiting from baseball cards and proclaiming, "The bloodline is asserting itself."
Sad_Subject_5293@reddit
Ill_Sky6141@reddit
Carlton was awesome.
Target_Standard@reddit
He kind of looks like Ray Liotto as a child
Dorothy_Zbornak789@reddit
Alfonso was my first crush - Silver Spoons Alfonso. It was gone by the time we got to Fresh Prince.
ghostofstankenstien@reddit
I thought he was a douche even back then.
Turns out I was right.
typicalamericanbasta@reddit
We are... The Dregs of Humanity
spacetstacy@reddit
This show made me want my dad to install a slide in the house to come down the stairs. Sadly, he never did.
GreyBeardEng@reddit
That little blond kid went full conspiracy theory nut job when he got older.
Stay-Thirsty@reddit
Ricky Schroeder and Erin Grey? Don’t think I watched it.
TheDeadlySpaceman@reddit
Also Jason Bateman
Son0faButch@reddit
Just for 1 season
Steal-Your-Face77@reddit
Michael Bluth was in that show
Skjellyfetti13@reddit
That’s Carlton on Silver Spoons!
AMGRN@reddit
He was my first crush. Today, maybe not so much.
Mailman1974@reddit
I remember but just came for the comments...the "Carlton dance" did it for me
UpOrDownItsUpToYou@reddit
I remember that I watched it but I don't remember what I thought about it - except that I thought the breakdancing was cool
FROG123076@reddit
Me
Jafffy1@reddit
I remember a whiny little kid that had multiple arcade games and a train in his living room yet still managed to have problems. Fuck him. He had an arcade in his living room. “Oh no, Ricky the girl at school I like wants me to let her cheat off my test. What should I do” “I don’t care, Alfonso. I am going to play some arcade games at personal home arcade”
Last-Relationship166@reddit
'anyone else see the made for TV movie he was in where he portrayed a young man who was coerced into telling a psychologist how he would commit suicide if he were to do it...before the character was institutionalized against his will for "admitting" suicidal ideation (by answering a hypothetical question)? That movie messed with my head. The loss of autonomy was so creepy...especially for someone who had a condition that medicalized them for a fair amount of time.
FugginOld@reddit
Peak childhood moment for me. 1982-1984 was a magical time.
RiffRandellsBF@reddit
I remember Silver Spoons. But who are those kids?
Ok_Effort8330@reddit
She never wore a bra.
RiffRandellsBF@reddit
And for that I was very, very thankful.
Last-Relationship166@reddit
I lived in a Cooperative house my junior and senior years of college. My senior year, the first resident born in 1980 moved in. I remember a housemate telling him how said it was that he never got to "experience Erin Gray". 🤣
numberjhonny5ive@reddit
Watching Silver Spoons, “wow isn’t she in Buck Rodgers too?”
RiffRandellsBF@reddit
Why yes she was. How they got away with prime time camel toe I'll never know.
GreatGreenGobbo@reddit
I remember he had arcade games in his house. Now I have two Arcade 1UPs in mine!
East_Ad_2186@reddit
Wasn’t on my TV line up…