The Facts of Life

The Facts of Life was a spinoff of the popular NBC sitcom Diff'rent Strokes. It ran on the NBC network from 1979 to 1988 and was produced first by TAT Communications, then Embassy Television, followed by Embassy Communications, and finally, Columbia Pictures Television (through ELP Communications). Today, Sony Pictures Television still distributes the rights to the sitcom.

Pop culture references

• On The Simpsons, in the episode Bart Gets Famous, Lisa Simpson imagines that she has cured all disease, ended war, and reunited the cast members of this show.
• On The Golden Girls, in the third season episode Strange Bedfellows, Dorothy gives a sardonic answer to an obvious question by Rose, "No, Rose, I'm upset because they haven't rerun The Facts of Life Goes to Australia." (The actual title of that special was The Facts of Life Down Under).
• On Family Guy, the show has been mentioned several times:
• Peter suggests a line of Transformers based on the characters
• Peter's campaign speech in running for Quahog school board is made up off the cuff of theme song lyrics, including this one.
• In "SuperGriffins," the family commence a statue based on the first season episode in which Blair plagiarizes the Emily Dickinson poem Beauty Crowds Me 'Til I Die.
• Peter changes into Mrs. Garrett's bosom, which talks in a Mrs. Garrett falsetto, exclaiming "Girls, girls!"
• Mrs. Garrett and Blair are also referenced several times in the dialog of different episodes.
• During her I'm the One that I Want stand-up routine, comedienne Margaret Cho mentions the show - "My hair was so feathered it looked like an ass... It was actually more feathered than Blair's on "Facts of Life".