Comments on: Diff’rent Strokes Spun Off Mrs. Garrett for The Facts of Life Very Quickly https://popculturereferences.com/diffrent-strokes-spun-off-mrs-garrett-for-the-facts-of-life-very-quickly/ Brian Cronin takes a look at interesting pieces of pop culture history from the worlds of TV, film, music and more. Fri, 15 Dec 2023 19:23:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 By: John B Trumbull https://popculturereferences.com/diffrent-strokes-spun-off-mrs-garrett-for-the-facts-of-life-very-quickly/#comment-15911 Fri, 15 Dec 2023 19:23:21 +0000 https://popculturereferences.com/?p=6365#comment-15911 Like a lot people, I only started watching The Facts of Life after it was revamped to just focus on four of the girls, and I believe I never saw Diff’rent Strokes during the Edna Garrett season, so I honestly didn’t realize TFOL was a spinoff until years later!

I wonder why they made the Eastlake/Eastland switch. It’s such an arbitrary change. Did they find a real school by that name, maybe?

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