Growing Pains (1985) |
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Growing Pains Cast |
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Alan Thicke
(as Dr. Jason Seaver)
with Joanna Kerns
(as Maggie Malone Seaver)
Chelsea Noble
(as Kate Macdonald)
with Kirk Cameron
(as Mike Seaver)
Tracey Gold
(as Carol Seaver)
with Matthew Perry
(as Sandy)
Christa Denton
with Kirk Cameron
(as Mike Seaver)
Julie McCullough
(as Julie Costello)
with Kirk Cameron
(as Mike Seaver)
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Growing Pains (1985) was nominated for the following awards:
Golden Globes
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Golden Globe
1989
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV
Nominated
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Golden Globe
1988
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Golden Globe
1988
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV
Nominated
Young Artist Awards
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Young Artist Award
1993
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Young Artist Award
1992
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Young Artist Award
1992
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Young Artist Award
1991
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Young Artist Award
1988
10.
Young Artist Award
1987
Exceptional Performance by a Young Actor Starring in a Television Comedy or Drama Series
Won
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Young Artist Award
1986 Kids` Choice Awards, USA |
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Quotes ] [ , / . Grandpa Ed: Are you happy now that you`ve driven out two of my grandkids, you quack? Carol: Well actually you gave me the idea that I should blow the interview by belching and smelling bad.
[Mike smells Carol]
Mike: Ok. But can you belch? Carol: Are you sure you`re not just after my blank check?
Mike: Of course not! What kind of brother do you think I am!
[thinking]
Mike: *Our* blank check. [reading fortune cookies]
Mike: `Every dog has his day.` Oops, Carol, I think I got yours!
Carol: Then I must have yours, `One day you will meet a handsome man and fall in love with him.`! Jason: My father built this cabin by hand.
Mike: Wow! No tools or anything? Cool! [Vito is handing out invitations]
Stinky: What does RSVP mean?
Ben: Don`t be an idiot, Stinky, it means Refreshments Served at Vito`s Party! [in the boys bathroom Vito reads writing on the wall]
Vito: `Stinky Sullivan is a hunk` Who wrote this?
Stinky: I did. Wait `till the girls read it!
Vito: Stinky, when will there *ever* be girls in here?
Stinky: Duh, when they use the bathroom! Carol: Jerk.
Mike: Geek.
[They hug]
Kate: I don`t eat anything with a face.
Dwight: Well, I cut it off. Mike: Did you see that movie, Taxi Driver?
Girl: Didn`t Danny DeVito play a guy named Louie?
Coach Graham Lubbock: Why did these people give up all their things, and head west in covered wagons? Stabone.
Richard `Boner` Stabone: `Cause if they headed east, they would have drowned? [Mike talking to older blind date]
Mike: Do you have any idea what it`s like to go through puberty backwards? Yeah, it`s true. There are only two known cases, me and Dick Clark. [talking to Mike]
Luke Brower: Not only do you get a sudden craving for pineapple ice cream, but you have to bring someone to watch you eat it? [Mike pretended to brake his ankle so he didn`t have to clean the gutters with his dad and go site seeing instead. Jason leaves the room and comes back later and finds Mike there alone and says... ]
Jason: Kate didn`t want to go sight seeing, huh?
Jason: Boner, is your voice coming from your armpit?
Richard `Boner` Stabone: Yes.
Jason: Just imagine you`re sitting around and are happy and suddenly someone comes in and says "I see you`re all happy and now I`m gonna take this away."
Ben: That guy must be a teacher. Maggie Katherine Malone Seaver: Carol, how dare you disobey us!
Jason: I never thought I would ever say that but Carol Ann Seaver, you`re grounded.
Carol: Wait...
Maggie Katherine Malone Seaver: No explanations. You are not getting a nose job.
Carol: I know.
Jason: What?
Carol: I`m not getting a nose job.
Jason: Don`t confuse us by agreeing with us, Carol. Amy: [Amy and Mike are stranded in Spain trying to get to France] Mike, we are stranded in Europe, a city that is 5,000 miles away from where we want to get to.
Mike: Actually here I believe they use kilometres. Richard `Boner` Stabone: Mike, a voice just came out of the radiator and it sounded a lot like God
[referring to handyman working in the basement]
Mike: No, Boner, that`s Jimmy
Richard `Boner` Stabone: You call Him Jimmy?
Richard `Boner` Stabone: [later]
[walks downstairs angrily]
Richard `Boner` Stabone: Okay, what in the name of Jimmy is going on down here? Jason: [Ben`s video comes on, with him holding a sign] Ben, it`s rated R. Come on, you even admit it`s dirty.
Ben: Relax, Dad, it`s just for advertising.
Jason: Oh really?
Ben: Yeah, no kid would want to watch a movie if it wasn`t rated R. Stinky: Much like that baby alligator your flushed down the toilet, and haven`t thought of since.
[Jaws theme plays] Kate Macdonald: What do you know about guys?
Mike: Well, I`ve been one for fifteen years.
Kate Macdonald: But you`re nineteen.
Mike: Interesting story. Jason: Well, Carol`s an adult and Mike`s... over 21. Carol: I`m going to go wake up Chrissy and we can do a happy dance that we`re girls. Luke Brower: [sarcasticly] What a tease.Trivia In 1990, the producers chose to "leap" the character of Chrissy five years, and she suddenly became seven years-old.
Jeremy Miller`s character Ben Seaver has the middle names, "Hubert Horatio Humphrey" in honor of the famous senator from Minnesota.
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# The Family`s last name was Seaver and they had neighbors named Koosman. Tom Seaver and Jerry Koosman were teammates on the New York Mets during the `60s and `70s. The show takes place on Long Island so it`s likely that the creators were Mets fans. *
* Between the 88-89 season cliffhanger and 89-90 season premiere, Kirk Cameron had a religious awakening and demanded that Julie McCullough`s character of Mike`s fiancée be written out of the show because of McCollough`s real-life Playboy Magazine past.
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# Producers had to seriously re-tailor the show to better include other cast members after the network complained that the pilot too heavily focused on the Mike character.
Alan Thicke was predominantly known as a Canadian talk show host before the role of Jason on the show. Most involved with the production did not want him, but when no one reading for the part fit the bill, Thicke was auditioned and hired. Kirk Cameron was so intent on keeping the show devoid of adult themes that he phoned the president of ABC and accused producers Dan Guntzelman, Steve Marshall and Michael Sullivan of being "pornographers". The three then resigned from the show, having had enough of Cameron`s shenanigans. Matthew Perry appeared in the 88-89 season as Carol`s boyfriend, Sandy. After a handful of episodes, Sandy dies from injuries sustained from a drunk-driving accident. #
# Actor Jamie Abbott, who portrayed Ben`s best friend "Stinky Sullivan", was first featured on the show as another character which was a bully of Ben`s. Tracey Gold (Carol) suffered from severe anorexia and missed most of the show`s final season. Pay close attention to the final episode and you will notice Gold does not take one bite of the pizza she is holding.
Kirk Cameron met his future wife `Chelsea Noble` when she guest-starred as Kate on the show. Although Mike is the oldest of the Seaver kids, actor Kirk Cameron actually was more than a year younger than Tracey Gold who played Mike`s younger sister Carol.
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# There were four renditions of the theme song. Initially, B.J. Thomas sang it solo. Later, a track recorded by Dusty Springfield was overlaid to create a duet. Springfield`s track was replaced by Jennifer Warnes version following her successful duet with Bill Medley on the Dirty Dancing (1987) soundtrack. The final season featured an a cappella version.
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# The video portion of the theme featured five different variations; season 1 had artwork from various eras (Egyptian, Renaissance, Victorian, etc.) with the cast names superimposed; season 2 had clips of season 1; season three showed real-life photos of the cast when they were younger, and always had Thicke standing alone at the end of the song, then running to catch up with other cast members; season four and five had a different cast member linger in front of the camera before running for other cast members; seasons six and seven featured a professional family photo before and after the credits. Julie McCullough was unaware of her firing as she was handed the script just moments after showing up on-set. She found it difficult to do a follow-up episode a year later, as her character makes good with Mike, when in real-life she resented Cameron for having her fired. The character Jason Seaver was ranked #37 in TV Guide`s list of the "50 Greatest TV Dads of All Time" (20 June 2004 issue). Maura Tierney admitted to having been fired from the show. Leonardo Dicaprio` was brought on in a last ditch effort to pump new life into the show and appeal to the teenage fan base, but the show ratings did not improve. Dicaprio`s character was dropped and the show canceled. | ||
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