Not different enough (Diff'rent Strokes)

Member Name: sympatic

Product:	Diff'rent Strokes
Date:	03/04/08 (153 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Some funny lines

Disadvantages: Looks dated

This was a US comedy that saw two black kids from Harlem end up living with a rich white man who lived on the East ide of Manhattan in a penthouse aprtment along with his teenage daughter. The younger of the two children Arnold played by Gary Colman and he coied the catch phrase "What you talking about Willis" whenever his brother said anything controversial or out of pace.

To be honest this was a fairly predicatable American comedy that played on the various stereotypes that an audience would expect. It had its funny moments but when you see it on channels like Paramount today it does tend to show its age and the acting is rather wooden and not very good at all.


It was also not a lucky show to appear in as despite the success all of the main characers had pretty tough lives, Coleman himself was ripped off by his parents and agent and ended up working as a security gurad, his older brother in the show ended up with a drug habit and involved in crime while the actress who played the sister ended up in a porn movie with a drug habit of her own and I think may even ended up in jail for robbery. Either way real life was no way as good as life in the show.

Summary: American comedy.