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The episode of when the Ricker was grounded for alcohol use for two months and nobody is ever going to force the Ricker not to sue to be removed from living with Edward, nobody is ever going to force the Ricker not to sue if anyone forces the Ricker to go to Edward's funeral and nobody is ever going to force the Ricker after the end of Edward's life not to chainsaw Edward's head off and stuff it down a garbage disposal and if anyone disagrees to what I said about the Ricker righting a wrong then you hate the Ricker.

The episode of when the Ricker was grounded for alcohol use for two months and nobody is ever going to force the Ricker not to sue to be removed from living with Edward, nobody is ever going to force the Ricker not to sue if anyone forces the Ricker to go to Edward's funeral and nobody is ever going to force the Ricker after the end of Edward's life not to chainsaw Edward's head off and stuff it down a garbage disposal and if anyone disagrees to what I said then you hate the Ricker.

Its funny how back then you all watched the show and loved it. Now you look back and make comments that it was cheesy, un-realistic....etc.

That is how shows were back then. Stop comparing them to today's lineups.

This is my all time favorite show next to Diff'rent Strokes.

Day one?!

I vaguely remember this show; though the "Dine and dash" episode where the Ricker and his wussier-than-I'd-ever-hope-to-be friend play punk, date some lamentable girls, who teach them to dine and dash. And Ricker's punishment, that of a "Son, that was bad, don't do it ever again" discussion that does nothing but passes as "conservative family values"... If the show continued to 2008, el Ricker would be in prison for grand larceny...

Of course, I don't recall the most latest years - unlike the show I grew up, but I do recall an NBC promo with the audience hooting and hollering over Ricky with his shirt off. Hmm, would the Rickster be in jail for pedophilia too? Or just another long talk from daddy nitwit?

Never mind how overtly trendy the show became. Foisting up the style of the week, every week, right down to the hyping up of this week's big rock star nobody could care less about. I recall distinctly because, at the time, I wanted to look cool, look like Ricky, and got scolded... which in retrospect was definitely for the best!

Franklyn Seales died way too young as well; age 37.

About that Silver Spoons episode about Rick exparamenting with alcohol in which Edward was a captain douch bag by grounding him for a number of weeks meaning Edward was worse than a parent out of the 1950's.

i agree with justin tinsley's comments about that silver spoons episode of rick getting grounded for alcohol use meaning his father should have been charged with child abuse while the ricker should have gone to court to overturn his grounding by living somewhere else and the ricker not going to edward's funeral because of the grounding is waiting to happen to right a wrong those types of storylines quickened the cancellation of the show like smart-alecky charectors of other tv shows also because the ricker only lived with edward for three years like child abuse victims in foster care because the parents don't get to know the kid long enough and linked to the generation gap between rick's grandfather and edward.

I have nothing against responsible hunting, but some of
these over-the-top "Let's kill Bambi" types are laughable. They put me in mind of the hunter portrayed by Graham Chapman on a 'Monty Python'
episode. He strides toward the camera saying, 'Well,
I've been a hunter all my life. I love animals - that's
why I like to kill 'em."

Who cares about Ricky Whatshisname or Jason Whoosit?

Joel Higgins is the hottie of THIS '80s abomination. Oh yeah...he can ride his train through my living room anytime.

Silver Spoons started off as a family show aimed at kids 12 and under. Under that perspective the show not only worked but was funny and clever. However, Once Ricky hit his teens the show did not evolve with him. The writers still were cranking out scripts designd for 12 year olds. So what you end up with is lame prepostorus story lines and scripts that are woefully unrealistic and hoaky. Even when they finaly tried to tackle real teenage problems. It was handled with , no pun intended, "Kid Gloves". Case in point, Season 4. Ricky, or sorry, Rick gets caught with a friend, who has brought beer along with them on a doulbe date with some girls. The cops haul him back to the house where his father grounds him and, get this, hands his some pamphlets about the dangers of Alcohol. Now, Rick reads the phamphlets and is suddenly, miraculously, a preachy, anit-alchol temperance lecturer. PLEASE!!!!! Futhermore, if you watch the episode he puts the can of beer to his lips and then the cops bust him, all the while the beer misses his mouth and spills on the floor. So he never even took a drink! HOAKY, INSULTING, AND JUST PLAIN WRONG! This is a perfect example, This episode would have been more plausable and much more convincing if they did it when Ricky was 12 or 13, not 16! This became the ongoing problem with Silver Spoons. When a show refuses to change and evolve with the kids realisticly disaster is assured.

Shooting the Deer was bad but "the ricker" was sharkbait

This show jumped when Derek (Jason Bateman) left the show. Jason could act heads and heels over Ricky Schroeder. If you watch Ricky when other actors are saying their lines, you'll see his lips moving nonverbally saying their lines, like an amateur actor does. He got better as he aged and got more experience, but this show was cheesy all the way around.

Another JTS moment was Menudo coming in off the train and going into song and you could tell they were lip syncing and where did the background music come from? Totally cheesy!!!

What is this I keep reading about a friend of Ricky's who died breakdancing. Can anyone refresh my memory?

This show jumped after season 2. Though I spent many nights in 1982-83 dreaming of being Ricky's eight year old main squeeze, he started to lose his novelty as the years passed.

Does anyone else remember JT's bitchin' cowboy boots?

This was a good kids show. Too bad NBC no longer has kids or family sitcoms. It is funny though to see the cool hip-hop breakdancing kid "Alfonso Ribeiro" on Fresh Prince as a nerd though.

The theme song was dorky...Kate was perky...NBC was #3 in the ratings,but they had a lot of shows with pretty young women that made you want to tune in.....

It jumped for me when Ricky went from being cute, preppy Ricky and became the vaguely punkish, New Wave monstrosity known as "The Ricker".