Family Ties (TV Series) Baby Boy Doe (1984) User Reviews

Whitewashed 80's

[whoop-70951 · 2/10 · 26 June 2022]

Seen this episode a couple of times throughout the years and still makes me angry of how they depict Skippy. They throw up all the defense mechanisms, joke to get out of a serious conversation and go as far as " I gave you up because I love you". This was obviously written by adoptive parents or someone who has no clue how the Skippy character should react. Most of all, all the characters involved contain the situation so their lives don't change. Skippy's situation leaves more question than answers.

A rather cruel episode of Family Ties

[Kranadon65 · 4/10 · 15 February 2016]

Skippy finds out that he is adopted and wants to meet his birth mother. His adopted parents seem to think he will want her instead of them and try to keep Skippy from going. In the end he goes to meet her but she is neither warm or particularly cordial to him. He is a bit naive as to her situation , she was a young 18 yo unwed mother who people shunned and his biological father was also young and by her reactions she told Skippy that he was not someone she wanted to talk about.

He tries to persist in wanting a relationship with her but she basically hurts his feelings by saying that it was a mistake and that she wondered why he came to visit her. Her only saving grace is that she realized that he was better off to be with someone who could take care of him. His reactions are hurt and rejection. To put something as fragile into a sitcom and try to play it for laughs is rather cruel and had they put it into say an hr long episode to flesh it out , could have been better.