One Day at a Time (TV Series) Father David (1976) User Reviews

The Girls Try to Get Over on Mom and David

[donnamariejones · 9/10 · 18 April 2023]

This was a great episode. Very realistic to start- the girls want to have some friends from school over for a party but mom is not going to be home. They try convincing her not to go or that they don't need a chaperone. They ask Ann to change her plans even but they don't say they'll change their plans to another time. In walks David and they sucker him in to say he'll chaperone their party and they convince their mother the party will go on as if she wax there herself chaperoning promising to follow rules. You can guess the rest as to how the party and David's chaperoning goes !!! Funny how lenient Ann is. Barbara is suppose to be only in 9 th grade so I believe she's suppose to be 14 and I think she was really the age she was portraying. Ironically I also believe McKenzie and Valerie were the same age - McKenzie was a few months older than Valerie but Barbara looking younger obviously fit Barbara's part and McKenzie looking older fit Julies part. I think Julie was suppose to be 1 1/2 yrs older than Barbara. I really liked Barbara because I liked her character and what she was suppose to be like in real life. Originally I like McKenzie although I had a lot in common with Barbara myself in personality and a good kid, but when I found out about MacKenzies real life I didn't care for her on the show as much. It was probably because I knew she was actually worse in real life than her character in the show was. I realize now it was unfortuanate and have more understanding of how she ended up with the problems she did. She unfortunately had a horrible childhood with supposedly many horrible and disgusting things her father did, with him supposedly giving her drugs and allegations of incest. I'm not sure if details but I do wonder if the allegations are true how they happened how did her mother not see or know what was going in and get her out of that environment. Maybe she was into the drugs too and led the same lifestyle. It's really sad her celebrity childhood environment was bad as many child stars have endured but hers was especially awful causing years of drug abd life problems. I'm 2 years younger than Balerie in real life so I would have been about 12 in 7 th grade when the show started. But I still knew about the problems she had on the show and his her drug abuse affected her eventually leading to her being fired. I remember and can clearly see how awful she looked at around the time of her firing from the show. In all honestly her drug addiction was not entirely her fault - if it happened as it's been told. But extremely sad and awful that a parent would give and introduce drugs to a young teenage child and get their own child addicted. I know she found sobriety fir a while and I hope she continues to do so.