When I was a young boy, which probably is more than 10 years ago, every night I would wait in front of my TV to see Growing Pains. It was dubbed into Chinese. I found it really funny and laughed with the spot audience every single night. Well I didn't laugh all the time because even though I was only 11 or 12 years old I could get some of the serious messages in Growing Pains. I remember the episode where Mike gave every teen a lesson about quitting drugs, and another one where he had the whole family help him lie to a girl who's into art and finally told her the truth that he is not artistic. I sure got those, but when I watched the whole series all the way again a few months ago I got more.
To do the spoiler click justice I may wanna talk about the episode I remember the most. It was the one where Boner is going to list in the marine and Mike tries to persuade him out of the decision but Boner really feels he's gonna do what he knows he should do and it's the first time in his life he knows what he wants to do. So all Mike can do as a best friend is give him his best love and wishes and see him off. And that was real touching...
Not only did I find my favorite episode, I also learned more when I watched it the second time. Well the messages and points are quite simple and easy to understand but there is one thing you have to get out there to feel with your own heart. I think Jason just put it very accurately by asking Maggie: Can you imagine all those kids have just suddenly grown up? I am not a parent myself but I could really feel it when I heard Jason say it... You won't notice the growing if you don't want to but as long as you put a little bit of attention and love you will see the family around you are becoming more mature, more lovable! Just try to imagine if Mike had got the 5000 dollars from his grandparents a couple of years before he got them, would he have used the money to help a homeless guy? And would Carol have bought her grandparents the tickets to Ireland with the 5000 dollars if it'd happened a few years ago? If you wanna find out what kind of kids they were just get back and watch episode one. We see their growing and that's a great feeling to have for us as audience because we all have family around us.
Get your dusty family album outta your cabinet and have a look at it, with some smile and love.
To do the spoiler click justice I may wanna talk about the episode I remember the most. It was the one where Boner is going to list in the marine and Mike tries to persuade him out of the decision but Boner really feels he's gonna do what he knows he should do and it's the first time in his life he knows what he wants to do. So all Mike can do as a best friend is give him his best love and wishes and see him off. And that was real touching...
Not only did I find my favorite episode, I also learned more when I watched it the second time. Well the messages and points are quite simple and easy to understand but there is one thing you have to get out there to feel with your own heart. I think Jason just put it very accurately by asking Maggie: Can you imagine all those kids have just suddenly grown up? I am not a parent myself but I could really feel it when I heard Jason say it... You won't notice the growing if you don't want to but as long as you put a little bit of attention and love you will see the family around you are becoming more mature, more lovable! Just try to imagine if Mike had got the 5000 dollars from his grandparents a couple of years before he got them, would he have used the money to help a homeless guy? And would Carol have bought her grandparents the tickets to Ireland with the 5000 dollars if it'd happened a few years ago? If you wanna find out what kind of kids they were just get back and watch episode one. We see their growing and that's a great feeling to have for us as audience because we all have family around us.
Get your dusty family album outta your cabinet and have a look at it, with some smile and love.