Growing Pains was the first American drama I watched. On December 14, Alan Sikh, the actor who played his father Jason, died of a heart attack at the age of 69. When the first episode of Growing Pains began airing, Allen was 38 years old.
The translated dubbed version of Growing Pains began airing in 1990, when the show was already in its fifth season in the United States. At that time, I had just entered elementary school, and my family did not allow me to watch TV, so I took advantage of my parents' absence to secretly watch it, and I was full of curiosity and yearning for the drama Of The sif, a middle-class American family.
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In the play, the father with strong arm hair is called Jason, a psychologist; a blonde mother named Maggie, is a news reporter; the eldest son who laughs very cutely and is very good at bubble girls is Mike, and he has a friend named Bona who has an erection when he sees girls; the second daughter is a bully, has proud hips, likes to wear high-waisted jeans in the 80s of the last century, and is a character of No Zuo No Die; I also became fascinated with foreign boys for the first time: laughing sunshine aura is strong, with a circle of fan magic little brother Ben. By the time of the fourth season, Jason and Maggie had a fourth child: their youngest daughter, Chris.
Now that I think about it, if it weren't for Growing Pains, maybe my life would have been different.
In those years, because I liked the popular theme song "As Long As We Got Each Other", I bought my first English song tape called "European and American Love Song Classic". (Popular Science: After 00, what is tape? The tape is a ribbon material containing a magnetosphere, and after listening to the 6 songs on the front, you have to turn over to listen to the 6 songs on the other side. I remember one episode in the middle, Mike bought a waterbed, and my classmates in elementary school also bought one, and I was super excited to go to her house to sleep on the waterbed, but found it very uncomfortable. Because I liked Maggie's return to the journalism world, I wanted to be a media worker; at that time, I thought Jason was a very good husband, able to read people's hearts, and I could also work from home to earn money, and when I got to college, the first thing I signed up for was the Psychology Association, and I inexplicably became the president of the Shanghai Jiaotong University Psychology Association. hehe.
"Growing Pains" has a total of 7 seasons, 166 episodes, and when the finale, I cried for a long time watching three generations of the Seaver family leave the big house at 15 Robin Hood Street, New York's Mayor Island.
In the final scene of the finale, Maggie sees the words engraved by her eldest son
ABC Television, the producer and broadcaster of Growing Pains, was choosing the best person to play his father Jason out of more than 150 candidates, and Alan Sikh confessed that he didn't think there was a play at all, because the chief candidate of ABC was tough guy superstar Bruce Willis. Joanna Coens went well in her audition and was signed by ABC before Allen. Allen said that as soon as he saw Joanna, he called, and the tacit understanding between the two was particularly good, and ABC finally chose Allen. After that, they became the parents of three child stars in their careers.
In fact, the three actors who play Mike, Carol and Ben have mixed poorly in the film and television industry after the end of "Growing Pains". The original idea of the ABC screenwriter was to turn Mike, a "not very smart but cute" character, into a new superstar in the American drama industry, and his actor Kirk Cameron was the first person in all the casts to be signed, and the producer signed him on the grounds that "Kirk has a small vocabulary and sounds like Mike who doesn't have to read a book.". He was only 14 years old. Kirk, who is shy by nature, experienced an extraordinary teenage period in the face of sudden popularity, and he said in a 2011 ABC "Growing Pains" reunion special that he could not go out at that time because there were paparazzi and fans everywhere. In 2010, Josh Andrew König, the actor who played Mike's good friend Bona, hanged himself due to depression, which also hit Kirk hard.
Hello brothers: Bona and Mike
Kirk and Chelsea, the actress who plays one of his many girlfriends, married in 1991 and became devout Christians, when his film salary had reached a million dollars. The two then adopted four children, and it wasn't until 2001 that the two decided they wanted their offspring. Now the Kirk family of 8 lives in Santa Monica, California, a bit like the real-life Seaver family, and has always kept a distance from the entertainment industry.
Kirk and Chelsea
Carol's actor Tracy Gold also chose a stable and happy marriage after the end of the play, and her marriage to her husband Robbie Marshall is the red line led by her screen mother Joanna, and the two have gone through 22 years. Tracy, who began her acting career at the age of 4 in Pepsi advertising, was diagnosed with anorexia at the age of 11, but under the guidance of her parents, she maintained a healthy posture for the first three seasons of "Growing Pains". In 1988, 19-year-old Tracy gained nearly 10 pounds during the stop filming, and the screenwriter wrote some jokes about Carol's weight loss by the way, and there was a scene where she jumped through the floor when she jumped out of the weight exercises and fell sadly from the second floor to the living room.
This pressure also caused Tracy's anorexia to recur, and her family's decision to let Tracy go to the hospital for treatment also led to Carol's going to london to study without appearing in the play. In 2003, Tracy published her autobiography of how to fight anorexia, Room to Grow: An Appetite for Life.
The three child star protagonists most eager to make a difference in show business is Ben's character, Jeremy Miller, who was only 5 years old when he became famous, was harassed by pedophile fans at the age of 14, became addicted to drugs as a teenager, and later became a frequent alcoholic. At the end of "Growing Pains", Jeremy was only 16 years old, and he had never received a better role, once fishing for gold in China and planning a food show.
Kirk, Tracy and Jeremy in 2014
Although the three child stars who had been in the limelight in the early 1990s were all wiped out, the four small cameo actors who partnered with them all later became world-class superstars: "Lee" DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Hilary Swank and Matthew Perry of "Friends", combined, they sat on 4 Oscars.
Xiao Li has had head wrinkles since he was a child, and he acts very hard.
Pete was able to seduce his sister at a young age and asked Tracy to give a second screen kiss.
Perry's first "bed" play
Swank, 17, is mature
Growing Pains is the first American sitcom introduced to China, and when Kirk later visited China, he was asked the most about how he thought parents should discipline their children. Subconsciously, this drama formed the concept of a healthy family after the 70s and 80s, when we hoped that all parents could be so cheerful and loving, often play kissing, spend every day is a dog abuse Valentine's Day, and can become good friends with their children, emotional intelligence and IQ have always been online. I remember one episode in which the three children found Jason and Maggie's previous divorce papers, thinking that they were not related brothers and sisters, and they were frustrated and comforted each other, remembering that the children who were surrounded by only children were particularly eager for this kind of brotherhood.
If you don't have time to revisit the entire 7 seasons of "Growing Pains", you can spend an hour and a half watching the movie version starring the original team. The oil drum is also popular with a Marvel fan clip of the "Growing Pains" Avengers special edition, after connecting to the wifi, you can watch this big brain hole title.
Go well, Alan, our Jason Dad.
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