My quote for today:
“Why, why, why should women strive to be poor imitations of the sons of Adam? Women were placed here on this earth to remind man of his nobler self through the arts: poetry, song, dance, and needlework.”
–from the woman who’s alter ego is referred to as a “hyphenated woman,” Whitley Gilbert

Sexline: The Tale of Freddie the Prude?

I looked around for information on Freddie, and I couldn’t find anything that supported my view, so I’m just going out on a limb with this one.Freddie, to me, is more of the antithesis to Whitley. Both are prudes, but while Whitley is the bitchy-as-hell prude that eventually gets a hangup on Jullian, Byron (question if she ever really loved him here) and Dwayne, Freddie is the clumsy-and-naive-as-hell prude that gets hangups on Dwayne and Shazza and Ron.

Very early in season two, Freddie tries to stake out Dwayne. However, she is not active in pursuing this lofty goal, and fears that Whitley may have taken him away (already? What a prophet!) in “Dream Lover.” When she gets drunk in “I’ve Got the Muse in Me,” Freddie’s still in love with Dwayne (“From the first moment I saw you [Dwayne] I said ‘I love him, I want him, I need him.’ Oh, at last, my heart is light”), but by the time of “No Means No,” she was out of it.

Why did Freddie lust after Dwayne? Maybe it was because Cree Summer and Kadeem Hardison were dating at time. Maybe their relationship inspired the Star Trek ripoff they called the future in (finally got this on tape!) “For Whom the Jingle Bell Tolls.” That’s the scene when the “Free Spirit” of the Future, Jaleesa, kicks Whitley in her proverbial balls again by showing Whitley a married Freddie and Dwayne celebrating Christmas with the majority of the regular cast and some extras with bad Freddie(!) wigs and patented Dwayne Wayne flip-up shade attachments to their glasses (as well as normal people in Star Trek outfits). Whitley was told she’d be married to a bunch of losers, divorce most of the bastards, and she’d live the rest of her life as a size 16 loner with bonbons, soap operas and poodles before dying. There, only Kim, Jaleesa, Dwayne, and the poodles would be at her funeral.

Anyway, Freddie awowed in “It Happened One Night” that she would never have sex (“I am never having sex. Not before I’m married, not after I’m married”). To paraphrase Hamlet in Hamlet, “Get Freddie to a nunnery!”

Freddie dated some people (one of the twins on a third-season double date; that’s where she and Kim say “Two, two, two duds in one!,” Livingston and Ernest in “The Power of the Pen,” god knows) but became romantically involved with Shazza in the fifth season. Midway through the sixth season she dates Ron (behind and not behind Kim’s back), elevating her with Whitley for “Most Despised Female Character–ADW.”

And this is where the fun begins. According to TVTome.com, the site says that “Freddie apparently loses her virginity to Ron during the storm” in “In the Eye of the Storm.” I concur. I thought there was a quote during the sixth season (once again, I cannot pinpoint the quote. “Don’t Count Your Chickens Before They Hatch,” maybe?) that said explicitly about their first time, and I assumed that they did it for the first time in the sixth season. Here’s the quotes after Ron and Freddie kiss in the radio station from “Storm:”

Freddie: The hurricane has moved on!
Ron: (dejectedly) Great. We’re rescued.
Freddie: Ron, what did we just do?
Ron: I don’t know…but it was kinda nice.
Freddie: Ron, this is just between you and me, right?
Ron: Red, I won’t tell a soul.

Some sexual hinting, but you never know, right?

In the end, Freddie stays with Ron, despite the fact that sometimes she wonders (like many people upset that Freddie went to law school, for Chrissakes!) how she ended up with Ron.

Off the Sexline: Whitley and Denzel

A Different World: That’s the Trouble With You All – TV Tome

I’m guessing this is where I should start with this timeline. Around the time that Julian is dating Witless, she mentions something about liking Denzel Washington prior to a date. (This episode is NOT “21 Candles,” but it’s either this one or “A World Apart,” and I doubt it’s the latter) What kills me is that I can’t remember the episode exactly. THEN, in “21 Candles,” Whitley has a dinner date with the picture of Denzel Washington.

Other notable Denzel Washington moments:
“Baby, I’m a Star”–Denzel, his wang, and his performance in a movie figure in a strange subplot in this episode dealing with sexism. Off and on in the first part of the episode, Whitley and Dwayne are arguing about sexism in real life, the workplace, etc. Dwayne even threatens to take Whitley (as Alice in The Honeymooners “to the moon,” even showing her a (playful?) fist. They mention how Whitley would probally drool at the sight of Denzel’s wang in Ricochet.

“Honeymoon in LA, Part I”–Who can forget this quote from Whitley after Dwayne tells her to wait outside Melrose Court at six:
“If Denzel don’t pick me up first.”
Dwayne: “Denzel, Denzel, Denzel.”
Whitley: “Or Eddie [Murphy] or Wesley [Snipes]…”

“To Whit, With Love”–Marla Gibbs, playing the principal at Whitley’s school, says (as she’s sweeping up Whitley’s classroom):
Well child, I had a date to go dancing with Denzel Washington, but I decided to cancel and do the night sweeping with this broom.

August 22, 1998–Jasmine Guy marries Terrence Duckette and more than likely the dream ended here. You never know, though…

Also:
I posted some things earlier about Jasmine Guy’s worship with Denzel. I forgot a very crucial Denzel element shown on ADW–the Denzel picture in Whitley’s apartment in the fifth season! It’s near her door to the Height Hall lobby. You can see it in episodes like “Liza Who-Little” and “Special Delivery”–Whitley even kisses the picture after Ron uses Denzel’s name as a psudeonym to lure the stripper Amber Waves for an interview (after she admitted to stripping for Byron, and Byron, the asshole that he is, never told Whitley. And still Whitley pressed on with the wedding. What balls!).

Yes, I haven’t been faithful.

But I have some ideas coming up: an incorrect item on TVTome.com about the episode featured in the article that I have taken the excerpt below from, the sexline of Freddie, just when Freddie first had sex (also debated on TVTome.com), and Jasmine Guy’s (former?) love of Denzel Washington, which figures into a lot of storylines for ADW. Here’s a preview:

“I’m an impish, devilish creature…Jasmine Guy herself had decided that Denzel Washington was her role model, the image of a gorgeous, successful Black man. And [Adriana Trigiani] wrote that episode where [her birthday] was not being celebrated ["21 Candles"]. [Guy, as Whitley] just got her bottle of champange and took [Denzel's] picture and pinned it on her pillow and was going ‘Denzel! Denzel!’
Well, [Denzel's] really a good friend of mine and he doesn’t live far from the studio, so I called his wife [Pauletta Washington]. First, I was calling to make sure we could get the pictures we needed. And then, I said, ‘Honey, is Denzel home?’ He was home. I said, ‘Den, you’ve gotta come over here [to the studio] to see what we’re doing to you. You gotta come.’ So he came over and Jasmine’s in there singing ‘Denzel, rock my world, rock my world.’ I didn’t tell anyone except Susan [Fales]. [Dawnn Lewis, as Jaleesa] was supposed to tap [Guy] on the shoulder. Well, honey, she was doing her thing. Denzel walked in the door and the audience went crazy. [Guy] didn’t see him and thought she was giving the most brilliant performance, yelling ‘Denzel! Denzel!’ And then she turned around and he was there. She turned into a screaming Mimi. She lost her mind. It was like she saw a ghost, [how frightened Guy was]. She ran off the set. It was the funniest thing. We stopped the show.
–Debbie Allen

Modified (severely) from the article “Behind the Scenes of A Different World” by Aldore Collier. Article from the December 1991 issue of Ebony. Reprinted without permission and proud, but hey, at least I’m not hawking it for some Black magazine as my own.

Sexline: Kim Reese

In season two, Kim had a boyfriend (on top of doing so much work to prep for medical school) named Robert. She had sex with him, as evidenced in “All’s Fair” and “It Happened One Night.” Eventually she broke up with him after the letter she recieved in “Breaking Up is Hard to Do.”
In later seasons Kim refused to have sex with whoever she was dating (ie Ron). She was less sexually active than Whitley (it might be sketchy with Freddie) even!

Sexline: Whitley Gilbert

I was thinking about this idea way before “The Getaway (Part II)” aired today. And then, I saw Whitley read More Joy of Sex. (More on that later.)

My next post (later today) will deal with that Brentley Tanner “fresh out the oven” thing. But right now, I wanna crank up Tupac’s “Temptations” and write on how Whitley transformed from a prude to a sexually active…prude.

Once, Whitley, being the stuck-up Southern Belle that she is, prized her virginity. She had to defend it in “Those Who Can’t…Tutor.”

Then Whitley, for the first time in her life, has a wet dream (featuring canoes and jumbo shrimp) about her future husband, Dwayne, in “Dream Lover.” Whitley even daydreams of dancing with Dwayne to a classical piece (I’m not sure of its name. Sorry).

Ignoring her kisses to Dwayne and her flirting with Julian, we find her in “The Getaway (Part II)” repeatedly trying to have sex with Julian, throwing him on the bed in the beach house over and over and over. She almost attempts to choke him at times. Julian, being the PC puppet for this episode, says he’d rather wait until he and Whitley are alone to fuck. I say he was either not horny and/or afraid of Whitley. Alas, his decision leaves him coochieless, as he later gets engaged to some other woman (upsetting Whitley, who was dating Dwayne) in “Ex-Communication/Fiancée What?”

She attempts to give Dwayne the best birthday present anyone can ever give anyone in “If I Should Die Before I Wake,” sex, before that woman that looks a lot like Tisha Campbell-Martin tells her public speaking class about AIDS but after refusing the almighty (so almighty, we at ADW cannot show it) condom.

However, after refusing to go on her flight to New York to work with Erdine Abernathy, her boss at E.H. Wright Industries, to stay over at Dwayne’s place the same night (after he proposes to her), she finally sleeps with Dwayne (and loses her virginity). By the time “We’ve Only Just Begun” begins, she’s practically a pro. She’s even cooking Dwayne breakfast and attempting to choke him in her apartment in Height Hall.

Whitley later broke their engagement. Yet, after a “friendly” talk in her apartment, Whitley and Dwayne end up sleeping together in “Kiss You Back.”

Of course, as I have already written, this sex might have been enough to make Whitley reconsider marrying Byron Douglas III (the Senator). I have heard that a relationship is good if there’s good sex (among other elements), so maybe she finally realized that Dwayne was her One all along. (And that is the only positive thing I will say about their wedding.)

Being newlyweds gave Whitley and Dwayne excuses to have sex all the time during the sixth season: all Dwayne had to do was escort Whitley to their bedroom in their apartment, and they’d have sex.
However, Whitley was still a prude. She abhored the site of a Playboy in “Really Gross Anatomy” and hated the sound of the word “sex” in “Baby, It’s Cold Outside.” (She still used words like “freaky” and “nasty” for sex, though.)
Whitley ended getting pregnant on what should have been been the last episode of ADW, “When One Door Closes (Part I).”

Note to all in a relationship:
1) Never lipsync “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” with a routine before sleeping together.
2) Never pin your boy to the bed. Never.

The Complete (more or less) Guide to the Episode “The Little Mister” (2)

Dream Sequence Scene (DSS) 1–Mush in the White House
Poor Mush. She’s broken a lot of her promises in office (but then again, who hasn’t?):
Kim: “…the stock market is down, the Gross National Product is down, and your popularity is way down.
However, her strengh lies in Bob Mush, her husband: the people like him.

DSS 2: Message From Rose Godot (1)
To point out Ross Perot’s way of contradicting himself, Rose Godot is claiming that she is in our out of the race. Here she claims she’s in the race.DSS 3: The Governor’s Mansion
Jill pretends to play a saxophone (and if Jasmine Guy is the quintessential “everywoman,” then she should be able to play sax. Hell, she can’t play piano)–a commentary of Bill Clinton (who can play sax). (Later, Freddie chases away the man on the set who plays saxophone for all the dream sequences). Hilliard’s ecstatic about Rose “dropping out,” only to be reprimanded by Jill and Freddie the Foot Locker advisor about acting like a “woman,” or sounding more intelligent than he really is.If DSS 1 & 3 aren’t clear to ya, then those scenes are supposed to show the repression and the apparent lower social status of women today.

DSS 4: Message From Rose Godot (2)
See DSS 2.

DSS 5: Capital Hill Barbershop
This is where Johnny the slut admits that he’s slept with Jill while Hilliard’s getting a shave.

DSS 6: Back at the Governor’s Mansion
(Logic laspe: Where in the hell is this Governor’s Mansion if Hilliard can just casually walk over to a barbershop? Baltimore? Richmond? Little Rock? Surely there is no governor of the District of Columbia!)
Anyway, the media is presented as more interested to see if Jill is fucking someone else outside of her marriage. Remember all of Clinton’s alleged lovers? Monica Lewinsky? The “stained” Gap dress? Linda Tripp? The cigar…wait, most of ya’ll may not know about the cigar. Anyway, this may be one of the biggest legacies of the Clinton era (although I’m not liking that “man and woman marriage bill” he signed…I’m not gay, but I’m for gay rights…I’m rambling. I’ll stop). But I agree with Whoopi Goldberg when she said that she liked a president who could fuck. I had the exact quote, from a Comic Relief book, but I don’t have it with me on the Hill. Sorry.
Dwayne is visably upset (the way I think the mainstream press wanted Hillary to be. Of course, she became governor of New York and pissed the whole state off. Yay!) at Jill’s affairs and why she keeps repeatly doing them.

DSS 7: The Republican Convention
I still do not know why the Republican delegates are sheep. Maybe it’s to show that Democrats (at least these Democrats on this show) think that Republicans are mindless.
In a related matter, I present to you the Brentley Tanner fiasco. Brentley Tanner, a columnist for our school paper, the Daily Tar Heel, is a conservative that pisses people (at least liberals) off every Thursday. It’s the highlight of my Thursdays to read his article and see reader responses to his sometimes fact-lacking opinions on Fridays and occasionally Mondays and Tuesdays.
Here is his opinion on the Republican Party, based on history. (The “fresh from the oven” thing is a long story. I’ll tell it later.)
And here are some rebuttals: (one), (two) & (three).
The Republican Convention features Patty Buchanan as some type of hypocrite claiming that she knows God personally and claiming that Hilliard is evil for his “radical machoism” (compare with radical feminism).
I, for one, can affirm that fact. Have you seen how good Kadeem Hardison looks nowadays?
Endorsements from Mrs. Quack’s husband, Bob and Georgia (with her lie of “No new taxes,” one of George H.W. Bush’s most quoted and poked at lines), affirm Patty’s wacko beliefs.DSS 8: The Debate (sponsored by the League of Men Voters, compare with the League of Women Voters)
Other than the fact that Rose changes her mind about being in the election and Bob tells Hilliard to stop acting (in his opinion) like a pussy, I have no idea about this sequence from when Kinu and pals start singing “There’s No Business Like Show Business.”

Dwayne learns how to appreciate women when he wakes up. Dwayne and Whitley kiss on the couch…

The Complete (more or less) Guide to the Episode “The Little Mister” (1)

A Different World: The Little Mister – TV Tome

Summary of the Wayne Halloween party:
(IMO) The show’s resident asshole, Dwayne, becomes an insta-drunk sexist (blame Berenbeim) and starts trashing women, including Whitley (the woman who made Dwayne a hopeless romantic asshole). After arguing with Whitley, he falls asleep.

The Dream Sequences
Characters
Key:
Character on show=Character in sequence=Real life person (if applicable)

Dean Dorothy Dandridge Davenport=Georgia Mush=George H.W. Bush (wonder if this were staged today who would play his son?)
Colonel Taylor=Bob Mush=Barbara Bush
Kim=her Foot Locker worker-like advisor (you know, when someone goes into a Foot Locker and sees the workers in referee shirts)
Gina=Vice President Quack=Dan Quale
Terrell=Quack’s husband
Charmaine=Rose Godot=Ross Perot
Whitley=Jill Blinton=Bill Clinton
Dwayne=Hilliard Blinton=Hillary Clinton
Freddie=Jill’s Foot Locker worker-like advisor
Ron (I feel for Ron, the most misaligned character on this show, IMO)=Johnny Weed=Gennifer Flowers (many thanks to the Frontline site for “The Clintion Years” for that one)
Dorian=”The Media Circus” (dressed like Uncle Sam)=well, the mainstream media. They didn’t have the Daily Show in those days.
Lena=Patty Buchanan=Pat Buchanan (this link is to some site he’s connected to)
Sheep=Sheep=Republican delegates
Singers, background people=Various people in scenes (Mr. Gaines included, since he plays a barber)

Next: scene details.

I’ve always wondered, though, in “The Power of the Pen”-why Shakespeare doesn’t really look like Shakespeare
-where art those Shakespearian “thous,” thou saber-toothed wench?
-the kicker–why didn’t Shakespeare mention any of his sonnets to Dwayne (if he was supposed to write a poem)?

Dominic? Jasmine? Ya’ll got some ’splainin’ to do…

As Promised: Character Outfits Worn in “The Little Mister”

What perturbed me about “The Little Mister” was the outfits at the Wayne Halloween party. To me, the characters don’t dress as if their characters would like they would wear those types of outfits at any costume party. It seemed to me that the characters were wearing what the actors wanted to be for Halloween. These are my assumptions about three of the outfits worn in the Wayne Halloween partyDwayne’s outfit: Malcolm X
-Because the Spike Lee movie was coming out.
-Because I believe Kadeem Hardison is a somewhat politically minded person. Hey, he was in Panther and Dead Presidents.

Whitley’s outfit: Angela Davis
-You know that book her alter ego wrote? Do I have to mention that she’s very political minded and, IMO, sounds a bit trigger-happy when she wants the Klan or her bullies beat up (in her book)? Anyway, in the book, Guy mentions she was going to write a screenplay on three generations of women–one woman was to be based on Angela Davis. Hmmm…

Freddie’s outfit: a fairy
-Cree Summer likes faries:
–She has a fairy tatooed on her left arm, representing what she’d rather be.
–She named her album Street Faerie. That tells you something.
–According to hiponline.com, it says her idea of God “is a voluptuous, brown goddess with long hair and elfin ears.” Be wary about that one.