The CRAZY Behind The Scenes DRAMA of A Different World | Firings, Abuse, Money Issues
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- HBCU’s or historically black colleges and universities are institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with the intention of primarily serving African Americans. Most of these institutions were founded during the Reconstruction era after the Civil War and are concentrated in the southern region of the country. In the mid ‘80s, the idea was born for a tv show that takes place on the campus of an HBCU, located in the south, as the spin-off of the popular NBC sitcom The Cosby Show. That spin-off was called A Different World.
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Debbie needs her flowers... She's been working in this industry for five decades plus.... She's the reason different world was saved... She has done so much... She's an actress.. Dancer.. Writer... Director.. Producer... She is everything!
Facts ❤
@@thetruesoulofanaquarius9302 Debbie Allen also wanted Denise aka Lisa Benot's characters pregnancy to be written into the show but Bill Cosby said that Lisa Bonet is pregnant not Denise Huxtable and was dropped from the show because of this. 🤰👩🍼👶🏫
@@SuperMarioBrosIII yep facts! I heard this story too... And it made sense because that happens in college.. But Bill Cosby was all about perfect portrayal and not reality
Debbie Allen had me at Roots: The Next Generation and Fame. She has ALWAYS been a TRUE multi-hyphenate talent. So much respect for her GENIUS. To Miss Allen, here's your flowers. 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
@@danavixen6274 🌹🌻🌼🌷
And also RIP to both Lou Myers, Mary Alice and Diahann Carroll
My mother favorite actress was the beautiful Diahann Carroll.
Mary Alice can be seen in Beat Street as Cora Kirkland, mother of brothers Kenny and Lee
Cree Summer definitely deserves her roses!! She is a legend in acting, voice acting and music
She did the voice of one of my favorite cartoons of all time, Penny from inspector gadget
@@yell0wberrydon't forget Suzie from the Rugrats... Set Angelica straight lol
@@yell0wberryI think Penny us her first role!!!
@@eugenedantzler4485no one forgets the most iconic
I love her ❤
@@maryperry6573💯💯💯
This show had so many guest stars; Halle Berry, Tisha Campbell, Taimak, Gladys Knight, Jesse Jackson, even Kim Wayans. The show was stacked!
Also: Tupac, Heavy D, Lena Horne, The Boys, En Vogue, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Alfonso Ribeiro, Blair Underwood, Whoopi Goldberg, Troy Byer, David Alan Grier, Thomas Mikal Ford, Kris Kross, Billy Dee Williams, Marla Gibbs, TK Carter, Leslie Uggams, Roxie Roker, Damon Wayans, Eriq La Salle, Rosalind Cash, Sister Souljah, Kelly Jo Minter, Allen Payne, Theresa Randle, Keenan Ivory Wayans, Richard Roundtree, Kiki Shepard, Ted Ross, Robert Guillaume, Kristoff St John and Ron O'Neal.
And Kandi Alexander as Thereesa Stone
Phyliss Yvonne Stickney as well
Patti LaBelle, Diahann Carroll, immature, Billy Dee Williams
The Tisha Campbell episode has ALWAYS been emotional and ground breaking. ❤
Don't forget the "Legends": Diahann Carroll as Whitley's mom, Patti Labelle as Dwayne's mom, Jennifer Lewis as the College Dean, and Leana Horne as herself in an episode that paid tribute to her.
The wedding scene is one of the most iconic moments in television history.
No M.A.S.H finale is
@@user-cw4gi2tq7w The OP specifically used the words *"... one of the most iconic ..."* not "the most iconic ...". Big difference.
Forreal! I will NEVER forget it. Everyone knows that line, “Baby PLEASE, baby PLEASEEEE!” 🤣
Facts.. It's crazy they hated it so much because Dwayne yelling baby please (which was ad-libbed) u could feel it... I love that scene
@@user-cw4gi2tq7w it's not. The end.
Debbie Allen SAVED A Different World....point, blank, PERIOD! I'm so glad Bill Cosby gave her the chance of a lifetime! The Dwayne Wayne/Whitley Gilbert relationship arc is ICONIC to this day! So much great acting from the ENTIRE cast! ❤❤❤❤❤
Aretha Franklin did an amazing job singing the theme song for A Different World!!
I like her rendition best.💕
I told people Marisa Tomei was in the first season on "A different world" and people said I was lying 😂😂
They handled Jaleesa’s character poorly towards the end. I never got why she married The Colonel. It just didn’t make any sense.
I agree
agreed!
Exactly
I was surprised to see them married and then had a child.
I agree
The fact that Sinbad lied and got fact check on spot and still got it, is hilarious 😂😂 . ❤ him
That was the joke though as everyone knew magnum P.I. is fillmed on location. So it was actually brillant
Love it
Well...." Truth be told" it wasn't a lie , as much as it was Sinbad , improvising some quick witted , tongue in cheek comic relief to the interview.
If it wasn't for this series there wouldn't have been major interest in HBCUs period. Respect to this series and its characters.
This show, and the movie School Daze as well. I've hear many talk about that movie as the reason why students decided to attend and graduate HBCUs.
Facts 💯💯👍🏿👍🏿
A different world was everything back then I miss the 90s 😢
They need to do an official A Different World reunion with Lisa Bonet, Marisa Tomei, Loretta Divine, Ajai Sanders, Michael Ralph, Karen Malina White, Jenifer Lewis, Jada Pinkett Smith, Bumper Robinson, Patti LaBelle and also should pay tribute to Lou Myers, Mary Alice, and Diahann Carroll
They did one with the main cast last year called Reunion Road Trip and some behind ten scenes people. It was really good.
There was a Red Table Talk episode last year that had a reunion with some of the cast members
I believe TV Land did one years ago, and the reunion did include Lisa Bonet and Marissa Tomei.
What about: Darryl Bell, Charnele Brown, Gary Dourdan, Bebe Drake, Jasmine Guy, Kadeem Hardison, Dawnn Lewis, Sinbad, the unforgettable Cree "Freddie" Summer, and Glynn Turman?
and gina's boyfriend deon too
Allen Payne's character Lance would of been such an amazing addition to the show,it’s a shame he turned it down.
I felt bad for Charmaine when they ended up breaking up over the phone on Season 6 of A Different World I felt bad
Lannnnnnce!
@@rowlaanbennett7296 he could have done both, and years later, he winds up being on house of Payne
@@missmartin85 lol 😂
@@rowlaanbennett7296 Hello
My favorite guest star of "A Different World" is hands down Diahann Carroll as Whitley's mom. For me, Diahann always represents class, beauty, talent, and glamor, and she was the perfect choice for that role.
Right? Ms. Carroll was perfect as Whitley's mother. I still remember the hilarious way she dealt with Freddie's boyfriend Shazza at the wedding.😂
Diahann Carroll was PERFECTLY cast! ❤️
Her and Patti played those roles as a mother so perfectly 😂😂😂😂
Mrs Wayne and that prune cobbler 😂
Facts
I had no idea Kadeem and Jasmine didn't like the iconic wedding scene 😭 So mindblowing seeing cast behind the scenes opinions and facts
Talk about commitment to the scene. After multiple decades, I thought Kadeem and Jasmine put their collective heart and soul into this UNFORGETTABLE scene. I'll ALWAYS love it! I get what he was saying about how wrong it is to break up a couple. However, we in the audience knew Dwayne and Whitley DESERVED each other! 💕
I was shocked too!! But i think they wanted best for their characters and maybe felt it was stunting their growth. Good thing they were wrong!
The episode of Unsung about this show is on RUclips and is absolutely worth the watch.
As a little Mexican-American girl growing up in the 80's, I always wanted to be a Cosby kid. When a classmate wore braids and beads in her hair, I wanted to go to her hairdresser. When ADW premiered, I wanted to go to Hillman. My mom would smile each time and say, "Mija, you are not black" 😆
You can tho lol
Thanks@@damnmuggle ! I ended up with two French braids tied with ribbon and I went to a women's college
@damnmuggle no she can't sellout
AHHHHH,that's so sweet. LOL. You are such a-SWEET-HEART.
🤣🤣🤣
Debbie Allen is a legend!! Give Debbie Allen her props for saving A Different World!! She definitely deserves her roses!!!!
Debbie Allen is a national treasure.
Always
This show is the reason I attended and graduated from a HBCU!!!
Fun Fact: Bill Cosby actually asked Phylicia Rashad to help “clean up” the show after she complained to him about things that was going on behind the scenes after guest starring on a few episodes, so she was the one who suggested he use HER SISTER as the one to do the changes since Phylicia didn’t want to and couldn’t do it herself. Also, you forgot to mention Debbie’s little brother Hugh played the country bumpkin in some episodes.
Gotta love that Kadeem Hardison and Jasmine Guy reunited on an episode of KC Undercover
I loved K.C Undercover that was like favorite show Disney show..!!
He had the glasses with the flip shades too in that episode.
I wonder if we can petition for A Different World to be given an Emmy they definitely deserve it.
One of the best shows ever created! This show means a lot to me. PSA: we don’t acknowledge the first season (it was okay, but it wasn’t iconic to me) “idk her”- in Mariah Carey’s voice.
Shout out to Debbie Allen! She deserves all her flowers for being so talented!
I really liked the first season.
AGREED,ADW was one of the best shows ever created,it encouraged blacks to go to HBCU colleges,who wouldn't have considered going to college other-wise.Remember Cosby asked Debbie Allen to take over ADW,they both deserve flowers.ADW ended up out-drawing the Cosby Show ( audience wise )the Cosby Show's audience was 85% white,problably the first time for a predominately black show.The Cosby Show and ADW were both atom-bombs for their networks,they were blowing up tv and their ratings. LOL.
Thing was A Different World was supposed to be about Denise and her time at college. That was the whole point of the show because it was a spinoff of the Cosby Show. This was changed due to the conflict with Lisa Bonet and Bill Cosby at the time.
I enjoyed the first season 🤷🏾♀️
@@Clonehalleme too
Debbie Allen is gorgeous, pure talent, and breathtaking 😊
Yessss!!!! Beauty personified 🌸🌸🌸
Another fun fact: While Dawn Lewis never got to sing the theme song for "A Different World" she did get to sing the theme song for her next show "Hanging With Mr. Cooper" for the first season, along with her "Cooper" costar Holly Robinson Peete and En Vogue.
Dawn Lewis was so-GORGEOUS-back then !!!! And so was Holly Robinson. LOL.
@@user-be7tc2bd6e So were En Vogue. All of those ladies were gorgeous.
@@donaldwilson2620 So true and they all could sing/blow.
@@user-be7tc2bd6e Also, another fun fact: Holly Robinson also sang the theme song to her hit show "21 Jump Street".
@@donaldwilson2620
Yup I knew that too she's an amazing actress
Crazy how so much racism was behind the scenes on the most iconic shows. Black shows should be ran by majority black people!
22:58 That scene with Denzel surprising Jasmine Guy was hilarious!! I died!😂😂😂. I must've watched it at least 10x and almost hurt myself laughing so hard!😂😂😂😭😭😭
But it is not actual him
@@lexkanyima2195 What? So that was a lookalike or Denzel's doppelganger? Well he sure fooled Jasmine and everyone else that day.🤪
@@AlmondJoie out of nowhere
@@lexkanyima2195 Debbie knew ahead of time! That was her show.💯
Debbie Allen hooked this show up!!!! This show had EVERYTHING! Every guest star, every topic, every fashion trend....You name it!!
To revamp the shows
A show that truly embodied "For The Culture"...Never be duplicated. 💯✊🏾❤️🖤💚
This show was literally THE REASON I went to college. I was going to skip it and go directly to work. But, seeing the clash of ideas, personalities, and cultures, in A Different World, inspired me to give college a chance. I am so glad I did.
A Different World was one of my favorite shows growing up in the 1980’s and 1990’s. Such great story lines and characters. I actually wanted to go to a HBCU but never did.
It’s not shocking how networks didn’t believe in shows that had black casts in them! The fact that this show didn’t win any award neither! Since this was a show that show blacks in a positive light I bet executives look down upon it!
Because The Cosby Show was the number 1 priority and that time, they aren't breaking barriers yet
'Believe' is a strong word, 2 profit & not celebrate/nominate on the other hand...
This was the best one yet. I went to a HBCU school Shaw University in NC. So i tell ppl all the time get away from home and explore ppl outside your area. Best 4 years of my life. Period and im in my 50s still go there from time and time. I stress about to kids about how a different world shape our people and how we viewed education bsck then . Thank you for this
Speaking of Hangin with Mr. Cooper, I hope you do a story on the show as well as The Sinbad Show
Salma Hayek’s English acting debut
Kadeem played Theo’s friend in the Gordon Gartrelle episode but they chopped most of his lines for tv time. The Cosby show dvds are uncut.
That's right.
OMG! That shirt, that shirt, that shirrrrt!😂😂😂 HILARICAL!!!
That Denzel Washington surprise is hilarious! It should have been an end-credits scene, but it wasn't to my knowledge.
they brought him just 4 a prank??
ADW and the Cosby show will always be my favorites. I never change the channel when they’re on. I will never out grow them. ❤❤
Whitley Gilbert is in my list of the most stuck up characters along with Hilary Banks from Fresh Prince, Regine Hunter from Living Single, Toni Childs from Girlfriends, Lacienega from The Proud Family, Maritza Hogg from Taina and Blair Warner from The Facts of Life
Idk who was worse…Regine or Toni. I could’nt STAND them when I was younger. Regine was not my cup of tea but I think Toni was the worse. The only times I enjoyed her character was when she got Jabari’s name wrong but other than that…ugh. That dentist deserved better than her.
PS: Kim Fields played Regine perfectly. In fact, she acted just like Regine when she confusingly appeared on Real Housewives of Atlanta for a season as if she matched that brand of television lol.
Don't forget Karen Walker from "Will and Grace".
GREAT LIST!!👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿🖤🔥
And I love all of them lol
Don't forget Lisa Turtle.
One of the best theme songs, cast and overall televisions shows bar none! This television show inspired a generation to want to go to college. The original cast was solid but the season two cast additions and show direction took the series to another level even though it didn't include Lisa Bonet, Marisa Tomei and Marie-Alise Recasner. It's amazing that this show didn't continue on with an evolving cast or that another of this same plot content hasn't been seen on network television since. It was a ratings winner! Thursday nights from 8-9 pm were on lock with ADW & The Cosby Show. How many tv shows had both Super Fly and Shaft on cast?
When I found out Aretha Franklin was once married to Colonel Taylor a few years before the show aired, I wondered if he had an input.
The producers of the show did Marisa Tomei and that actress who was Whitley's buddy dirty.
This month is the 36th anniversary of A Different World
Another fun fact. The big guy with the glasses who plays Quincy, is the brother of Debbie and Phylicia.
Can we just take a moment and recognize how stunning Dawn is? My goodness!! 🥰😍🥹👑
Jasmine 's song 🎵 was bop. I have it in my playlist now 🎧
I was too young when the show 1st aired. But I watched re runs and it INSPIRED me to go to college ❤ Friends call me Whitley 😂 Best show song! Best lessons! ADW is truly ICONIC!Thank you Debbie Allen 🥰👏🏽🩷
The first season was okay yet the latter seasons featured MANY inspiring and thought-provoking episodes. I was inspired to go to college, not only thanks to a few college bound relatives, but DEFINITELY because of this groundbreaking series. ❤️
Everyone on this show--the men and women all had big broad beautiful smiles.
This is one of my favorite shows of all time!!!! I loved Whitley's style even though Kim resonated with me. Another fun fact: Aretha Franklin was married to Glenn Turman who played Colonel Taylor. I don't remember you mentioning that. But awesome video!!! Please keep these going. One on One works be a good one to do especially after they changed the show in the last season.
Great content. I agree with the comment section, Debbie Allen definitely needs her flowers, the show had a much need change, I love that a lot of the black sitcoms still hold up. People forget how socially forward sitcoms were in the 80's and 90's, I love re-watching them on Hulu.
My eyes widened when i saw this video on my subscription feed! A Different World is my favorite show!!! As a serious ADW fan I can say you hit all the marks and even some things i didn't know!! Great job ma'am!!!
Bringing in Debbie was the smarted thing Bill Cosby ever did.
Everyone is entitled to their opinions, but MAN!!!! That wedding was THE most amazing and surprising thing I had ever seen, and even now damn near 40 years later, it is still in the top 5 of all time greatest moments in television history!!!🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 For those who watched *SCANDAL,* I always said Whitley leaving him at the altar to marry Dwayne Wayne is why Byron became *Command.* 🤣😅😂
ps: *A Different World was one of the reasons I decided to go to an HBCU!*
Yeah it was my favorite episode…I can watch that scene so many times. And yep, Byron becoming B613 after Whitley dumped him tracks.
A Different 🌎🎓 World is the greatest television show in the history of this country.
I wanted to and did go to and HBCU mainly because I grew up watching this show. One of the best experiences of my life. Wouldn't change it for the world.
Together with Felicity a different world was the best college tv shows . Whitley is one of most underrated sitcom characters.
“They are still together today….. Happily UnMarried” that made
me laugh
Black excellence! Cosby Show and A Different World were iconic and successful TV. I'd never seen anything like it, I always made time to watch it. They inspired black students to finish school, attend an HBCU, go to college, become doctors and lawyers and engineers.
It was definitely a Stupid idea to put A Different World against Martin. Both were Phenomenal shows.
That was the point. You WANT to great shows up against each other. Racism had nothing to do with it. The networks obviously want their best shows to compete for ratings.
Wow I didn’t know Debbie Allen was such a strong force in the industry!! She has accomplished a lot! Let’s definitely give her flowers 💐
Although I didn't go to an HBU, A Different World and The Cosby Show inspired me to attend college. 👍
Omg!!!! I was waiting for you to do this one! ADW Imo is the best show ever!
It dealt with real life problems facing black people in America. Colorism
Police brutality, date rape , shopping while black, sexual harassment. ADW was took off after Debbie Allen took over. Luv the channel and the videos .
ADW Imo was a far greater show than Cosby, ADW pushed the envelope was far more realistic.
Cosby was the-SAFE-show for white viewers ( no mention of race,black issues affecting them were never mentioned,etc,etc, ) that's why Cosby had a 85 % white viewing audience.ADW handled black issues and other issues some folks didn't want to hear nor see on a black show.That's why it out-drew ( audience wise ) the Cosby show.
@@user-be7tc2bd6e exactly
Your channel just keeps getting better and better. This episode was great. I’m looking forward to the next one. I love the nostalgia.
I was so 😪 sad when I found out Hillman wasn't a real College
Me too!
@@JuicyPopEntertainment7:39 you are.
@@JuicyPopEntertainment
And the basketball player Dewayne Wade was named after Dewayne Wayne
Hillman was real to me. I even have the T-shirt.
"A Different World ".
OUR "Friends "
I knew so many people who wanted to apply to hillman
A Different World:This Was The Go To Show To Watch On NBC in the 80s and 90s……To this day, NBC should’ve treated a different world with respect like they did the main shows:cheers, the golden girls and 227…..plus Debbie Allen definitely deserves her flowers from Hollywood asap……
Why it is significant ?
Not they hate the wedding scene and we just loving it😂😂
2nd-6th seasons.. The best.. The wedding, when Deayne was pleading for Whitley to not marry Byron, that had my heartstrings. I like Aretha's and Boyz II Men renditions of the theme song.i feel like watching "Jason's Lyric" because that Allen Payne is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥. And Debbie Allen brought some much needed spice to the series. Michael Ralph's character tickled me when he kept asking Kim to marry to him over and over and over until she said yes..Cree Summer was the voice of "Penny" from the DIC series, "Inspector Gadget". Great video!
Was that Julian? Or Byron?
@@AlmondJoieyou are right! it was Byron
@@sexymama1966 Wow okay, that's what I thought. Haven't seen that in years, but I remembered the guy who played Byron when he showed up years later as Olivia Pope's daddy on _Scandal._
Excellent video. Very well put together. Thank you for the upload!
It’s so funny that neither Kadeem nor Jasmine liked the wedding scene. To this day, it still makes me cry! 😂
Wait....Debbie Allen directed Family Ties? "What would we doooooooo, baby, without us, SHA-LA-LA- LAAAAAAA🎶" Family Ties? 😮😂😂 Ok, no wonder I never missed an episode of that, lol. Meanwhile, I'm patiently waiting for the entire Different World series to get on DVD.
Fun Fact: Johnny Mathis sings the theme with Denise Williams
Ikr
1 of my favorite shows of all time. I figured NBC did them dirty when they moved the time slot & competing with another great show MARTIN
Man, Debbie Allen is talented as a writer, actor and dancer. But I gotta say it. She is, was and always be so f'n beautiful.
I watched this show as a kid with my aunt I didn't know how deep it was till now but I must say I finally I get what it means to separate the artist from the talent. Cosby wasn't the kind cliff huxtable but he still is a legend IJS 🤷🏾♀️
I really needed this one . My wife and daughter love this show 🎉❤❤❤❤
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@@JuicyPopEntertainment🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰nice 👍🙂.
@@JuicyPopEntertainment🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 joy 😊 😃 😄 ☺ 😂 😸 .
This Living Single, Martin, The Fresh Prince, In Living Color and a few more really highlighted our childhoods as black kids in the 90s. It's why I was so determined to get into college which I did then went to the Air Force and got out got married have my kids and went back to school and now working in the medical field. Seeing black college students. Black men acting like men and so on is how I've lived my life along with my grandparents raising me. It all helped and I'm proud of where I am now.
To this day, I have to watch Whitley's wedding episode like this 🫣.
I used to watch that show all the time what a good show it was and still is
One of my all-time favorite shows! Groundbreaking.
Oh, and the wedding scene imo is the greatest TV wedding scene of all time.
Its funny Marissa was dropped considering the ORIGINAL premise for A Different World was actually about a white girl's experiences at an all black college.
And she went on to win an Academy Award and is still relevant. No shade to the other actors but, Marisa and Jada are the only ones consistently in A-list movies.
I’m so glad they didn’t make it a story about a white student. That wouldn’t have lasted or resonated the way it did.
Truth!
I wish they played A Different World more often.
I miss this show so much it was the BEST 💁🏽♀️🙌Thank you Debbie ❤
Always thought Kim had the prettiest skin.
Also the colonel was married to Aretha Franklin in REAL 🧬 LIFE.
- I saw a interview and he told a story about how he came downstairs right after they were married and saw Aretha playing the piano and smoking a cigarette. She did not hear him and he thought to himself"Wow I married to Aretha Franklin"
Happily unmarried took me out🤣🤣😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Smartest decision that Bill Cosby made in regards to ADW was to make Debbie Allen the only writer for the first few seasons!
“They are still together today. Happily unmarried” 😆 chileee. But this was a really good watch 👌🏽
I loved this show so much and still do. I’m glad Debbie took over and had so much creative control. She gutted and reinvented the show and gave it so much life.
Thank you for covering this. I started my junior year at a private boarding high school the day this show first aired. I loved Denise, fashion icon at the time. I was a huge fan of the Cosby show. It just hit. We were all starting something new. It really was a different world.
Fav show EVER !
Good evening: They should make some kinda comeback or remake. That was a funny but educational show. This is one way you can teach some kids & ppl..!! We could use these type of shows these dayz. Whitley was my favorite character. Her voice was so annoying but funny. She was soooo boujee 😂😂😂❤❤. She deserves an award..!! Debbie is soooooo talented & strong handling all that work. Sounds like she had to do alot. I would hate to be under a contract, you're basically being bossed around. Such an iconic show..!!
This show was amazing. Now it’s having a renaissance which is so well deserved. Back then there were only a few broadcast channels, and half of those came in clear with rabbit ears antenna, unless you had cable.
When eyes are closed, Debbie and Phylicia sound so alike. The talents are both so big independently I never noticed.
A Different World will always be in my top 5 of greatest television shows. One of the main reasons was because of the issues discussed.
I still remember the racism episode with Dean Cain, the teenage single mother episode with Theresa Randall, the date rape episode with Taimak, the Gulf conflict episode with Blair Underwood, the apartheid episode, the 2-part episode dealing with AIDS with Tisha Campbell.
I also enjoyed the others such as when Ron had multiple dates and one of them was Halle Berry and the one where Denise crushed on Kristoff St John.
Lisa Bonet can't carry a show and Marissa Tomei becoming the lead would have ended it in three weeks. Debbie Allen coming in saved it, imo.
Before Cosby re-worked it, A Different World actually was about a white girl's experiences going to a black college.
Didn't hurt Marissa, though. She went on to win an Academy Award.
I always wondered why Whitley wasn’t in season 1 intro, 🤯🤯🤯
Great story on A Different World
😮 Those behind the scenes get me every time.
Shoutout to Queen-Sister Debbie Allen
♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️💯!!
Lisa Bonet married my crush, Lenny Kravitz(Roxie Roker is his Mother aka Helen on THE JEFFERSONS).
The show was funny where/when it needed to be but I also felt it was thought provoking.
Zoe looks like her mom alot too
Baby please ....jasmine and kadeem tripping that scene is classic
Back then I knew I was different. A different world was my favorite show. I did too much care for Martin
The show wasn't the same when Jalessa, Maggie, Millie, Denise, Walter, Stevie, and Lettie left the show. I didn't care much for the final season but I watched it though. #JustMyOpinion😉🤨
The baby please wedding scene reminded me of Mars Blackmon. 🤣🤣🤣
Dwayne Wayne was my favorite character…