I have to say that this episode was probably a lot more groundbreaking because Kate and Allie are forced with a rent increase because their landlady rents the apartment to one family. First of all that apartment would be affordable only to millionaires now and maybe even then. Kate and Allie decide to say that they are a lesbian couple to keep the apartment. Fortunately, the landlady and her female partner are also a lesbian couple. They are played very well by Gloria Cromwell and Chevi Colton. There is a double standard here because Kate and Allie are forced to pretend to be a couple in Greenwich Village in New York City of all places. You wonder if they had just said that they were sisters rather than best friends or pretend to be gay that the landlady might be more understanding of their arrangement. The episode is painful when the landlady learns the truth. I remember this episode because it was well done although unrealistic. Greenwich Village is one of the most tolerant neighborhoods in the city, country, or parts of the world. I doubt that the landlady would have maintained the huge rent increase because they are two families. Kate and Allie's children are blended family of another kind. Two divorced heterosexual women with children living together after their divorces from their husbands. Kate and Allie were never couple nor it would have lasted as long as it did. The show's dynamic would have been all but lost. Maybe in today's world but in the 1980s, divorce was still new to audiences.
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Hypocrisy at its finest
da_solution_ns16 July 2011
Warning: Spoilers
I remember watching this back in 1984 and it was groundbreaking. The real reason for this episode is that the higher ups didn't want the two women to be lesbians. I can't blame them.
Anyhow, it shows how hypocritical those people can be, because the landlady force Kate and Allie to lie that they were a lesbian couple, or else they will face a raise on the rent. It was later on that they found out that she was gay herself.
Near the end, the landlady told her that people don't consider them a family, but Kate and Allie were able to flip it back to them, telling them that other people don't consider the landlady and her partner to be a family. Perfect slice of humble pie if you ask me.
And yes, people in Greenwich Village are like that. I know, I lived in NYC for five years and I am familiar with Greenwich Village. Homosexuals do carry their own agendas and issues and shoved it down people's throats, just like heterosexuals do.
Anyhow, it shows how hypocritical those people can be, because the landlady force Kate and Allie to lie that they were a lesbian couple, or else they will face a raise on the rent. It was later on that they found out that she was gay herself.
Near the end, the landlady told her that people don't consider them a family, but Kate and Allie were able to flip it back to them, telling them that other people don't consider the landlady and her partner to be a family. Perfect slice of humble pie if you ask me.
And yes, people in Greenwich Village are like that. I know, I lived in NYC for five years and I am familiar with Greenwich Village. Homosexuals do carry their own agendas and issues and shoved it down people's throats, just like heterosexuals do.
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