Back In the Day

When Jackie Warren's husband goes through a mid-life crisis and announces that he is having an affair, she decides to make a new life for herself. Once a wealthy socialite, she enters the work force for the first time and gets her own place to live. Jackie squeezes into a less-than-lavish but charming house owned by former football player Marion Hill, whose stellar career was ruined by a freak acc...

This week we revisit The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. This episode starts with the Banks’ getting a new intercom system install in their mansion and Will and Carlton overhear Ashley talking about having sex for the first time with guest star, Jaleel White, her long-distance boyfriend. Will and Carton try to come up with a plan to stop her/them, and Will admits they heard her conversation. Ashley is fu...

Season 1 of A Different World was all about Denise Huxtable (Lisa Bonet) and her freshman year at Hillman College. And in this episode, we see Denise trying to hang on to her academic life as she struggles with passing calculus. So, she signs up for tutoring but never dreamed she would get Dwyane, the guy who can’t get enough of her as her tutor! The calculus tutoring session is working but goes l...

We LOVE a guest star! And this episode features Charnele Brown from A Different World Fame who visits the set of Living Single as Khadijah’s friend from college, Jackie. Max, Khadijah’s current best friend, sees Jackie for who she is and tries to protect Khadijah when Jackie tries to take advantage of “an old college friend”. But we learn this has been happening since college and Jackie is much li...

Three words that started a movement happened on this episode: Relax, Relate, Release. Now you see this on T-shirts, mugs, journals, as mantras, website titles, wellness guides and of course memes but it all started HERE! So this week we cover A Different World, season 4, episode 14 Ex-Communication and this episode is packed with one-liners, famous Whitleyisms, and director Debbie Allen steps in f...

Was your favorite show A Different World? Did you dream of having the Hillman college experience? Did you want to be Kadijah James and start your own independent magazine? Did you love to laugh along with Will or dance like Carlton? We did too! That is why hosts Tanya and Cheryl are taking you Back in the Day to the 90’s and talking about their favorite episodes of their favorite black sitcoms. Th...