These Friends of Mine: The Class Reunion

These Friends of Mine: The Class Reunion
ABC
April 13, 1994
Sitcom
DVD
B-

While there are things I like about this episode, Mark Wilding's first of three, like the use of period (ca. 1979) music, and Ellen and Adam pretending to be a married couple and doing fake laughter, it does feel off to me.  For instance, while there's some humor to Ellen's classmate Holly being jealous of Anita (who didn't go to their high school) being the belle of the ball, I kept waiting for some kind of confrontation, or at least line, resolving it.  Also, the actor playing Ellen's old crush comes across as a little creepy, so resolving that thread by having Adam and Rick (Greg Germann again) ruin the romance doesn't seem right.  Note that the episode's use of the word "bi" (in a throwaway line about a character we'll never see again) is a relatively early one for television, and not the last for the series.

Michael Chieffo, who was the Two of Spades in the 1985 Alice in Wonderland TV-movie, plays Ellen's classmate who's a Bank VP.  Brenda Varda, who played Lizzie on Who's the Boss?, here is Ellen's lawyer classmate.