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Hey Everyone,\n\nAngela Bowen here, the host of Together, We're Gonna Find Our Way: An Unofficial Silver Spoons Podcast.\n\nToday I covered S3E23: The Secret Life Of Ricky Stratton, which aired on March 24, 1985.\n\nIn this episode Rick feels bad about himself when he sees how gorgeous his computer date is.\n\nThis episode deals with body image and how we see ourselves as well as how we think other people see us.\n\nThe term Grocking as gross as it sounds(to me)simply refers to chatting on the computer with people we've never met in person, pre - internet and World Wide Web days.\n\nLong before the days of parents telling their kids to be safe talking to people they chat with online, Edward and Kate tell Rick to go for it and go meet this Wanda girl on a blind date. \n\nLuckily for Rick she lives in the same state not somewhere clear across the country like Montana or Utah. She sends him her picture ,which I first thought was fake and cut out of a magazine.\n\nI really thought this was going to be a catfish scenario where she sends a picture that isn't her and he meets her and it's someone else. I mean where are Nev and Matt.\n\nTurns out it's a lot less complicated.\n\nRick feeling insecure after seeing Wanda's picture tries to improve his looks by taping his ears down (he's really fixated on his ears) then he sees to his horror he has a pimple on his forehead (seriously, you can barely tells it's even there)he slaps some Clearasil on it.\n\nWe get a weird and creepy nightmare of Rick meeting Wanda at the hamburger joint where he's dressed in plaid and has big fake ears and a huge red dot on his forehead symbolizing a zit (in today's world, it would be considered culturally insensitive, it's a giant red dot between his eyebrows.\n\nKate plays the waitress who insults Rick's looks multiple times, but that's not the creepy part, Edward plays Chip Wanda's high school senior boyfriend. It's goofy and creepy at the same time. \n\nThen when Rick goes to meet up with her Wanda who informed by her friend Sally that Rick is very popular at Fuller High and a major babe .\n\nWanda has her own nightmare or I guess day-mare since it's the middle of the afternoon and imagines herself as morbidly obese with a giant nose with Rick being uber popular and all the girls in the hamburger joint hanging off him,\n\nIn reality it's adorable how awkward they are with each other, the typical we chat online all the time but when we meet in person we have nothing to say or can't find the words.\n\nI really didn't like Alfonso referring to Wanda as possibly being a dog as he makes wolf howls (before seeing her picture), Kate sets the boys and Edward straight on appreciating a girl for their mind and not their looks and body.\n\nJoin me next week for the Season 3 Finale S3E24: The Babysitters, which aired on April 7, 1985.\n\nIn this episode Rick babysits a girl he suspects was taken from her mother by her father.\n\nIf you's like to EMAIL the Podcast Go To:\n\nsilverspoonspodcast@gmail.com\n\nHave a great weekend!