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I am a HUGE fan of old school TV and loved it when BET started airing Diff'rent Strokes again. My favorite episode is when Willis and Arnold wanted to go back to their "roots" and wanted to be called African names....

What I cannot for the life of my understand is how a great, timeless, fun-loving show like this, which was funny without being smutty, or insulting, basically gets the shaft by DVD distributors and Network TV, while a crappy show like "Seinfeld" (SWINEfeld is more like it!) is always treated like royalty!!

First off, Gary Coleman's humor could mop the floor with Jerry SWINEfeld's lame attempt at humor! People weren't hopping into bed with the member of the opposite sex every ten seconds and the jokes were funny and unpredictable.

And if a character acted disrespectfully, or said anything that was politically incorrect, they'd have to learn a life lesson from it. Whereas the shows of today, and SWINEfeld, feel the need to throw in something offensive in almost every punchline and not get creamed for it.

I spend my days reeling over the fact that 1) while the entire SWINEfeld series has been released on DVD while on in reruns constantly, this classic show only has two seasons out, and we're left wondering when the rest of the series will be out, and 2) BET was showing this religiously last year, which made me smile with glee...then out of nowhere BET decides to retire it in favor of GET THIS "Smart Guy", starring the real life little brother of the "Sister, Sister" twins and whereas Gary Coleman is a laugh a second, this kid is just flat out annoying.

Case in point, alot of us TV buffs actually miss the good old days of TV, long, long, long before the advent of reality television and SWINEfeld, when every show was funny, yet taught very valuable life lessons. The shows on TV today basically "offer" us a bunch of skinny teenyboppers who act like catty mannequins one minute, then lame sitcoms that have, like, no feeling whatsoever the next.

Come on, we miss "Diff'rent Strokes" and "The Facts of Life"!! Both shows crap all over SWINEfeld!!

Whats wrong with gary coleman and whats the big deal with them picking on the little kid. So what if gary coleman has a desease! He has two eyes and two ears just like everyone else. So just leave the guy alone!!!!!!!

This man is no different that anyone else.Both good and bad.He's a human being who just doesn't have control.or the things God has given him.Why does anyone care about him,or what he does?I sure don't -Do you?