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'80s Child Stars: They Grow Up So Fast!

Though they'll forever be preserved in the amber of syndication and on DVD, child stars grow up too. Take a trip down memory lane right through the present day at Snakkle, which has assembled the gallery "Hold On to Your Scrunchies! See Where Your Fave '80s Sitcom Siblings Are Today." Catch up with (the first) Becky from Roseanne (Alicia Goranson), Growing Pains' Ben Seaver (Jeremy Miller), Family Ties' Jennifer (Tina Yothers) and...
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Season 3, Episode 26
Mike's graduation stirs memories from his proud parents, who recall his birth and first day of school. Carol loses her long-standing bet that her brother will never graduate.
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Length: 25:00
Aired: 5/4/1988
Season 3, Episode 21
Pregnant, tired and overworked, Maggie tries to muster the courage to tell her bossthat she's having a baby. Meanwhile, the Seaver children try to understand why they weren't consulted about this baby who's sure to change their lives.
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Length: 25:00
Aired: 3/9/1988
Season 3, Episode 18
Without his parents' approval, Mike (KIRK CAMERON) flies to Los Angeles to surprise his Hawaiian girlfriend, Melia (KELLY ANN HU), while Carol (TRACEY GOLD), Ben (JEREMY MILLER), and his pal Boner (ANDREW KOENIG) cover for him.
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Length: 24:00
Aired: 2/9/1988
Season 3, Episode 17
Carol (TRACEY GOLD) is furious with Maggie (JOANNA KERNS) after she tells Jason (ALAN THICKE) one of Carol's most intimate secrets.
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Length: 22:00
Aired: 1/26/1988
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'80s Child Stars: They Grow Up So Fast!

Though they'll forever be preserved in the amber of syndication and on DVD, child stars grow up too. Take a trip down memory lane right through the present day at Snakkle, which has assembled the gallery "Hold On to Your Scrunchies! See Where Your Fave '80s Sitcom Siblings Are Today." Catch up with (the first) Becky from Roseanne (Alicia Goranson), Growing Pains' Ben Seaver (Jeremy Miller), Family Ties' Jennifer (Tina Yothers) and...
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Houses Collide: A Discussion of Game of Thrones, Episode 2

We return with our weekly Game of Thrones discussion to tackle the second episode, "The Kingsroad."

TVGuide.com's Hanh Nguyen is an avid scripted-TV watcher, a horror-avoider and someone who's read George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire book series, on which HBO's Game of Thrones is based. Her co-worker, Rich Juzwiak, rarely watches scripted TV, is a gorehound and became alerted to Martin's existence just recently, as he started researching this new swords-and-sandals (well, boots) series. He knows nothing of these sorcerers (if that is indeed what they are), while Hanh is something of an expert (read: fantasy/sci fi nerd). Each week, he'll try to make sense of this crazy new show by enlisting Hanh's expertise. It may turn out to be a test of tolerance: in this case, the Games begin after the TV is off. 

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VIDEO: Celebs Reveal Their Teen Idols

Who did celebs like Miley Cyrus and Sofia Vergara idolize growing up?

"I was a big boy band fan when I was younger. I loved watching them dance, so that inspired me to want to dance," Cyrus told TVGuide.com on the red carpet at the Kids' Choice Awards.

Modern Family's Vergara, on the other hand, couldn't get enough of teen hunk Johnny Depp. "I used to see 21 Jump Street when I was in Colombia," she says.

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Six Raising Hope Surprises: The Cast Member That Almost Wasn't, Lucas Neff's Toilet Cleaning

Raising Hope has always been good at striking the perfect balance between gross-out, over-the-top humor and those warm, fuzzy moments that make it a distinctive family comedy. Thursday's PaleyFest panel for the freshman Fox comedy was no different: It provided a mix of big laughs and heartfelt stories about the cast members' lives before the show and their encounter with its biggest fans. From the cast member that almost didn't make the show to the long-term plan for baby Hope, here are the night's six most surprising revelations:

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Kirk Cameron: It's Silly to Equate Dead Birds with End of the World

Kirk Cameron says that the thousands of birds that recently fell out of the sky are not a sign of a looming apocalypse.

The former Growing Pains actor and born-again Christian who starred in a series of "end of days" movies based on the Left Behind books, appeared on Anderson Cooper 360 to discuss a series of strange animal. Thousands of red-winged blackbirds fell out of the sky in Arkansas on New Year's Eve. Then, two million fish died in the Chesapeake Bay and thousands more birds fell dead in Italy.

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Premiered: September 25, 1985, on ABC
Rating: TV-G
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Premise: Easy-to-take sitcom about a mild-mannered psychiatrist keeping an eye on his precocious kids from his home office while his wife is off at work as a reporter. Belying its innocent appearance, `Pains' did occasionally address teen social issues, but mostly it stuck to the Seaver kids' growing pains (and the youngest, Chrissy, literally shot up: growing from toddler to 6-year-old in two seasons). Leonardo DiCaprio (then 16) joined the cast in the final season as a homeless teenager.

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