My mom used to watch this show because she's an alcoholic and I only remember the episode where Simon sticks up the middle finger and the mom and principal react like he pulled out a gun.
I can't figure out if this means she didn't care what was on, or only someone intoxicated would enjoy this show, or the show has a special appeal to alcoholics 😅
It’s funny that Matt says “it’s not pot” about his smoking cigarettes considering the way he smokes his cigarettes looks much more like he’s smoking a joint
God, it's even more disturbing watching the dad character have all these conversations about dating and periods with the child actors now. It's disturbing enough that he worked closely with these kids. I hope nothing happened.
The actors who play Lucy, Simon & Ruthie, the three youngest siblings, started a podcast and they addressed his behavior. They said that they were very sorry to the victims and confirmed that nothing happened to them.
I had a guest star role on this series in 2001. I had a scene in Stephen Collins' office. I played Roland Rogers, an office manager who's boss arranges for me to speak to the Reverend,. Turns out the hilarity that I enjoy in my office led to someone stealing the artificial arm from another one of my employees. It was a long fun scene and at the end the camera reveals that young Simon was listening around the corner, and the discussion was impactful on him. I still remember that as soon as we finished shooting the scene for the last take, Stephen jumped up and proclaimed that I was an example of excellent casting. I enjoyed the experience.
@@summerspicer6153 In the first place, if you were given lines you were no longer an extra. I don't have a clue about the rest of your comment regarding a pdf and flex. Makes no sense to me.
52:42 Actually, Abby Morris, who was played by Stephen Collins now ex-wife, does ask Eric to tell Annie near the end of the episode so he does so, which we see him do. 55:47 The ring Eric gives Annie at the Church to replace the stolen Wedding ring is a Red Lightning Ring, Red Lightning being a Superhero that Simon is obsessed with. It’s Simon who gives Eric the Red Lightning ring to give Annie. It’s meant to be a sweet gesture. 57:06 The scene in Eric and Annie’s room where Julie is screaming and frightened is meant to show Delirium tremens (DT’s) which can happen with alcohol withdrawal. Sometimes hallucinations happen as part of DT’s.
Just a reminder the actor that plays the Dad admitted in real life to molesting a 10-year old. Some of the scenes and scenarios he's in especially knowing that news make it very weird to watch these. Like how he's so excited about his daughter's period. Definitely messed up.
The entire show had typical male fetish garbage sprinkled throughout it. No one got peaked to the awful paraphilias in this show. It's all basically pedo fodder for men. Unfortunately it's only gotten worse in entertainment. The more you know.
He admitted to multiple instances of sexual harassment and SA of girls in the 10 -13 age range. He's a despicable person, it's so uncomfortable watching his interactions with kids on this show. And the character thinks smoking pot is the worst thing someone could ever do. 🙄
Weed was the safest example of drugs for a family oriented television show; it was really a euphemism for all drugs. That’s why the storyline was intense.
If you think it was weird for Eric to want to be involved with Lucy's period drama, wait until a later season where Ruthie asks him the most out of pocket question for a daughter to ask their father! (This is my way of requesting more of this 😅)
@@malanenix4033 I can't remember exactly what season it is, but it's one where Ruthie is a teenager and I think Eric is driving her to a party or something, and she basically asks him if she's sexy / if he thinks boys would find her sexy 😬
I think I remember this? He basically says there's no reason to think about looking sexy if she's not having sex? Anyway, some daughters have close relationships with their dad's and do say this. It's a bit cringe for people who don't have this kind of relationship
Im a dude but I've never been able to comprehend how some girls/women (not all of course) can be so disgusted by blood in general. Yet have no problem with the monthly visitor. Again not all girls and women
@@RoyalBlue4486I started when I was 11 too. I was a tomboy through and through and just wanted to play some touch football but couldn’t because of cramps
Tampons on your very first cycle!? No, ma'am. I had my period for about a year before I tried tampons. I almost had to call my mom into the bathroom because removing it was so painful. 🙃 😅 I dont even use them anymore because there are so many different options available now. Thanks, universe! 👍
Try 5 years after your first period. 😂 I literally got my period the day of a swim meet… wasn’t competing that day. But there was a girl on the team who swam with A PAD!! so I guess there was that option…
You should check out the podcast “Catching Up with the Camdens” which launched last month! It’s hosts are the three youngest of the original five Camden kids, Lucy, who was played by Beverly Mitchell, Simon, who was played by David Gallagher and Mackenzie Rosman who played Ruthie.
Second time rewatching. I just wanted to say that not only is Shae's work compelling regardless of topic, but she seems to have a really warm spirit. Shae, please never stop making videos 🥹💝
Thank you for making this video. I know this had to take a lot of time and energy to make so I appreciate it. It's easy to forget that you guys make this content for free for all of us to enjoy. UA-cam will always be my home. 🙌
One of the weirdest parts of this show for me (which is saying a lot because this show is so unhinged), is the fact that Ruthie looks straight up biracial and I like to think there's some Annie x mysterious lover lore in there somewhere.
Ya’ll never seen actual biracial kids before? As a black person with mixed family members, Ruthie looks white to me. She just has curly hair, please don’t say she looks biracial because the girl has curly hair. 🙄
I watched the first episode of the Catching Up with the Camdens podcast and learned that Beverly Mitchell (Lucy) was 15 when the show started and Jessica Biel (Mary) was 14. During this season Lucy actually looked the age she was supposed to be while Mary looked like she could be 17.
Looked like Barry Watson (Matt) and Jessica came from fairly tall families (probably close to 6 ft tall, maybe in the 5'9 - 6' range), while Beverly was from a shorter family. That's probably why Jessica looked older than Beverly. Also, I have a headcanon that Ruthie was adopted likely as an infant (mainly because her actor MacKenzie Rosman looked like a person of colour compared to her caucasian co-stars as the other family members, but it is possible for her to be mixed race, and she could be part caucasian, part POC), but unless someone confirms that, I'll take the assumption that she has the same birth parents as her siblings and just had a non-caucasian cast as her.
@@grahamdamberger7130 google says Mackenzie Rossman Ethnicity is : Lumbee Native American, English, German [including Alsatian German], Scottish, Swedish😊 now we know
I always thought Lucy looked strangely older/more mature than Mary in someway so when I found out later she was a year older it made sense. I grew up a tall girl but just because someone is tall doesn't always mean they look older than people who are older than them.
@@stitches318 interesting, I'm average height 1.64cm not short not tall but to me Mary has a more mature looking face compared to Lucy. And I never noticed untill now that in first season the actress who plays Lucy is really skinny making her look shorter and younger? Mary has like a more athletic figure but she is often in kinda oversized clothes, I think that also makes her look maby older? I grew up with this show btw in the 90s. So as kid I never focussed on any of that.
@@verina_crochet_garden i don't know, I have an uncanny ability to see this I think. For example when we met our new neighbor she was 8 and my son was 9. Now my son is TALL but this litter girl was even taller, and she is built very thick. But there was something in her mannerisms and face that made me think she was still only 9 at most. i was wrong because she was actually a year younger than my son, but most people we meet actually think she is like 12-13! People look at height and body size before anything else, but I take in the whole picture. I did think Mary's mannerisms were young for age while Lucy's were more mature
I didn't see this mentioned in the comments: The actor who played the dad admitted to committing SA having "inappropriate relations" with 3 different girls over several years. One was 10 and he was 25. It just makes watching this show even harder to watch.
I really enjoyed this. I only watched like a handful of episodes of this growing up but you made it entertaining to watch this retrospective. I'd love to watch you talk about season 2.
I mean, ok, the unwed mother story is super heavy handed, but also I got pregnant as a teen after having sex one time. It happens, and it's good for kids to know that it can happen
4:59 the three younger siblings have a podcast now and they said they filmed a scene where matt and mary actually kiss here and it just didn’t make it into the final cut😭🤢
Isn’t this Rachel who hit on Matt the same high school teacher who slept with Joshua Jackson a student in her class on the tv show Dawson’s Creek? She got a thing for young boys
I know everyone makes fun of the show having marijuana be the drug for the drug episodes, but in fairness to the show I know one other show that did an episode on drugs where a version of pot was the drug and that was “Dinosaurs” which aired from 1991 - 1994. The episode in question was from Season 2 and titled “A New Leaf”. In that episode they had a leaf take the place of pot. So it wasn’t just “7th Heaven”. I do think the reason that the show chose pot as the drug for its drug-related episodes is likely because the writers and producers of the show felt they couldn’t use drugs like meth, cocaine etc. as the drug or else the show would get a higher rating and the show was trying to stay ‘family friendly’.
I talked to my Uber driver on the way from my local dispensary, that it's surreal to think about DARE and the 90s narrative about drugs while walking into a very polished and professional dispensary.
They should've showed harder drugs. The pot heads in my school were chill, but the ones taking their mom's pain pills in the middle of the school day was an issue
being raised christian I grew up with 7th Heaven and recently finally started rewatching it from my now deconstructed pov. the early seasons are terrible and wholesome at the same time, actually makes for trashy comfort viewing imo. I have been struggling with it for the last couple of seasons though (i'm up to season 7 now) as it's gone from some basic focus on the family lessons around social issues to everyone now having insufferable communication skills and attachment styles. I would love to see you get through season 2 and so on. your delivery and commentary is fantastic! ps. justice for Matt, never did anything wrong! the preemptive mistrust these parents have for their kids is so frustrating lol
They were probably naughty when they were younger. My parents who were also naughty, didn't trust me much at all. Haha. I was an angelic thing though. The church ladies loved me.
@@maryredding1619 Lucy's friend in season 2 that has a Mother that is verbally mean to her was in The Amanda Show. She was Missy in the Moody's Point skit and did a few of the ad skits.
Growing up in a Christian household I never thought 7th Heaven was a faith based show, like quoting scripture, praying, but it was been a minute since I saw it
This is delightful. I believe this show was on in Belgium where I live around '97, never watched it (my English was probably not at a high enough level at that point anyway), but I sure remember the theme song. Nice to finally see what all the fuss was about ^^
Just a comment about Eric Camden, the Dad, and his superpowers: I think the character of Eric may have been a bit influenced by the character of Charles Ingalls on the TV “Little House on the Prairie”. Like Eric, Charles was often helping people and solving their problems. And like in Episode 10 “Last Call for Aunt Julie”, Charles stays with an alcoholic father so he can detox in the Season 1 episode “Child of Pain” from “Little House” and we witness the alcoholic father also having DT’s, except he sees bats rather rats like Julie does.
@@kellyfinley4419the last episode I remember watching was the one where ruthie (maybe 10-13) tries seduce to a much older boy who lives with them. Also, Simon kills someone 😬
I was so angry at this show for the alcohol episode. I was in middle school and already knew that you can't just go cold turkey without medical intervention so for them to promote that pissed me off.
my friends and I were so obsessed with this show when it was airing. just watching this recap, you going through the episodes makes me look back and laugh (and cringe) at how seriously they tried to portray so many things that are now seen as so normal. but that's the 90s!
I'm really grateful my life was closer to this in high school than Euphoria. I did know kids who had the Euphoria life, my neighborhood was like that, but fortunately my high school had kids more in common with 7th Heaven. Simon wanting a dog is so funny and cute and very funny.
The older woman who dated Matt is the teacher who preyed on Pacey in Dawson creek. Why she keep Getting these roles? Or was this a cross Over we never noticed?
Hi! New here! Just wanted to add in on the Single Moms vs Single Dads thing: Yeah, 100% true. Every woman I have ever known both as a child and now with some of my friends being single moms are absolutely vilified for "making poor choices" (or not being indestructible robots who can do all the things all the time). Meanwhile I was raised by a single dad who was praised for stepping up and not just abandoning me at the first orphanage he drove past. Don't get me wrong, my dad is a wonderful man who did his absolute best to raise a little girl by himself, but the fact that he's praised as a saint while moms basically get blamed for daring to be fertile is ABSURD.
It so screwed, My husband and myself were out shopping with our special needs child, she had a melt down , my husband was applauded by some random women for not leaving me because we had a special needs child. We have had that happen so much, and the very last person to say it too him got a mouthful for me, saying I deserve to be recognised as well considering my husband goes to work and can leave the house without our child haveing a panic attack like they do when I leave
What's hilarious is that the guy who played the dope fiend here later played the main part in the musical Reefer Madness. There he also played a nice boy quickly falling into the hellish and bottomless pit of marijuana use.
A lot of shows back then got kick backs from doing anti drug or alcohol episodes. That's why shows in the 90's have a lot of these pot are bad alcohol is bad episodes. Enjoyed the video hope you do more as i will never be watching this show. Please suffer for me. Yes a small anount of beer split stinks to high heaven (see what i did there high heaven)
I wasn't allowed to watch this show but I grew up with it in the periphery. One day I tuned in for just a second to see what it was like, and it was the scene where Annie's sister is terrorizing Simon for the key. All I knew was that the mom was blonde, so I thought that 7th Heaven was a psychological thriller about a Christian family trying to help their alcoholic mother/wife , not a slice of life. I was actually pretty scared of it for a while! Thanks for the video Shae, I love your commentary :)
I've had the opening theme stuck in my head for years I wanted to revisit the show but didn't want to put in the time to binge watch it thank you for doing the hard work for me!
I used to watch this show all the time when it aired and didn’t realize until you pointed it out that Eric’s plans work perfectly every single time. I loved this video and hope you do more 7th Heaven videos.
i don't know what casting directors had against the women who played annie's pedo friend rachel, she was also cast as an english teacher in season 1 of dawson's creek and has a full blown sexual relationship with pacey who's her 15 year old student. the female predator type casting is strong with this one.
I was never religious and always thought the show is weird, but I still loved it in the 90s. Tried to binge it as an adult, it was too cringe for me. Just thinking who`s that happy to get her period? And uses tampons right away during her first period. And why does her dad have to go buy her tampons she lives with a sister and mum there`s enough in the house. I insist tough, Matt was cool and as a teen girl I definitely drooled over him , BUT the best character? No that`s Happy! I want the whole family to do a 23 and me, and go through family photos as far back as they find. Ruthy looks so extremely different (she became my favourite when she got older).
Back when Kerri Russell was one of the hottest actresses on TV- from Felicity to guest spots in BMW and 7th Heaven... And her hair was the envy of the majority of girls back then.
I recognized his voice right away as well! And I always liked Mikey because he was always so unashamedly himself. So I can understand the appeal for his character if he’s like that here as well. And absolutely RIP. A sad young loss.
Lucy’s trailer park middle aged man friend, was also in 2 episodes of Dr Quinn Medicine Woman as a train conductor whose face was melted by hot steam and coals. Later, he was in the infamous XFiles episode called HOME, the one about a multigenerational family raised in incest in the boonies.
IMPECCABLE timing: right after Mary said "ok... so I close my eyes..." an ad came straight in with "JUST DO THE THING! GO TO THERAPY" ... I am HOWLING 💀
I hope you can find it in you to do season 2!! I loved this video so much, i watched this show occasionally as a kid and looking at it now just cracks me up lmao And maybe for future seasons you can split them up into 2 or 3 vids that way you dont have to put yourself through hell lol
My dad won’t even touch a box of pads or tampons. Barely wants them on the conveyor belt w the rest of the stuff… I get annoyed by it, but I think if he cried w tears of joy over my period… I’d be even more embarrassed lol
My mom used to watch this show because she's an alcoholic and I only remember the episode where Simon sticks up the middle finger and the mom and principal react like he pulled out a gun.
I can't figure out if this means she didn't care what was on, or only someone intoxicated would enjoy this show, or the show has a special appeal to alcoholics 😅
that is the one episode that has lived with me all of my days.
2nd would be the one where the kids are huffing spray paint in the middle of the school.
@@esbenm6544my thoughts exactly. What does that mean?😂😂
@esbenm6544 all of the above ❤ 😂
I didn’t know I needed an hour long commentary/review of 7th Heaven until now
Me too!
I have been needing this since 1999
She has a whole nother episode for Season 2!
Yeeees
Mary running in Converse All Stars... Lucy running with denim shorts. Who was responsible for costumes on this show?!
I ran in converse for years lol
You should totally do season 2, and all the other seasons while ur at it lol. This was fantastic and really well done.
Ya, it’s as if she had to, can’t stop now…. Otherwise I’d have to probably go watch the seasons myself and I’d rather someone else suffer haha
It’s funny that Matt says “it’s not pot” about his smoking cigarettes considering the way he smokes his cigarettes looks much more like he’s smoking a joint
And that cigarettes are somehow better than weed haha. But I guess it was the 90s lol
I would be so relieved if it was only pot, and so pissed if it was cigarettes
My dad's been smoking for 40 years, and he holds his like that lol
As a former bartender…spilling beer on your clothes smells terrible! I was always worried I’d get pulled over after work smelling like stale IPA!
Yeah she's clearly not a beer drinker lol
Yes I agreed spilled beer on anything carpet clothes etc smells strong and bad
Beer smell is very potent.. I don't drink beer because I can't stand the smell, even if others are drinking it.
An sometimes a addict has to hit rock bottom to realize and yes I know there talking bout pot
Omg same! I would hate it when the keg was running low and it would spray all over me 😩
God, it's even more disturbing watching the dad character have all these conversations about dating and periods with the child actors now. It's disturbing enough that he worked closely with these kids. I hope nothing happened.
The actors who play Lucy, Simon & Ruthie, the three youngest siblings, started a podcast and they addressed his behavior. They said that they were very sorry to the victims and confirmed that nothing happened to them.
I'm amazed that this isn't a video by a youtuber with at LEAST 2 mil subs, we need s2 !!
I love how George is always being referred to as George The Orphan, like it's his full legal name.
Just needs one of those “Orphans” sweaters from The Warriors
I don’t know who you are. I don’t know why you did this. But it was awesome so thank you. I made sure to sub so I don’t miss season 2.
Right? Immediately subbed
Omg I just found her today too 👀 I definitely subbed 👀
I had a guest star role on this series in 2001. I had a scene in Stephen Collins' office. I played Roland Rogers, an office manager who's boss arranges for me to speak to the Reverend,. Turns out the hilarity that I enjoy in my office led to someone stealing the artificial arm from another one of my employees. It was a long fun scene and at the end the camera reveals that young Simon was listening around the corner, and the discussion was impactful on him. I still remember that as soon as we finished shooting the scene for the last take, Stephen jumped up and proclaimed that I was an example of excellent casting. I enjoyed the experience.
I got to be extra with lines in a scene with a pdf file isn’t the flex you’d think🤷🏼♀️
@@summerspicer6153 and calling it “pdf file” sounds absolutely idiotic. Completely minimizing the gravity of it.
@@summerspicer6153 In the first place, if you were given lines you were no longer an extra. I don't have a clue about the rest of your comment regarding a pdf and flex. Makes no sense to me.
@@johnmaynardable flex means brag. PDF refers to a person who treats children in the way Stephen Collins has admitted to treating them.
@@SarahBent Thanks for the explanation. I have never heard those terms used that way.
Lucie’s type was Prince Charles?? They must have meant Prince William but gotten their wires crossed.
😂😂😂😂😂 I know cause he's not cute
@@nenep1872 It's more that he's a full adult and she's a child
@@nenep1872 He was kind of unattractive and prince Charles would have been about 50 when this was made 😆
Hey didn't we all have a crush on an older celebrity as a kid!? Mine was Mark Hamill 😂
@brialashee um yes
..mine was David Letterman. It's innocent.😂
52:42 Actually, Abby Morris, who was played by Stephen Collins now ex-wife, does ask Eric to tell Annie near the end of the episode so he does so, which we see him do.
55:47 The ring Eric gives Annie at the Church to replace the stolen Wedding ring is a Red Lightning Ring, Red Lightning being a Superhero that Simon is obsessed with. It’s Simon who gives Eric the Red Lightning ring to give Annie. It’s meant to be a sweet gesture.
57:06 The scene in Eric and Annie’s room where Julie is screaming and frightened is meant to show Delirium tremens (DT’s) which can happen with alcohol withdrawal. Sometimes hallucinations happen as part of DT’s.
The algorithm was generous. Loved this! Thanks for getting me through some afternoon work.
Mother is feeding us well
This was wonderful! Please do Season 2...3...4...and so on! Great retrospective!
Just a reminder the actor that plays the Dad admitted in real life to molesting a 10-year old.
Some of the scenes and scenarios he's in especially knowing that news make it very weird to watch these. Like how he's so excited about his daughter's period.
Definitely messed up.
He took Method Acting a bit too far.
The entire show had typical male fetish garbage sprinkled throughout it. No one got peaked to the awful paraphilias in this show. It's all basically pedo fodder for men. Unfortunately it's only gotten worse in entertainment. The more you know.
That's not funny.@@huntercoleherr
@@kilertyuwyes it was funny. You don’t get to decide what’s funny and what’s not.
He admitted to multiple instances of sexual harassment and SA of girls in the 10 -13 age range. He's a despicable person, it's so uncomfortable watching his interactions with kids on this show. And the character thinks smoking pot is the worst thing someone could ever do. 🙄
Imagine going to rehab for smoking weed. 🤣 💀
Weed was the safest example of drugs for a family oriented television show; it was really a euphemism for all drugs. That’s why the storyline was intense.
Imagine your relative having chemical alcohol withdrawals and you lock her in a room instead of taking her to rehab
If you think it was weird for Eric to want to be involved with Lucy's period drama, wait until a later season where Ruthie asks him the most out of pocket question for a daughter to ask their father! (This is my way of requesting more of this 😅)
I watched the whole series when I was younger, and I'm trying to remember what the question was. lol
@@malanenix4033 I can't remember exactly what season it is, but it's one where Ruthie is a teenager and I think Eric is driving her to a party or something, and she basically asks him if she's sexy / if he thinks boys would find her sexy 😬
I think I remember this? He basically says there's no reason to think about looking sexy if she's not having sex?
Anyway, some daughters have close relationships with their dad's and do say this. It's a bit cringe for people who don't have this kind of relationship
@@lexiatelunless you’re gooong oooooooooeh oooh yeah sooo sexy in an really exaggerated way with all the dad pun energy but if not straight to jail !
The smoking lady is Eileen Brennan, one of my favorite actresses. She was Mrs. Peacock in Clue
as a kid i never understood why some little girls were obsessed with "becoming a woman" like "yay who's excited to bleed?!"
I started a week before my 11th birthday and I was so upset. I never wanted a period.
Im a dude but I've never been able to comprehend how some girls/women (not all of course) can be so disgusted by blood in general. Yet have no problem with the monthly visitor. Again not all girls and women
@@RoyalBlue4486I started when I was 11 too. I was a tomboy through and through and just wanted to play some touch football but couldn’t because of cramps
oh silly, it's so much fun to have cramps and bloating!
@@K37-h1z Be happy that girls get that blood, it means you idiot men didn't get them pregnant.
You can kill an alcoholic by denying them alcohol you are supposed to taper down
Withdrawal needs to be medically supervised
Tampons on your very first cycle!? No, ma'am. I had my period for about a year before I tried tampons. I almost had to call my mom into the bathroom because removing it was so painful. 🙃 😅 I dont even use them anymore because there are so many different options available now. Thanks, universe! 👍
Try 5 years after your first period. 😂 I literally got my period the day of a swim meet… wasn’t competing that day. But there was a girl on the team who swam with A PAD!! so I guess there was that option…
Never wore tampons until my mid twenties.
@@SunshineRox007 Me too, but it was because a friend of mine (us 14) tried one and I was traumatized with/for her. Now I'm a cuppie and life is easy.
100% agree and I’m a diva cup girl now
Ikr, never an option before losing your virginity. 😂
You should check out the podcast “Catching Up with the Camdens” which launched last month! It’s hosts are the three youngest of the original five Camden kids, Lucy, who was played by Beverly Mitchell, Simon, who was played by David Gallagher and Mackenzie Rosman who played Ruthie.
No way! Thank you for this comment. I need to listen to this.
Jeez, every old show needs a rewatch podcast doesn't it?
Is this on UA-cam!!!
@@lexiatelyes it is, google the title
Does anyone acknowledge how Ruthie was…different?
Second time rewatching. I just wanted to say that not only is Shae's work compelling regardless of topic, but she seems to have a really warm spirit. Shae, please never stop making videos 🥹💝
Thank you for making this video. I know this had to take a lot of time and energy to make so I appreciate it. It's easy to forget that you guys make this content for free for all of us to enjoy. UA-cam will always be my home. 🙌
Tnis was literally so entertaining as someone who's Christian and never seen this show. Christian media is always so wacky for no reason😭
It’s always WAY too horny. Purity culture until you’re married…. Then get freaky? I guess 😅😂😂😂
I dont think this shows creator was a Christian.
@@zztopz7090 either way. It’s still Christian media.
One of the weirdest parts of this show for me (which is saying a lot because this show is so unhinged), is the fact that Ruthie looks straight up biracial and I like to think there's some Annie x mysterious lover lore in there somewhere.
😂😂 I said the same thing! I always wondered if she was adopted 😂
I thought she was Mexican lol
Ya’ll never seen actual biracial kids before? As a black person with mixed family members, Ruthie looks white to me. She just has curly hair, please don’t say she looks biracial because the girl has curly hair. 🙄
@@ray-de-yolisten9934 she looks more Hispanic
@@ray-de-yolisten9934 David Gallagher is half Hispanic and he looks white
I watched the first episode of the Catching Up with the Camdens podcast and learned that Beverly Mitchell (Lucy) was 15 when the show started and Jessica Biel (Mary) was 14. During this season Lucy actually looked the age she was supposed to be while Mary looked like she could be 17.
Looked like Barry Watson (Matt) and Jessica came from fairly tall families (probably close to 6 ft tall, maybe in the 5'9 - 6' range), while Beverly was from a shorter family. That's probably why Jessica looked older than Beverly.
Also, I have a headcanon that Ruthie was adopted likely as an infant (mainly because her actor MacKenzie Rosman looked like a person of colour compared to her caucasian co-stars as the other family members, but it is possible for her to be mixed race, and she could be part caucasian, part POC), but unless someone confirms that, I'll take the assumption that she has the same birth parents as her siblings and just had a non-caucasian cast as her.
@@grahamdamberger7130 google says Mackenzie Rossman Ethnicity is : Lumbee Native American, English, German [including Alsatian German], Scottish, Swedish😊 now we know
I always thought Lucy looked strangely older/more mature than Mary in someway so when I found out later she was a year older it made sense. I grew up a tall girl but just because someone is tall doesn't always mean they look older than people who are older than them.
@@stitches318 interesting, I'm average height 1.64cm not short not tall but to me Mary has a more mature looking face compared to Lucy. And I never noticed untill now that in first season the actress who plays Lucy is really skinny making her look shorter and younger? Mary has like a more athletic figure but she is often in kinda oversized clothes, I think that also makes her look maby older? I grew up with this show btw in the 90s. So as kid I never focussed on any of that.
@@verina_crochet_garden i don't know, I have an uncanny ability to see this I think. For example when we met our new neighbor she was 8 and my son was 9. Now my son is TALL but this litter girl was even taller, and she is built very thick. But there was something in her mannerisms and face that made me think she was still only 9 at most. i was wrong because she was actually a year younger than my son, but most people we meet actually think she is like 12-13! People look at height and body size before anything else, but I take in the whole picture. I did think Mary's mannerisms were young for age while Lucy's were more mature
I didn't see this mentioned in the comments:
The actor who played the dad admitted to committing SA having "inappropriate relations" with 3 different girls over several years. One was 10 and he was 25. It just makes watching this show even harder to watch.
I really enjoyed this. I only watched like a handful of episodes of this growing up but you made it entertaining to watch this retrospective. I'd love to watch you talk about season 2.
“… cannabis being legalized largely across America…”
_/weeps in South Carolinian/_
Hang in there and vote accordingly!
I mean, ok, the unwed mother story is super heavy handed, but also I got pregnant as a teen after having sex one time. It happens, and it's good for kids to know that it can happen
Same here! Pregnant at 16 after ONE time, he’s now 27 and has 2 kids of his own! ❤
And that's why you don't let your skeevy boyfriend not wear a condom😂😂 thanks 10 things I hate about you
4:59 the three younger siblings have a podcast now and they said they filmed a scene where matt and mary actually kiss here and it just didn’t make it into the final cut😭🤢
Isn’t this Rachel who hit on Matt the same high school teacher who slept with Joshua Jackson a student in her class on the tv show Dawson’s Creek? She got a thing for young boys
I know everyone makes fun of the show having marijuana be the drug for the drug episodes, but in fairness to the show I know one other show that did an episode on drugs where a version of pot was the drug and that was “Dinosaurs” which aired from 1991 - 1994. The episode in question was from Season 2 and titled “A New Leaf”. In that episode they had a leaf take the place of pot. So it wasn’t just “7th Heaven”.
I do think the reason that the show chose pot as the drug for its drug-related episodes is likely because the writers and producers of the show felt they couldn’t use drugs like meth, cocaine etc. as the drug or else the show would get a higher rating and the show was trying to stay ‘family friendly’.
I talked to my Uber driver on the way from my local dispensary, that it's surreal to think about DARE and the 90s narrative about drugs while walking into a very polished and professional dispensary.
It wasn't just a coincidence. The Reagan, Bush & Bush administrations pushed the entertainment industry hard for including anti-drug propaganda.
There was also an episode about steroids IIRC. They were like...little bug things that bulked up dinos.
Weed was everywhere back then on TV.
They should've showed harder drugs. The pot heads in my school were chill, but the ones taking their mom's pain pills in the middle of the school day was an issue
being raised christian I grew up with 7th Heaven and recently finally started rewatching it from my now deconstructed pov. the early seasons are terrible and wholesome at the same time, actually makes for trashy comfort viewing imo.
I have been struggling with it for the last couple of seasons though (i'm up to season 7 now) as it's gone from some basic focus on the family lessons around social issues to everyone now having insufferable communication skills and attachment styles.
I would love to see you get through season 2 and so on. your delivery and commentary is fantastic!
ps. justice for Matt, never did anything wrong! the preemptive mistrust these parents have for their kids is so frustrating lol
They were probably naughty when they were younger.
My parents who were also naughty, didn't trust me much at all. Haha. I was an angelic thing though. The church ladies loved me.
Really not that far-fetched for religious households.
The actor for Dwight is the voice of Mikey in Recess, could tell by his voice immediately 😊
Small world. Lucy's next boyfriend, Rod, played King Bob in Recess and Arnold on Hey Arnold!
He is an Angel. RIP.
THANK YOU!! I thought I was losing it.
@@maryredding1619 Lucy's friend in season 2 that has a Mother that is verbally mean to her was in The Amanda Show. She was Missy in the Moody's Point skit and did a few of the ad skits.
This was wild! 😂 Would love to see season 2!
Dont worry lucy, you're prince Charles' type too
Actually that's prince Andrew. I think Charles likes wrinkly old ladies.
We need you to do S2!! Dont stop this was incredible!
It was a weird flex back in 90s tv show/commercials the most "manly" thing u could do was buy ur wife or daughter tampons in the store
Growing up in a Christian household I never thought 7th Heaven was a faith based show, like quoting scripture, praying, but it was been a minute since I saw it
Exactly
7th Heaven is not Christian. Its just his job.
Love your channel! Can’t wait for more uploads! I’m sure it’s a lot of work to do all these, but I appreciate it!
Please do all the seasons, this was great! 😂
This is delightful. I believe this show was on in Belgium where I live around '97, never watched it (my English was probably not at a high enough level at that point anyway), but I sure remember the theme song. Nice to finally see what all the fuss was about ^^
Just a comment about Eric Camden, the Dad, and his superpowers: I think the character of Eric may have been a bit influenced by the character of Charles Ingalls on the TV “Little House on the Prairie”. Like Eric, Charles was often helping people and solving their problems. And like in Episode 10 “Last Call for Aunt Julie”, Charles stays with an alcoholic father so he can detox in the Season 1 episode “Child of Pain” from “Little House” and we witness the alcoholic father also having DT’s, except he sees bats rather rats like Julie does.
I love this because I think Charles Ingles, the character, is like the best man ever and he looks good lol I love Little House...
"Ruthie is just there to be adorable" yeah you clearly haven't watched past the first season lmao
And? Lol she is adorable!
@@kellyfinley4419the last episode I remember watching was the one where ruthie (maybe 10-13) tries seduce to a much older boy who lives with them. Also, Simon kills someone 😬
@@kellyfinley4419 she is adorbs for sure! But in later seasons she is adorable AND menacing not just adorable lol
My mom was a single mother and she was awesome. I never went without things I needed. She worked hard.
If my dad non stop talked to be about my period at 11 👀, I think I’d jump out the window and run.
I’m so glad you’re covering this insane show bc I have yet to find another commentary on it!!
I was so angry at this show for the alcohol episode. I was in middle school and already knew that you can't just go cold turkey without medical intervention so for them to promote that pissed me off.
my friends and I were so obsessed with this show when it was airing. just watching this recap, you going through the episodes makes me look back and laugh (and cringe) at how seriously they tried to portray so many things that are now seen as so normal. but that's the 90s!
I'm really grateful my life was closer to this in high school than Euphoria. I did know kids who had the Euphoria life, my neighborhood was like that, but fortunately my high school had kids more in common with 7th Heaven. Simon wanting a dog is so funny and cute and very funny.
I would love too see more season breakdowns!
Hey you should make more of these, this was hilarious!
The older woman who dated Matt is the teacher who preyed on Pacey in Dawson creek. Why she keep
Getting these roles? Or was this a cross
Over we never noticed?
Desperately need you to do all the seasons. It only gets more unhinged from here. 😂
Hi! New here! Just wanted to add in on the Single Moms vs Single Dads thing: Yeah, 100% true. Every woman I have ever known both as a child and now with some of my friends being single moms are absolutely vilified for "making poor choices" (or not being indestructible robots who can do all the things all the time). Meanwhile I was raised by a single dad who was praised for stepping up and not just abandoning me at the first orphanage he drove past. Don't get me wrong, my dad is a wonderful man who did his absolute best to raise a little girl by himself, but the fact that he's praised as a saint while moms basically get blamed for daring to be fertile is ABSURD.
It so screwed,
My husband and myself were out shopping with our special needs child, she had a melt down , my husband was applauded by some random women for not leaving me because we had a special needs child.
We have had that happen so much, and the very last person to say it too him got a mouthful for me, saying I deserve to be recognised as well considering my husband goes to work and can leave the house without our child haveing a panic attack like they do when I leave
You gained a subscriber!!! This was a great very detailed and entertaining video!! Thank you!(:
What's hilarious is that the guy who played the dope fiend here later played the main part in the musical Reefer Madness. There he also played a nice boy quickly falling into the hellish and bottomless pit of marijuana use.
When i was a little kid i HATED this show. Because even then i realised how actually unrealistic it was.
Same here lol. Also my mother made me watch the middle finger episode to 'be respectful.'
Loved the recap. I hope you do the whole series.
A lot of shows back then got kick backs from doing anti drug or alcohol episodes. That's why shows in the 90's have a lot of these pot are bad alcohol is bad episodes. Enjoyed the video hope you do more as i will never be watching this show. Please suffer for me.
Yes a small anount of beer split stinks to high heaven (see what i did there high heaven)
I am enjoying your video series far more than I should, having never watched the original run!
I think “Wilson” ran a sort of a cult later on (irl, not in the show)
Yes he does. I remember seeing him on 10 Things I Hate About You. He was the complete opposite of his character here lol. Handsome guy though.
Love the choice to call the wake a "funeral afterparty" 🤣
I wasn't allowed to watch this show but I grew up with it in the periphery. One day I tuned in for just a second to see what it was like, and it was the scene where Annie's sister is terrorizing Simon for the key. All I knew was that the mom was blonde, so I thought that 7th Heaven was a psychological thriller about a Christian family trying to help their alcoholic mother/wife , not a slice of life. I was actually pretty scared of it for a while! Thanks for the video Shae, I love your commentary :)
Why weren't you aloud to watch it?
Pleaseeee cover the whole show! I love your commentary so much!❤ gotta love how every problem is solved in 48 minutes 🙌🏻
I love your delivery, this was so fun to watch and I usually don't like long videos. Glad you did season 2!
I couldn't even get my dad to buy pads for me.
my dad was 78 when he found out women don't sit bare on public toilet seats.
I've had the opening theme stuck in my head for years
I wanted to revisit the show but didn't want to put in the time to binge watch it
thank you for doing the hard work for me!
My husband gets mad because if I watch this show he gets that theme song stuck in his head for weeks
I used to watch this show all the time when it aired and didn’t realize until you pointed it out that Eric’s plans work perfectly every single time. I loved this video and hope you do more 7th Heaven videos.
Honestly the dad being haunted 30+ years by a grade school mistake is such a me mood and I hate it
I hope you do more of these!
I loved this show but your commentary is so on point and funny. I hope you review more seasons 😅
Yes please keep going!! There’s so much more in season 2!
This was so great, love your commentary. Pls do more of this ridiculous show pleaseeeee
i don't know what casting directors had against the women who played annie's pedo friend rachel, she was also cast as an english teacher in season 1 of dawson's creek and has a full blown sexual relationship with pacey who's her 15 year old student. the female predator type casting is strong with this one.
Wow. This show was way more bonkers than i remember. Looking forward to season 2 if you do it.
I was never religious and always thought the show is weird, but I still loved it in the 90s. Tried to binge it as an adult, it was too cringe for me.
Just thinking who`s that happy to get her period? And uses tampons right away during her first period. And why does her dad have to go buy her tampons she lives with a sister and mum there`s enough in the house.
I insist tough, Matt was cool and as a teen girl I definitely drooled over him , BUT the best character? No that`s Happy!
I want the whole family to do a 23 and me, and go through family photos as far back as they find. Ruthy looks so extremely different (she became my favourite when she got older).
Amazing video. Can't wait to see your channel blow up 🙏❤
Oh bless you for doing this, definitely subscribed ☺️
The speed at which I clicked this video. Algorithm win!
Back when Kerri Russell was one of the hottest actresses on TV- from Felicity to guest spots in BMW and 7th Heaven... And her hair was the envy of the majority of girls back then.
Please do season 2! This was fantastic.
Dwight played Mikey in Recess and he passed away in 2020 :( RIP Jason Davis!
you are so funny. for real i laughed out loud so many times during this one.
1:03:25 I knew his voice sounded familiar that's Mikey from Recess Jason Davis RIP
RIP? You mean he died?
I recognized his voice right away as well! And I always liked Mikey because he was always so unashamedly himself. So I can understand the appeal for his character if he’s like that here as well.
And absolutely RIP. A sad young loss.
@@oooh19he passed in 2020 :(
@@bellamckenzie4433 that's sad. was it COVID related?
Unfortunately it looks like it was a drug-related overdose of fentanyl @@oooh19
I truly cant wait for you to recap seaseon 3 and on!!! 🎉
I watched this growing up off and on! You recap is on point and I dig your style!
Lucy’s trailer park middle aged man friend, was also in 2 episodes of Dr Quinn Medicine Woman as a train conductor whose face was melted by hot steam and coals. Later, he was in the infamous XFiles episode called HOME, the one about a multigenerational family raised in incest in the boonies.
So he always plays an unfortunate weirdo
this was sooooo goooood
I can see you becoming huge on UA-cam.
IMPECCABLE timing: right after Mary said "ok... so I close my eyes..." an ad came straight in with "JUST DO THE THING! GO TO THERAPY" ... I am HOWLING 💀
A truly bizarre series. The Christian mind is WILD.
I hope you can find it in you to do season 2!! I loved this video so much, i watched this show occasionally as a kid and looking at it now just cracks me up lmao And maybe for future seasons you can split them up into 2 or 3 vids that way you dont have to put yourself through hell lol
I don't know much about this show and happened upon your video, and it didn't disappoint. 😂
Yes, 1000x yes, I’d love a season 2 recap!
My dad won’t even touch a box of pads or tampons. Barely wants them on the conveyor belt w the rest of the stuff… I get annoyed by it, but I think if he cried w tears of joy over my period… I’d be even more embarrassed lol
The first guy was boyfriends brother, becoming uncle. As if i understood correctly. But nice video alltough and very weird series.