i wonder if i would still actually like it if i watched it now.it was definitely one of my faves as a kid.there were a lot of strange concepts in that show.the dad in the family worked for some kind of robotics company and made vicky the robot for some reason having to do with helping kids with disabilities so i don't understand why they needed to bring the robot home to pretend it was their adopted daughter so that it could acclimate to family life...a family life that didn't include any children with disabilities anyway (unless you count the son jamie's chipmunk cheeks a disability).but besides that, it's a robot.what's to acclimate???!!!
and despite the fact that the family sent her to school,it was a total secret that she was a robot.for starters, no one was supposed to notice she only owned one dress, or that she couldn't eat or drink til like at least the third season?
one of the other weird things was i always thought that instead of having a robot/caretaker relationship or even a brother/adopted sister relationship jamie and vicky seemed to have some kind of underlying sexual tension.yeah that's right i said it.kinda creepy.i thought his rejection of annoying neighbor harriet was more because he secretly pined for vicky than his disdain for harriet.
if that show were on the air today instead of being a robot people would probably have just assumed she was autistic or had asperger's syndrome.michael cera or jesse eisenberg could have been her love interest.
anyway, i got to wondering whatever happened to all of the actors on that show?part of me assumed they had all died of crack addiction in natural child actor fashion or something.but nope-they're alive!
vicky lawson aka v.i.c.i. and her puffy bangs.
she's now a nurse in boulder and looks pretty normal.
despite the rumors from the 90s jamie did not grow up to be billy corgan from smashing pumpkins.though i have to admit that would have been pretty hilarious (though not all that far fetched considering jimmy from degrassi grew up to be drake).
i can't figure out what he's doing now but it's not acting.apparently he golfs a lot.here's him now.
harriett was the annoying neighbor who was totally in love with jamie.what a creepster.and those 80s bowl bangs! yeesh!
she's now an acting teacher in connecticut.here's what she looks like now.
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