Family Ties (1982): 15 Weird Facts You Didn’t Know

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   @RememberWhenHQ

   January 6, 2026 at 10:33 pm

   OK, who else remembers being a kid and thinking “A, My Name Is Alex” was way too deep for a Thursday night TV sitcom? Family Ties really had us laughing one minute and questioning the meaning of life the next. Which episode or moment still lives rent-free in your head?
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   @LeonScottKennedy2-4-6-9

   January 6, 2026 at 10:33 pm

   To bad Jason Batman is not in this show with her sister

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   @ryanbrown3004

   January 6, 2026 at 10:33 pm

   That Billy Vera jam is like the whitest song ever.

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   @HarveyKlooz

   January 6, 2026 at 10:33 pm

   Have you ever thought about a deep dive into Palmerstown USA? It also had Michael J. Fox

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   @CandaceCasey-g2t

   January 6, 2026 at 10:33 pm

   I loved Nick

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   @jeffmendolo

   January 6, 2026 at 10:33 pm

   The only fat you mention about Tina Yothers was that she was there

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   @eldane3424

   January 6, 2026 at 10:33 pm

   Tartikoff did NOT "literally" eat crow…literally! This is scripted by AI. Those examples do not show Mallory being an airhead. Ubu WAS kept as a logo.

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   @LitLitterbox

   January 6, 2026 at 10:33 pm

   Jason and Justine Bateman both got married in 2001 and are both still married. 😮

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   @monicas-b1658

   January 6, 2026 at 10:33 pm

   I love the fact that they have the Canadian saying "I'm sorry."!😂😂😂

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    @DerekFraser-z2o

    January 6, 2026 at 10:33 pm

    Wanted to tap that Justine Bateman 🎉❤

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    @Momzke3

    January 6, 2026 at 10:33 pm

    When family TV was good and heartwarming

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    @GrimbleGromble1689

    January 6, 2026 at 10:33 pm

    No one said you weren’t real, we all know that AI is a real thing.

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    @Craznar

    January 6, 2026 at 10:33 pm

    I hate that commander with a vengeance …

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    @jschlegel3047

    January 6, 2026 at 10:33 pm

    To say that Justine Bateman had that much of an influence to make the writers change the direction of Mallory is lazy explanation for the misogyny of the writers in the day. They made her the scapegoat and you were dumb enough to buy it.

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    @qwertyturdy

    January 6, 2026 at 10:33 pm

    I think this is why Thursdays are my favorite day, next to Sunday, of couse.

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    @billmichael8669

    January 6, 2026 at 10:33 pm

    Why the hell would Broderick audition if he had no intention of even wanting the part??!?

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    @leilasmith9028

    January 6, 2026 at 10:33 pm

    Michael J Fox was simply brilliant in Family Ties.

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    @wolfeadventures

    January 6, 2026 at 10:33 pm

    The real person did a Real good job on this! 👌🏻👌🏻

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    @zAngus

    January 6, 2026 at 10:33 pm

    So arguably the show wasn’t very good, it was simply because they had the Thursday 8:30pm time slot.

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    @RelentlessOldMan

    January 6, 2026 at 10:33 pm

    I guess AI is getting pretty good because people can't tell on so many channels anymore and are now accusing humans of being AI. 😂

21. 

    @FreeFallingGracefully

    January 6, 2026 at 10:33 pm

    OMG. It's sit UBU sit, not BooBoo. 😳 How the F did I miss that??

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    @clayz1

    January 6, 2026 at 10:33 pm

    More Mallory please.

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    @tribeofIsrael04

    January 6, 2026 at 10:33 pm

    Gen X here- Hahaha 45 years later and i just learned that the tag line is, "Sit Ubu sit…." . I ALWAYS thought it was, " Sit Booboo sit". This is what happens when you're a latch-key kid of the 80s 😂🤣

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    @marklr5716

    January 6, 2026 at 10:33 pm

    MJF is/was amazing.. his timing was impeccable…

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    @moviesrocks2

    January 6, 2026 at 10:33 pm

    another show i loved watching growing up. i never knew that about the dog. i'm bawling now. thanks a lot.

    thanks for the memories

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    @11matt11

    January 6, 2026 at 10:33 pm

    Easily the best one, with tons of facts I had never heard of. Great job. The one interesting thing missed about the Michael J's story and Back to the Future, is that Barry Goldburg didn't even let Fox know about Goldburg the movie script, because he knew Michael J would be hurt by not being able to do it, and he worried it would affect their relationship. He only told Fox about the movie when Spielberg was called into be the big hitter and beg Barry for Michael J, after they realized Stoltz was so badly miscast.

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    @Hippieskippie

    January 6, 2026 at 10:33 pm

    Back in early 2000s, I met Tina Yothers in a bar in Chicago. She was performing with her band at the time. All i can remember her hair dyed black, and she was very nice.

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    @kdpflush

    January 6, 2026 at 10:33 pm

    The actors who played the parents were both born on the same day

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    @MultiAbstrak

    January 6, 2026 at 10:33 pm

    Wait. (i'm 45 seconds in) …. THE PARENTS WERE FLOWER CHILDREN????!@!! Cause to me. I always thought (as a 5 year old) that they were some kinda fundamentalist conservative Christian , and anti-materialist. As opposed to Fox's Materialist philosophies. They sure acted like it.

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    @csoprych

    January 6, 2026 at 10:33 pm

    You better be real, I just subscribed.

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    @zerogeewhiz

    January 6, 2026 at 10:33 pm

    18:19 forty. It’s forty years later. Man I’m old.

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    @kingofthejungle3833

    January 6, 2026 at 10:33 pm

    @3:59 'the kid' WAS the show

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    @michellebrooks3512

    January 6, 2026 at 10:33 pm

    First, Alex P. Keaton was the man! Second, as a teenager, I saw it that no side in that ridiculous time in politics was 100% right or wrong. My parents were the hippies turned religious right wing nut bags; while I, though right leaning was what today I suppose you would call a Libertarian. And deep in my mind, I know, no one of us is totally right. Seems Family Ties still plays!

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    @acquisitium

    January 6, 2026 at 10:33 pm

    back in the days when republicans still apologized!

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    @M3taBoss98

    January 6, 2026 at 10:33 pm

    Sounds like something AI would say .. 😂

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    @lame.humor-guy5253

    January 6, 2026 at 10:33 pm

    thanks for being real

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    @johnscottmacintyre2439

    January 6, 2026 at 10:33 pm

    you stated he "literally" ate crow…..you failed to mention it in the video, my guess is that you meant "figuratively" ate crow

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    @shawnie2027

    January 6, 2026 at 10:33 pm

    I still get that warm comforting feeling when I hear the theme song start and I can picture my family all getting settled in on the couches n chairs ready for our favorite tv night line up. Thanks for jogging my memory ❤ at 56 yrs old I needed that lil reminder of how great things were and can be again with a bit of love and respect-runs…if only in my dreams❤ God Bless

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    @alive-awake

    January 6, 2026 at 10:33 pm

    Tv went downhill after the 80's

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    @philliesphillips6346

    January 6, 2026 at 10:33 pm

    Every time I heard that break up song I always thought of the breakup scene on this show… Every single time

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