On Tuesday, for various reasons, I thought about the TV show Diff'rent Strokes. It appeared from 1978 to 1986. That show is definitely one of the reruns I will watch if I am just channel surfing and it happens to be on (I would also include Fresh Prince, Family Ties, Full House, Growing Pains, The Cosby Show and a couple of other shows that I just can't remember at this moment). Its probably something that reminds me of my childhood (whether it was watching those shows as they originally aired or as "new" reruns). Anyway, Diff'rent Strokes is probably best remembered for Arnold (played by Gary Coleman) and also for all the trouble those child-actors got into thereafter.
I think the Floetry of the Diff'rent Strokes theme speaks for itself, whether in text or in audio. I have included a YouTube video featuring the theme song, and as always the text to the Floetry can be found below (the address for the video is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmfH1RsxWEc if you want to copy it for later).
Floetry:
Now, the world don't move to the beat of just one drum,
What might be right for you, may not be right for some.
A man is born, he's a man of means.
Then along come two, they got nothing but their jeans.
But they got, Diff'rent Strokes.
It takes, Diff'rent Strokes.
It takes, Diff'rent Strokes to move the world.
Everybody's got a special kind of story
Everybody finds a way to shine,
It don't matter that you got not alot
So what,
They'll have theirs, and you'll have yours, and I'll have mine.
And together we'll be fine....
Because it takes, Diff'rent Strokes to move the world.
Yes it does.
It takes, Diff'rent Strokes to move the world.
Taken From Diff'rent Strokes by Al Burton, Alan Thicke (Jason Seaver on Growing Pains) and Gloria Loring
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