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The show JTS a few times, especially while SSJ was off having a baby, but I think the first of the 3 listed was 'Allie homeless', so I voted for that.

Now, while I'm here... What did happen to Ari Meyers? Did she fall or was she pushed?

This show was really good the first couple of years. Emma was my prepubescent hero. It started to go downhill when her character left; it was never the same after that. It was completely over the minute Bob and Allie got married. Why they continued the show after that is beyond me. Kate, who was once a strong, independent woman, was reduced to a pathetic third wheel. The whole dynamic of the first few years of two best friends raising their children together was gone.

Wow, it is great to have a place to express the opinions I'd kept to myself since the show first aired and beyond. Although I'm a latecomer to JTS, I think it's wonderful. I agree with 90% of the views, except for a few I didn't really see here. IMO it was definitely the move to mid-town, because EVERYthing changed and yet it kept the premise as if NOTHING had changed. What I hadn't seen mentioned was how- (how do I put it..) snide Allie became before & after her wedding. Along with her hairstyle, her attitude changed from being a normal divorcee to a haughty, "look where I am now" vibe. Kate turned into the quintessential third wheel.

It was also, maybe sublminally, the appearances, wardrobe and hair, that moved the JTS momentum along. Kate, who was formerly a free-spirited individual who looked totally realistic and casual, suddenly looked like a legal secretary all the time. Even at breakfast, she/they would wear robes that I would bet had street clothes on underneath. (Who goes to bed with their watches on, anyway?!) (I know, I know, get a life.) But I had always appreciated the realistic looks of the characters, and when Allie started with the 'grown up' hair and totally different wardrobe, it was like a different show. The new place had no personality, the 'rules' were different (no feet on coffee table, no good ol' toaster...) Kate really did seem like a single, lonely spinster who wanted only to have what Allie & Bob had. Bob wasn't bad, just unnecessary. I agree with those that said they should have remained independent and end at the wedding. Whoever thought SSJ was gay and married to Rock Hudson was smoking something bad! The womens' acting and characters were unlike anything before and after, in TV history.

Emma- beautiful but superficial and clueless. Jenny, bad overacting and over-dressing aside, was snide and superior to the end. And Chip, cute as a button in the beginning, had literally nowhere to go but down. It is unfair to call him fem or gay because hey- where is he supposed to go from there? Was he suddenly going to look hip and cool? He just had the bad luck to grow up. Like McCauley Culkin, Fred Savage, Gary Coleman and Corey something, cute kid actors don't seem to grow into handsome men. Not their fault. Just an observation.

Whew, that felt good to get all that out! I love this site! Look for my future JTS remarks on WKRP, MTM and Golden Girls, because now I'm on a roll! Thank you for letting me share.

it's said that this show jumped sharks
with the episode where kate, (or maybe allie, i don't know) turned up homeless.
that was right up there with the MASH episode where everyone's having war dreams as the most interesting episode, not the worst.
everything else sucked, however.

I enjoyed the show for the most part. I was about Emma and Jennie's ages when it aired so I could relate to them as my parents were also divorced and I never saw my dad much after that. It jumped when Allie married Bob and took Kate with them to live in the new place. As a newlywed, would you really want your attractive best friend living with you and your new husband? Still enjoy watching the reruns on the We channel though. Guilty pleasure!

In the Now You Know Department, there was actually a pitch made to Filmation Studios for an animated version of Kate & Allie, which never made it past the conception stage. It would have been yet another "Gilligan's Planet", with one episode having Kate's boyfriend, Ted, constructing a homemade spaceship in the apartment's backyard which sends Kate, Allie and the cast into outer space. Equally dreadful episodes would have had Allie becoming a vampire bat as well as her and Kate joining the circus as acrobatic performers. No doubt this project would have been a Shark-Jumper for Filmation, which was already waning as a dominant cartoon studio and was shuttered in 1993 with the release of the company's final project--the movie "Happily Ever After". Other Filmation flops, such as "Bugsburg" and "Bravestar", would seal the company's fate.

Emma's loss was huge, she was so gorgeous AND the best of the kids by far. Chip was fruity and Jennie wasn't much of a deep charater.

I always liked Lou. What was so bad about him that Kate didn't want to go out with him?

Normally a very funny show, but the whole "women are better than men" theme started getting on my nerves after a while.

this is one of the best shows from the 80's. I still liked the show even when Allie got married but it wasn't as good as it was in the beginning. Also Ari Meyers not on anymore I think hurt the show too. This show started when i was nine and I found Ari to be fine.