Grown-Up Pains

My thoughts after watching fifteen minutes of Growing Pains on one of the rerun channels:

• It's really hard to watch the show now. Boner is dead, Kirk Cameron is a fundamentalist, Alan Thicke's son is a pop star. There hasn't been a distracting post-show divergence like that since Al Franken and Dennis Miller were on Weekend Update.
• It's the eighties, and the father is named Jason, but the child is named Carol. Don't these people know anything about names?
• Who would have believed that Thicke's real son would be in a sexually suggestive dance with the biggest teen sitcom star of their generation? I wonder what Cameron thought about that.
• By an unfortunate coincidence in the cycle of life and fashion, Alan and Robin Thicke have had disturbingly similar hairstyles at the height of the fame.
• Here's a thought: Miley Cyrus is the anti-Kirk Cameron.