Punky Power: An Unofficial Punky Brewster Podcast

Hey Everyone, Angela Bowen here, the host of Together, We're Gonna Find Our Way: An Unofficial Silver Spoons Podcast. Today I covered S3E23: The Secret Life Of Ricky Stratton, which aired on March 24, 1985. In this episode Rick feels bad about himself when he sees how gorgeous his computer date is. This episode deals with body image and how we see ourselves as well as how we think other people see us. The term Grocking as gross as it sounds(to me)simply refers to chatting on the computer with people we've never met in person, pre - internet and World Wide Web days. Long before the days of parents telling their kids to be safe talking to people they chat with online, Edward and Kate tell Rick to go for it and go meet this Wanda girl on a blind date. Luckily for Rick she lives in the same state not somewhere clear across the country like Montana or Utah. She sends him her picture ,which I first thought was fake and cut out of a magazine. I really thought this was going to be a catfish scenario where sh