"California Dreams" Guess Who's Coming to Brunch (TV Episode 1992) Poster

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8/10
attention, Brooke Langton fans!
RavenGlamDVDCollector30 June 2016
Too cutesy-pie show for me, so I often ridicule it. But there's lots of eye candy, not just leggy Kelly Packard, but the girls in Sharky's, the diner. This episode, the guest star is Brooke Langton, destined a few years later to be Samantha, one of the cutest, most likable MELROSE PLACE stars. Wow, I sat there when I saw her, hey, I've seen you somewhere, you're a lot younger here, but I've seen you somewhere... After falling around a bit, I placed her. Wow! She is oh-so-cute, and clearly on her way to stardom. Inspired me to brighten up these dreary blank spaces representing the episode here on IMDb with a quote and some trivia.

There is also another girl, just a walk-on, who makes her way to the counter, right there where the episode starts. She unfortunately had no lines, it's not a speaking part, but I was mesmerized by the teen fox. There is nothing overtly sexual about her, it's just that she's in this short summer dress, leggy, shapely, blond, with a darling fringe, that she's young, very young, and really cute, a model obviously. Must have been fun casting for extras...!
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9/10
Not the traditional Peter Engel episode or show
letiamj-9508813 January 2021
Warning: Spoilers
This was one of my favorite episodes because of the overall message. It took a lot of audacity and gumption for Peter to break away from his traditional format to create this episode especially in this time period. In 1992, networks were not making Saturday morning shows or many shows talking about racism and/or Interracial dating. I remember how ground breaking it was when Angela and Shawn started dating on Boy Meets World in 1997.

Then for Peter to add the fact that the dad was against the interracial relationship was very risky business. NBC was always known to be risk adverse. That is why Jessie Spano got hooked on caffeine pills instead of something more believable.

I actually liked the original format of California Dreams with the Matt's family. I wish they would have kept it that way and maybe just added Jake. That way the show would have been different from Peter's other shows. Plus, they had the band and the story lines could have continued to be different.
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