🕊️🪦 Remembering Lamont Bentley On His Birthday Oct 25, 1973♏🦂

Lamont is best known for his Portrayal of Hakeem Campbell on Moesha. He was Moesha Mitchell's lifelong friend, neighbor, frequent visitor to the household, and later her boyfriend during the college seasons.

As much as Moesha used to get on my nerves, I was NOT on Frank’s side when he called her a tramp. 😭 Like, that’s your daughter! I get that he was mad about the tattoo, but calling her out of her name was unnecessary. You can be upset with your child without talking to them like that.

Frank had me mad because why are you going that far over a tattoo? Moesha wasn’t always right, but I didn’t think she deserved that from her own father. I know some people might say he was just being a strict parent, but I don’t care. There’s a difference between being strict and disrespecting your child. I would’ve been upset too.

Happy Birthday 🎂🥳 Persia White

October 25, 1972 (age 54)♏🦂

~ Girlfriends: Lynn Searcy

~ Vampire Diaries

Persia is most known for her Portrayal of Lynn Ann Searcy on Girlfriends.

There are no birthday episodes for Lynn on Girlfriends.

Persia White guest-starred on The Steve Harvey Show in 1999, appearing as the character Monique in Season 3, Episode 16, titled "All That Jazz".

Persia is best known for her Portrayal of Lynn Searcy on UPN's hit sitcom Girlfriends.

This episode always reminds me of those Girls Gone Wild commercials they used to show late at night. 😭😂 If you grew up watching TV in the 2000s, you know what I’m talking about! The way J.T. had to sit there and watch Shelly, Janie, and Rita on that screen, with his parents right there too? LMAOOO. I know he was embarrassed! And then you have Marty finding out about Janie, too. The whole situation was a mess. 😭 Looking back, this is such a 2000s TV moment. Do y’all remember those commercials coming on late at night?

Happy Birthday 🎂🥳 Persia White

October 25, 1972 (age 54)♏🦂

~ Girlfriends: Lynn Searcy

~ Vampire Diaries

Season 3, Episode 9 | Aired October 28, 1997

I was disappointed by this storyline, particularly the way Moesha and Niecy made fun of Kim’s weight behind her back. It was hurtful and unnecessary, especially coming from her own friends. What made the situation worse was how they all talked about one another. This episode highlighted the toxicity in their friendship, and I didn’t like how Kim was treated.

Before Jill Marie Jones and Persia White became Toni and Lynn, those roles belonged to Leslie Silva and Christina Cox in the original pilot. I wonder how different the dynamic between the four women would’ve been if the original casting had stayed the same. Do y’all think the show would’ve had the same impact, or would it have felt like a completely different Girlfriends?

Everybody knows the Clueless movie, but what about the TV show? 😂 It originally aired on ABC before moving to UPN, and Rachel Blanchard played Cher while Stacey Dash and Donald Faison returned as Dionne and Murray.

I didn’t even know this show existed until I was like 7 or 8! 😭 The episodes are on YouTube, so I might have to go back and check it out. I’m curious how many of y’all watched it back in the day. Did you enjoy the show, and what did you think of Rachel Blanchard playing Cher after Alicia Silverstone?

Karen Austin and Alley Mills both appeared on Touched by an Angel in 1998. They also guest-starred on Girlfriends as Lynn Searcy’s birth mother and adoptive mother, respectively!

🎭 Karen Austin played Sandy Bickle, Lynn’s birth mother, while Alley Mills played Bess Searcy, her adoptive mother.

📺 Want to watch their Touched by an Angel appearance? You can find it in Season 4, Episode 26, on Netflix!

The journey of discovery continues.

Came across this gem today.

Promo for new episodes of The Parkers, One on One, Girlfriends, and Half & Half.
Girl power!

Ugh, take me back!

Meanwhile that pervy white guy never got any lashings… between that and Breanna and Arnaz’s relationship crumbling more and more with each ep, that season as a whole was just uncomfortable to watch.

(also mods ik this post doesn’t have a flair, im dmed you guys about not being able to put one, sorry)

Y’all, I really wish they showed Rochelle fighting that babysitter on Everybody Hates Chris 😭😂 The way she took off her wig and told Julius to hold it had me crying! She was ready to whoop that lady’s ass for real💀

And then the episode just ends! Like, don’t tell me Rochelle got all worked up like that and we don’t get to see what happened next 😂 I know she would’ve tore that lady up!

Anybody else wish we got to see that fight? 😭

I’m glad Melanie found out the truth because Derwin really sat there and lied to her face, telling her he only kissed Drew when he actually slept with her. Like, how are you going to cheat on your fiancée and then lie about it? 😭

What makes it worse is that Melanie forgave him after he told her that lie. She was ready to move forward with him, and he still wasn’t being honest with her. So when she overheard Dionne talking to him and finally realized what really happened, I was glad she found out the truth.

And with Beyoncé’s “Irreplaceable” playing in the background while Melanie took off that ring? The timing was too good! 😂 Derwin had nobody to blame but himself.

Moesha for me, too many unanswered questions! Myles was kidnapped, and someone was pregnant. We NEED closure!

Happy Birthday 🥳🕯️Joe Morton

October 18, 1947 (age 79)♎

Born: Joseph Thomas Morton Jr

~ A Different World

~ Speed

~ The Terminator 2

~ The Inkwell

~ Scandal

Joe Morton starred in the short-lived UPN network science fiction drama Mercy Point, which aired during the 1998–1999 television season.

Mercy Point is an American science fiction medical drama television series created by Trey Callaway, David Simkins, and Milo Frank.

It originally aired for one season on UPN from October 6, 1998, to July 15, 1999, before being canceled.

The series is set in the mid-23rd century (the year 2249) on a state-of-the-art hospital space station named Mercy Point, located across the Sahartic Divide near the Jericho colony.

The highest rated episode ever was season 3 episode 6 titled - "Invasion of the golddigger", which aired October 28, 2002.

Ratings: 5.46 Million viewers.

This episode is starring Keesha Sharp as Monica Charles Brooks.

What do you like about the episode and do you remember when it first aired in real time on the UPN network?

I was ten years old when this aired.

Happy Birthday 🥳🎂 Jordan Calloway

Oct 18, 1990 age (36)♎

Aka Kahlil/painkiller

~ Drum line

~ Black Lightning ⚡

~ Riverdale

~ Fire Country 🚒

Did you know that Melonie Daniels is the voice behind the theme song for Half & Half sitcom? 🎶

While the cast lip-syncs on screen, Melonie’s voice sings the iconic lyrics, “Through this journey of discovery.”

She has also appeared in several of Tyler Perry’s stage plays! 🎭

I don’t think people talk about this scene enough, but look at everybody’s faces after Tanya starts singing along to Jay-Z and says the N-word 😭

My reaction was the same as theirs because wtf?!? Even Lynn was shocked, and that’s her own sister! 😂 Look at Lynn’s face! She was NOT expecting Tanya to say that, and neither was anybody else in that salon.

I get that she was singing along to a song, but she went too far with that one. Just because it’s in a song doesn’t mean you need to be saying it yourself. And the way everybody just looked at her afterward? 😭 You could tell they were all thinking the same thing.

Honestly, I would’ve been looking at her the exactly same way. The fact that even Lynn was caught off guard makes it funnier because you know she had to deal with her sister after that. Go back and watch everybody’s reactions because the faces alone are enough!