Factual error: When they do the opening credits with all the characters, it shows them at an amusement park. It is Six Flags Magic Mountain. At the very end of the opening, they show Six Flags Magic Mountain as if it were next to a beach. You can tell the water was computerized since Six Flags is no where near the ocean.
Step by Step (1991)
1 factual error in show generally
Starring: Patrick Duffy, Brandon Call, Suzanne Somers, Staci Keanan
Genres: Comedy
Video Mania - S3-E6
Plot hole: The plot for this episode is that Mark reluctantly tries out video games for the first time and soon becomes addicted to them. However, the season 1 episode "All in the Family" showed him to already be an avid gamer.
Gabrielle, Mark's girlfriend: Be still, my heart.
J.T: Be still, my lunch.
Question: Is it ever explained where the kids' other parent is? I remember Carol saying she and Frank both came from failed marriages, which means they weren't widows.
Answer: I could be mistaken, but when the series debuted, its premise was something along the lines of "A divorced contractor and a widowed beautician impulsively marry." If that is true, then the Foster children's father is dead. As for Frank, it could be that his wife was an unfit mother and is therefore not in her children's lives. Perhaps the writers felt addressing these issues would lead to more questions, or at the least require characters to bring up the unseen parents more in conversation, so perhaps they felt it was just better to never talk about them at all and let any discussions about them remain off-screen.
Phaneron ★