90s sitcoms didn't mess around when it came to delivering an important message. Especially the shows with predominantly black cast members. So many powerful scenes/episodes were produced. This one right here always spoke to me.
@@msrain1235 Gene Anthony Ray, who played Leroy on Fame died in 2003 from a Stroke complication from Aids. Darryl Tribble was also a dance that this episode was dedicated to, he was HIV positive.
I know that was at the time aids was new to population but it made the cast too ignorant as college students about it, I don't care who wrote the script. Kim was not the only person on the show who would have known about it!
@@sheiladavis758they knew about it, but misinformation by ignorant people made it difficult to tell what was true and what was a lie. Also, they lived with "it can't happen to me" attitudes
@@denisejohnson4037 he has a doctorate degree in education so that is why I addressed him as Dr. Bill Cosby. You can be addressed as Dr. Without practicing medicine
Very intense episode which made me cry and broke my heart especially when Josie ran out the pit crying and Mr Gaines comforted her my grandmother passed away from it through pneumonia
This, and that Golden Girls episode "72 Hours" saved lives. Man, I love how the writers used a lot of serious issues, while also being funny in these sitcoms back in the 80s and 90s.
I saw that Golden Girls episode, I never seen this episode. I never saw these shows but I saw clips from the episode "Killing the Right People" from Designing Women and "Best of Friends, Worse of Times" from The Hogan Family
Powerful stuff here for a sitcom. 90s didn't play. Not sure though why the canned laughter went off when the ignorant girl said she wanted to change dorms. That was weird and unnecessary.
It wasn't canned laughter. That show was taped in front of a live audience. That was the audience's organic reaction to Gina's ignorance. Some of them were shocked she said that and others found her stupidity to be funny. Sometimes, all you can do is laugh at how stupid some people are. Not me. I find stupid people profoundly irritating.
Her comment was necessary because some people really do think like her and make those ignorant comments. It makes the show feel even more real! Hats off to the writers. You felt that it was weird and unnecessary. That means that the actress did her job.
Wow I still remember watching this episode on tv and I was really shocked to see this and it was so real and you can relate to it. Now when you look back at it it still sad and shocking to see this and I understand why this episode was the highest rating episode that ever happen in Different World!
i wish the is part of the epsiode was also uploaded where later in the episode mr gaines stood up for her by telling rude customers who didnt want josie serving their food that they were more of a treat to her with their germs due to her weakened immune system than she was a treat to them and then he told them that they had intellingence immune deficiency syndrome
Sometimes it can be hard to believe that the Cosby show and a different world are in the same universe. The Cosby show never touched on racism too much and definitely not aids on these subjects but they do here.
BetterThanEmril a lot of that was due to Debbie Allen’s revamping the show from the 2nd season onwards...she wanted to really capture hsbc life and education...so she had writers and cast members spend time at hsbc’s
thanks for your comment many people think playing russian roulette with their lives not only put their lives in danger also put their families and friends lives in danger like this guy who was dating a hiv positive woman didnt know it until they had unprotected sex and after they had sex she told him, and he killed her, so now people i know you try to protect urself and took anything for face value dont trust them get tested
@@jaamal6369 Gina made the comment to another student saying that Josie lived right down the hall from her, that she needed to change dorms. I know that this is 3 years late.
back when this show originally aired, it must of had a great impact. But looking at it now, over 30 years later, is any part of correct? pneumocyctis pneumonia , is not sexually transmitted. Its an infection of the lungs. and it is not fatal. If you stop doing whatever is causing the pneumonia your body and clear itself of the infection with no outside help. She is not dead, she is standing right there. and she is not even sick. she should choose life and truth, and not base her life on fear and lies. according to the CDC over 7000 women have received an HIV diagnosis in 2016. according to the U.S. Census Bureau the population of the USA was 325,719,178 people as of 2017. I could not get the 2016 numbers but they should be very close. 58.2% of that population is female. That give us a population of approximately 189,568,562 women. assuming that everyone who get HIV dies from AIDS (and that is a very big assumption). we would have a death rate of 7000/189,568,562 which equals 0.00003692595. If you round this number off to the nearest thousandth you get ZERO. This is a death rate of zero. the death rate for the USA is 8.33 per 1000. or 0.0833. in order for this to be a disease that merit national attention, the death rate for the disease has to greater, and not just greater, it has to be a whole lot greater then the regular death rate of the population. This is imaginary death rate: it is imaginary because everyone (nor anyone) dies from HIV, so the death rate is a lot smaller then this. But if everyone did die from HIV, then 0.00003692595 is so much smaller then 0.0833, That there is nothing to worry about and this show is just creating fear.
This is a perfect example of why A Different World was often criticized for being way too preachy. This episode made me feel like I was just being beaten over the head. I don't think it handled the issue of Aids good at all. I remember one time In Living Color did this skit of A different world called "A different message" The skit opened with the intro and theme song but they were saying "there's a lecture every minute. from the homeless to the vote. It's a different message and we'll shove it down your throat."
+Jazlyn Desiree But you didn't think it was overdone how they made the character working in the lunch counter at the college. If I had HIV I would feel working around other other peoples food wouldn't be the best job. She could have had many jobs but of course because it was "A Different World" they had to have her working a job like that. Plus we could have seen the character more than just a few episodes. If the show was really brave they would have kept the character around more than that. But I understand maybe the network didn't want that. But I think there was something very self congratuatory on Debbie Allen's part about this storyline.
+joeb267382 I'm really LATE, but I just felt the need to reply. I feel this episode was done correctly. Although Josie worked in the kitchen, it was never known if she actually cooked or just took orders and cleaned off the tables. And if Josie had been in other episodes, it would have bought the comedy part of the show down. A different world was about making people laugh and also show what really goes on what African American students and lifestyles that they face. Plus, Josie probably left Hillman, considering that she wasn't there anymore.
Tyra Smith I do think A Different World would regularly beat the audience over the head with its message shows which was pretty much every show. I remember one time Michael Moye who created Married With Children said that a sitcom wasn't the place to tackle serious topics. I wonder what he would have thought of A Different World. Also Winifred Hervey, who worked on the first three seasons of Fresh Prince of Bel Air said that she hated doing message shows. She said she believed certain things were very complicated and to try to take on that issue in a half an hour sitcom sort of cheapened it. I think A Different World was a perfect example of what she meant.
joeb267382 I really don't think so. I mean look at the date rape episode, It doesn't have to be a two-hour special to get the point across. When Dwayne and Ron were locked up with those white boys and they both explained their reasoning for not liking each other, it got the point across without it being cheesy. When Gina was abused by her boyfriend. These episodes are what make " A Different World" a classic and Debbie Allen was very brave for doing it and doing it RIGHT.
+joeb267382 Right this kind of material should NOT be used on a comedy show. Another example would be the All in The Family episode titled "Edith s 50th birthday where she was nearly raped and the the audience was laughing at it. Like nothing is funny about rape and shouldn't have been used in a sitcom
90s sitcoms didn't mess around when it came to delivering an important message. Especially the shows with predominantly black cast members. So many powerful scenes/episodes were produced. This one right here always spoke to me.
Jazmyn Simmons I loved this one and the one with the Deaf actors!!!
Jasmine Simmons that is so true a different world I was in high school in the early 90s I graduated i n 1994
Jasmine Simmons i liked the fact they brought guest stars who were important story.
Yes
debbie allen and her cast saved lives with this episode.
lol nope bill Cosby did
Neal Scott Debbie wrote it
Jerome Holloman lol season 1 is Bill Cosby WITHOUT Debbie Allen try again... She changed the show and is the reason why it's so renowned...
Neal Scott People still caught AIDS after this.
@@LilacStar82 That...Doesn't mean the show still didn't save lives? Lol
different world left no subject untouched. great show!
I agree!
🌹 for Debbie Allen
@@sbrooks729 You know what's crazy, this episode was also dedicated to one of Debbie Allen's dancers from Fame the TV series, Darryl Tribble.
@@omarcogle1965 which one? Was it Leroy?
@@msrain1235 Gene Anthony Ray, who played Leroy on Fame died in 2003 from a Stroke complication from Aids. Darryl Tribble was also a dance that this episode was dedicated to, he was HIV positive.
Youth is the power to make choices.
+Galileo Galilei so true
*looks desperately through channels for something as real as this*
good luck
23kingwill I'm been tryin so hard
+aradaisy: Black-ish is about as good as it gets......
Morpheus Their hope episode was good
now we have Queen Sugar
they dont make good sitcoms like this anymore
they barely make sitcoms perod
misterjgl sad but true most of the day shows are pure crap
They make reboots and reality TV shows that are garbage.
Freddie: "Professor, I am so sorry that Im late" Whoopi: "But you're just in time for an F, sit down !!!", LOL !!!! : D
I hollered when Whoopi said that LOL
This was without a doubt, the best acting that Tesha Campbell has ever done and poor Whitley is so naive.
I know that was at the time aids was new to population but it made the cast too ignorant as college students about it, I don't care who wrote the script. Kim was not the only person on the show who would have known about it!
@@sheiladavis758they knew about it, but misinformation by ignorant people made it difficult to tell what was true and what was a lie. Also, they lived with "it can't happen to me" attitudes
Say what you want about Dr.Bill Cosby but it's shows like this that makes him a genius. Moments like this
Andrea Clinton he didnt write this
You mean Debbie Allen?
He gave Debbie the Platform. If it wasn't for him NBC would have never put anything like this on the air.
You know he's not a real doctor right?
@@denisejohnson4037 he has a doctorate degree in education so that is why I addressed him as Dr. Bill Cosby. You can be addressed as Dr. Without practicing medicine
Lying in the grass it's impossible to think that you'll be lying in a hospital bed.
Very intense episode which made me cry and broke my heart especially when Josie ran out the pit crying and Mr Gaines comforted her my grandmother passed away from it through pneumonia
Terrence!!! LMBO!! "I wanna THANK all the women in this room, who held out on me!" ___Flatline______
And the look on Ron's face when he said that LOL
Whoopi is so beautiful in this ep. I remember this ep when it aired. I loved this show.
willtynellyworth I actually sang w/ her in Disney World
3:40 - Gina.........you ought to be ashamed of yourself. Smh.
This, and that Golden Girls episode "72 Hours" saved lives. Man, I love how the writers used a lot of serious issues, while also being funny in these sitcoms back in the 80s and 90s.
Going to CZcams that episode right now
I saw that Golden Girls episode, I never seen this episode. I never saw these shows but I saw clips from the episode "Killing the Right People" from Designing Women and "Best of Friends, Worse of Times" from The Hogan Family
that was the deepest episode ever
Please reboot this show. And Family Matters as well.🍷
They show this on Bounce, weekdays at 7am.
All African American shows during that era! 🗣🗣🗣
Powerful stuff here for a sitcom. 90s didn't play. Not sure though why the canned laughter went off when the ignorant girl said she wanted to change dorms. That was weird and unnecessary.
+Sean Ryan Sometimes those canned reactions are to bring attention to what was said, or to signal its significance.
I know it wasn't funny to gas things up at all.... if It was me I would've cursed her out!!! Or the professor say something to put her in her place
It wasn't canned laughter. That show was taped in front of a live audience. That was the audience's organic reaction to Gina's ignorance. Some of them were shocked she said that and others found her stupidity to be funny. Sometimes, all you can do is laugh at how stupid some people are. Not me. I find stupid people profoundly irritating.
Her comment was necessary because some people really do think like her and make those ignorant comments. It makes the show feel even more real! Hats off to the writers. You felt that it was weird and unnecessary. That means that the actress did her job.
@@mreynol1 no I felt the canned audience laughing at her comment was weird and unnecessary. Not the comment itself.
Tisha Campbell did this scene.
Gioia-Sairah Petrolino She has always been underrated.
Nice little humor to blow off steam from,such a serious topic
Thank you Kim
wow blast from the past, forgot all about this episode
thank your for posting this clip! 24 years and its still entertaining and educating! I will be using this clip in an upcoming workshop!
Terence LMAO!!!
Great speech and brilliantly acted by Tisha
terrence cracked me up 😂😂😂
"I've never had any of the above". I'm in the same boat as you dude 😎
One of the best episodes it made me cry
Wow I still remember watching this episode on tv and I was really shocked to see this and it was so real and you can relate to it. Now when you look back at it it still sad and shocking to see this and I understand why this episode was the highest rating episode that ever happen in Different World!
Because people out there are actually going through it as well
make sense
Powerful episode
i wish the is part of the epsiode was also uploaded where later in the episode mr gaines stood up for her by telling rude customers who didnt want josie serving their food that they were more of a treat to her with their germs due to her weakened immune system than she was a treat to them and then he told them that they had intellingence immune deficiency syndrome
chantal murray. I remember that episode
This was one of my favorite episodes
One of my favorite episodes! And, Terrence, HILARIOUS!
You have a voice in this worl❤❤❤
That's Real Tv✊🏾
This scene just sent me chills! Except for the end LOL.
A powerful lesson in this episode!
I love the old whoopie
This was the best episode of a different world I have ever seen.
I wanna thank all women who held out on me
Sometimes it can be hard to believe that the Cosby show and a different world are in the same universe. The Cosby show never touched on racism too much and definitely not aids on these subjects but they do here.
BetterThanEmril a lot of that was due to Debbie Allen’s revamping the show from the 2nd season onwards...she wanted to really capture hsbc life and education...so she had writers and cast members spend time at hsbc’s
Kiran Rajagopalan I know all of that but still you know lol
I like how they tackled real life before it was popular to do so they did a great job
thanks for your comment many people think playing russian roulette with their lives not only put their lives in danger also put their families and friends lives in danger like this guy who was dating a hiv positive woman didnt know it until they had unprotected sex and after they had sex she told him, and he killed her, so now people i know you try to protect urself and took anything for face value dont trust them get tested
IT IS ALMOST 3AM AND I AM BAWLING FROM THIS CLIP.
Whitley was naive and Gina and Terrance were just plain ignorant.
Tv at its prime
this makes me cry
I remember this episode like it was yesterday....
was dwl when the boy stand up and say I want to thank all the woman who hold out on me need full shows where to find them
You can watch the whole show on Netflix
It's kind of funny but Mr Belvedete was the first sitcom to tackle the issue about AIDS.
Then the Golden Girls and Designing Women
Choose life
Y’all will never understand how badly I wanted, and still wanted to fight Gina when she said that comment. I was heated.
Which comment?
@@jaamal6369 Gina made the comment to another student saying that Josie lived right down the hall from her, that she needed to change dorms. I know that this is 3 years late.
10/14/2018 I found out about this show... I see Will married Jada.. But this comedy have so much substance.
anywhere to get whole ep?
MegaNFer81 yeah I would like to see it too but what was the name of the episode
ebonie b her name is tisha campbell
Bastards won't bring these shows out on DVD. Might get popular again and need a reboot.
I wonder how long it took Freddie to catch on as to what was going on
What episode wuz this
Season 4 ep: 23
+kai.nextdoor thanx u
👍
Stay away from backpage
Never
Jojo criminal Lol, so you pay for sex? How desperate, you have no game. You better get a check up cause you more than likely have aids 😭😭
+Back Chaining yeah I know it's sad that people have that to do that . That's why I don't fuck with to many
Jojo criminal If you are doing it, I warn you it ain't worth it. Dem hoes got all kinds of diseases and they ain't tellin you.
+Back Chaining nah I don't need to do that bullshit . I don't raw dog shit
Terrence got on my nerves.
back when this show originally aired, it must of had a great impact. But looking at it now, over 30 years later, is any part of correct? pneumocyctis pneumonia , is not sexually transmitted. Its an infection of the lungs. and it is not fatal. If you stop doing whatever is causing the pneumonia your body and clear itself of the infection with no outside help.
She is not dead, she is standing right there. and she is not even sick. she should choose life and truth, and not base her life on fear and lies.
according to the CDC over 7000 women have received an HIV diagnosis in 2016. according to the U.S. Census Bureau the population of the USA was 325,719,178 people as of 2017. I could not get the 2016 numbers but they should be very close. 58.2% of that population is female. That give us a population of approximately 189,568,562 women.
assuming that everyone who get HIV dies from AIDS (and that is a very big assumption). we would have a death rate of 7000/189,568,562 which equals 0.00003692595. If you round this number off to the nearest thousandth you get ZERO. This is a death rate of zero. the death rate for the USA is 8.33 per 1000. or 0.0833.
in order for this to be a disease that merit national attention, the death rate for the disease has to greater, and not just greater, it has to be a whole lot greater then the regular death rate of the population. This is imaginary death rate: it is imaginary because everyone (nor anyone) dies from HIV, so the death rate is a lot smaller then this. But if everyone did die from HIV, then 0.00003692595 is so much smaller then 0.0833, That there is nothing to worry about and this show is just creating fear.
You sound ignorant AF . Pneumonia is a complication of AIDS research is your friend you wrote a whole paragraph speaking nonsense
This is a perfect example of why A Different World was often criticized for being way too preachy. This episode made me feel like I was just being beaten over the head. I don't think it handled the issue of Aids good at all. I remember one time In Living Color did this skit of A different world called "A different message" The skit opened with the intro and theme song but they were saying "there's a lecture every minute. from the homeless to the vote. It's a different message and we'll shove it down your throat."
+Jazlyn Desiree But you didn't think it was overdone how they made the character working in the lunch counter at the college. If I had HIV I would feel working around other other peoples food wouldn't be the best job. She could have had many jobs but of course because it was "A Different World" they had to have her working a job like that. Plus we could have seen the character more than just a few episodes. If the show was really brave they would have kept the character around more than that. But I understand maybe the network didn't want that. But I think there was something very self congratuatory on Debbie Allen's part about this storyline.
+joeb267382 I'm really LATE, but I just felt the need to reply. I feel this episode was done correctly. Although Josie worked in the kitchen, it was never known if she actually cooked or just took orders and cleaned off the tables. And if Josie had been in other episodes, it would have bought the comedy part of the show down. A different world was about making people laugh and also show what really goes on what African American students and lifestyles that they face. Plus, Josie probably left Hillman, considering that she wasn't there anymore.
Tyra Smith I do think A Different World would regularly beat the audience over the head with its message shows which was pretty much every show. I remember one time Michael Moye who created Married With Children said that a sitcom wasn't the place to tackle serious topics. I wonder what he would have thought of A Different World. Also Winifred Hervey, who worked on the first three seasons of Fresh Prince of Bel Air said that she hated doing message shows. She said she believed certain things were very complicated and to try to take on that issue in a half an hour sitcom sort of cheapened it. I think A Different World was a perfect example of what she meant.
joeb267382 I really don't think so. I mean look at the date rape episode, It doesn't have to be a two-hour special to get the point across. When Dwayne and Ron were locked up with those white boys and they both explained their reasoning for not liking each other, it got the point across without it being cheesy. When Gina was abused by her boyfriend. These episodes are what make " A Different World" a classic and Debbie Allen was very brave for doing it and doing it RIGHT.
+joeb267382 Right this kind of material should NOT be used on a comedy show. Another example would be the All in The Family episode titled "Edith s 50th birthday where she was nearly raped and the the audience was laughing at it. Like nothing is funny about rape and shouldn't have been used in a sitcom
Uhhhh Whitley's ignorance is irritating.
Gina’s was way worse
@Danielle J Terrance too.
Aids is a moral judgment read the Bible Romans chapter 1
Better look out then cause you're judging right now!!!!
So I guess I found out where AIDS came from. 🧐🧐
Powerful episode