I've recently been on a marathon rerun-watching session of A Different World. Whitley and Dwayne's love story never gets old, does it? Here's a video a dedicated fan made of the infamous wedding episodes. The sounds a little off… but still.

Tell him, Kim! Perhaps this fictional dressing down was the ego-blowing moment that propelled Gary Dourdan into a life of drugs. Okay, perhaps not. Just wanted to add some modern-day context to this scene from A Different World.

Initially, I wanted to find a fun Different World clip to match my equally fun Cosby Show clip from yesterday, but instead I decided to go with the 1993 video from triple-threat Jasmine Guy, whose other two threats (dancing and singing) would never bring her as much notoriety as Whitley Gilbert.

P.S. Am I the only one who's ecstatic it's Friday?

In my formative years, I only had to hear the opening strains of A Different World's theme song before I would get unbelievably excited, Pavlov's dog-style, for the higher education hi jinks that would ensue over the next thirty minutes.

By this point in television history, The Cosby Show had become a tad bit tired, and A Different World was like my weekly TV window into the world of black after watching whites hog the screen the other six days of the week. A Different World can be faulted for only one thing, and that's horribly misinforming my impression of what college is actually like. When I first stepped onto the University of Virginia's campus I was dismayed to see that the dining hall was not run by a grumpy bald man with a heart of gold. And my dorm room? It was like a quarter of the size of Whitley Gilbert's, with cinderblock walls. It all went downhill from there.