is crowded? You should have seen our living room when The Jeffersons went to Hawaii. Those were the three worst Sundays of my life." The typical official high school activity culture is personified by preppy Muffy B. Tepperman (Jami Gertz) who is the endlessly chipper chairperson of the Weemawee Pep Committee, head of the Morals Club, chairman of the Science Fair Committee and member of the Future Nurses of America. Muffy has a memorably pompous, oratorical speaking style and begins many sentences with "It behooves me to tell you..." or an elongated "People...". Though perhaps even more socially inept ("I’m going to ignore that because, frankly, I don't get it"), Muffy's unawareness and/or lack of concern with her failure to fit in with the popular kids is in stark contrast to the motivation of the show's protagonists, and does not stop her from relentless involvement in peppy activities. An ongoing gag throughout the series is Muffy's fundraising for Weemawee's adopted "little Guatemalan child," Rosarita. As the series progresses, Muffy's charitable intentions become more and more frivolous, asking the school community to provide the girl with her own apartment away from her parents, cable TV, a second pair of culottes, swimwear, a split-level duplex, and finally, her own cleaning lady. This group of eight students, though clearly of varied academic standing, are always in the same classes. The recurring staff members at the school are: Ms. Alison Loomis (Catlin Adams), a feminist liberal arts teacher who often complains about her ex-husband Mr. Rob "Lovebeads" Donovan (Steven Peterman), who continuously brings up his antics in the 1960s and always stops just short of completing references to smoking pot Mr. John Michael Spacek (Craig Richard Nelson), the affected but married drama teacher Dr. Winthrop Dingleman (Basil Hoffman), the grinning, square principal Series creator Anne Beatts appeared in two episodes as Miss Rezucha. Home life of the students is rarely depicted, but Patty's father is prominently featured in the Christmas episode, played by Tony Dow, best known as the character Wally Cleaver in Leave It to Beaver. Production Before the opening credits and theme song begin, every episode starts with the following dialogue appearing in a montage of stills from the school: Lauren: Listen. I've got this whole high school thing psyched out. It all breaks down into cliques.Patty: Cliques?Lauren: Yeah, you know. Cliques. Little in-groups of different kids. All we have to do