The Facts of Life

- Season 5

(1983)

As Blair and Jo enter Langley college, Mrs. Garrett decides to quit her job at Eastland.

Mrs. Garrett decides to open a gourmet delicatessen and asks the girls to assist her.

Blair is nominated for a placement in the Gamma Gamma sorority at Langley.

When Jo finds out her new boyfriend is the son of distinguished and wealthy parents, she feels uncomfortable continuing the relationship.

Tootie discovers that her boyfriend Jeff, a school athlete, cannot read.

The girls fear Mrs. Garrett ground up a missing customer into her homemade bratwurst!

Natalie is allowed to take a course at Langley and gets so caught up in the social life of college that she begins skipping classes at Eastland and work at Edna's Edibles.

Blair and Jo take Mrs. Garrett to a male strip club for her birthday, where Blair discovers a shocking revelation about her boyfriend.

Kelly begs for a fresh start from Mrs. Garrett and the girls when her attempt to extort money from Edna's Edibles is thwarted by Jo.

Kelly informs Mrs. Garrett that Pete, the underhanded owner of Pete's Deli, is aiming to put Edna's Edibles out of business by selling gourmet food at a discount. While Mrs. Garrett gets worried, Jo gets devious and uses the store's computer to mess with the files in Pete's computer.

Jo thinks her father's intentions to remarry means that her parents are reconciling.

The girls prepare to go their separate ways for Christmas vacation.

All four girls are fired from Edna's Edibles by Mrs. Garrett. They hope she'll give them a second chance.

Mrs. Garrett and the girls befriend a little boy whose single mother doesn't have time to take care of him.

Natalie and Tootie's relationship is strained when Tootie questions Natalie's reasons for refusing and then accepting a date with Tootie's cousin Michael.

Jo faces a harsh political reality when she's elected to the Langley College Board of Regents and then battles with them.

Natalie's father dies from a sudden heart attack.

Blair is confused as to why she isn't as popular at Langley as she was at Eastland and needs Jo's help to turn things around. Natalie has stopped having fun since the death of her father so Tootie and Mrs. Garrett try to help her get over it.

Blair encourages Cliff to have a more open and less demanding relationship with her. But she quickly changes her mind when the first person Cliff starts seeing is Heather Hunt, a Hollywood movie star who is visiting Langley.

Blair dreams of what her life might be like in the year 2000.

Tootie's mother is visiting her in Peekskill and feels compelled to confront her on why she doesn't confide in her about anything.

Blair's cousin Geri asks for her help with a charity function for disabled children.

Eddie, Jo's old flame, returns to rekindle their romance, even though he's married to another woman.

If Mrs. Garrett doesn't save her son's troubled marriage, Edna's Edibles might be sold off in the divorce.

As the girls prepare for their summer vacations, they look back on the past, as seen in clips from previous episodes.

The girls continue their reminiscences of their friendship.