Pretty in an old cardigan.

Nope, this cardigan is really the worst thing in the world.
She got new canisters.  Let's never see this cardigan again!

Pottery class!

Mom to the rescue with a mug she made herowndamnself.  Take that, Jack.

The family shows her ZERO support and can't wait for her to dump the pottery class
 and try a less potentially fragile hobby.

The cutest screengrab ever.

What luck!

Two for the road.

The family's 1963 Dodge Polara station wagon.
It was Norma's grocery-getter for an early portion of the series.

View from a cute montage.

1970.

If you squint, you can see all the way to 1977.

Twilight.

Another example of a sweater Norma could have made herself.

Nice white diamond color blocks.

Laundry day.

Is it 1970 yet?

This sweater looks like Norma could have made it herself.
So many things about Wonder Years Mom that we are destined to never know.

Poker face.

December, 1969.

Pleasant family shopping.

I think this is the chaotic run-up to the family getting a color television.
Don't quote me on that.

You were the prettiest one there.

Return of the multi block cardigan.

It's 1969.  They still won't write me in the show popping tranquilizers or reading Friedan.

Can't you respect your parents and come home on time?

Beauty sleep doesn't grow on trees, Jack.

Kermit the cardigan.

Appropriate attire for preparing peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

The politics of dancing.

May have to revisit this episode because these caps are totes horbs.

Bold contrasts.

Earth to Norma.

Norma watching the moon landing.

One perfect tear.

No time to relax.

Someone tell the set department to calm down.

 There isn't a lot of time to get caps of Norma's scenes because they are so short.

I like this probably-polyester top.  It would be a pretty wicked dress if they included a shot of her standing!

CUT! Cut! Why is Wayne in the show?!  Maybe he could be adopted? 

Early set kitchen - remodeled & wallpapered later in the season.

Glad they dressed Norma with some dignity, despite her being shown as a slave to her moody teenage daughter.  Won't she just run away to the Haight already?!  Give Norma a break, girl.

Pastels.

Tone on tone on tone on tone on tone on tone on tone.  

TV Land Climate.

The show debuted twenty years after the fictional Arnold family's sitcom-esque life events took place.  Place - this is presumably California, and that California became Wondrous enough in 1968 to our culture to warrant a nicely done television show.  

(pretty kickass run-on sentence, yes? ha ha!)

A debut after the nation just collectively drank its way through the Super Bowl? I bet that cost a fortune to put together, but the producers had to catch us at just the right time when our guard was down as a nation. This is the TV climate that wore America down the previous year.  Small wonder that Roseanne, (the anti-Wonder Years Mom) was a flying success, too!

Americans are weird.  Can I get a witness?

Knife-wielding Norma.

Will she read The Feminine Mystique in the series, at some point?  

NO?  Ok.  

I guess everyone just wants a Mom to love.

Dude: Darling, don't worry, I'll go on to star in My Big Fat Greek Wedding!

Enter the pink cardigan.

How to dress your family.

Simple headband, fruit and flowers shirt. 

Tone on tone on tone.  Hard to go wrong.

Funeral Garb. And Jell-O.

Here she is, dressed for funeral for the kid down the street that got, um, written out in the first episode.  What says grief like all black and a pretty dish of green Jell-O?

I may try to revisit this episode.  Those screengrabs are totes horbs.

Early set kitchen.

No doubt she is saying "Kevin" in her blue and green floral print button-up.

The sweater.

The sweater to be held responsible for this blog.

I figured out how I could maybe recreate this sweater. 

It looks like that awful bobbly late 1980s acrylic yarn, though. Ick.

Screengrabs.  "Fashion."  Wonder Years Mom.

RFK Junior High

In a fictionalized version of 1968.

What does TMZ stand for?

According to TMZ, Alley Mills seems to be doing alright.


Here is her entry in Wikipedia, to save you a click.


What are your impressions?


Stay tuned for lots of screengrabs from the show via iPad alongside occasional precious commentary.


Hurray!