Actually, Diff'rent Strokes did deal with "serious" issues . . . though some seem a bit stretched in retrospect . . . Dudley and the pedophile, Dudley's dad addicted to smoking . . . Damn, Dudley was always the fall guy . . . the mime that has an epileptic seizure, the discovery that Mr. Drummond's family made money from the slave trade . . . I still don't know if I like the 80s obsession with African-American kids being "saved" by well to do white people "see Webster" . . .