Blossom
The Date
TV Flash files “The Date” as hour 109 of 114 in the TV Flash guide — Blossom (1990–1995) on NBC, season 5, episode 17, aired 1995-02-27, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S05E17: listed hour 109 of 114 in the Blossom guide, hour 17 of 22 in season 5. It aired 1995-02-27 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “A Mind with a Heart of Its Own” (S05E16). Next is “The Departure” (S05E18).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Blossom goes on a date with a popular guy at school and when she rejects his advances he hits her.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Date sit in the Blossom guide?
S05E17 is listed hour 109 of 114 — hour 17 of 22 in season 5, season 5 episode 17.
When did Blossom S05E17 air?
The Date aired 1995-02-27 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Why the hats and asides?
Fashion, fantasy sequences, and fourth-wall breaks are house style — a teen girl's POV treated as worth formal play, not just issue plots.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Hats, fourth-wall asides, and Very Special Episodes as house style. Mayim Bialik’s first sitcom era treats a teen girl’s POV as worth a whole series — Joey’s whoa, Six’s name, and issue-episode maximalism that never whispered. Nineties girlhood comedy with formal playfulness: odd, sincere, and still the show that made a hat look like a personality.
The work, first: hats as personality, fourth-wall asides, Very Special Episodes as house style — a witty teen growing up with a musician dad and two brothers, Mayim Bialik's first sitcom era treating a girl POV as worth a whole series. Don Reo's NBC sitcom (1990–1995). Joey Lawrence's *whoa*, Six LeMeure's name confusing new viewers forever, Michael Stoyanov and Ted Wass around the household. Fashion, fantasy sequences, and asides that never whispered. Odd, sincere, early-1990s style-icon energy.
Filed against
- Mayim Bialik as Blossom Russo
Mayim Bialik’s Blossom Russo made a teen girl’s POV worth a whole series — hats, fourth-wall asides, Very Special maximalism — then walked The Big Bang Theory’s nerd-reference multi-cam as if the hat kid had learned physics. Nineties…
- Joey Lawrence as Joey Russo
Joey Lawrence’s Joey Russo made Blossom a whoa heard round TGIF — hats, fourth-wall asides, Very Special Episodes as house style, Mayim Bialik’s first sitcom era treating a teen girl’s POV as worth a whole series. Nineties girlhood comedy…
- Michael Stoyanov as Anthony Russo
Michael Stoyanov’s Anthony Russo held Blossom’s sibling weather while hats and fourth-wall asides did the branding — 1990s girlhood comedy, Mayim Bialik’s POV as a whole series, Joey’s whoa, Six’s name, Very Special Episodes as house…
- Ted Wass as Nick Russo
Ted Wass fathered Blossom as Nick Russo — hats, fourth-wall asides, Very Special Episodes as house style, a teen girl's POV treated as worth a whole series. Nineties girlhood comedy with formal playfulness. TV Flash files him as…
- Jenna von Oÿ as Six LeMeure
Jenna von Oÿ’s Six LeMeure named Blossom’s best-friend weather — hats, fourth-wall asides, Very Special Episodes as house style, Mayim Bialik’s first sitcom era treating a teen girl’s POV as worth a whole series. 1990s girlhood comedy…