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"Sign of the Times" is the twenty-sixth episode in the sixth season of the NBC family sitcom Family Ties. It originally aired on March 13, 1988, and is the hundred-and-forty-eighth episode of the series overall.

Synopsis[]

When a new student arrives at school, Andy makes an effort to become friends. After learning that his new companion is deaf, he decides to stop speaking.

Plot[]

A new student (played by Darrell Thomas Utley) in Andy's kindergarten is deaf, and because some of the kids tease him, Andy decides not to talk.  Skippy also makes friend with the deaf boy, Josh Richards.

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Quotes[]

  • Alex: "Roses are red, Violets are blue, I'm into pork-bellies, should I buy some for you?"
  • Josh Richards: "He says you like money."
    Alex: "So Andy mentioned me to you?"

Trivia[]

  • Alex asks Andy's teacher, Miss Metcalf (played by Terri Hanauer) about a grade change he has been petitioning for from the time he was in kindergarten.  She reports that his teacher at the time, Mrs. Wills, has died.  In "Remembrances of Things Past", Alex says his kindergarten teacher's name was "Miss McCullough".
  • One of the boys who teases Josh is a young Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

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