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When sitcoms were actually funny.......
Posted on 10/27/13 at 12:05 am
Posted on 10/27/13 at 12:05 am
Posted on 10/27/13 at 12:06 am to Sid in Lakeshore
How much of the sitcoms were funnier stuff is simply that the tropes we bemoan were still present it was just the first time they were present? IE the shite was still shite we just hadn't unwrapped it yet.
Posted on 10/27/13 at 9:20 am to Sid in Lakeshore
M*A*S*H was edgy. They tackled racism, homosexuality, and adultery in the early seventies.
Posted on 10/27/13 at 10:59 am to Sid in Lakeshore
That was some funny shite. Archie Bunker and George Jefferson
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Posted on 10/27/13 at 3:12 pm to Sid in Lakeshore
"It's a kick in the head, ain't it?"
Observations:
George's mother's general unpleasantness makes her kind of the female/city equal of Albert from The Color Purple's dad (Adolph Ceasar). Wonder if Wheezy ever spit in her water? You know Florence did.
Archie & George's toast, "Here's to yesterday" was funny in 1974. Part of why this episode, and these shows in general, were so great was the belief that change was in the air. It was thought that once we younger folks (I was 15 in 74) grew up, race relations would be better. We'd all be used to being around each other and see that we were all really just people. What the hell happened to that?
Observations:
George's mother's general unpleasantness makes her kind of the female/city equal of Albert from The Color Purple's dad (Adolph Ceasar). Wonder if Wheezy ever spit in her water? You know Florence did.
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Archie & George's toast, "Here's to yesterday" was funny in 1974. Part of why this episode, and these shows in general, were so great was the belief that change was in the air. It was thought that once we younger folks (I was 15 in 74) grew up, race relations would be better. We'd all be used to being around each other and see that we were all really just people. What the hell happened to that?
Posted on 10/28/13 at 8:20 am to Sid in Lakeshore
Seinfeld wasn't a sitcom in the "traditional" sense as "nothing ultimately happened" thereby removing the SIT from sitcom ![](https://images.tigerdroppings.com/Images/Icons/IconLOL.gif)
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Posted on 10/28/13 at 8:23 am to Sid in Lakeshore
My favorite ever...
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