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Mainstream networks would never put All in the Family on today
Posted on 6/12/15 at 4:25 pm
Posted on 6/12/15 at 4:25 pm
Norman Lear, the creator of All in the Family, said he could never get any of his shows on mainstream networks today.
Maybe that explains why so many shows suck.
Here's a clip that the politically correct police would never allow on tv today.
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Meathead: "Just because I guy is sensitive and intellectual and wears glasses doesn't mean he's a homosexual."
Archie Bunker :"No, a guy who wears glasses is a 4 eyes. I guy who's a fig is a queer."
This is hilarious in its simplistic stupidity. Archie's even got a derogatory term for people who wear glasses.
No tv show today could depict a bigot as lovable.
Maybe that explains why so many shows suck.
Here's a clip that the politically correct police would never allow on tv today.
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Meathead: "Just because I guy is sensitive and intellectual and wears glasses doesn't mean he's a homosexual."
Archie Bunker :"No, a guy who wears glasses is a 4 eyes. I guy who's a fig is a queer."
This is hilarious in its simplistic stupidity. Archie's even got a derogatory term for people who wear glasses.
No tv show today could depict a bigot as lovable.
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Posted on 6/12/15 at 4:28 pm to goodbuds
Extremely true. You could probably do something like that on cable (Archer comes close... sort of), but not on network tv.
Posted on 6/12/15 at 4:29 pm to goodbuds
They were talking about this today on the Adam Carolla Podcast
Posted on 6/12/15 at 4:29 pm to goodbuds
Lots of shows from the 70s couldn't get on today. The Jeffersons and Sanford and Son are other examples.
Posted on 6/12/15 at 4:31 pm to goodbuds
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Maybe that explains why so many shows suck.
Lots of shows sucked then too
Posted on 6/12/15 at 4:33 pm to Brosef Stalin
Norman Lear also created those 2 shows as well as Maude and Good Times.
Posted on 6/12/15 at 4:43 pm to goodbuds
Yeah, but you couldn't have put Breaking Bad or the Sopranos on the air in the 1970s. It balances out.
Posted on 6/12/15 at 4:44 pm to goodbuds
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Maybe that explains why so many shows suck.
Although that may be true to some extent, TV quality today is better than it has ever been
Posted on 6/12/15 at 4:46 pm to goodbuds
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Mainstream networks would never put All in the Family on today by goodbuds
They'd be trying to work in a plot where Archie gets a sex change.
Posted on 6/12/15 at 4:47 pm to timbo
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Yeah, but you couldn't have put Breaking Bad or the Sopranos on the air in the 1970s. It balances out.
Exactly. Hell, you couldn't have put on Modern Family in the 70's, without turning the gay characters into Marty the queer purse snatcher from Barney Miller (flaming, cliche, and predatory).
Posted on 6/12/15 at 4:52 pm to Fewer Kilometers
Yes now they can fully explore the beauty of sucking another guy's dong.
Posted on 6/12/15 at 4:53 pm to Fewer Kilometers
Shoot, I remember when ER was groundbreaking because it was so beyond Marcus Welby, MD and Trapper John MD. And when The Sopranos came along, it made ER look as lame and hokey as junk from the 70s.
There are a ton of really good shows on basic cable, premium cable, Netflix, Amazon, etc. Stuff with really good actors and actresses, well-written, movie quality production values, interesting music
There are a ton of really good shows on basic cable, premium cable, Netflix, Amazon, etc. Stuff with really good actors and actresses, well-written, movie quality production values, interesting music
Posted on 6/12/15 at 4:54 pm to goodbuds
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No tv show today could depict a bigot as lovable.
They could if he were gay or had gays on the show. Archie was in your face, but back when I watched it, Modern Family had a lot of subtle racist or bigoted lines.
Posted on 6/12/15 at 4:55 pm to goodbuds
Married With Children.
Posted on 6/12/15 at 4:57 pm to goodbuds
"And if the japs get caught they do the right thing, they kill themselves" - Archie
Posted on 6/12/15 at 5:34 pm to goodbuds
I love Married With Children.. And even they had to deal with people overreacting.
All in the Fam definitely wouldn't be allowed now and it's a shame how sensitive we have become
All in the Fam definitely wouldn't be allowed now and it's a shame how sensitive we have become
Posted on 6/13/15 at 8:55 am to Superior Pariah
The quality is on cable networks, not the big 4.
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