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A guy who wears glasses is a four eyes, a guy whos a fag is a queer. tim allen: youll watch that show and even end up looking around like youre gonna be arrested. john lithgow: it was jaw dropping. it was funny, but it was very challenging, and you realized norman lear is taking us into a whole new realm of comedy. norman lear: the blowback from the public was buried by the excitement and the applause. bob leszczak: the show was number one for a long time. ethan alter: it changed cbs and their b...

Lynn: im mr. belevedere! gerrad hall: by the late 80s family sitcoms were very popular among the big three networks. gerrad hall: there was this incredible resurgence. jesse: this is great, we should be mothers. joey: ah yeah! ethan alter: families tuned into these tv shows to see an aspirational version of what family life could be. urkel: did i do that? jennifer keishin armstrong: shows like silver spoons and growing pains and all that. its constant hugging and learning, right? [audience clapp...

Al: now bud, apologize to your sister. bud: no. al: okay. anita sarkeesian: married with children is full of trash people that do horrible things and say horrible things. al: quiet you morons! paul reiser: you were always aware they were just wise guys, you know, zinging each other. al: peg, how could you sell the family playboys? jacqueline coley: looking back on it now, i dont know how that show stayed on air. kelly: is this okay, mom? i havent worn it since grandmas funeral. jim colucci: marr...

4 students are killed. ethan alter: but some people didnt want to hide from what was happening. drew carey: people were like, no, we want to hear about all this stuff and how its affecting our families. thats when shows like all in the family came on. ethan alter: norman lear was at the beginning of his career and was looking to find a show that he could really make his own and he was turned on to a british series called til death do us part. norman lear: it was about a bigoted father and i was ...

Ethan alter: but some people didnt want to hide from what was happening. drew carey: people were like, no, we want to hear about all this stuff and how its affecting our families. thats when shows like all in the family came on. ethan alter: norman lear was at the beginning of his career and was looking to find a show that he could really make his own and he was turned on to a british series called til death do us part. norman lear: it was about a bigoted father and i was said holy moly. that wa...

Jim colucci: the cosby show had proven that the family sitcom was a viable genre again. [audience laughter] lynn: im mr. belevedere! gerrad hall: by the late 80s family sitcoms were very popular among the big three networks. gerrad hall: there was this incredible resurgence. jesse: this is great, we should be mothers. joey: ah yeah! ethan alter: families tuned into these tv shows to see an aspirational version of what family life could be. urkel: did i do that? jennifer keishin armstrong: shows ...

From what america had been like in the 1960s and 1970s... the economy was booming... judge: congratulations sir. ethan alter: ...as the reagan era took hold, there was a rise in conservative values. patrick gomez: we saw american audiences losing interest in socially relevant sitcoms, and really the sitcom started to die away. gerrad hall: dramas had really taken over, those soaps were so big: dynasty, dallas, magnum p.i. patrick gomez: and so you saw the family sitcom really strived to find a n...

John lithgow: it was jaw dropping. it was funny, but it was very challenging, and you realized norn lear is taking us into a whole new realm of comedy. norman lear: the blowback from the public was buried by the excitement and the applause. bob leszczak: the show was number one for a long time. ethan alter: it changed cbs and their brand as a network. as a result of all in the family, they turned to norman lear to create more shows in that image. archie: theres a person at the door. maude! adrie...

We dont really have to go to a recital, do we? ethan alter: and they wound up going in a completely opposite direction. sort of the anti- in a way, the anti-family sitcom. al: now bud, apologize to your sister. bud: no. al: okay. anita sarkeesian: married with children is full of trash people that do horrible things and say horrible things. al: quiet you morons! paul reiser: you were always aware they were just wise guys, you know, zinging each other. al: peg, how could you sell the family playb...

♪ ethan alter: the 1980s were a radical transformation from what america had been like in the 1960s and 1970s... the economy was booming... judge: congratulations sir. ethan alter: ...as the reagan era took hold, there was a rise in conservative values. patrick gomez: we saw american audiences losing interest in socially relevant sitcoms, and really the sitcom started to die away. gerrad hall: dramas had really taken over, those soaps were so big: dynasty, dallas, magnum p.i. patrick gomez: an...