listen to it. oh, they know when it hits the bottom, it will be 1990, good-bye to the 80s. ten, nine, eight eight, eight, eight! oh, will this horrible year never end? when the 90s began, we are starting to see a lot of experimentation. and the simpsons i think in some senses was inspired by not necessarily hatred of television, but a distrust of a lot of the ways in which television was talking to us. tv respects me. it laughs with me. not at me. you re stupid. doh! i think the sitcoms of the 80s were such a sort of warm, safe humor. i love you guys. the kids, they listen to the rap music, which gives them the brain damage. and i think there was a real yearning for another type of humor. we were able to spoof fatherhood what a bad father. which at the time, and i stress at the time, was bill cosby as the shining example. did you ever know that you re my hero the stuff they got away with because it s a cartoon. the father stran
- don t touch that dial. we re about to flip it for you. - in five, four, three, two. - tv is changing dramatically now with 150 channels that might be available in the near future. - there s a lot of things that we do that you couldn t have on network television. - people are really trying to do something adventurous. [both gasp] all: channel 7, shame on you. - this is more a celebration of culture and opening the doors and allowing america to come on inside. - there s always something on television, and some of it may be better than we deserve. - [laughs] that was cool. [dramatic music] - listen to it. oh! [crowd cheering] they know when it hits the bottom, it ll be 1990. good-bye to the 80s in. all: ten, nine. all: eight. eight! eight! eight! - oh, will this horrible year never end? - when the 90s begin, we re starting to see a lot of experimentation. [gunshots] all: [quickly] seven, six, five, four, three, two, one! [cheering] - and the simpsons, i think, in some
what did i ever do to you, except deliver the south? you shouldn t have made me beg. the segment of the audience that showed up to watch west wing, they watched the macneil/ lehrer, you know, newshour. they watched west wing and documentaries in foreign languages, right? if the name of this nominee is leaked out before i want it to be leaked out, i m going to blame you, and you re going to find that unpleasant. i ve got to tell you something, toby, you re hot when you re like this. 90s television was the first wave of what we now have, remarkably specific niche programming. freaks and geeks really sympathized with the losers. it had great empathy for its characters. go on and laugh at me because you don t see that i got
wing, they watched the macneil/ lehrer, you know, newshour. they watched west wing and documentaries in foreign languages, right? if the name of this nominee is leaked out before i want it to be leaked out, i m going to blame you, and you re going to find that unpleasant. i ve got to tell you something, toby, you re hot when you re like this. 90s television was the first wave of what we now have, remarkably specific niche programming. freaks and geeks really sympathized with the losers. it had great empathy for its characters. go on and laugh at me because you don t see that i got something going right here freaks and geeks breaks my heart every time i think about it. i m sorry, did i crush your twinkies? it lasted 18 episodes, and they re perfect 18 episodes. but nbc hated it so much.
blame you, and you re going to find that unpleasant. i got to tell you something, toby, your heart when you re like this. 90s television was, like, the first wave of what we now have. remarkably specific niche programming. freaks and geeks really sympathized with the losers. it had great empathy for its characters. freaks and geeks breaks my heart every time i think about it. oh, i m sorry. did i crush your twinkies? it lasted 18 episodes, and they are a perfect 18 episodes, but nbc hated it so much. roll down the windows, because i got a big one brewing. oh, no, please don t. they thought it was a show by losers, about losers, for losers. they hated it. they wanted no part of it. they killed it. at the end of the 90s, the