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- six months ago, i was living in boston. my wife had left me, which was very painful. then she came back to me, which was excruciating. well, you know, i thought frasier was dead with "cheers." [playful music] but we thought, we've got a built-in audience and great potential for, you know, building out the character to another place. - ♪ ohh ♪ - ♪ ohh, ohh ♪ - ♪ ohh, ohh ♪ - ♪ ohh, ohh ♪ - "frasier" was kind of like one-act plays. [dramatic organ music plays] - "mother and i moved here when i was a small boy "after the... tragic death of my father. "i kept the pain of that loss buried deep within me like a serpent coiled within a damp cave." okay, that's it. - we always assumed the audience was smarter than most other people did. and we played to that.
i was an alien who could do anything but understood nothing. dick: what is that thing on top of your head? nina: it's called a duku. mary: it's beautiful. nina: thank you it's authentic, it makes me feel connected to my ancestors. dick: ohh, so that's the traditional head dress of ancient secretaries? amy fox: 3rd rock from the sun is looking at our society from a different perspective and going, "oh, my goodness, we're ridiculous, aren't we?" nina: in case you haven't noticed. i'm black... dick: of course, i noticed, and doctor albright, you are? mary: could i be any whiter? john lithgow: 3rd rock was a curiosity. it had a certain comedy style that was like nothing else on television. nina: what? dick: i'm sorry all you people look alike to me. nina: excuse me?! mary: what did you say? john lithgow: oh, i'm incredibly proud of playing dick solomon.
i was an alien who could do anything but understood nothing. dick: what is that thing on top of your head? nina: it's called a duku. mary: it's beautiful. nina: thank you it's authentic, it makes me feel connected to my ancestors. dick: ohh, so that's the traditional head dress of ancient secretaries? amy fox: 3rd rock from the sun is looking at our society from a different perspective and going, "oh, my goodness, we're ridiculous, aren't we?" nina: in case you haven't noticed. i'm black... dick: of course, i noticed, and doctor albright, you are? mary: could i be any whiter? john lithgow: 3rd rock was a curiosity. it had a certain comedy style that was like nothing else on television. nina: what? dick: i'm sorry all you people look alike to me. nina: excuse me?! mary: what did you say? john lithgow: oh, i'm incredibly proud of playing dick solomon.
than waking up at the crack of dawn, dipping into these 40-something-degree arctic waters with a group of insane icelandic women, followed by a near total freeze of my netherlands? [bluesy guitar music] ♪ ♪♪ - [speaking icelandic] - hello! - whoo! hi! - all right, let's do this! - whoo-hoo! - good to see you. all right! - ohh... oh ha ha... - how you feeling? - [whimpering] uh, i don't want to be this cold. i want to drink hot chocolate, and, um... - i feel you, yeah. - i-i'm scared. - okay. - okay. okay. - it's okay. - your only goal now is to go in this ocean and surrender. but if you tell your body, "i'm okay..." because you--with your nervous system and your hat,
on viewers over the years. now, up until this time, nobody had done television like this. nobody. burt reynolds, the hottest actor in hollywood. i'm surprised to see you here. well, i'm glad to see you. well, thank you. we can meet here every night if you'd like. thank you. i'd love it. [ women "ohh" ] leach: a lot of what makes successful television programming is being in the right place at the right time. and it was the right time. mitchell: entertainment journalism evolved as the audience got more curious and had more access. until that point, the entertainment business had been something that we didn't know all that much about. hart: we could go behind the scenes in our effort to really give an insider's look. the crafty old j.r. of "dallas" fame was with his mother, actress mary martin as he was presented with a star on the hollywood walk of fame. it was very honorific of the industry. they would do serious coverage of it. it wasn't salacious and you would see actors speaking as actors instead of on a johnny carson show. man: what are you like off camera?
they went berserk. [sexy jazzy music] - ♪ whoa, oh, ohh ♪ - i was sitting with a pad and a pencil, drawing pictures of breasts to try to show them what we would show and what we wouldn't show. [laughter] i have grown-ups sitting in a room, you know, doodling. then we started in on the language. - we heard some reporter called a lowlife asshole turd pimp with the brains of a flea and the balls of a moth. - the program premiered with an advertising boycott. all: channel 7, shame on you. - but it was such an immediate hit, that boycott lasted, oh, four weeks. - come on, line 'em up. - they could use the nudity and the curse words to go deeper into the actual emotional burden of being a cop. - i'm an asshole. i'm--i'm a--i'm an asshole, huh? - and it had this character andy sipowicz. he's a raging alcoholic, racist, sexist, violent. - hey! - he created the tv antihero.
- ohh, ohh. you see, 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. [danny elfman's "the simpsons theme"] [all screaming] - 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 strangling the child. - why, you little-- [grunting] - [choking] - we are going to keep on trying to strengthen the american family to make american families a lot more like the waltons and a lot less like the simpsons. - huh? - we go to a completely bizarre period of time in 1992,