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>> in the 60, we see the sit koym move away from stories solely focused on the nuclear family. divorce had become more prevalent in north american life. but it took a while to be reflected in sit-coms. ♪ the brady bunch ♪ >> the brady bunch is the story of two separate families glued together. the woman with three girls, the guy with three boys. the man was a widower. divorce was a taboo topic on television. lets leave it so you dont know. >> im just trying to find out what they did with my ...

It really does happen in just about every sit-com, and I am over it. Here are eight shows I absolutely love that had quirky wedding episodes which just make us ask why?

In 40, 50 and thursday 60s degrees. we will celebrate on thursday. jillian: yeah, we did. rob: what did the ground see in janice: theres more winter behind this but we will take the 60-degrees. rob: i never trusted a ground hog. 39 minutes after the hour, al-qaeda terrorists living quite well at guantanamo bay, bing-eating oreo cookies and watching sit coms. >> next guest gop strategists says hold the brakes and why it should have liberals in washington worried. note

Shows, thats a very famous writers room, and you had two women who worked at separate times, the first with lucille callen and the second was selma diamond. >> its always great to have the womens viewpoint and who better than woman to say, women will laugh at that. so when i put together the characters for the van dyke show, i said, we need the womens viewpoint. and when i told my agent, he immediately said rose marie. >> its a beautiful piece of writing. it really is. but you know alan, if he d...

All you can hope is every night turns out like thursday. >> joe! >> max. >> how rude. >> hes quick, ill give him that. >> all of television said, oh, well, maybe the sit coms are alive again. and thats all that it took. it took one success. >> a few years from now something new may tempt the people who pick what we see, but it is a very safe guess whatever gets hot for a season or two, the men and women who create good television comedy will be laughing all the way to the bank. (vo) when i broug...

>> i think i like the way you said that. your thoughts, steve. lets go to the question can you change somebody. can you change their public face in a genuine way. our producers come up with the idea look at how bobby kennedy changed became a softer person than the nastier joe mccarthy guy. and of course jerry brown, 28 years later, came back as a grownup. lost the propeller on his head. i liked him but hes come back as an authentic leader in california. >> that guy was always there, but you didn...

Obama care may be ready for prime time in california. according to the new york times they are spending big bucks to plant favorable mess annuals in the favorite tv show. stewart varney is here to explain . >> greetings. >> gretchen: a lot of people say taxpayer money in california to go promote message of obama care inside of sit coms, how can that be? >> they want favorable publicity. california is setting up the health care exchanges and paid a million to a public relations company to push ob...

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But in my head that is it what a family was. >> shows like happy days, you reenforced the best we could be of americans and families i dont see that on television today. where are the marshalls that are giving us something that is entertaining and undergirds than undermines our basic values. >> i think the gary marshalls are taking a nap. (laughing) >> the word edgy came n. we used to do corny wholesome and now they are edgy came in and a lot of it is mean spirited and the fact that we used to h...