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>> class wars. >> gender diversity. >> hi girls. >> you can reach in and touch peoples hearts. >> whether it is a family living under the same roof. or gathered together in a workplace. >> that is a glue stick. >> all of the greatest sitcoms are about family. >> it is one of the great accomplishments of the modern age. >> what have we always said was the most important thing? >> breakfast. >> family. >> family is key to the sitcom.

>> son, your mother asked me to come up here and kill you. how do you expect to get into college with grades like this? >> there is a more conservative paradigm driving the cosby show. >> instead of acting disappointed because i am not like you, maybe you can just accept who i am. >> in any other sitcom that would be the moment where the music would start and the father would embrace the sun and say something encouraging. >> theo, that is the dumbest thing i have ever heard in my life. >> you ca...

>> never mind, blanch. >> we live in a peaceful, prosperous time. but we can make it better. >> leading up to the 80s, there had been a number of shows about people hanging out with each other. seinfeld really busts this wide open. its hard to believe at times, but no one forced them to hang out with each other all the time. >> you know what your problem is? your standards are too high? >> i went out with you! >> thats because my standards are too low. >> we see the origin story of a sitcom play...

Were best friends. >> just the opening song, who didnt love that? ♪ give us any chance, well take it. ♪ >> laverne and shirley is about two working class girls who struggle to make ends meet working at a brewery, going out at night. >> you know, really so nice to see two women at the center of a sitcom. >> laverne and shirley, through the lens of the 50s, were able to say a lot about what women were striving to accomplish in the 70s. >> women were more apt to want to go out and work and not ...

Kindness. >> i do not understand why you used bleach on the towels. >> we need a family, love them or hate them. that is who we were given. >> the success of cosby resurrected the sitcom and then ushered in a lot of great storytelling. when the cosby show went off the air we had other black family sitcoms to fill the void and one of them was the fresh prince. >> i did not know there was so many brothers living in this neighborhood. >> fox was one of the first networks that took risks. >> i think...

Colonel blake thought he was running. >> klinger, the one thing that general macarthur may not understand is a flower girl with a five oclock shadow. >> there was also this constant debate about morality. why are we here, how are we treating these people, how are we treating each other? >> i hope this guy doesnt mind ignoring orders by living. >> and then at the end of the third season -- >> radar, put a mask on! >> gary berghof walks in and says -- >> henry blakes plane -- was shot down over th...

>> we started slowly. nbc was moving us around, trying to find the right place for us. >> family ties pumped life into the family sitcom but the sitcom in general had been pronounced dead. there were a few on the air and then all of a sudden comes the cosby show. >> can i have a advance on my allowance? >> the cosby show was a game changer. this is a family i adored. present history has tainted that a little bit but it did not stop the fact that it was groundbreaking. >> it was a idyllic family,...

>> for the first time in the history of our nation, a majority of all workers are in white collar jobs. >> and you were spending time getting to know your colleagues. >> you ready? >> im ready! >> alan, ive got those -- >> "the dick van dyke show" was laugh out loud funny. >> "the dick van dyke show." >> i could clearly remember, it was "the dick van dyke show" -- black and white. thats what got me into sitcoms. it was ground breaking. >> first of all, you had carl reiner. >> carl reiner got his...

All time. >> so watchable. >> friends. >> friends. >> friends. >> friends. >> i really appreciated friends. >> one of the top all time sitcoms, seinfeld, yeah. >> are we finished? >> done. >> at the core of every sitcom, you do have a family, whether its a blood family or a found family. you know, in the case of friends or seinfeld. >> as new generations emerge from baby boomers to gen x to millennials to gen s, we see the changes reflected in the friends sitcom. >> it happens as we hit the 70s ...

You going to stop with this jazz? its all over. watch the redskins kaput. watch the redskins kaput. ,old buddy.you go >> he aint therine yet.. now, the show, by the way, won twenty two emmy awards, okay. twenty two fame. the jeffersons, by the way, hilarious. sitcom. it was a spin off of all in the family about a successful black family awards.. he famil do you mean to tell me thato yo your father met that manme? i know im going to introduce you . come with me a second. i got some people i want ...