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>> which was not something you saw on a show like "the cosby show." >> get in the bathroom and wipe the pee off the toilet seat. disgusting. >> fox network had come on and done really well with black sitcoms and so then the wb and upn at the time were coming on and they started to diversify and grow that audience. >> they are able to snatch up this audience that the other networks were really ignoring up until that point. >> and so these shows kind of set the stage for the diversity in the famil...

Upstairs? >> i didnt hear anything. >> "father knows best" represented the good life, the american dream. >> ill read you one story, then off you go. >> "leave it to beaver" enters the sitcom realm in 1957. >> whats that? >> a haircut, i think. >> the real key to "leave it to beaver" is that its written from a childs point of view. >> why dont you let stanley cut your hair? >> i lost my money. >> you have the character of beaver and you have wally who is his older brother who usually does things...

25 years ago, before i was dad, i had this whole other life. >> you guys absolutely dont think i should call her? >> ted no. >> get it through your skull. >> fine, i wont. >> interesting piece of trivia, i called her. >> what are you doing? >> it was this ideal world where youve got your really good buddies that will always have your back. >> yes, kids are not my favorite thing in the world. but i like them. >> you dont want to have them? >> i like sports cars, doesnt mean i want to push a ferra...

I mean this isnt supposed to happen to people like me. you must have gone to bed with hundreds of men. >> blanche said a line that i think america needed to hear, which is -- >> aids is not a bad persons disease, rose. it is not god punishing people for their sins. >> youre right, blanche. >> well, youre damn straight im right. >> it was something that in 1990, so many people needed to hear, and "the golden girls" were able to deliver that message because of who they were. >> our media doesnt ex...

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There was that rise in conservative values. >> we saw american audiences losing interest in the socially relevant sitcoms and really the sitcoms started to die away. >> dramas had really taken over. those soaps were so big. "dynasty," "dallas," "magnum p.i." >> you saw the family sitcom strive to find a new identity. >> i cant believe you guys watch in, you look ridiculous. >> "family ties" has one of the great premises in sitcom history. >> half a million people trying to stop a senseless war. ...

>> the whole notion of outsider is a strand that goes through most sitcoms, i think. >> take tongue right out of my mouth. >> outsiders help us relate as an audience. >> are you some kind of nerd? >> not some kind of nerd, the king of nerds. >> they are seeing everything with fresh eyes. >> you rang. >> that dynamic is pretty awesome. its special. >> that confidence really made people feel like they could be okay to be whoever they are. >> did i do that? >> and i think if i believe in who i am a...

Sitcoms. >>. >> class is fascinating to us as a culture. >> i never check my bags. i cant stand that baggage area. its good to half ate it to get it all out on the table. >> you need to go to your seat. >> we should be a society without classes. >> we would engage in class warfare. >> do you realize the people up here are getting cooking? >> hmm. >> that is not a show about nothing. toe the left we have the bar. to the right we have the bathroom. the bathrooms upstairs,

All of it is here because were a nation of people that came from somewhere else. >> you cannot run in los angeles at night. this is the city of charles manson and harvey weinstein is. >> every week no matter the show, there are little pressure release valves that go off. and you see that play out throughout the history of the sitcom. at first thought you may imagine 40s, 50s sitcoms being very white suburbia. >> there are a lot of shows of immigrants becoming a part of the american dream. >> lif...

The reason for that is because it really pushed a lot of barriers around talking about sex and relationships in ways that sitcoms certainly didnt do. >> so? how big was it? >> fresh pepper? >> my guiltiest pleasure was "sex and the city." >> you men have no idea what were dealing with down there. teeth placement and jaw strength and suction and gag reflex. honey, they dont call it a job for nothing. >> i felt a little naughty watching it. >> okay, ladies. take note. >> but at the time shows that...