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>> maybe i dont need your money. wait, wait, i said maybe. >> rachel green being sort of a spoiled character off the top of the show and humbling that character and making her independent like sam and diane an cheers. >> we knew ross and rachel from the pilot would be a thing. >> i just want to be married again. [ laughter ] >> the ross and rachel relationship made it like oh, i have to tune in this week because i want to see are they getting together. >> i cant believe i dont get to go to my ow...

Right? >> i want to go home and sleep in my own bed, i dont want another beer. >> do you want another beer? >> it is always been like a straight white mans point of view. >> i remember early sitcoms, i saw a mother and a wife in a cocktail dress all day long and we sit there going who the hell are these people? it was a denial of reality. >> ethal, we are going to have a baby. we got to see a pregnant woman on television wearing a dress that started from the neck that looked like a tent. >> as i...

Sphynx. >> in the 1990s we hadnt seen shows that are frank about womens sex lives, about their romantic lives. the biggest change came with the explosion of cable. >> what i loved about hbo was their criteria was only quality, it wasnt network censorship or anything like that. >> tell me exactly how he worded it. >> i wanted to explore this world of sex and relationships from a female point of view and do something really, really frank. >> weve been seeing each other for a couple of weeks. i rea...

Everyone had to do something. everyone had to pitch in. we did dishing. we were dining socks. these things that you never saw in the "ozzie and harriet" show or leave it "leave it to beave" >> when you watch a show based on losing someone, that adds a deep rooted truth to the hardness of life and then it gives comedy even more of a reason to go as crazy as you want to go. >> i think that shirt is done. >> you see the sitcoms move away from the nuclear suburban family. >> divorce, of course, had ...

Can you stop at the shop sometimes? >> okay. >> lbgtq representation in sitcoms are important because we are all in this together. >> they cant leave you out anymore. >> i would like to begin with a fact, a simple, yet shocking fact. homosexuals and lesbians are threaten our entire generation of our history. >> the characters of sitcom are similar to the history of lbgtq people of america. they were always there. they had to be hidden. >> there is the under statement of the history. >> dont you ...

Patient. >> shes not a mental patient. >> shes not a mental patient. >> i love as much as an [ bleep ] he is. >> [ bleep ] holes dont go out with the disables, okay? >> i think i like the [ bleep ] holes, you know? i like the jerks. >> could you just move your legs? >> what are you doing? are you looking at my breasts? >> you wear that dress because you want people to look at your shoes, right? >> there was no thought, what will people think? >> if you werent my best friend, i would take my bare...

Hundreds of men. >> blanch says a line that america needed to hear. >> aids is not a bad persons disease, rose. it is not god punishing the people for their sins. >> you are right, blanch, you are damn straight i am right. it was something in the 1990s that so many people needed to hear and "the golden girls" were able to deliver that message. >> when we see these moments in sitcoms is because there had been activists trying to normalized and humanize folks thats not humanized for so far. >> it ...

Out i am gay. there is no way i can be openly gay at that time. >> it would have been career suicide. >> i think being gay was admitting to someone that you could have aids. >> ultimately we didnt see very many lgbtq characters in sitcoms and in the 80s for most lbgtq community. it was a very dark time. >> seems like you had a transfusion while you were there. the hospital thinks that the blood could have contained hiv antibodies. >> wait a minute, you are talking about aids. >> "the golden girl...

>> this is my favorite bit. >> playback was just a revelation. >> hi. >> hey. >> it felt dangerous. >> ill be sure to treat you like a nasty little bitch. >> sitcoms dont usually feel dangerous. >> theres always a stage when someones falling in love with you they lose their erection. >> "fleabag" is intensely personal and intimate and raunchy. >> honestly, he made me come nine times. >> honestly? >> she wanted you to experience the craziness of what shes involved in. shes looking at the camera. ...

And ask how to save up to $400 a year on your wireless bill when you add xfinity mobile. get started today. in 1970, cbc was trying to change the landscape and had rule sitcoms. they were looking for more say f sophisticated sitcoms. they are more sophisticated after declined to move forward made the decision to move to