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"friends" did. its just like were affable white people living in new york. >> but as we entered the tw21st century, these "friends" sitcoms started to reflect more cultural diversity. >> when you guys first came in, we were as wholesome as the family in the brady bunch, and now were as dysfunctional as the cast of the brady bunch. >> their study room is like the bar in "cheers". >> hey! >> jeff winger, played by joel mchale, sort of our leader, hes this disgraced lawyer who comes back to communi...

Collectively a little bit conservative when it comes to issues of sex. >> dont get all caught up in this having open dialogue with your kids hoopla. its not natural. show me one place in the bible where a kid talks. >> we wanted to be able to laugh about sex for the same reason we want to be able to laugh about anything that scares us or disturbs us. >> so im sure youve had sex with my mother. which is fine. >> oh, my god. >> but are you using protection? >> and it took a long time. but sitcoms ...

Towels. >> they just seemed a little yellow. >> yes, they are yellow towels. >> we all come into a family. we need a family, love them or hate them, thats who, you know, we were given. >> the success of cosby resurrected the sitcom. when "the cosby show" went off the air we had other black sitcoms to fill the void, which was "fresh prince" was aspirational black family wealth. >> i didnt know there were so many brothers living in this neighborhood. we doing all right, huh? >> fox was one of the ...

Off to bed i go. >> leave it to beaver enters the sitcom realm in 1957. >> whats that? >> the real key to "leave it to beaver" is its written from a childs point of view. >> you have the character of beaver and wally who is his older brother who usually does things right. beaver is always the one that gets in trouble. [ laughter ] >> and there were the parents to teach them. show them the right path. >> we want you to feel that you can come to me or to your mother with any problem and well under...

♪ dream on ♪ ♪ dream on ♪ ♪ dream on ♪ - yes! ♪ ahhhhhhh ♪ ♪ dream until your dreams come true ♪ in 1970, cbs is trying to change the landscape. they had rural sitcoms. they were looking for more sophisticated sitcoms. after abc declined to move forward with the all in the family pilot, norman leer made

From. >> we tired. >> should be. kept us up all night. we should be the ones crying. >> we saw black family sitcoms like martin, like the bernie mack show. those sitcoms showed parenting to be di. hes too old. can we play something else? >> which was not something you saw on a show like the cosby show. >> get in the bathroom and watch the pee off the toilet seat! disgusting! >> fox network had come on and did really well with blacks, so o then the wb and upn at the time were coming on and they s...

>> divorce of course had become more prevalent in the 60s but had become more of a part of normal life, but it took a while for it to be reflected in sitcoms. >> the brady bunch is the story of two separate families being glued together. a map with three boys, a woman with tree girls. the map was a widower and the woman divorced. dworgs was a taboo topic. they said just leave it so you dont know. >> stop yelling. >> im just trying to find out what they did with my school aw award. >> it was an e...

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To be a millennial black woman. there are a lot of different ways to be. >> this is my favorite bed. >> playback was just a revelation. >> hi. >> hey. >> it felt dangerous. >> be sure to treat you like a naughty little bitch. >> sitcoms dont usually feel dangerous. >> there is always a stage that someone is falling in love with you that they lose their erection. "flea bag is intimate and raunchy. "flea bag" was just - she slept with a priest? >> yeah. >> oh. thats intimate. >> she is looking at ...

Upstairs? >> i didnt hear anything. >> ill read you one story, then off the bed you go. >> leave it to beaver enters the sitcom realm in 1957. >> whats that. >> a hair cut, 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 wally whos his older brother, who usually does things right. weve is always the one that gets in trouble. >> and there were the ...