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Ways to be. >> this is my favorite bed. play back was just revelation. >> it felt dangerous. >> be sure to treat you like a naughty little -- >> sitcoms dont usually feel dangerous. >> fle "flea bag" is restauraunch. "flea bag" was just - she slept with a priest? >> yeah. >> oh. thats intimate. >> it is future caascinating to

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 this. you look ridiculous. >> "family times" has one of the great premises in sitcom history. >> half a million people trying to stop a senseless war. you find that ridiculous? >> im talking about the outfits. >> these two flower children from the 60s grow up an...

Disgusting. >> fox network had come on and done well with black sitcoms so 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 n networks were really ignoring up until that point. >> so these shows kind of set the stage for the diversity in the family sitcom that can be seen on television today. >> welcome. im rick. the length and depth of my bow and expresses my deep appreciation. >> thats mor...

Dad. he was a widower with three boys trying to raise them in an all male household. 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 to beaver. >> 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 sit...

Youre gay. >> youre talking about gay rights. youre talking about womens rights. >> gender diversity. >> dismantling the patriarchy. >> sexual revolution. >> so im officially out of -- i have to get married or move. >> but if you can make them laugh, then maybe well watch it again. ♪ anything and everything. lets get our sex talk on. >> oh, mom covered it all pretty good. >> yeah, maybe about the birds and the bees, but im your daddy, and im here to keep it 100. despite the fact that your mo...

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 exist in a vacuum. so when we do see these moments in sitcoms, its because there have been...

>> were staying in a used car lot of love. >> in 20 years we only turned out one clunker. >> the idea of white families seeing things on an episode of "good times "they could relate to their own experience, that is a power that cannot be duplicated with hours of conversation. >> it showed how sitcoms werent afraid to discuss social issues that had formally been taboo. ♪ >> when you get to something like "one day at a time," the single mother in that show is divorced, and that was unusual for t...

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 first networks that really took risk with black sitcoms with minority people very much part of the writing and creation of it. >> its vital people of color write their own stories because thats where the at theauthenti comes from. >> hes probably tired. >> he should be. he kept us up all ni...

Track, stay the course. a thousand points. stay the course. >> governor dukakis rebuttal? >> i cant believe im losing to this guy. >> ill get it. >> its gary shandling show. >> people were taking all the old principles of comedy and trying to turn them into something new. we spent years and years watching sitcoms and dramas and talk shows, by then. we knew them by heart. if somebody played on that and parodied it, we got it, instantly. >> yeah, i appreciate you coming in under these conditions, ...

This point. i know that his attorneys did not appear at the press conference following the indictment while the trump organization lawyers did. that told me that they are keeping the door open and they are still talking. so i think we dont know the full story, obviously. but it looks to me like there may be conversations going on. >> all right. john dean, thanks so much. appreciate it. coming up -- excitement gets out of control. why some euro 2020 fans are getting rowdy. plus, another brand...