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And we cant change it. florida: well maybe we cant change it, james... but we sure cant let it change us. jimmie walker: good times was not only to show the problems, it was to show the love of a minority family. jj: were standing in a used car lot of love. james: and in 20 years we only turned out one clunker. jacqueline coley: the idea of white families seeing things on an episode of good times that they could relate to their own experience. that is a power that cannot be duplicated with hours...

Mara brock akil: the success of cosby resurrected the sitcom and because of that ushered in a lot of great storytelling. jacqueline coley: when the cosby show went off the air, we did have other black family sit-coms to fill that void, and one of them was the fresh prince, which was another version of aspirational black family wealth. will: i didnt know there were so many brothers living in this neighbourhood. we doing alright, huh? jacqueline coley: but fox was one of the first networks that re...

Youre an owner. our financial planning tools and advice can help you prepare for todays longer retirement. hi mom. thats the value of ownership. ♪ roseanne: you just sit there and drink your beer hubby, ill fix the sink myself. dan: the hell you will! patrick gomez: in the 1990s, we saw the big networks really start to experiment with the family sitcom. gerrad hall: some sitcoms were very edgy, like roseanne and married with children... roseanne: talk is cheap, mr. fix it. patrick gomez: on th...

Warren littlefield: alright, then lets put cosby at 8. lets put family ties at 8:30. michael gross: and then family ties went poom in a huge way. michael gross: that great thursday night lineup cosby, family ties, cheers, night court. jacqueline coley: nbc really created this idea of must see tv. youre talking about 20 and 30 and 40 million people tuning in. michael gross: people say you were one of americas most successful fathers. i said no, it was bill cosby. cosby was number one. jaleel whit...

Jenna: mmm? rainn wilson: all the great sitcoms are about family. debra: so wonderful! kelsey grammar: its one of the great, great accomplishments of the modern age. [opening] michael: what have we always said was the most important thing? george: breakfast...? michael: family. george: family, right... dan levy: family is key to the sitcom. dre: mama!! randall park: its something that we all can relate to. dre and mom: shake shake shake! tracy morgan: youre in these peoples homes for years. your...

Mark Critch plays both himself as the narrator and his dad back in 1986. Malcolm McDowell also stars.

And it just went through the ceiling. we didnt just usher in black shows. we were the foundation for all the sitcoms for the next 25, 30 years. - it just led the way to other sitcoms like "good times." ♪ good times ♪ anytime you need - breakfast is ready if you hungry! - "good times" is one of my favorite sitcoms because i didnt realize i was watching a sitcom. - give me one good reason why you married me. - you was pregnant. - that aint nothing to joke about. suppose one of the kids that he...

I am hans. and i am franz. and we just want to pump you up! levine: a lot of things that they could do on "saturday night live" they couldnt do on a sitcom. the humor was more daring and more satirical. and it was political. you still have, uh, 50 seconds left mr. vice president. well let me just sum up, on track, stay the course, a thousand points of light. stay the course. governor dukakis, rebuttal? i cant believe im losing to this guy. [ laughter ] [ telephone ringing ] ill get it. oh, geez....

Burrows: we had the luck to be able to rotate cast and every time we put somebody in, there were explosions. bwah! levine: there was something very special about that setting, those characters, that i never got tired of writing that show. sophisticated surveys, telephonic samplings, test audiences, all of those things help to separate winners from losers and make mid-course corrections. but you cant cut all comedies from the same cookie cutters. all you can hope is that every night turns out lik...