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>> i just want to be married again. >> the ross and rachel relationship made it like oh, i have to tune in this week because i want to see if they getting together? >> i dont believe i dont get to go to my own prom. >> the one with the prom video where rachel realizes that ross has always loved her. >> bye! >> chip! >> oh, dear. >> i dont believe you did that. >> yeah, well. >> all the most memorable moments in the sitcoms are the ones where they touched on something beyond the comedy. >> and it...

Your hair? >> you have while he the older brother that usually does things right, beaver is always the one in trouble. >> there were the parents to teach them. >> we want you to feel you can come to me or your mother with any problem and we will understand. >> in the 1950s sitcoms were giving us a idealistic version of america. >> as we get into the 60s we will see different types of family sitcoms. >> i can handle a little bit of washing and cooking the occasional meal.

Is a power that cannot be duplicated with hours of conversation. >> it showed how sitcoms were not afraid to discuss social issues that were formerly taboo. >> when you get to one day at a time, the single mother in that show was divorced, that was unusual for television. >> i have not had a happy minute since we moved to indianapolis. it was different when daddy was around. >> you used to wrap them around your finger. >> all of the singles were widowed, now television catches up. >> i am circli...

Stories. that is where the authenticity comes from. >> he is probably tired. >> he kept us up all night. we should be the ones crying. >> we saw sitcoms like martin and the bernie mac show. they showed parenting to be difficult. >> he is too old to play with dolls. can we play something else? >> that is not something you saw on the cosby show. >> chris, get in the bathroom and wipe the toilet seat. >> fox did really well with black sitcoms so then the wb and upn were coming on and they started t...

>> for the first time in the history of our nation, a majority of all workers are in white collar jobs. >> and you were spending time getting to know your colleagues. >> you ready? >> im ready! >> alan, ive got those -- >> "the dick van dyke show" was laugh out loud funny. >> "the dick van dyke show." >> i could clearly remember, it was "the dick van dyke show" -- black and white. thats what got me into sitcoms. it was ground breaking. >> first of all, you had carl reiner. >> carl reiner got his...

Macho presence." >> and within that, you have important messages about women in the workplace, and those politics appear on broadcast television in a workplace comedy like "the mary tyler moore show." >> you might just make it after all. >> mary richards moves to minnesota to start work at wjm-tv. >> what religion are ya? >> uh, mr. grant, i dont quite know how to say this, but uh, youre not allowed to ask that when someones applying for a job. >> wanna call a cop? >> it did represent what women...

The friend sitcoms like happy days and laverne and shirley, abc decided to create a story about black teenagers. >> whats happening skewed younger. there were kids going and hanging out down at the diner, like teens in the 1950s, like the white kids going to the malt shop. >> opened the entire world to black teens. >> theyre best friends. >> bettys folks are out of town, it will be the party of the year. >> it was based on friendships of rerun and rog. >> rerun could dance. then there was dwayne...

Different books. and somehow steven spielberg settled it for me. its a time capsule. i got it. its a time capsule, and maybe it should be kept as a time capsule. but the feeling about books sometimes is different than that. >> it takes me back to recently "gone with the wind." now they just roll something in the beginning, this was from a by gone era. its a movie made 100 years ago about 150 years ago. what are we going to computer generate and change? no. it is "gone with the wind." it is with ...

In the British sitcom “We Are Lady Parts” and the feature film “Polite Society,” Manzoor presents characters that are joyful, liberated, glamorous, and confused.

Anneliese van der Pol, best known for starring in Disney Channel's "That's So Raven," has opened up about the "racism" she saw unfold during the show's initial casting.