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We can play rough. >> i love friends ive seen every episode of friends, one of my favorite shows, so watch he believe. >> friends, friends, friends. >> friends. >> i really appreciated friends. >> one of the top all-time sitcoms, seinfeld. >> yes. >> are we fished. >> done. >> at the core of every sitcom you have a family, a blood family or found family, in the case of friends or seinfeld, as new generations emerge from baby boomers to gen x to gen z we see those in at the friends sitcom >> you ...

♪ >> anything and everything lets get our sex talk on. >> oh, mom covered it pretty good. >> maybe about the birds and the bees but im here to keep it 100. >> sitcoms are a great place to talk about taboo awkward subjects like sex because its disarming and people just want to laugh. >> i want to go home to my own room to sleep-in my own bed. i dont want another beer. >> would you like another beer? >> oh, yeah. >> but its always been from like the straight white mans point of view. >> i rememb...

Congress opened hearings today on aids, the acquired immune deficiency syndrome, and what the government is doing to fight it. >> i lived in paranoia in the 80s, absolute total paranoia. >> name that handicap! >> when the aids outbreak started, i was terrified of people finding out that im gay. there was no way i could 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 c...

We all know why im here. cant be left alone for 10 minutes without falling on his ass and afraid hes gonna get stuck with me. isnt that right? >> no! >> in the 90s we saw a lot of sitcoms geared toward home family viewing and should away from the more political nature of the 1970s. >> every item here was carefully selected, the chair, the lamp... >> its because social class is a part someones identity that everyone can relate to its one of the waits that sitcoms can reach the broadest audience. ...

The show and about humbling that character and making her independent, like sam and diane on cheers >> we knew that ross and rachel, from the pilot would be a thing. >> i just want to be married again. >> the ross and rachel relationship made it like i have to tune in because i want to see are they getting together? i cant 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. >> ok. >> oh, dear. i cant believe you di...

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 activists trying to normalize and humanize folks who have been not humanized for so long. >> i mean its fine if thats who you are. >> absolutely. >> i mean i have many gay friends. >> my fathers guy. >> and then youve got "the outing." >> you know, just because you two are homosexuals, so what? >> the premise of that episode was a j...

A simple yet shocking fact. it is this. homosexuals, lesbians are threatening to pervert an entire generation of our american children. >> the history of lgbtq characters in sitcoms is actually very similar to the history of lgbtq people in america. they were always there, they just had to be hidden. >> theres the understatement of the century. >> we had paul lynde on bewitched. we had that cliche. >> dont you get it dumb-dumb? >> and jane hathaway on the beverly hillbillies was gay. >> this bea...

♪. ♪. dreams come right now ". president ford proclaimed fred to be national black history month. >> in light of the success of sitcoms, abc decided they want to create a story about black teenager what happened skewed younger, here were these kids hanging out at the dinner, like teenagers in the 1950s like the white kids going to the malt shop. >> opened the entire world to black teenager whose are best friends. >> and betty folks are out of town so you know it will be the party of the ye...

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Network censorship or anything like that. i wanted to explore this world of sexual relationships from a female point of view and do something really, really frank. >> weve been seeing each other for a couple of weeks. i really like you. tomorrow night after dinner, i want us to have anal sex. >> it feels a little fun auto he to call it a sitcom, and i think the reason for that is because it really pushed a lot of barriers around talking about sex and relationships in ways that sitcoms certainly ...