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Where can you get great appliances this holiday... backed by our price promise every day? lowes, actually. the final days of winterfest are here. save now before theyre gone. you just sit there and drink your beer. ill fix the sink myself. >> the hell you will! >> in the 1990s, we saw the big networks start to really experiment with the family sitcom. >> some sitcoms were very edgy like "roseanne" and "married

Because i want to see, are they getting together. >> i cant believe i dont get to go to my own prom. its so harsh. >> the one with the prom video where rachel realizes that ross has always loved her. >> bye! >> oh, dear. i cant 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. [ cheers and applause ] >> and it made for a really great television that a lot of people wanted to watch. literally every...

The reason for that is because it really pushed a lot of barriers around talking about sex and relationships in ways that sitcoms certainly didnt do. >> so? how big was it? >> fresh pepper? >> my guiltiest pleasure was "sex and the city." >> you men have no idea what were dealing with down there. teeth placement and jaw stress and suction and gag reflex. honey! they dont call it a job for nothing. >> i felt a little naughty watching it. >> okay, ladies. take note. >> but at the time shows that o...

And the bees, but im your daddy, son, and im here to keep it 100. all right. despite the fact that your mother thinks that im uptight. cray-cray right? >> 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 remember...

♪ the 1980s were a radical transformation from what america had been like in the 1960s and 1970s. the economy was booming. >> congratulations, sir. >> as the regan era took hold, there was that rise in conservative values. >> we saw american audiences losing interest in the socially relevant sitcoms, and really, the sitcom started to die away. >> dramas had really taken over. those soaps were so big. "dynasty, "dallas," "magnum p.i." >> and so you saw the family sitcom really strive to find ...

The culture that shows like "sex and the city" and "girls" had nothing to do with. >> what that dick do? >> or do it dont do? >> oh, no, it do. it definitely do. >> for the first time maybe a lot of white people are learning that like theres a lot of different ways to be a black woman, theres a lot of different ways to be a millennial black woman. there are a lot of different ways to be. >> this is my favorite bit. >> "playback" was just a revelation. >> hi. >> hey. >> it felt dangerous. >> ill ...

I need something expeditious and brutal to numb my sensibilities and blast me into sweet oblivion. >> how about a boilermaker? >> make it a mimosa. >> we had the luck to be able to rotate cast, and every time we put somebody in, there were explosions. >> bwah! >> 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 lose...

Sitcoms. >> you do like pickles, dont you? >> oh, sure! who dont? >> andy griffith was a small-town sheriff. didnt have a lot of money, and they were kind of, like, simple. >> im going to enter the competition after all. yes, sir, im going to enter these pickles. >> these? >> these? >> these? >> these. >> that was like a fantasy of a world and an america in which race and class just kind of didnt exist. >> ms. jennifer, ms. clarivel. >> it was probably the whitest show on television. i mean, the...

>> laughter is a great way to deal with a very tricky world. >> daddy horny, michael. >> sitcoms talk about sex. >> my underwear. >> my god. >> and about relationships. >> im breaking up with him tonight. >> these shows changed the way that we think about sexuality. >> for gods sake ellen, tell them youre gay! >> youre talking about gay rights. youre talking about womens rights. >> gender diversity. >> dismantling the patriarchy. >> you know, sexual revolution. >> so, im officially out of men to...

Be dont crack up on us. >> there is nothing to worry about, kids. i have got an idea. alan beatty will play the part of a talking bowling pin. >> i thought it was the greatest idea because in most sitcoms, you didnt know what the husband did for a living. >> the second dance number should come before the big sketch. >> gee, i dont know. >> i like it. >> now i like it. >> yeah, me too. >> i like it, too. >> what do you know? look at the tie youre wearing. >> i love the fact it was a glimpse into ...