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Arnold? no. you know what they say? >> sit on it, arnold. >> thats what they say. >> you watch fonzi and you just want to be fonzi. >> oh. >> hey, girls. knock yourselves out. im really sorry, it was a slip of the fingers, slip of the fingers. >> its a fantasy of what teen life could be. >> hey, dafazio. theyre here. all right. laverne. this is laverne dafazio. shes mine. this is shirley feeney. shes yours. as you can see. >> nice to meet you, ritchie. >> my pleasure. >> when "laverne & shirley"...

>> all of television said, oh, well, maybe the sitcoms are alive again. and thats all that it took. it took one success. >> a few years from now, something new may tempt the people who pick what we see. but its a very safe guess that whatever gets hot for a season or two, the men and women who create good television comedy will be laughing all the way to the bank. ng new? our dell technologies advisors can provide you with the tools and expertise you need to bring out the innovator in you. up to...

Robert Clary, who played a prisoner of war in the TV sitcom “Hogan’s Heroes,” has died. Clary sported a beret in his role as the feisty Corporal Louis LeBeau in

>> there was no thought, what will people think? >> if you werent my best friend, id take my bare heads and pop your head off your neck. >> hes not my best friend. >> curb your enthusiasm came about at a time when sitcoms of the 90s had somewhat worn out their welcome because there had been a glut of them. >> in the wake of friends ending, this juggernaut for nbc, networks obviously have to find some way to make it new. >> kids, im going tell you an incredible story. >> the premise of how i met ...

>> and there were the parents to teach them, to show them the right path. >> we want you to feel that you can come to me or to your mother with any problem, and well understand. >> in the 1950s, sitcoms were really giving us an idealistic version of america. >> but as we get into the 60s, well see different types of family sitcoms. >> im sure ill be able to handle a little washing and to cook an occasional meal. ♪ ♪ ♪

Stories, because thats where the authenticity comes from. >> hes probably tired. >> well he should be, kept us up all night gina. we should be the ones crying. >> we saw black family sitcoms like martin, like the bernie mac show, those sitcoms showed parenting to be difficult. >> uncle bernie, hes too old to play with dolls. can we play something else? >> which was not something you saw on a show like the cosby show. >> chris. get in the bathroom and wipe the pee off the toilet seat. disgusting....

Vacuum so when we see these moments in sitcoms its because there have been activists trying to normalize folks who havent been for so long. >> its fine if you want. my father is gay. >> youve got the outing. >> you know just because you two are homosexual so what? >> the premise of that episode was a journalist was following jerry to do a piece on him an got it into her head that jerry and george were gay lovers. >> what do you think of this shirt? >> its nice. >> jerry said he didnt like it. >>...

View. >> we have been seeing each other a couple of weeks. i like you. tomorrow night after dinner i want us to have sex. >> i want to you talk about sex and relationships in ways that sitcoms didnt do. >> how big was. >> my guiltyest pleasure was sex and the city. >> placement suction they dont call it a jaw for nothing. >> okay, ladies, take note. >> at the time, shows is that often center on black women are still pretty much a rarity. >> i havent had sex in a year. >> oh. >> you know what hap...

Sitcoms opened the door for us being able to tell stories about sex and laugh at them. without threes company you dont perhaps get golden girls and that leads to shows that are being super open about sexuality. >> i think i know you from somewhere. >> its very possible we [bleep]. >> then we probably [bleep] in college. >> whats the big deal? its my compliment rust. >> in the 1990s we havent seen things about their lives. the explosion came with cable. >> the criteria was not only quality not ne...

>> i dont understand why you would use bleach on these towels. >> they just seemed a little yellow-y. >> yes, theyre yellow towels. >> we all come into a family. we need a family. love them or hate them. thats who you know, we were given. >> the success of cosby resurrected the sitcom, and because of that ushered in a lot of great storytelling. >> when the cosby show went off the air, we did have other black family sitcoms to fill that void. and one of them was the fresh prince, which was anothe...