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>> you can reach in and really touch peoples hearts. >> i hate you. >> are you as turned on as i am? >> more! >> whether its a family living under the same roof. >> dyno-mite! >> now thats the kind of talk i like to hear. >> or, gathered together in a workplace. >> jenna, thats a glue stick. >> mmm? >> all the great sitcoms are about family. >> >> its one of the great accomplishments of the modern age. ♪ >> what have we always said was the most important thing? >> breakfast. >> family. >> fami...

Conversation. >> it showed how sitcoms werent afraid to discuss social issues that had formerly been taboo. >> this is it. this is it. this is life, the one you get - >> when you get to something like "one day at a time", the single mother in that show is divorced. that was unusual for television. >> i havent had a happy minute since we moved to indianapolis. sure was different before the divorce, when daddy was around. >> yeah, yeah i know. you used to wrap him around your little finger. >> all...

>> ethel, we are going to have a baby. >> we got to see a pregnant woman on television wearing a dress that started from a neck and looked like a tent. >> are we afraid of seeing a pregnant woman in the 19 as because it means she has had sex as if we didnt all come from a pregnant woman. >> in the 60s sitcoms were stuck in this 1950s suburban housewife mentality but then its this really interesting dynamic you see tv trying to address the gentlemaner -- agenda gender. >> i definitely think i dre...

>> that adds a deep-rooted truth to the hardness of life. and then it gives comedy even more of a reason to go as crazy as you want to go. >> i think that shirts done. >> oh my gosh, my shirt. >> well, robbie youll just have to wear your pants higher. >> in the 60s you see the sitcom move away from telling stories that are solely focused on the nuclear, suburban family. >> divorce, of course had become more prevalent in the 60s. but had become more a part of normal american life. but it took a w...

Fact. it is this. homosexuals lesbians are trying to pervert our children. >> the history of lgbtq characters in sitcoms is similar to the history of lgbtq people in america. they were always there. they just had to be hidden. >> theres the understatememt of the century. >> on bewitched we had that cliché. jane hathaway on beverly hillbillies was gay. you had people essentially seeing themselves on screen but not all the way. >> what are you doing in there? >> ive been framed. >> uncle arthur g...

>> no! >> okay! okay! fine, i wont! interesting piece of trivia. i called her. >> what are you doing? >> it was this ideal world, where youve got your really good buddies, that will always have your back. >> yes, kids are not my favorite thing in the world, but i like them. >> well, you dont want to have them. >> i like sports cars, but it doesnt mean i want to push a ferrari through my vagina. >> but how i met your mother fell into the trap that friends did. its just like, were affable white pe...

♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ >> im a pretty open minded guy. why dont you stop in the stop sometime? >> lgbtq representation in sitcoms is important because we are all in this together. you cant leave that out anymore. >> i would like to begin with a fact, a simple yet shocking

Amer americans. insecure centers in on the characters the identity and the culture that shows like sex and the city and girls had nothing to do with. >> what did that do? >> i do. >> i definitely do. >> for the first time a lot ofg theres a lot of different ways to go a black woman. theres a lot of different ways to be a millennial black woman. there are a lot of different ways to be. >> filly bag was just a revelation. >> it was dangerous. >> sitcoms dont usually feel dangerous. >> its always a...

Sitcom. >> some sitcoms were very edgy, like roseanne and married with children. >> talk is cheap mr. fix it. >> on the other hand, you had shows that were kind of going back to a more wholesome storytelling. you see that on abcs home improvement. >> in a broad stroke, what home improvement did is first off, it made a stable family and a loving family. >> no running in the house. >> cover the ball with both hands so you dont fumble, go on. >> tim. >> but also, i really wanted to find out what ma...

Beat these jokes and characters. >> this is a woman in a time where comedy was completely dominated by men. not only does the show, becomes the comedy show. they create the modern model for all the sitcoms to follow. shes an absolute titan of comedy. >> to have a woman be not only a comedian but a solid business person, she broke ground for generations of us. >> you dont see too many beautiful women be clowns like that. she was indeed a beautiful woman. she was a movie star at mgm before nobody ...