where you just sit up here on your throne. oh yeah? yeah! and you think everything gets done by some wonderful wizard. oh, poof, the laundry's folded. poof, dinner's on the table. you want me to fix dinner? i'll fix dinner. i'm fixing dinner! oh, but, honey, you just fixed dinner three years ago. bianculli: typical american families weren't on television for the longest time. the donna reed days, you know, the early days, the "father knows best," hardly anybody really lived like that. that was the way advertisers wanted you to live. i know what just might make me feel better. me too, but i bet it's a different list than what you got. the ideal situation is if you can subvert whatever common stuff is said about families and about parenting. what's in this, lead? oh, i got you kids new leg irons. [ cackles ] her loudness and her unfilteredness were key to why we liked her. she was saying stuff about working class people, she was saying stuff about men and women. so it was about marriage and about raising kids