different. i was writing out of my own experience. i grew up with a father, much like archie bunker, who insisted that i was the laziest white kid he ever met. >> you have a meathead. >> what did you call me? >> a meathead. dead from the neck up. meathead. >> norman lear blows lid off what a family sitcom is. >> we were writing about what we knew, what was happening in our families, up the street, down the street, across from each other. that's how we got to real problems. >> i think it's time we had a brother to brother talk, or to put it delicately, a talk about the birds and the bees. >> well, i have to study right now, i'll teach you about sex some other time, okay? >> norman lear gave you "all in the family," "good times," "the jeffersons." he gave different looks at what real niched versions of the american family were in different segments of this country. >> mixed up families. >> what do you mean mixed up?