Jason alexander and boom, there you go, a situation comedy. Sheldon bazinga tim allen this twenty three minutes of magic. Lucy its so tasty, too tracy morgan you fell in love with these characters. Arnold What Chu Talkin about willis . Geri jewell we need to laugh at ourselves. Joey you hide my clothes, im wearing everything you own. Constance wu laughter opens you up. Haley okay ready . Surprise [screaming and chaos] Mara Brock Akil the things that we might be afraid to talk about. Bow some people that were supposed to protect us didnt do the right thing. Tim reid like racism. Son so the cops are the bad guys . Dre yes. Bow no. Kim fields Class Wars Ralph money im a millionaire. Dan levy and gender diversity. Sarah dad . Maura hi girls. Ted danson you can reach in and really touch peoples hearts. Dianne i hate you sam are you as turned on as i am . Dianne more rainn wilson whether its a Family Living under the same roof. Jj dynomite james now thats the kind of talk i like to hear. Rainn wilson . Or gathered together in a workplace. Jack jenna, thats a glue stick. Jenna mmm . Rainn wilson all the great sitcoms are about family. Debra so wonderful Kelsey Grammar its one of the great, great accomplishments of the modern age. [opening] michael what have we always said was the most important thing . George breakfast. . Michael family. George family, right. Dan levy family is key to the sitcom. Dre mama randall park its something that we all can relate to. Dre and mom shake shake shake tracy morgan youre in these peoples homes for years. Youre a part of the family. Eddie one good thing about moving here is i have no friends, and no distractions. Thats why i got a. Grandma, what does fonzi say . Grandma ayyy Jesse Tyler Ferguson the Family Sitcom brings people together in a really unexpected way jane leeves theres so many different dynamics at work in families. Frasier i want you here, it will give us a chance to get re acquainted martin that implies we were acquainted at one point. Aaay the Family Sitcom brings people together in an unexpected way. Theres so many different dynamics at work in families. I love you here. It will give us a chance to get reacquainted. Theres a lot of pain, theres a lot of laughter. You sort of recognize your dynamic in there and you go, well, their family is just as crazy as mine. I dont care who kissed who, who has a pimple on their head, who is wearing an outrageously inappropriate dress. We are going to get together and act like a normal family for onetenth of a freaking second. Were going to do it right now. Lets go. Its amazing to track the history of the Family Sitcom, because you can see so much about culture throughout the years, now looking back. You know, it was really i love lucy that kicked it all off. First offering this evening, we expect go back and sit down it was a show about a ditzy woman who wanted to be in show business. Have you ever considered acting . Has she ever considered acting . And her husband, who was latin and a musician honey, you know how i feel about this, i dont want my wife in show business. Why not . Lucille ball was always trying to emancipate herself from the wife and homemaker role. Every time she gets the opportunity, something goes awry. Lucille ball was fearless in her physical comedy. Women were supposed to be demure, dainty, and in their place. Lucille ball was one of my favorites for timing her bits. What do you think youre doing . Well . I love lucy became a phenomenon instantly. When you think about the era that lucille ball came up in and what she was able to achieve, its astounding. Im a father, im a father when lucy and ricky had a baby, it was, like, huge. It was the highestrated show of the series. It changed the dynamic, because all of a sudden it became centered around the family unit. I think i love lucy was the big bang of the Family Sitcom. The family moved to the suburbs. Gee, isnt this exciting . Were in our very own home. That mirrored what was happening in america at the time. Advertisers wanted to cater towards that new suburban family that needed to buy that Kitchen Appliance or needed to buy that vacuum. After i love lucy, there was a formula for what the American Family should look like. Ozzie and harriet. I just loved everybody in it, actually. Bring it in, im starved. It was a happy, gentle, American Family of the 1950s. How much do you need . Never mind, pop, thats okay. Dont worry about it, you can pay me back. Honest, pop, i dont want it. Whats wrong with you, david . You got rocks in your head . The kids were very polite. Everybody was very nice to each other. Those were not real people, but they entertained and delighted us. All right, kids. Dinners on, were sitting down. When you get to fathers knows best, its patriarchal. Dealing with tiny little problems. Ah, a quiet evening at home. I can use it. And i played bud. Bud usually had a problem with truthtelling on some level. What was all that Racket Upstairs . I didnt hear anything. Father knows best represented the good life, the American Dream. Ill read you one story, then off to bed you go. Then Leave It To Beaver enters the sitcom relevant until 1957. Whats that . A haircut, i think. The real key to Leave It To Beaver is that its written from a childs point of view. Why dont you let stanley cut your hair . I lost all my money. You have the character of beaver, and you have wally, who is his older brother who usually does things right. Beaver is always the one that gets in trouble. And there were the parents to teach them, 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 cooking the occasional meal. Im a bad mommy. No, youre a disaster, mom. Stop right there this week, get the dennys Super Slam Starting at 7. 99. Hungry for all your Breakfast Favorites . When you want americas biggest breakfast starting at 7. 99. At dennys, its diner time. Now open really late. Wherever you go. Wherever you stay. All you need is one key. Earn and use rewards across expedia, hotels. Com, and vrbo. Tourists tourists that turn into scientists. Tourists photographing thousands of miles of remote coral reefs. That can be analyzed by ai in real time. So researchers can identify which areas are at risk. And help life underwater flourish. The Morgan StanleyClient Experience . Listening more than talking, and a personalized plan to guide you through a changing world. 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No, hide things from me please Better Things is a fascinating example of the way the Family Sitcom has adapted to the 21st century. Mom, wheres the broom . What are you being, a witch . No, im going to be a useless housewife from the 50s. I love that throughout years the boundaries have been pushed back and the walls have come down. If you look back to the 50s there was a lot of confines on what family looked like and what was acceptable and what wasnt. Hi, jacks the first show that deviated from the perfect pleasantville nuclear family. Are you going to blow up the stove again . No, eddie. I dont think ill make that same mistake again. It was a show about a single dad. He was a widower with three boys trying to raise them in an allmale household. Everyone had to do something. Everyone had to pitch in. We did dishes. You know, we were darning socks. These are things that you never saw in the Ozzie And Harriet show, or donna reid, or leave to it beaver. Hey, thats mine, i got it when you watch a show based on losing someone, that adds a deeprooted 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. My shirt well, 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, had become more part of normal american life. But it took awhile to be reflected in sitcoms. The brady bunch The Brady Bunch is the story of two separate families being glued together. A man with three boys, a woman with three girls. The man would be a widower and the woman divorced. But divorce was a taboo topic on television, so they said, lets just leave it so you dont know. Hey what are you yelling about, huh . She stole our ball. Im just trying to find out what they did with my scuba boards. The brady bunch was an evolution of Leave It To Beaver. It was shown from the kids point of view. Will you lend me your skate key . Im not lending anything to a snitcher. It was all about what children are having problems with. Their appearance or schoolwork or their friends. Pete brady, interception, goes for a shot you know, oh, you broke the vase it was those kinds of everyday problems. Marsha, im proud to be your sister now matter how terrible you look. Thanks a lot this is airing in the nixon era when vietnam is raging and people are losing faith in government. All these things were happening and The Brady Bunch was kind of a refuge. Watching The Brady Bunch, having all these brothers and sisters, it was a great getaway for me. The brady bunch was a huge success for abc. That led to the Partridge Family which really attracted a young, hungry audience. Hey, kids. Hollywood boulevard. We were a musical family that would travel around doing shows. You made my day i was for sure going to marry david cassidy. That was definitely going to happen. Youre the look in my eyes the Partridge Family is trying to embrace this hippy, cool culture. What did you hit, mom . I think it was a studebaker. You crazy hippies, its bad enough you dont trust anyone over 30. Now youre trying to wipe us out it takes this phenomenon of the counterculture and makes it very safe. Relax, mom. Just remember our whole future depends on these next few minutes. It was an escape from the real world for a lot of people. In new york, a Student Protest is met by construction work. And the tense state in ohio, four students are killed. But some people didnt want to hide from what was happening. People are like, no, we want to hear about all the stuff and how its affecting our families. Thats when shows like All In The Family came on. Norman was at the beginning of his career, was looking to find a show that he could really make his own. He was turned on to a british series called til death do us part. It was about a bigoted father. I said holy moly, thats the way i grew up. And i knew i had a show. Take one they shot the pilot at abc. Featured Carol Oconnor and Gene Stapleton as archie and edith bunker. We dont see any evidence of god. Thats right, daddy. I know we had a couple of pinkos in the house, i didnt know we had a pair of atheists it was not well received by abc. They watched it and felt there wasnt the chemistry there. We make it again with two different young people. We dont see any evidence of god, thats all. Thats right, daddy. I knew we had a couple of pinkos in this house, but i didnt know we had a pair of atheists the network freaks out about whether people will be able to watch this show that has, like, real issues. Everybody is nervous, and there are people saying theyre going to kill you. Theyre going to shoot you dead in the streets. Then you came along and made every mile worth it. Hi mom. 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They were looking for more sophisticated sitcoms. After abc declined to move forward with the All In The Family pilot, norman lear made the decision to move the show over to cbs. They said, yes, but you need a new set of kids. So rob reiner and i were the third set of children for archie and edith bunker. So i made the pilot for the third time. Same script. I wouldnt change a word. So lets hear it again, huh . What did you mean by what god . We just dont see any evidence of god. Thats all. Thats right, daddy. Thats right, kid. I knew we had a Couple Pinkos in this house but i didnt know we had atheists i do remember seeing the opening episode and realizing, my god, the ground is shaking under me. And we reach over each other at the table, and we have arguments. Because guys like you are unwilling to give the black man, the mexicanamerican, and all the other minorities their just and rightful share of the American Dream that didnt happen before. We got real. Political strife. Interpersonal issues. Generation gaps. And theyre dealing with it All In The Family. Now i suppose youre going to tell me that the black man has had the same opportunity in this country as you . More. Hes had more. I didnt have a Million People marching and protesting to get me my job. No, his uncle got it for him. [ laughter ] archie was saying things you dont say on television. Just because a guy is sensitive and hes an intellectual and he wears glasses, you make him out a queer. I never said a guy who wears glasses is a queer. A guy who wears glasses is four eyes, a guy whos a fag is a queer. Looking at that show, youre looking arou like youre going to be arrested. It was jaw dropping. It was funny but very challenging. And you realized norman lear is taking us into a whole new realm of comedy. The blowback from the public was buried by the excitement and the applause. The show was number one for a long time. It changed cbs and their brand as a network. As a result of All In The Family, they turned to norman lear to create more shows in that image. There is a person at the door. Maude bea arthur played maude as ediths cousin on All In The Family. Maudie is here. And she could take on archie headtohead. Now you can either come to the table and eat, or you can lie there and feed off your own fat. The story goes that by the time that episode had aired, Fred Si