An exploration of news and events in the 1990s. In the opener, TV shows from the decade are examined, from animated hits South Park and Beavis and. An exploration of news and events in the 1990s. In the opener, TV shows from the decade are examined, from animated hits South Park and Beavis and. An exploration of news and events in the 1990s. In the opener, TV shows from the decade are examined, from animated hits South Park and Beavis and. An exploration of news and events in the 1990s. In the opener, TV shows from the decade are examined, from animated hits South Park and Beavis and. An exploration of news and events in the 1990s. In the opener, TV shows from the decade are examined, from animated hits South Park and Beavis and. An exploration of news and events in the 1990s. In the opener, TV shows from the decade are examined, from animated hits South Park and Beavis and. An exploration of news and events in the 1990s. In the opener, TV shows from the decade are examined, from animated hits South Park and Beavis and. Unidentified flying objects. I think that fits the description pretty well. Tell me im crazy. Mulder, youre crazy. That dynamic, that dramatic tension of Believer Versus Skeptic is one of the engines of the show. You were always seeing it from a specific point of view. Theyre equals . Yeah, absolutely. They are equals in a way they have kind of switched gender stereotypes, because the character i play, mulder, is the intuitive one. And scully is the rationalist, the doctor. A lot of folks who enjoyed the x files who otherwise didnt watch tv might have been drawn to the show by its, for lack of a better way to put it, its Stick It To The Man ethos. Dont trust the government or big business or anybody but yourself and your friends and family, i guess. Its a message thats somewhat
dark and cynical, but was kind of a breath of fresh air in the early 90s. The 90s was a time of conspiracies. And the internet was starting to spread beyond just like hardcore computer users. So, you could have Message Boards and usenet news groups. And everybody wanted to talk about the black oil and the bees and mulders sister and what the Cigarette Smoking Man was up to. I would go to alt. Tv xfiles. And people were so nuts for this show. Its just pure science fiction. And thats probably what i like most about it. The xfiles changed the way people watched television. You could sense these successful creators trying to see how they could do things different five or ten years ago. Sometimes that led to really Challenging Network television that was cool and fun to watch. And sometimes it seemed to fall off the edge a little bit. Lets be careful out there at the time, Steven Bochco was a very successful producer of hour dramas and wanted to try something brandnew. This is the police. We have a warrant for your arrest and so, his idea was to combine a gritty cop show with a broadway musical. I saw one in which a bunch of gang bangers were in jail. And they began to sing. Life in the hood aint no pizza pie, everybody die when the bullets fly. Life in the hood aint no pizza pie, people die when bullets fly and i said, wait a minute. I thought this is it. This is great. This is going to be as innovative as anything i have ever done. Hes guilty, judge hes guilty you could see it in his eyes he did the crime and now hes gotta pay nope. It circled the drain. I will give credit to anybody who goes Outside The Box and swings really hard for the fences. I worked real hard and i got my education im creatively proud of it. Still. You know, im very glad we tried it. I dont think id want to do it again. thomas nice choices you see, now verizon lets you mix and match your family unlimited plans like you mix and match your flavors. 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Four episodes. Formally its 13 or 8 or something. Yes, at least. So, we doesnt really think they had too much confidence in the show. We didnt think it would work, but we felt that they had to go through their process and they would learn and ultimately, they knew better than we did. My mother caught me. Caught you . Doing what . You know. I was alone. The Turning Point for seinfeld from, like, nice show that all of the cool people know about but thats it, to massive hit was an episode called the contest, where they tried to abstain from selfpleasure for as long as possible. 6 30, time for your bath. George, im hungry. Hang on, ma. Hang on. Once you do 30 minutes on masturbation, you can pretty much get away with anything. I guess youll be going back to that hospital. My mother, jerry. But are you still master of your domain . I am king of the county. The week after that aired, people were talking about that in the workplace the entire week. They still are talking about it. 52 seconds and two of the greatest words in sitcom history. Im out. One of the shorthand descriptions of seinfeld is no hugs, no lessons. Lets push it a little further than its ever been pushed before. I think the big breakthrough of seinfeld was that the characters were not nice people. Someone help shut up they were narcissistic. Help they would screw each other at the drop of a hat. Hes just a dentist. And youre an antidentite. And yet be best friends the next week. When you wish upon a star you dont have to love them. We just have to laugh at them. Im really sorry. I was in the pool. I was in the pool the idea of a character with darker tendencies, that was so taboo in television comedy. Are you about done . Im just getting warmed up. Were in the confines of
network tv with commercials, with still a lot of things that are very highly structured and yet were able to find ways of pushing in the boundaries. No soup for you. It took us to a new level of comedy. And it kind of defined like, yeah, nbc, thursday night, this show, expect the unexpected. Can you sing the theme song from cheers . Cheers, yeah. How does it start . Making your way in the world today its so corny. Come on, i know. Its cute. Just sing it. Takes everything you got taking a break from all your worries sure can help a lot wouldnt you like to get away sometimes you want to go where Everybody Knows your name we decided to end cheers in the 11th year. And over 93 Million People watched the finale of cheers. Its a sad experience for everybody. This was our baby for 11 years and were not going to be around
these people every day. You people are as dear to me as my own family. We had been serving fake suds forever. It was time for everybody to sip. In fact, i was sipping along with them. Time goes by so fast. People move in and out of your life. You must never miss an opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you. We had been through so much together. You spend so much time with the same set of people, it does become your family. I feel pretty lucky to have the friends i do. I think the legacy of cheers is our need to belong. And i think thats what we as americans are longing for. Thank you, guys. The final scene of cheers was really what was sams real first love. You can never be unfaithful to your one true love. Im the luckiest son of a
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prince was this kid who comes from philadelphia. In West Philadelphia born and raised s on the brplayground is where spent most of my days his mom says, im going to send you to live with your uncle. He shows up at this mansion in bel air, baseball cap on backward. Like he doesnt even know how to act in this environment. The black producers and directors and writers were always playing with this kind of subverting expectations of what is blackness. The incredible work of the fresh prince at its most triumphant is when it was showing the ways that being black is always going to be a problem, no matter what. Vehicle registration, please. Just a second. But the thing is, officer, this isnt my car. Theres the episode, i remember, where they get pulled over in a car what . Hes going to tell us to get out of the car. You watch too much tv, will. Get out of the car. We have an interaction with the Police Officer that is horrible and racist in a lot of ways. And carlton has this epiphany about how money wont save him. No map is going to save you. And neither is your glee club or your fancy bel air address or who your daddy is. Because when youre driving in a nice car in a strange neighborhood, none of that matters. They only see one thing. The writers of the fresh prince of bel air had a really hard task to approach these topics with nuance and were doing it at a clip that was way ahead of their time. Now dont touch that dial. Were about to flip it for you to one of this years most talked about tv shows. It is, as they say, on another network. Fox. You can do what you want to do in lovie living color ladies and gentlemen, keenan ivory wayans. In living color was the first show created by, written
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