Dont touch that dial. Were about to flip it for you. In five, four, three, two 150 channels that might be available in the near future. Theres a lot of things we do that you couldnt have on Network Television. People are trying to do something adventurous. This is more celebration of curl t culture and allowing america to come inside. Theres always something on television. Some may be better than we deserve. That was cool. Listen to it. They know when it hits the bottom, it will be 1990. Goodbye to the 80s. Ten, nine, eight will this horrible year never end . We are seeing a lot of experime experimentation. The simpsons was inspired by not necessarily hate of television but distrust in the Way Television was talking to sglus us. It laughs with me, not at me. I think the sitcoms of the 80s were such a warm, safe humor. You see . The kids, they listen to the rap music which gives them the brain daniel. I think there was a real yearning for another type of humor. We were able to spoof fatherhood what a bad father. Which at the time i stress at the time was bill cosby as the shining example. Did you ever know that you are my hero stuff that got away with because its a cartoon. The father strangling the child. You little. We are going to keep on trying to strengthen the American Family to make American Families a lot more like the waltons and less like the simpsons. We go to a bizarre period of time in 1992 when a sitting president is raging against a sitcom. They have dealt with politics, popular culture, all kinds of issues of racism, sexism. Im just a girl. Right on. Say it sister. Its not funny. Millions of girls will grow up thinking this is the right way to act. They have found a way to talk about everything thats going on in our lives through the filter of the simpsons. Immigrants, they want all the benefits of living in springfield but they aint bother to learn themselves the language. Those are exactly my sentimonies. One of the things thats happening is a distrust of anyone that tells us we should trust them and doesnt earn that trust. I will take that statue of justice, too. Sold. When they make fun of how fox works you are watching fox. We are watching fox. They are telling you, dont trust us either. Eat my shorts. All right. Eat your shorts . The simpsons is like shakespeare in a sense that we quote the simpsons all the time without knowing it. Excellent. I wish i could create something that culturally indelible. Its unlike anything else. Twin peapeaks showed up ouf nowhere. The pilot episode was one of the strangest and most exciting things i have ever seen. Im with the morgue with the body of the victim. Whats her name . Laura palmer. It was incredible. Just how slowly in the beginning the news spread around this little town that this young, beautiful girl had died. That haunting music was so dark and so beautiful. What on earth is essentially an art film doing in prime Time Television . American Network Television has long been considered the home of the bland, the cautionous acautious and predictable. It was with trepidation that abc laufs launched a new series. Its described as the series that will change tv. Its directed by david lynch. David lynch was a filmmaker known for his taste in the eccentric and memorable. The idea he would do Network Television in the 90s was crazy. I like the idea of television. Im too busy to see very much of it. What do you think of that which you do see . Well, some of it i really enjoy. Are you being diplomatic . Sort of. [ screaming ] the beautiful thing about television is you have the chance to do a continuing story. Thats the main reason for doing it. I think twin peaks with the initial attention it got allowed all the other networks to say, lets do something different. What was interesting about northern exposure it was an odd universe that this guy was dropped into. The day is coming and it aint going to be long when you aint going to have to leave your living room. No more school. No more tabernacle. All right . You will snuggle up to your fiberoptics and bliss out. You had experimentation that set the stage for a lot of what came later. Its hard to pin down what exactly the x files is. Its a show about investigating paranormal activity. Unidentified flying objects. I think that fits the description pretty well. Tell me im crazy. You are crazy. That dynamic, that dramatic tension of believer versus skeptic is one of the engines of the show. You were seeing it from a specific point of view. They are equals. Absolutely. They are equals. In a way they switched gender stereotypes. The character i play is the intuitive one. Shes the rationalist, the doctor. A lot of folks who enjoyed the x files who didnt watch tv might have been drawn at that time show by its for lack of a better way to put it, its stick it to the man ethos. Dont trust the government. Dont trust big business. Dont trust anybody but yourself and your friends and family, i guess. Its a message thats somewhat dark and cynical. It was kind of a breath of fresh air in the early 90s. It was a time of conspiracies. The internet was starting to spread. So could you have Message Boards and news groups. Everybody wants to talk about black oil. People were so nuts for this show. Its pure science fiction. Thats probably what i like most about it. The x files changed the way people watched television. You could sense to see how they could do things different than five or ten years ago. Sometimes that led to really challenging Network Television that was cool and fun to watch. Sometimes it just seemed to fall off the edge a little bit. Lets be careful out there at the time, Steven Bochko was a successful producer of hour dramas. Wanted to try something new. We have a warrant for your arrest. His idea was to combine a gritty cop show with a broadway musical. I saw one in which gang bangers were in jail. They began to sing. Life in the hood aint no pizza pie. Everybody die when the bullets fly. Wait a minute. Hold on. I thought, well, this is it. This is going to be great. This is going to be as innovative as anything have i done. It circled the drain. I will give credit to anybody who goes outside the box and swings really hard for the fences. Im creatively proud of it. Still. Im very glad we tried it. I dont think i would want to do it again. Hawaii . nice yeah im excited. Finally earned enough rewards points. So jealous. Yeah i cant wait to get that shaveice whats shaveice . Its like a hawaiian snowcone. Why not just say snowcone . I dont know, they call it shaveice. You fly to hawaii for this . I dont go there for the ice. You saved up your rewards points for ice . Thats a lot of ice. Go rewards® credit card from Navy Federal Credit union. Our members are the mission. 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Generation x, the 20 something, whatever these young souls are called are turning out to be a hard sell. In the 90s, what we realized is advertisers would pay premiums for College Educated young adults 18 to 49. We started reinventing nbc and trying to speak to that audience. Where is someone . Im starving. Right here. Is there a table ready . The Chinese Restaurant was one of the very, very early episodes of seinfeld. Truly Nothing Happened in the episode. They were waiting for a table. I feel like walking over there and taking food off of somebodys plate. We said to larry david, hey, nothing happens. Larry was offended. He was like, wildly owe feffeno nbc believed in the show. They said, were committing to four episodes. Right. Four episodes. Normally its 13 or 8. Yes, at least. We didnt really think that they had too much confidence in the show. We didnt think it would work. But we felt they had to go through their process and they would learn. Ultimately, they knew better than we did. My mother caught me. Caught you . Doing what . You know. I was alone. The turning point for seinfe seinfeld from nice show that all of the cool people know about but thats it to massive hit was the episode called the contest where they try 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 could pretty much get away with anything. I guess you will 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 this the workplace the entire week. They still are talking about it. 52 seconds. 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 was the characters were not nice people. Someone help. Shut up you old pig. They were narcissistic. They would screw each other over at the drop of a hat. He is just a dentist. You are an antidentite. And yet be best friends the next week. We just have to laugh at them. Im really sorry. 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. In the confines of network tv with commercials with a lot of things that are highly structured. Were able to find ways of pushing those boundaries. No soup for you. It took us to a new level of comedy. It kind of defined, yeah, nbc, thursday night, this show, expect the unexpected. Can you sing the theme song from cheers . How about go ahead. Go ahead. I know. Its cute. Come on. 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. Over 93 Million People watched the finale. Its a sad experience for everybody. This was our baby for 11 years. Were not going to be around these people every day. You people are as dear to me as my only family. We had been serving fake sudden suds forever. It was time for everybody to sip. I was sipping 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 time with the same set of people, it does become your family. I feel lucky to have the friends i do. The legacy of cheers is our need to belong. I think thats what we as americans are longing for. Thank you, guys. The final scene of tcheers was what was sams real first love. 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In less than two years, he has fired his talk show for the mtv generation into a contender for the crown of late night television. How come i didnt hear all that woofing going on . Too many white people. Johnny was the big dog. I knew everybody on the planet wasnt watching him. It dawned on me that i could go many weeks and not see a motown group. He is the prince of late night. There was a world of talent that had never and would never have been on any late night show. 2 live crew came on and sang me so horny. It was like the sex pistols. I had never seen anything like it. It was an explosion in the audience. He appealed to a black and white young audience. It was a broader appeal than the powers that be had estimated. Rap is real big among our teens. Thats poetry. Having maya angelou on. It said, see my lady home last night, jump back honey, jump back. Held her hand and squeezed her tight, jump back, honey, jump back. He didnt just have black people on his show. But if you were hip, you wanted to be on arsenio. This is something i heard a political analyst talking about. He said, you kind of were i use the word chilling out. He said you were pulling back a little bit. You had been instructed not to say as much or be as outspoken. No . I dont ive heard that. I never know who says it. I think its Wishful Thinking on the part of some people. Guess who suggested to bill to do the show if you want a younger demo. Hill dog. He attracted a lot of people who werent fans before that night. The 90s was a glorious moment for black television because you saw these representations that you had never seen before. The premise of the fresh prince was this kid comes from philippoussfil philly. His mom says, im going to accepted you send you to live with your uncle. He shows up at a mansion in bel air. He doesnt 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 was when it was showing the ways that being black is always going to be a problem no matter what. Vehicle registration, please. The thing is, this isnt my car. Theres the episode i remember where they get pulled over in a car. What . He is going to tell us to get out of the car. Get out of the car. Interaction with the Police Officer that is horrible and racist in a lot of ways. Carlton has an epiphany how money isnt going to save him. When you drive in a nice car in a strange neighborhood, none of that matters. They see one thing. The writers had a really hard task to approach these topics with nuance. Were doing it at a clip ahead of their time. Dont touch that dial. Were about to flip it to one of this overs most talked about tv shows. It is as they say on another network, fox. Ladies and gentlemen, keenan w wayans. All of those things in one. This is celebration of culture exchange. Us sort of opening the doors and allowing america to come inside. Welcome to the home boy shopping network. A lot of what they did was trying to take the stereotypes or the misperceptions about what black men are and turn them upside down. Not only will you get all the cable stations out there, but you will be able to talk directly to the astronauts. It brought this smart, very controversial comedy, black folks had never seen before, that centered around their life experiences. Who are you . I am the minister. Africanamericans composed 25 of foxs market. I get trapped in the corner with somebody named bob. Listen, martin, i saw boys in the hood. I didnt know, martin. I didnt know. They knew they needed to capture this audience to grow. My guess, you think you smart and cool. If you think you getting a job here, you are a fool. So they basically gave the black creators freedom to do whatever you want. Just get the audience. The wb and upn took that concept from fox. Your shoulders are harder than cheap breast implants. Going after urban minority viewers and really ran with it. Im a new millennium woman who will not be defined by traditional female roles. They built themselves up partially on africanamerican viewers. The africanamerican shows indexed lower in terms of household income. So over the course of the decade, the network started to move away from those shows. I dont know about you, but i will be damned if im going to let they destroy my neighborhood. They felt used and abused. You made your money. You built your audience on us. Now you are done. New for summer, its bud light lemon tea. Brewed with real lemon peels and aged on real tea leaves. Yes, its real. No, youre not dreaming. Hey, dont do that. So chantix can help you quit slow turkey. Rkey. 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