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>> m.a.s.h. really blew up what a workplace sitcom could be. there was death. there was sorrow. there was really a mixing of genre that was groundbreaking. >> it was the first dramedy in primetime television. >> it's gunfire. it's 2:30 in the morning. >> maybe there's an after-hours war around here. >> "m.a.s.h." lasted 11 seasons. >> if we didn't have such a terrific union here, i'd put in my two-week notice. but i'm too weak. >> february 28th, 1983 the war is over and the show is over. it's the most organically perfect finale. >> you boys always managed to give me a good laugh when i needed ...

>> it was emotional after all these years because that was a family. >> "the mary tyler moore show," enterprises were really powerful in terms of the workplace sitcom. the baby boom generation had not settled into the domestic life young professionals and would not get started of their families. >> and i didn't want to do the standard family show. >> i am sure he has a girlfriend but he denies it. >> of course, todd is 13 now. >>. the fact that so many people in hollywood were hitting their couch and open the door for the setting up the show.

There were no survivors. that moment was pure honesty. i have trouble telling that story four years later. i never think of it as a sitcom, it was "mash." "mash" blew up what a workplace sitcom could be. there was deaths and sorrow and a mixing of genre that was ground breaking. >> it wis gunfire, it is 2:30 i the morning. >> maybe there is an after hour war around here. >> "mash" lasted 11 seasons. >> if we didn't have a terrific union here, i will put in my two-week notice. >> february 28th, 1983, the war is over. and the show is over.

You know, it was just m.a.s.h. >> m.a.s.h. really blew up what a workplace sitcom could be. there was death. there was sorrow. there was really a mixing of genre that was ground breaking. >> the first dramaity in prime time television. >> it's gunfire. it's 2:30 in the morning. >> "m.a.s.h." lasted 11 seasons. >> if we didn't have such a terrific union here, i'd put in my two-week notice by in two weeks. >> february 28th, 1983 the war is over and the show is over. it's the most organic perfect finally. >> you boys always managed to give me a good laugh when i needed it the most. i love a good ...

Room for hope in politicians as much as division. which was the perfect time for a show like "veep." >> i can't [ bleep ] believe how terrible you are at your job. what are you running on a platform of higher taxes? >> if a bomb went off in the white house, i would not care. those are the worse people on earth. >> where were you, amy? >> you said you had it covered. >> i think we love workplace sitcom because we identify with them even with these unlikable people in this unlikable world. >> well, they think excited of a possibility of a woman becoming a president. >> not necessarily you. >> ev...