of the sitcom" mentioned race and class is another place we're able to look at it and laugh at it when otherwise, we could be c -- would be crying. you see people come from nothing to this enormous wealth and they are fish out of water stories, which we all love but at the same time, they're commenting on what exists once you're able to move into a mansion, you still don't belong because of your background. that's something we all if we haven't come into a lot of money can identify with. so that lets us look at these ideas, look at these concepts and laugh at them and we're able to accept it in a way we wouldn't if it was a hard dramas making us depressed, really. >> you can laugh. the reversal of circumstances, either rich or poor people in different circumstances, what do these kinds of sitcoms tell us, though, about the similarities and the differences of people in these different classes? >> you know, it's a situation where we all can laugh at things