important ntive change. okay, girls, see you tomorrow. okay. night-night. the show had a message of freedom and liberation especially for women that really resonated. i think sex and the city helped hbo a place for people to think, i wonder what they re doing next. hundreds of dollars on youmy car insurance. saved me huh. i should take a closer look at geico. (dog panting) geico has a 97% customer satisfaction rating! and fast and friendly claims service. speaking of servrvice? oooo, just out. it was in. out. in! out. in! what about now? that was our only shuttlecock. take a closer look at geico. great savings. and a whole lot more.
and, karen, what are you supposed to be? the best feeling is when people come up and say, thank you for all you do for the gay community and thank you for playing that part in that show. and you feel so fortunate to have been a part of something so great.
critical acclaim. you have watched letterman, you ve watched leno, but what about larry? larry sanders, that is. he s the tv alter ego of comedian garry shandling. garry shandling wanted to do a show that deconstructed the kind of show the tonight show was. pretend like you re talking to me. we re off the air. okay. blah, blah, blah, blah. the larry sanders show was kind of cathartic because in the world of the show there was a network. you want me to [ bleep ] your budget? that what you want me to do? it became this fun house mirror thing where you could use stuff from your misery, your career as fodder. don t take this as a threat but i killed a man like you in korea, hand-to-hand. my boy doesn t want to do any more commercials. larry sanders to me was, aside from being a brilliant television show. can you say, hey now. hey now. it was my everyday life.
we now have, remarkably specific niche programming. freaks and geeks really sympathized with the losers and had great empathy for its characters. because you don t see that i got something going right here freaks and geeks breaks my heart every time i think about it. i m sorry. did i crush your twinkies? it lasted 18 episodes. and they re perfect 18 episodes but nbc hated it so much. roll down the windows because i got a big one abrewing. they thought it was a show by losers, about losers for losers. they hated it. they wanted no part of it. they killed it. at the end of the 90s, the jig is starting to be up for the networks. basically quality migrates to
unidentified flying objects. i think that fits the description pretty well. tell me i m crazy. moulder, you re 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 is point of view. they 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 didn t watch tv might have been drawn to the show by its, for lack of a better way to put it, stick it to the man ethos. don t trust the government or big business or anybody but yourself ask can your friends and family, i guess. it s a message that s somewhat dark and cynical, but was kind