steven: hi chipper. robbie: hi squirt. chip: hi cats. barry livingston: my three sons was the first show that deviated from the perfect pleasantville nuclear family. ernie: you gonna blow up the stove again mr. douglas? steve: no ernie, i don t think i ll make that same mistake again. [laughs] [small expolsion] barry livingston: it was a show about a single dad. he was a widower with three boys, trying to raise them in an all-male household. chip: you dry. barry livingston: everyone had to do something. everyone had to pitch in. we did dishes, you know, we were darning socks. these are things that you never saw in the ozzie and harriet show or donna reid or leave it to beaver. [phone rings] mike: hey that s mine, i ve got it! bob saget: when you watch a show that s based on losing someone. steven: come on, look out. you re going to tear it. bob saget: that adds a deep-rooted truth to the hardness of life. and then it gives comedy even more of a reason to go as crazy as you want to go.
america at the time. patrick gomez: advertisers wanted to cater towards that new suburban family that needed to buy that kitchen appliance or needed to buy that vacuum. jacqueline coley: and after i love lucy, there was a formula for what the american family should look like. cybill shepherd: ozzie and harriet. announcer: the adventures of ozzie and harriet. cybill shepherd: i just loved everybody in it, actually. david: hurry up, bring it in. i m starved! candice bergen: it was a happy, gentle american family of the 1950s. ozzie: how much do you need? david: never mind pop, that s okay. ozzie: no don t worry about it, you can pay me back. david: honest pop, i don t want it. ricky: what s the matter with you david, you got rocks in your head? linda lavin: the kids were very polite. everybody was very nice to each other. those were not real people, but they entertained and delighted us. jim: alright kids, dinner is on, we re sitting down. jennifer armstrong: when you get to father knows
what family looked like and what was acceptable and what wasn t. steven: hi chipper. robbie: hi squirt. chip: hi cats. barry livingston: my three sons was the first show that deviated from the perfect pleasantville nuclear family. ernie: you gonna blow up the stove again mr. douglas? steve: no ernie, i don t think i ll make that same mistake again. [laughs] [small expolsion] barry livingston: it was a show about a single dad. he was a widower with three boys, trying to raise them in an all-male household. chip: you dry. barry livingston: everyone had to do something. everyone had to pitch in. we did dishes, you know, we were darning socks. these are things that you never saw in the ozzie and harriet show or donna reid or leave it to beaver. [phone rings] mike: hey that s mine, i ve got it! bob saget: when you watch a show that s based on losing someone. steven: come on, look out. you re going to tear it. bob saget: that adds a deep-rooted truth to the hardness of life. and then it give
relationship. i still to this day, if somebody pisses me off, i ll say, god will get you for that, walter. god will get you for that, walter. maude was really the first time that we saw such a fiercely independent woman who wasn t afraid to speak her mind at the center of a family sitcom. maude had a maid, florida, who was a great character. her husband made an appearance. i am proud of you, florida, it s just that i don t want you to be a maid no more. your mother was a maid, that s how your brothers got through school and you got to be a fireman. when john amos and esther rolle finished a scene, we thought, let s fill out that family. good times that s the first time you ever saw a black family on television. look who finally got back from her honeymoon in the bathroom mirror. knock it off, j.j., your mouth is always ahead of your think piece. let s face it, this family ain t ozzie and harriet. they were very different from
was a great character. henry: i m henry evans . norman lear: her husband made an appearance. henry: i am proud of you florida .its just i don t want you to be a maid no more. florida: your mother was a maid. that s how your brothers got through school and you got to be a fireman. norman lear: when john amos and esther rolle finished their scene, we thought, let s fill out that family. good times! good times! jay moriarty: that s the first time you ever saw a black family on television. jj: look who finally got back from her honeymoon in the bathroom mirror. thelma: knock it off jj. your mouth is always ahead of your think piece. lorida: let s face it james, this family ain t ozzie and harriet. jimmie walker: we were very different than other sitcom families from the point that we were urban. trying to survive on the south side of chicago with a dad that has spotty job situations. james: it s a cold world out there,