laughter is a wonderful place to go for forgetting your troubles and woes. sitcoms are an escape. the more dire the circumstances, the more you need sitcoms to forget about your troubles. we re going to the good place in a freaking gold balloon! shotgun! that s what we had. that s what helped me escape being poor. [ applause ] everything single one of you is a good person. when i m feeling kind of hopeless and sad, i get to laugh and lose myself and remember life s not that bad. you re in the good place! the beautiful thing about the sitcom, is that it has provided so much joy in times of uncertainty. there s a lot of pressure in the 1960s this notion of new products and everything being new, this kind of brave new world. everything s about the future and modernizing. yes, it s all bright and shiny and you get cars that look like spaceships, but then it s a scary thing. what does the future hold? air force general curtis lemay suggested we bomb north v
dishes? i just can t wait till they invent the faucet. with all the progress that was happening in the late 50s and 60s, the flintstones is an escape from the pressures of the modern family and the question, is progress good? [ laughs ] it was kind of a satire on the consumerism get the newest thing for your kitchen, get the newest kind of car with, you know, these kind of stone wheels. they have a car and it has wheels, but you need your legs to make it move. i bet that is how they did it. a lot of people think it was a cartoon on saturdays. that was actually a network sitcom that just happened to be animated. i m 7 years old and my mom used to get just furious, shaking, angry at me for watching the flintstones , because it s really a show for adults. i remember, i was so sad for betty and the fact that they couldn t have children. we re so anxious to have a
yabadabadoo. the flintstones was a modern age family, if you recall. it sort of celebrated the modern family and the guys of a stone age setting. it was like time travel fantasy for us watching. you almost through with the dishes? i can t wait until they invent the faucet. with all the progress in the late 1950 it s and 60s, the flintstones was an escape from the modern family. it was kind of a satire on this consumer. get the newest thing for your kitchen and star with those stein wheels. they have a car with wheels be but you need your legs to move. i bet that is how they did it. cartoon on saturdays, that