Did you ever know that youre my hero the stuff they got away with because its a cartoon. The father strangling the child. Why you little we are going to keep on trying to strengthen the American Family to make American Families a lot more like the waltons and a lot less like the simpsons. We go to a completely bizarre period of time in 1992 when a sitting president is raging against a sitcom. They have dealt with politics. They have dealt with popular culture. Theyve dealt with all kinds of issues of racism, of sexism. Dont ask me, im just a girl. Right on, say it, sister. Its not funny, bart. Millions of girls will grow up thinking this is the right way to act. They have found a way to talk about everything thats going on in our lives through the filter of the simpsons. American Network Television has long been considered the home of the blands, the cautious and the predictable. So it was with some trepidation that it the abc Network Launched a new series that was none of those things
just call me saddam hussein. south park really, really detests hypocrites. christians and republicans and nazis, oh, my! well, okay, mrs. cartman, i ll legalize 40th trimester abortions for you. could you imagine back then that these people would ever get on network television? or any kind of television? it s a miracle. south park is a miracle. the early 90s the hbo shows start to kind of come into their own. and then have i always had these breasts? a lot of people want freedom. they don t want to go back to the networks which are saying, you can come to us where you ll make more money but you ll also have content restricted. you could go to cable and have no restrictions.
the beautiful thing about television is you have the chance to do a continuing story. and that s the main reason for doing it. i think that twin peaks with the initial attention it got allowed all the other networks to say, let s do something different. the day s coming and it anticipate going to be long before you never have to leave your living room. all right? you re going to snuggle up to the fiber optics and bliss out. you could sense them trying the see how they could do things different than five or ten years ago. sometimes that led to really challenging network television that was cool and fun to watch and sometimes it seemed to fall off the edge a little bit. at the time steven bocco was a successful producer of dramas
could you imagine back then that these people would ever get on network television? or any kind of television? it s a miracle. south park is a miracle. the early 90s the hbo shows start to kind of come into their own. and then have i always had these breasts? a lot of people want freedom. they don t want to go back to the networks which are saying, you can come to us where you ll make more money but you ll also have content restricted. you could go to cable and have no restrictions. not make as much money but have freedom of expression, which almost everybody who works in these mediums wants. some of the content truly was, you can t get this anywhere else. you re a fantasy maker, the only limit on the kinds of fantasies is people s imagination.
arthur miller is a risky proposition. he is a married man who was subpoenaed by the u.s. government. are you a member of the communist party? she doesn t realize she s heading into a storm. tv is changing dramatically with 150 channels that might be channel in the near future. there s a lot of things that we do that you couldn t have on network television. people are really trying to do something adventurous. shame on you! tv has a detrimental, damaging, developmental affect on our young people. boo! now who was that? excellence is hard. it s very rare and why there are very few good shows and those that are good stand out. hold on. that was cool.