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that you couldn t have on network television. - people are really trying to do something adventurous. [both gasp] all: channel 7, shame on you. - this is more a celebration of culture and opening the doors and allowing america to come on inside. - there s always something on television, and some of it may be better than we deserve. - [laughs] that was cool. [dramatic music] - listen to it. oh! [crowd cheering] they know when it hits the bottom, it ll be 1990. good-bye to the 80s in. all: ten, nine. all: eight. eight! eight! eight! - oh, will this horrible year never end? - when the 90s begin, we re starting to see a lot of experimentation. [gunshots] all: [quickly] seven, six, five, four, three, two, one! [cheering] - and the simpsons, i think, in some senses was inspired by not necessarily a hatred of television but a distrust of a lot of the ways in which television was talking to us. - tv respects me. it laughs with me, not at me. - [laughing] you stupid - d oh! -
- don t touch that dial. we re about to flip it for you. - in five, four, three, two. - tv is changing dramatically now with 150 channels that might be available 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. [both gasp] all: channel 7, shame on you. - this is more a celebration of culture and opening the doors and allowing america to come on inside. - there s always something on television, and some of it may be better than we deserve. - [laughs] that was cool. [dramatic music] - listen to it. oh! [crowd cheering] they know when it hits the bottom, it ll be 1990. good-bye to the 80s in. all: ten, nine. all: eight. eight! eight! eight! - oh, will this horrible year never end? - when the 90s begin, we re starting to see a lot of experimentation. [gunshots] all: [quickly] seven, six, five, four, three, two, one! [cheering] - and the simpsons, i think, in some
- the 90s was a glorious moment for black television, because you saw these representations that you d never seen before. [ yo home to bel-air by dj jazzy jeff & the fresh prince] the premise of the fresh prince was, this kid comes from philadelphia. - in west philadelphia, born and raised on the playground is where i spent most of my days - his mom says, i m gonna send you to live with your uncle. he shows up at this mansion in bel air, baseball cap on backward, like he doesn t even know how to act in this environment. [hip-hop music] the black producers and directors and writers were always playing with this kind of subverting expectations of what is blackness. - the incredible work of the fresh prince at its most triumphant was when it was showing the ways that being black is always going to be a problem no matter what.
- he attracted a lot of people who weren t fans before that night. - the 90s was a glorious moment for black television, because you saw these representations that you d never seen before. [ yo home to bel-air by dj jazzy jeff & the fresh prince] the premise of the fresh prince was, this kid comes from philadelphia. - in west philadelphia, born and raised on the playground is where i spent most of my days - his mom says, i m gonna send you to live with your uncle. he shows up at this mansion in bel air, baseball cap on backward, like he doesn t even know how to act in this environment. [hip-hop music] the black producers and directors and writers were always playing with this kind of subverting expectations of what is blackness. - the incredible work of the fresh prince at its most triumphant was when