No. Everybody trying to get along. One problem with hiring women is that they re frail and breakable. Is it possible you re thinking about light bulbs or your hip? hilarious. What do you say to that? whoa. Ow! let s talk about earning a living. Yeah. Have you ever done it? no, but i could. Ha! lucille ball with the chocolates, always funny. If one piece of candy gets past you and into the packing room unwrapped, you re fired. All the writers needed to say was lucy and a conveyor belt, you re good. Some of the most memorable episodes of i love lucy are when she gets a job outside of the home, but it always unravels. You re doing splendidly. Speed it up! when sitcoms started, they were family sitcoms. And for years, that s all there was. And then we move into the 1960s, we start to see more people working in an office than on a factory line. For the first time in the history of our nation, a majority of all workers are in white collar jobs. And you were spending time getting to know your
It s so tasty too. You fell in love with these characters. What you talkin about, willis? we need to laugh at ourselves. You hide me clothes, i ll wear everything you own. Laughter opens you up. Things that we might be afraid to talk about, some people that were supposed to protect us didn t do the right thing. Like racism. The cops are the bad guys? yes. No. Class wars. I m a millionaire. And gender diversity. Dad? hi, girls. You can reach in and really touch people s hearts. I hate you. Are you as turned on as i am? more. Whether it s a family living under the same roof. Dineomite! that s what i want to hear. That s a glue stick. All the great sitcoms are about family. So wonderful. It s one of the great accomplishments of the modern age. What have we always said is the motion impost important thi? breakfast. Family. Family, right. Family is key to the sitcom. It s something we all can relate to. You re in these people s homes for years. You re a part of the family. One good thing a
Person who s transitioning? laughter is a great way to deal with a tricky world. Daddy horny, michael. Sitcoms talk about sex. My underwear. My god. And about relationships. I m breaking up with him tonight. These shows changed the way that we think about sexuality. For god s sake, ellen, tell him you re gay. You re talking about gay rights. You re talking about women s rights. Gender diversity. Dismantling the patriarchy. You know, sexual revolution. So i m officially out of men to [ bleep ]. I have to get married or move. But if you can make them laugh, then maybe we ll watch it again. Anything and everything. Let s get our sex talk on. Oh, mom covered it all pretty good. Yeah, maybe about the birds and the bees, but i m your daddy, and i m here to keep it 100. Despite the fact that your mother thinks i m uptight, craycray, right? sitcoms are a great place to talk about taboo, awkward subjects like sex because it s disarming and people just want to laugh. I want to go home to my own
Pivot! shut up, shut up, shut up! i feel like we get to know these sitcom characters. They re your friends. I don t think it s gonna pivot anymore. You think? they were purely selfish and purely immature. Are you still master of your domain? you hope that you ll have those kinds of relationships in your life. Tonight is about celebrating our enduring bond as friends. Family. Good to see you too, girl. Where you going? carnival? your friends. Sometimes that s more family than the people that you are related to. Something s bothering you. I ve never been happier. Trying to make your way in the world. And having a safe harbor, you know, where everybody knows your name. Afternoon, everybody. I m out. What? yeah, i m out. I m out of the contest. Ugly, naked guy is having thanksgiving dinner with ugly, naked gal. Friends or seinfeld? you want me to choose? i can t answer that. So subjective. Challenge accepted. Contest? a contest? seinfeld will win, i think. Seinfeld was smart. Seinfeld is a
Good person. I m feeling kind of hopeless and sad, i get to laugh and lose myself and remember life s not that bad. Here in the good place. The beautiful thing about the sitcom is 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 is about the future and modernizing. Yes, it s all bright and shiny and you get cars that look like space ships, but then it s a scary thing. What does the future hold? air force general curtis la may suggested we bomb vietnam back into the stone age. I canyabadabado. Flint stones was a modern stone age family. It sort of celebrated the modern family in the guise of a stone age setting. It was like time travel fantasy for us watching. Almost through with the dishes? just can t wait until they invent a faucet. With all the progress that was happening in the late 50s and 60s, the flint stones is an escape from the pressures