lights. if you look at the 12th precinct, it was such a crepted place. well, well, well, the same old melting pot. kelly, what are you doing here? how do you like this. haven t helped a bit. real cops dealing with funny situa situations. get out of here. boy, do i hate to start a day like this? how lyndon is basically the bob new heart of that office. surrounded by all the crazyines. my personality. does she have the same address? the workplace comedy is great because all the characters come in and are not related so they don t have something in common. turned out to be a diverse cast which was i guess, different in those days. jack sue, gregory sierra, ron
different in those days. jack sue, gregory sierra, ron glass. that was pretty unusual and revolutionary. all right. boy, that really is taking us all back. let s bring in lorraine ali, the television critic for the los angeles times. i thought about it in sitcoms and categories but then when you put it together like that, it makes perfect sense. what is it about i mean, whether it s wkrp, taxi, murphy brown. what is it about the workplace that could conjure up so much good comedic material? i mean, it s kind of like what isn t there about the workplace. it s just got everything in it. it s got the dysfunction the family has but it s got all these people thrown together with their oddball, you know, kind of personalities. and they have to deal with that. they don t have their collective history of a family. and also, you know, the workplace really kind of reflects shifts in american