listen to it. oh, they know when it hits the bottom, it will be 1990, good-bye to the 80s. ten, nine, eight eight, eight, eight! oh, will this horrible year never end? when the 90s began, we are starting to see a lot of experimentation. and the simpsons i think in some senses was inspired by not necessarily 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. you re stupid. doh! i think the sitcoms of the 80s were such a sort of warm, safe humor. i love you guys. the kids, they listen to the rap music, which gives them the brain damage. and i think there was a real yearning for another type of humor. we were able to spoof fatherhood what a bad father. which at the time, and i stress at the time, was bill cosby as the shining example. did you ever know that you re my hero the stuff they got away with because it s a cartoon. the father stran
television has grown faster than a teenager, and now it is time to grow up. the tv was the center of the house. i don t remember a time without tv. by 1960, essentially every household in america had a television. it was a new way of bringing the world to you. when something big happened on television, it really did happen to the entire country and impacted the entire country at the same time. keep an awakened eye on the world. suddenly television was the main event. everything else changed, even the way in which you went about the business of getting someone elected president. david, will you hit the one-minute button, please. 30 seconds and the cut, please. in 1960, the nixon/kennedy debate was a first in television. a lot of people were watching that night, and it introduced a lot of people to kennedy. would you let me see the tight shot on camera one, please? can you hear me now speaking? is that about the right tone of voice? good evening. the
hey, hey, they re running. see? this is the brilliance of the show. i say always keep them running. all the time running, run. run. run, yasmine, run like the wind. stand by. here we go. take one. the average time spent watching television is five to six hours per day. holy residuals. there s a reason for calling it the boob tube and the idiot box. let s change the channel. we want to rap about our scene. yeah. here is the news. we must give the american viewer the kind of television that people desire and deserve. let s try it again and see how it comes out this time.