for a long time. dolores, listen to me. the arrested development. reporter: we jumped to something a little dark. there was a lot that i wanted to explore about entitlement, power and the fragility of the 1%. .y, you have to cut back on everything. lindsay, you have to cut back on everything. they suddenly have nothing but pretend they do. now we don t have a car or jet, why don t we just take an ad out in an i m poor magazine. the rich kids never become entirely unrich. they always have a line of money. there s $250,000 lining the walls of the banana stand. what? cash, michael. another setback for the much prominent blue family as their frozen banana stand burns to the ground. of course it s wab second-degree murder but the idead is if you could make it seem he realistic enough then you could he carry the audience with you.
mignon, very lean. not so lean that it lacks flavor, but not fat that it leaves drippings on the plate. people would ask the question, how did these two sons come from a cop like that? you had martin and daphne at one level, and then you had frasier and niles at this sort of rarefied area. and it was daphne s job to sort of burst their pompous balloon. you think i m pretentious? oh, you d eat a worm if i gave it a french name. a lot of episodes focused on niles and frasier trying to get into this elite club or that elite club. i m sorry, sir, you re not allowed through there. please remain in relaxation grotto. once they did get into that club, did it make them any happier? i am determined to see where they think i don t belong. niles and frasier always find out that there was one better, or you open another door and there s a better room. take me with you. healing warmth and light. it must be a magnificent
no, no. in the 90s, we saw a lot of sitcoms geared towards whole family viewing, and they shied away from the more political nature of the 1970s. every item here was carefully selected, this lamp by korbo, the chair by eames. but because social class is a part of someone s identity that everyone can relate to, it s one of the ways that sitcoms can reach the broadest audience delivery for martin crane. oh, in here! the idea of class structure in frasier . wait a minute! .was about a father that had been alienated from his sons because they were so unlike him. where s the tv? it s in that credenza. point it at that thing. what about this chair? there was a great sort of social commentary on class poking fun at all that pomposity and social class structure. this from the gourmet who dumped my cornish yard cheese down the disposal. it was covered with mold. it was supposed to be! frasier could be an intellectual snob. so could his brother, niles. i d