what have we always said is the most important thing? breakfast. family. family. yeah. family is key to the sitcom mama! it s something that we all can relate to. shake, shake, shake up the in these people s homes for years. you re a part of the family. one good thing about moving here is i have no friends and no distractions. that s why i got all grandma, what does fonzie say? hey. the family sitcom brings people together in a really unexpected way. there s so many different dynamics at work in families. i want you here. it will give us a chance to get reacquainted. that implies we are acquainted at one point. there s a lot of pain. a lot of laughter. you sort of recognize your dynamic in there and go well, their family s just as crazy as mine. i don t care who kissed who and who s got a pimple on her head and who is wearing an outrageously inappropriate dress. we are going to get together and act like a normal family for one tenth of
i m breaking up with him tonight. these shows changed the way that we think about sexuality. for god s sake, ellen, tell them 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, son, and i m here to keep it 100, alright, despite the fact that your mother thinks that i m uptight. cray-cray, 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 room to sleep in my own bed. i don t want another beer. would you like another beer? oh, yeah. but it s alway
oh, well, uh, i ll take the first class. class has always played a role in the history of sitcoms. bon voyage laney. class is fascinating to us as a culture. i never check my baggage. i can t stand that wait, baggage area. it s good to laugh at it, to get it all out on the table you re going to have to go back to your seat. you know, our goal should be a society without classes! if we didn t laugh about social class in the united states, we would engage in class warfare. do you realize the people up here are getting cookies?! mmm! that is not a show about nothing. oh, come inside. so, to the left we have the bar, to the right we have the bathroom. oh, we have bathrooms upstairs, downstairs, many, many bathrooms. i do still believe that for all the things going on in our current society in america, you can come from anywhere and end up any place you want. immigration? revenue. [ screams ] i ve been gutted! it s crazy, people are just, like,
i suppose, to the outsider, we might seem a little unorthodox, but what does this outsider know anyway? who is he to judge us? the whole notion of the outsider. i mean, it s a strand that goes through most sitcoms, i think. you took tongue right out of my mouth. outsiders help us relate as an audience. what are you some kind of nerd? i m not some kind of nerd, i am the king of nerds. [ laughs ] they re seeing everything with fresh eyes. you rang? that dynamic is pretty awesome, it s special. that confidence really made people feel like they could be okay to be whoever they are. did i do that? and i think, if i believe in who i am and own it, i can still be cool. hello? anybody in there? fly, be free! the absolute essence of a successful sitcom is one word, and that is emotion. we abolished emotions on ork a billion bleams ago. they took a vote, and everyone said all in favor? eh. we have a great love for these alien characters who were st