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
- don t touch that dial. we re about to flip it for you. - in five, four, three, two. - tv is changing dramatically now with 150 channels that might be available in the near future. - there s a lot of things that we do that you couldn t have on network television. - people are really trying to do something adventurous. [both gasp] all: channel 7, shame on you. - this is more a celebration of culture and opening the doors and allowing america to come on inside. - there s always something on television, and some of it may be better than we deserve. - [laughs] that was cool. [dramatic music] - listen to it. oh! [crowd cheering] they know when it hits the bottom, it ll be 1990. good-bye to the 80s in. all: ten, nine. all: eight. eight! eight! eight! - oh, will this horrible year never end? - when the 90s begin, we re starting to see a lot of experimentation. [gunshots] all: [quickly] seven, six, five, four, three, two, one! [cheering] - and the simpsons, i think, in some
okay. thank you. save some for my guests. they re much less famous than i am. speaking of its friday you know what that means let s welcome our guests. so tough even is a lawn nose to stay off the lawn. fox news contributor paul mauro. if you get her piston she will water board you with cheesy grit. dag and make a dowel. he looks like he owns a skateboard shop that sells weed comedian adam hunter. and just like a heat wave she gets old men to stay inside and watch tv. year tayn s best selling and fox news contributor cat tenth. before we get to some news stories let s do this great leftovers yum. it s leftovers where i read the jokes we did news it s my first time reading them so if they suck we staple joe mackey to a wall and use his face as a dartboard. the heat wave continues in the east so hot nancy pelosi put on her backup face. so hot replacing the stick up her ass with an ice pop. so hot you ll han omar actually showed some ankle. so hot maxine waters replaced he
opera. unfortunately it was my life and wasn t a soap opera for me. it was tv s first blockbuster trial. scandalous and sensational. her sexuality was the star of the pam smart show. the explosion of flashbulbs. it s body heat, it s fatal attraction. pamela smart accused of bewitching a teenage student into murdering her husband. i pulled the trigger. another look at the frenzy. it was just crazy. the trial. i made a mistake. was killing your husband one of those mistakes? no. it s not at all who she was or is. the case some say changed the way americans witnessed justice. i don t know enough will ever be enough for anyone in this case. pamela smart liv. the beautiful, young widow stepped hello and welcome to dateline. you ve heard about it. pamela part lived it. the beautiful young widow from her small town into america s most gripping trial. a very real drama that inspired a hollywood hit movie. now you re about to hear the chilling story from th
Did you ever know that youre my hero the stuff they got away with because its a cartoon. The father strangling the child. Why you little we are going to keep on trying to strengthen the American Family to make American Families a lot more like the waltons and a lot less like the simpsons. We go to a completely bizarre period of time in 1992 when a sitting president is raging against a sitcom. They have dealt with politics. They have dealt with popular culture. Theyve dealt with all kinds of issues of racism, of sexism. Dont ask me, im just a girl. Right on, say it, sister. Its not funny, bart. Millions of girls will grow up thinking this is the right way to act. They have found a way to talk about everything thats going on in our lives through the filter of the simpsons. American Network Television has long been considered the home of the blands, the cautious and the predictable. So it was with some trepidation that it the abc Network Launched a new series that was none of those things