- okay. it s you and me, all right? this is it. - this is it. unless we re on a break. [audience laughter] don t make jokes now. - by the time frasier and friends went off the air, there was a feeling among the networks that the multi-camera format filmed in front of a live studio audience. - so i guess this is it. - was getting kind of tired and getting kind of stale. - you guys play the most important part: the live studio audience! - now, there is no form of television that makes as much money for the networks as multi-camera tv shows. - oh, raymond! - mom, mom, mom, mom - oh, my sweet raymond! - [wailing] mom! - we write a four-camera show, we write it, direct it, and perform it and rehearse it like a play in front of a studio audience.
and not just either the villain or the good girl. - i want to know have you ever seen the rain - and i think that is something that the decade gave us, which is a move towards television really reflecting what america looks like. put a smile on your plate with new pancake tacos. because when you fold a pancake in half, you get a taco. or in this case, three for six dollars. try all four flavors. here for a fun time, not a long time. only from ihop. and there he is. chaz. the rec league s self-crowned pickleball king. do you just bow down? no you de-thrown the king. pedialyte. 3x the electrolytes.
- well, i think we just decided we were meant to be very close friends. - very close friends. that s right. - good. i ve had some very close friends too. - yeah, me too. [laughter] - it s cost me a lot of money. i ll tell you that. [cheers and applause] - the apprentice has its lasting effect even today. donald trump becomes a star. - you re fired. - all of it kind of reality-show fake. people who worked on it have come forward and said, you know, we kind of made the whole thing up. and yet it sells. - and then there s just this explosion. [rock music] - you interested in tattoos? weight loss? plastic surgery? - breast augmentation, tummy tuck, facial surgery. - [laughing] i don t look like me! oh, my. - hoarders? substance abuse? flipping your house? that s a big one. like, there s literally a reality show for everyone. - the networks would be out of business without reality tv. if you have to fill 40 hours of television
- yes. i do. - i was just so taken with the fact that there was this incredibly dark, unapologetically morally compromised lead character who was a woman. - i told pete. to have you killed. - it was sort of the beginning of a real emergence of rich women on television. - [chokes] - all right, you re all right. sure, take my last one. this ll help. - is this cab free? - are you [bleep] nuts? - oh! - i have heard nurse jackie referred to as an antihero. she was at the mercy of her addiction that always got her fullest attention. what are you looking at? but beyond that, i think she really cared
- no, not if there was a funny idea. - it s all about funny? - yeah. - so, this is the magic trick, huh? - illusion, michael. - mm. - a trick is something a whore does for money. - arrested development was absolutely firing on all cylinders from the first episode to the last. - don t you judge me. you re the selfish one. you re the one who charged his own brother for a bluth frozen banana. i mean it s one banana, michael. what could it cost? $10? - you ve never actually set foot in a supermarket, have you? - if you got it, it was the funniest thing you ever saw, cause it assumed its audience was as smart as its writers. - what have you got there? don t be afraid to make a. - well, i m not gonna beat myself up over that. - it was so clever, and more meta than just about any show that s ever been on television. - your average american male is in a perpetual state of adolescence you know, arrested development. - hey, that s the name of the show. - it was really smart in the eye that