to eat them. there was a longing for simpler time when it didn t seem like there was so much anger and contentiousness, when people weren t so mad at each other. during last season the waltons caught on. good night, john boy. good night. this year there will be more nostalgia and wholesome family drama. now that dinner is over let s try out the piano. oh, good. i am taking requests. sunday monday happy days i created happy days not what a family really was. i thought it would be good if there were some families that didn t get divorced. you guys are really it wasn t by accident everybody on happy days hugged each other. it wasn t by accident that everybody in the family ate at the same time at the same table. it was a sweet, tender show. in the vein of american graffiti. looking back on the era of the 50s with a certain affection. haaay! abc wanted fonzi s haaay to compete directly with jimmy j.j. walker s dynomite. cause i m the fonz!
dares to go head-on between abc s happy days and laverne & shirley. laverne & shirley was one of the few sitcoms that ever debuted at number one. the absolute top number one show this season is laverne & shirley. a seemingly harmless but essentially brainless exercise in adolescent silliness. you have to go all the way back to i love lucy to get the same sort of slapstick and physical comedy. we never thought about its importance, except that, you know, it was two girls trying and the value of friendship. it must have something going for it. i don t rodeo-do-do. you rodeo-do-do. i don t rodeo-do-do. they couldn t say sex. but they said rodeo-do. you rodeo-do. once. everybody knew what they were talking the about. my son didn t want to watch laverne and shirley or happy days. i said, you don t like it? he said, i like it. but what s missing? spacemen. because we were getting into
did you ever know that you re my hero the stuff they got away with because it s 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. they ve dealt with all kinds of issues of racism, of sexism. don t ask me. i m just a girl. right on, say it, sister. it s 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 that s going on
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 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.
most of the time. entertainment programming on the three commercial networks. what are you looking at? is it good for you? somewhere around the middle or late 70s it s like people got tired of talking about real stuff. if the good lord provided us with berries, i think we ought to eat them. there was a longing for simpler time when it didn t seem like there was so much anger and contentiousness, when people weren t so mad at each other. during last season the waltons caught on. good night, john boy. good night. this year there will be more nostalgia and wholesome family drama. now that dinner is over let s try out the piano. oh, good. i am taking requests. sunday monday happy days i created happy days not what a family really was. i thought it would be good if there were some families that didn t get divorced. you guys are really it wasn t by accident everybody on happy days hugged each other. it wasn t by accident that everybody in the family ate