jerry: where d you get those? kramer: the machine. you want one? jerry: no. henry winkler: you come home, turn on that television. kramer: take one. jerry: i don t want one! kramer: no there good. jerry: i don t want it. henry winkler: what do you want? you want comedy. kramer: take one! jerry: no! kramer stop it! jason alexander: and boom, there you go, a situation comedy. sheldon: bazinga! tim allen: this twenty -three minutes of magic. lucy: it s so tasty, too! tracy morgan: you fell in love with these characters. arnold: what chu talkin about willis? geri jewell: we need to laugh at ourselves. joey: you hide my clothes, i m wearing everything you own. constance wu: laughter opens you up. haley: okay ready? surprise! [screaming and chaos] mara brock akil: the things that we might be afraid to talk about. bow: some people that were supposed to protect us didn t do the right thing. tim reid: like racism. son: so the cops are the bad guys? dre: yes. bow: no. kim fields: cla
caryn james: when you get to something like one day at a time , the single mother in that show is divorced. that was unusual for television. julie: i haven t had a happy minute since we moved to indianapolis. sure was different before the divorce, when daddy was around. ann: yeah yeah, i know. you used to wrap him around your little finger. caryn james: all of the single parents before had been widowed. and so television begins to catch up with who we are. barbara: whatchu doing, mom? ann: i am circling the jobs for which it would appear i am qualified. barbara: i don t see any circles. ann: exactly. valerie bertinelli: i mean it was the 70 s. women were feeling empowered to have lives of their own and to still have a family. ann: darling. would like to tell me what s going on between you and chuck? barbara: you re going to die! you had no business telling her. valerie bertinelli: showing what a family goes through, showing what it s like to raise two daughters in a divorce. ann: we l
had aired, fred silverman, who was in charge of cbs at the time, had called norman lear and said, get that woman her own show. and then there s maude. and then there s maude! that uncompromisin , enterprisin , anything but tranquilizin , right on maude! adrienne barbeau: it was not your all-american family. carol: you re getting senile in your old age. maude: thank you darling. i only hope i live long enough to become a burden to you. adrienne barbeau: maude is an independent strong woman who speaks her mind. she was married to her fourth husband, walter, played by bill macy. maude: i don t have time to fix you your breakfast! here, have some cold knackwurst. eric mccormick: i loved their combative relationship. i still to this day if somebody pisses me off i ll say, god ll get you for that walter. maude: god ll get you for that walter. patrick gomez: maude was really the first time that we saw such a fiercely independent woman who wasn t afraid to speak
maude: now you can either come to the table and eat, or you can lie there and feed off your own fat. jim colucci: the story goes that by the time that episode had aired, fred silverman, who was in charge of cbs at the time, had called norman lear and said, get that woman her own show. and then there s maude. and then there s maude! that uncompromisin , enterprisin , anything but tranquilizin , right on maude! adrienne barbeau: it was not your all-american family. carol: you re getting senile in your old age. maude: thank you darling. i only hope i live long enough to become a burden to you. adrienne barbeau: maude is an independent strong woman who speaks her mind. she was married to her fourth husband, walter, played by bill macy. here, have some cold knackwurst. eric mccormick: i loved their combative relationship. i still to this day if somebody pisses me off i ll say, god ll get you for that walter.
discuss social issues that had formerly been taboo. this is it. this is it! this is life, the one you get.. caryn james: when you get to something like one day at a time , the single mother in that show is divorced. that was unusual for television. julie: i haven t had a happy minute since we moved to indianapolis. sure was different before the divorce, when daddy was around. ann: yeah yeah, i know. you used to wrap him around your little finger. caryn james: all of the single parents before had been widowed. and so television begins to catch up with who we are. barbara: whatchu doing, mom? ann: i am circling the jobs for which it would appear i am qualified. barbara: i don t see any circles. ann: exactly. valerie bertinelli: i mean it was the 70 s. women were feeling empowered to have lives of their own and to still have a family. ann: darling. would like to tell me what s going on between you and chuck? barbara: you re going to die! you had no business telling her. valerie b