>>. >> a situation comedy. >> zinca. >> 23 minutes of magic. >> i'm so in love with these characters. >> what you talking about, willis? >> we need to laugh at ourselves. >> you ruined my clothes, i'm wearing everything you own. >> laughter opens you up. >> things that we might be afraid to talk about. >> some people that were supposed to protect us didn't do the right thing. >> racism. >> the cops are the bad guy surface. >> yes. >> funny, i'm going to make you laugh. >> and gender diversity. >> really in. >> hi, girls. >> you can reach in and really touch people's hearts. >> i hate. >> you are you as turned on as i him in. >> more. >> whether it's a family living under the same roof. >> day or night in. >> that's kind of talk i like to hear. >> or gathered together in a workplace. >> all the great sit-coms are about family there so wonderful. >> it's one of the great accomplish rms of the modern age. >>. >> what have realways said is the most important thing? >> breakfast. >> family. >> family is key to the sit-com. it's something that we all can real to. >> you are in these people's homes for years. you are a part of the family. >> one good thing about moving here, is i have no plans and no distractions. that's why i got fam little. what does fonzi say? eh! >> the family sit-com brings people together in a different way. >> there are so many different things that work in people's families. >> that's a chance to get reacquainted. >> that applies to work at one point. >> there is pain, laughter, you recognize your dynamic and go, well, their family is as crazy or me. >> i don't care who has a pimle and a head and wearing an inappropriately outrageous dress. we will get together as a family, right now. >> it's amazing to track the history of the family sit-com, you can really see so much about culture throughout the years. now looking back. >> and you know, it was really "i love lucy" that kind of kicked it off. >> stop it, go back and sit down. >> it was the show about a diplomadipcy woman that wanted to be in acting. >> have you ever considered acting? >> has she ever considered acting? >> her husband latin and a musician. >> how do i feel about this? i don't want to let my wife and children. >> why not? >> lucille ball was always trying to emans pate herself from the wife in the world. >> and every time she gets the opportunity, something goes aw awry. >> lucille ball was fearless in her physical comedy. you know, women were supposed to be demurrer and dainty and in their place. >> lucille ball was one of my favorites for her bits. >> what do you think you're do doing? >> well! >> "i love lucie" became a phenomenon instantly. >> when you think about the era that lucille ball came up in and what she was able to achieve, it's astounding. >> i'm a father! i'm a father! >> when lucy and ricky had a baby, it was like huge! it's the highest rated show of the series. it changed the dynamic because all of a sudden it became centered around the family unit. i think "i love lucie" was the big bang of the family sit-com. >> and the family moved to the suburbs. >> isn't this exciting? we're in our very own home. >> and that mirrored what was happening in america at the time. >> advertisers wanted to cater towards that new suburban family that needed to buy that kitchen appliance or that vacuum. >> and after "i love lucie" there was a formula for what the american family should look like. >> ozzie and harriet. >> i loved everybody in it, actually. >> i'm starved. >> it was a happy, gentle, american family of the 1950s. >> how much do you need? >> that's okay. >> no, don't worry about it. you can pay me back. >> pop, i don't want it. >> what's the matter with you, david, you got rocks in your head? >> the kids were very polite. everybody was very nice to each other. those were not real people, but they entertained and delighted us. >> all right. kid, we're sitting down. >> when you get to father knows best, it's very patrioticarcual dealing with tiny problems. >> finally at home, can i use it. >> i played bud. bud usually thought the problem was the truth showing open some level. >> what was all that rack upstairs? >> i didn't hear anything. >> whoever said, the good life, the american dream. >> off to bed you go. >> then leave it to beaver ep teres the sit-com realm in 1957. >> what's that? a haircut i think. >> the real key to leave it to beaver is that it's written from a child's point of view. >> why don't you let stanley cut your hair? >> i la used my money. >> you have wally his older brother who usually does things right. beaver is always the one that gets in trouble. >> and there were the parents to teach them. show them the right path. >> we want you to feel you can come do me or to your mother with any problem and we'll understand. >> in the 1950s, sit copies were giving us an idealistic version of america, but as we get into the '60s, we'll see different types of family sit-copies. >> i'm sure i'll be able hand him a little work and an occasional meal . history is filled with elements. those who almost adventured, who almost achieved, then there are others. the ones to embrace the moment and commit. they calm their minds and steal their nerves with four simple words, whispered at the time of the romans. fortune favors the brave . i'm a bad mom my. >> your a disaster. >> your sister is a -- hole. your other sister is great. >> oh, thanks, mom. >> better things is about single mom raising her three daughters on her own. >> you are my mom. i want to know if i want to get high. >> it's dirty, it's funny. >> no, hide flings me, please! >> better things is a fascinating example of the way the family sit-com has adapted to the 21st century. >> mom, where's the broom? >> what are you being, a witch? >> no, i'm going to be a use less hustler from the '60s. >> if you look back to the '50s, there was a lot of confines on what family looked like and what was acceptable and what wasn't. >> the first show that deviated from the perfect police aptville nuclear family, my three sons. >> we are going to blow it up today, mr. douglas in. >> no, i don't think i will make that same mistake again. >> it was a show about a single dad. he was a widower with three boys trying to raise them in an all male household. everyone had to do something, everyone had to pitch in. dishes, you know, you were darning socks. these are things that you never saw in the ozzie and harriet show or donna reed or leave it to beaver. when you watch a show that's based on losing someone, that adds a deep-rooted truth to the hardness of life. and then it gives comedy even more after a reason to go as crazy as you want to go. that's my shirt! >> you'll just have to wear your pants higher. >> in the '60, we see the sit koym move away from stories solely focused on the nuclear family. divorce had become more prevalent in north american life. but it took a while to be reflected in sit-coms. ♪ the brady bunch ♪ >> the brady bunch is the story of two separate families glued together. the woman with three girls, the guy with three boys. the man was a widower. divorce was a taboo topic on television. let's leave it so you don't know. >> i'm just trying to find out what they did with my ball. >> it was an evolution if leave it to beaver, shown from the kids' point of view. >> will you lends me your skate key? >> i'm not lending anything to snitchers. >> it's their appearance or school work or tear friends. >> say pete brady intercepts, goes high five. >> you know you broke the vase, it was those kind of every day problems. >> marsha, i'm proud to be your sister. no matter how terrible you look. >> thanks a lot. >> this is airing in the nixon era, when vietnam is raging and people are losing faith in government, all those things were happening and the brady bunch was kind of a refuge. >> watching the brady bunch, having all these brother and sisters, it was a great get away for me. >> the brady bunch was a huge success for abc that led to the part ridge family. which really attracted a young, hungry audience. >> hey kids, hollywood boulevard. >> we were a musical family. we traveled around doing shows. ♪ you make my day ♪ >> i was for sure going to marry david cassidy. that was definitely going to happen. >> the part ridge family is trying to embrace this hippy, cool culture. >> what did you hit, mom in. >> i think it was a studebaker. >> you crazy hippies, it's not enough you don't press anyone over 30. now you are trying to wipe us out. >> it takes the phenomenon of the counterculture around makes it safe. >> relax, missouri. remember, our whole future depends on the next few minutes. >> oh. >> it was an escape from the real world for a lot of people. >> in new york, a student protest was met by a construction worker and kent state in ohio four restaurant killed. >> but some people didn't want to hide from what was happening. people are like, no, we want to hear about all this stuff and how it's affecting our families. that's when shows like "all in the family" came on. >> he was at the beginning of his year and find a show he can make to his own. he was turned on to a series called death do us part. >> it was about a bigoted father. holy, mole, that was the way i grew up. and i knew i had a show. >> reporter: they shot the pilot at abc, featured carroll aconnor and judith stipletop as edith and archie bunker. >> we don't see evidence of god. >> i didn't know we had a pair of atheists. >> it was not well received by abc and watched it and felt the chemistry wasn't there between the parents and the kids. >> we paid it again two two different young people. >> we just don't see any evidence of god, that's all. >> that's right, daddy. >> i didn't know we had a pair of -- >> the network freaks out about whether people will be able to watch this show that has like real issues. >> everybody is nervous and there are people saying, they're going to kill you. they're going to schutt dead in the streets. introducing the biggest advancement in the history of small business bookkeeping. having someone else do your books for you. i'm linda, your quickbooks live bookkeeper. let's do this linda! sounds good! a live expert bookkeeper who understands your business. felipe, i've categorized last month's hair gel expenses. steve, i just closed your books. great, how are we looking? 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>> we don't see any evidence of god, that's all. >> that's right, daddy. >> that's right? i thought we had a cupical of peoples in this house. i didn't remember we had atheists. >> i realize my god the ground is shaking under me. >> we reached over at each other at the table, we had arguments. >> because guys like are you willing to give the black man, the mexican-american our hard earned share of the american dream. >> that didn't happen before. we thought real political strife, inner personal issues. generation gaps. and they're dealing with it all in the family. >> i suppose you will tell ne black man has had the same opportunity in your country as your boy? >> he's had more. i didn't have millions of people out there marching and protesting to get my job. >> archie bunk,er was saying things you just don't say on television. >> just because a guy is sensitive and intellectual and wear glasses, you make him out as a queer. >> i never said a guy who wears cl glasses is a four eyes, a guy who is a fag is a queer. >> you look and and wonder if you will be arrested. it was funny and challenging, you realize, norman lear is taking us into a whole new realm of comedy. >> the blowback was met by excitement and the applause. >> the show was number one for a long time. >> it changed cbs and their brand as a network. as a result of all in the family, they turned to norman lear to make more shows in that image. >> there is someone at the door. >> bea ar you this played maude as her sister in the family. >> she can take on archie head-to-head. >> either you can come to the table and eat or lie there and feed off your own fat. >> by the time that episode had aired, fred silverman, who was in charge of the cbs called norman lear and said, get that woman her own show. >> and then there's maude. compromising, enterprising, anything but tranquilizing. >> it was not your all american family. >> you are getting senile at your old age. >> thank you, darling. >> i only hope i live long enough to become a burden to you. >> maude is an independent, strong woman who speak her mind, married to her fourth husband, walter, played by bill macy. >> i don't have time to feed you breakfast. >> here, have some cold knockwurst. >> i say even if somebody piss zes me off, god will get you for that walter. god will get you for that. >> maude was the first time we saw a fiercely independent woman who wasn't afraid to speak her mind at the center of a family sit-com. >> maude has remained in florida, who was a great character. >> i'm henrietta. >> her husband made an appearance. >> i don't want you to be a made no more. >> your mother was a made, that's how your brother got through school and you got to be a fireman. >> when they finished this scene, we thought, let's fill out that -- ♪ good times ♪ >> that's the first time you ever saw a black family on television. >>. >> we were trying to get back from a hein mon in the wrathroom mirror. >> jj. >> let's face it. >> they were very different than other sit-com families from the point that we were urban. trying to survive on the south side of chicago with a dad that has spotty job situations. >> it's a cold world out there. we can't change it. >> maybe we can't change it, james, but we sure can let it change us. >> the time was not only to show the problems but to show the love of a minority family. >> we're standing in the used car lot of love. >> in 20 years, we only turned out one clunker. >> the idea of white families seeing things on an episode of "good times" that they can relate to their own experience that is a power that cannot be duplicated with hours of conversation. >> it showed how they western afraid to discuss social issues that had formerly been taboo ♪ this is it ♪ snow. >> when you get through something like "one day at a time," the single mother in that ho is divorced. that was unusual for television. >> i haven't had a happy minute since we moved to indianapolis. it sure was different before the divorce when daddy was around. >> i know, you used to wrap him around your little finger. >> all the people before were widowed. television catches up with who we are. >> what are you doing, mom? >> i am circling the jobs for which i am qualified. >> i don't see any circles. >> exactly. i mean, it was the '70, women were feeling empowered to have lives of their own and still have a family. >> darling, would you like to tell me what's going on between you and chuck? >> showing what a family goes to to raise two daughter in a divorce. >> we'll make it, i promise. >> you grow up in families and we all shared these experiences in one way or another. >> one day at a time. all in the family, maude, good times, all these family sit ko kok -coms, they owned the top ten. >> > walmart's deals for days isn't over yet. this cyber monday is your last chance to score big online starting sunday night. don't miss out on walmart's deals for days. ♪ ♪ . the 1980s were a radical transformation from what america had been like in the 1960s and 1970s. the economy was booming. as the reagan era took hold, there was a rise in conservative values. we saw american audiences losing interest in the socially relevant sit-coms. and really the sit-koym started to die. dramas had really taken over. those soaps were so big, dynasty, dallas, magnum pi. around so you saw the family sit-com really strive to find a new identity. >> i can believe you guys watch this, you lookingry tick lus. >> family ties has one of the great challenges in sit-com history. >> half a million people trying to stop a sentenceless war. you find they are dig lus? >> i'm talking act the outfits. >> these two flower children from the '60s grow up. in the '80s, suddenly find themselves with this young republican son. >> weg, how do i look? >> middle-aged. >> it was about the clashes between two generations. >> you're a young man, you shouldn't be worried about success. you had should be thinking about hopping on a transsteamer and going around the world. >> the '60s are over, dad. >> thanks for the tip. >> family ties is a reversal in many ways of all in the family, except notice you have the liberal parents and the conservative child. >> this morning i found a copy of the wall street journal under his bed in there you think he was switched at birth and the rockefellers have our kid? >> michael was just wonderful. he was young, energetic. he had such good timing. >> we started rather slowly. nbc was moving us around a bit trying to find the right place for us. family ties pumped a little bit of life into the family sit-com. but the sit-com, in general, had been pro foupsed pronounced de there were very few on the air. then comes the cosby show in 1984. >> dad, can i have an alliance in. >> you are already backed up to your 18th birthday. >> this is a family i adored, present history has tainted that a little bit. it didn't stop the fact that that was a ground-breaking experience. >> we had sort of this idyllic family, claire was a lawyer, he was a doctor. there was a very natural chemistry between the huxtable and claire and their children that wasn't cliche black poverty. >> son, your mother asked be eto'o come up here and kill you. how do you expect to get into college with grades like in? >> no problem. >> there is a much more conservative parent that is driving the cosby show. instead of acting disappointed because i'm not like you, maybe you can just accept who i am and love me anyway? >> in any other sit-com, that would be the moment where the music would start and the father would embrace the son and say something really encouraging. >> theo, that's the dumbest thing i've ever heard in my life. >> and you could hear the audience gasp, because like this is a strong father who is going to say to his son as he said, you know, i brought new this world and i'll take you out. the audience cheered because it was like the parents are saying, yes, we're taking back the house. >> i just want you to do the best you can. that's all. >> there was such a love and camaraderie in the huxtable family that i think you had a universal audience. >> we got super bowl ratings every single week. they were tuning in because everybody wants to be a huxtable. >> the cosby show revitalized the sit-com. >> all right him then let's put cosby another 8:00. family ties at 8:30. >> family ties went boom, in a huge way. that great thursday night lineup, cosby, family ties, cheers, night court. >> nbc created this idea of must-see tv. you are talking about 20 and 30 and 40 million people tuning in. >> people say you really are one of the america's most successful fathers. i say, no, it was bill cosby, cosby was number one. >> with respect to what's happened to blake, it's like hugely disappointing to all of us. but he set the standard for what a family sit-com was. >> the cosby show had proven that the family sit-com was a viable genre again. >> by the late '80s, family sit-coms were popular among the big three networks. there was this incredible resurgence. >> this is great. we should be mothers. >> oh, yeah. >> families tuned into see what aspirational version they could be. silver spoon, growing pains, all of that constant hugging and learning. right in. >> the family sit-com at the height of its popularity. fox started moving into the television area. >> fox was building their network. they were one of the last majors to build in their work. >> they decided they were going to use the family sit-com to do that and compete against big three. >> al, look at our little girl. we don't really have to go to a recital, do we? >> hand the they wound up going in a completely opposite direction. sort of the anti-in the way of anti-sit-com. >> bud, apologize to your sister. >> no. >> the trash family say horrible things. >> are you a moron. >> you were aware they were wise guys zincing each other. >> how could you sell the family playboy in. >> i don't know how that show stayed on air. >> i haven't worn it since grandma's funeral. >> married with children helped put fox on the map. >> this idea of a darker family presentation spoke to people who were bored with what the main family sit-copies were offering at the time from family, before you go, would you bring old daddy's shotgun and stand close together? 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>> more power. >> more power was my moniker my whole life. plus the grunting. and blowing stuff up. >> he's like this supposed man's man and then he comes home to a woman who is a feminist and under no circumstances do you ever treat the female sex as if house keepers are here to wait on you hand and foot. >> honey, do you want to wash it for me? >> what was great about our family was that even though we disagreed, i think i'll just pop on out of here, we loved each other and always made up. >> home improvement was proof that a traditional family sit-com could be a hit. but through the '90s, we continued to see the family change. . we saw people having children much later in life the family sit-com reflected that. >> mad about you, the marriage, itself, was the premise of the show. >> a strong woman character, against this strong male character and so the fireworks kept happening. watching how two people try to love each other over time. >> it doesn't bother you that we haven't had sex in five days? >> hello! >> you know the feeling you go to a party. you and your wife have fun, you say good night, you get in the car. the minute that car door closes, what itself the show. >> what's going on with us? >> what's going on is we're married five months and the sexual part is over. see i thought you understood that, i'm sorry. i play checkers in the park. you start arguing with buses. c'mon. >> it's not funny! >> they are two people who can voice their opinions about fear and be awful and apologize and hit a dry spell in the marriage and find the heat between them again. people were feeling probably that combination of i relate to it and i aspire to it. that made it very much its own zblerl like season one i think the networks said you sho have you held a kid. we went, no, no, no, that's too soon. season two, it was time for a kid, when it was liepg, the network was like annoying inlaws. so when are you guys going to try? we'll let you know. on raymond, you never saw the kids. >> hi, mom. >> i saw your car pull up before. you didn't call. >> oh. >> all right, debra. >> we wanted to focus on the marriage and their relationship with the parents. >> hi. i'm ray and i live here in long island with my wife debra. >> in the very first season, ray says to me in the opening credits. >> it's not really about the kid. >> it's not about the kids. >> i say that for every year you are over 40, you should add an inch to the hemline of your dress. >> well, then you should be dragging around a frigging rug. >> it was odd parents, despite our best efforts reject all of our kindness and it backfires. >> i don't understand just would use bleach on these towels. >> they just seemed a little yellowy. >> yes, they're yellow towels. >> we all come into a family. we need a family, love them or hate them, that's who you know we were given. >> the success of cosby res reconcilinged the sit-com, because of that ushered a lot of other great story-telling. when the cosby show went off the air, we did have other black family sit-coms to if ill that void and one of them was the fresh prince, which was another version of aspirational black family wealth. >> i didn't know so many brothers were living in this neighborhood. we're doing all right. huh? >> fox was one of the first networks that took risks with black sit-coms that had minority people very much a part of the writing and the creation of it. >> i think it's vital that people of color write their own stories, because that's where the authenticity comes from. >> probably tired. >> well, he should b. he kept us up all night. we should be the ones crying. >> we saw black family sit-copies like martin, like the bernie mac show. those showed parenting to be difficult. >> he's too old to play, can we play something else? [ music playing ] >> which was not something you saw on the show like the cosby show. >> wait, get in the bathroom, to wipe the pea off the toilet seat. >> disgusting. >> fox network had come on and did really well with black sit-coms, so then the wb and upn at the time were coming an and they started diversify and then grow that audiencech. >> they were able to snatch up the audience that the other networks were ignoreing up to that point. >> and so the shows kind of set the stage for the diversity in the family sit-com that can be seen on television today. >> welcome, i'm rick. meet ham. >> my bowl expresses my deep appreciation. >> that's more of a japanese thing but, thank you, rick. so no more nudging your partner. or opting for the couch. because the tempur-ergo smart base is our first system that detects snoring and automatically adjusts to help reduce it. your best sleep. all night. every night. save up to $500 on select adjustable mattress sets during the tempur-pedic black friday event. learn more at tempurpedic.com we've been waiting all year to come together. happy holidays from lexus. get $1,500 lease cash toward a 2022 rx 350. walmart's deals for days isn't over yet. this cyber monday is your last chance to score big online starting sunday night. don't miss out on walmart's deals for days. ♪ ♪ (tiger) this is the dimension of imagination. ♪ so, who's it going to be? 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and then, we said what if we shoot it documentary style? and instead of focusing on one family, what if we focused on multiple families? >> dad. >> what happened? >> luke just shot me. >> what we want to do was portray these characters as real. >> i didn't mean to. >> are you okay? >> no. the little bitch shot me. >> language. >> but the network said, you can't have a kid swear, like that. and i said, that line came from my daughter. my attitude about it is, telling stories from our own lives, and not being afraid of those stories. that's what people can relate to. >> i am gloria, manny's mother. >> actually, i'm her husband. don't be fooled by the -- give me a second here. >> none of these people look like they would be a family but they are. >> what the hell is that? >> i had andre do it while we were gone. >> is that us with wings? >> i was just really taken by the portrayal of a gay couple as part of an equal part of the cast. >> a bit of a drama queen. >> no, stop. you come into my house and you insult me and my boyfriend who, by the way, is not that dramatic. >> so, when he actually reveals lily, it's to the theme song from "lion king." >> we adopted a baby. >> this loving, gay couple who were just adopting a child. this was the most progressive thing on broadcast television, at that particular moment. >> in this family, do we kick and punch each other? or do we love each other? >> love each other. >> that's right. >> modern family took this genre that seemed kind of played out, updated it, and breathed life back into the family sitcom. after that, we start to see more perspectives, new perspectives, fresh perspectives. >> you're going to love orlando. i've grown to love it, like the daughter we wish devon had been. >> in "fresh off the boat," an asian-american story centers the narrative, as opposed to being, like, the butt of the joke. >> class, i would like you all to give a warm welcome to hon-gi -- >> yeah, call me eddie. >> thank god. >> it's about an asian-american family that moves from a multicultural city to a very white, suburban town. >> hi, welcome to the neighborhood. i'm deirdre. this is amanda. this is samantha. >> it was a really good window into how mainstream culture could feel strange to somebody else. >> "fresh off the boat" made a major impact in proving, to the industry, that a show like this can be successful. >> still, to this day, i get people on the street who come up to me in tears saying how meaningful it was seeing themselves represented. and feeling like you are a part of america. >> it's a part of a progression of representation in tv. >> okay. so i'm just your standard, regular, old incredibly handsome, unbelievable charismatic, black dude. now, this drooling pigment challenged mix-raced women is my wife. >> blackish is a family sitcom that is interested in talking about topics of racial identity in ways television is sometimes uncomfortable about discussing. >> you're not serious about naming our kid devante, are you? >> i want a strong, black name. okay? because we have given our kids white names and they've all ended up blackish. >> the father feels like his family is losing touch with their roots. and he wants them to sort of know their heritage. >> i just want at least one of my kids to end up being black so i can love it. >> whereas, the cosby show was a much more safe kind of here is us living every day. the blackish family is very unapologetic about their blackness, in ways that really hadn't been seen, like, on prime-time television, before. >> so, next saturday, when you turn 13, you're becoming a man, too. a black man because i'm throwing you an african rites of passage ceremony. >> that does not sound as fun. >> no, it does not. >> blackish was a show that was really good at talking about individual social issues, in a way we hadn't really seen since norman lear. >> and that leads us right up to the free boot of norman lear's 1970s classic "one day at a time." >> i get it, we're cuban. >> follows three generations of latinas. everything that we would get into, as a normal family. but then, it also tackles a lot of things that are going on in the world that, normally, are seen as taboo. like, queer issues. >> where are we with the idea of telling him? >> who think it's a great idea to greet my latino veteran dad with, hey, i like girls. >> you know, there is ptsd with the mom. there is anxiety and depression. >> so when he called you a name, what'd he call you? stupid? dummy? goober? >> he saw me and said build the wall. >> i think it allows audiences to have those conversations in their own living rooms. >> even these days, in this openly racist world, i've managed to never have an incident. >> you and your brother are of different shades. >> yes. >> if you put something in your show that's shocking and radical, the hope is, in five years' time, it's gonna become more normal. >> who even decides what latinx looks like? i look latinx. >> of course, you do. you're beautiful. i always thought you looked like anne hathaway. >> oh, no, no, no! >> the future of the family sitcom, to me, is most present in shows like "one day at a time." telling stories about an america you don't always see on television in ways that are funny, and fresh, and invigorating. and if you look at the best-family sitcoms on tv right now, that's what they're doing. >> this american family is headed to their american home. >> that is so cool. >> anne hathaway just totally stood up for this mexican. here we go. pivot! pivot! pivot! pivot! >> shut up! shut up! shut up! >> i feel like we get to know these sitcom characters. they're your friends. >> i don't think it's going to pivot anymore. >> you think? >> they were purely selfish and purely immature. >> are you still master of your domain? >> i'm queen of the castle. >> you hope that you'll have