good person. >> when i'm feeling kind of hopeless and sad, i get to laugh and lose myself and remember life's not that bad. you're in the good place. >> the beautiful thing about the sitcom is it has provided so much joy in times of uncertainty. >> there's a lot of pressure in the 160s, this notion of new products and everything being new, this kind of brave new world. >> everything's about the future and modernizing. >> yes. it's all bright and shiny and you get cars that look like spaceships. but then it's. >> suggested we bomb north vietnam back into the stone age. >> yabbabadabadoo! >> if you recall. ♪ from the town of bedrock ♪ >> in the guise of a stone age setting. ♪ have a gay old time. ♪ >> just can't wait till they instrength faucet. >> with all the progress that was happening in the late 50s and aet sifts, the flint stones is an escape and the question is progress good. >> it was kind of a sat tire on this consumerism, get the you inest thing for your kitchen, get the newest car with these kind of stone wheels. >> they have a stone that has wheels but you need your legs to make it move. i bet that is how they did it. >> a lot of people thought it was cartoon on saturday. >> i'm seven years old. my mom used to get just furious. schaiking angry at me for watching the flint stones. because it's really a show for adults. >> i remember, i was so sad for betty and the fact that they couldn't have children. >> we're so anxious to have a baby we take it out on fred and wilma. >> they talk about adopting. >> the baby, the baby. >> that's newsroom. >> we want to do everything according to law, ma'am. >> that had not been heard before. >> it was a smash hit. >> it was on for six years. >> ya-hoo. you're the greatest. >> it was on the cutting edge of escapism for an american audience that was hungry for it. >> the communist rulings of east berlin reinforce their barricades. >> there's so much turmoil in terms of the civil rights movement, in terms of vietnam. there's a real crisis of identity. >> and there is a pattern in american entertainment of when things get really serious, we got to get silly. >> i just don't understand it. >> don't try to. it's bigger than both of us. >> people just needed to escape and go watch a talking horse. >> cut it out. >> not until you call the police. >> my mother the car where this guy's car was haunted. his mother haunted a car. >> it's about a car and it's the mother? the flying nun. >> i wanted to be a nun when i grew up. >> i think i get the hang optical this. >> i knew i couldn't be a flying nun. i knew i couldn't be a nun, either. >> in the 1960s, most sitcoms were just fun and over the top and silly. >> you laugh because someone else is falling on the banana peel. that's the essence of escapism. >> it's deeply appealing in this idea of being able to shake off the shackles of civilization and go again. ♪ ♪ a tail of a fateful trip ♪ ♪ that started ♪ the tale of the fateful trip, started as something or other. do you know it? >> i just put myself on the island with gilligan. >> a bunch of crazy people. they get stranded on the island, no surprise there. i always felt so bad for them. it's like are they ef going to get off that island? >> my father had this idea how do ki get seven people and put them together so they can't get away from each other, people of different types. so he went to cbs and jim arbery was the president. jim aubry didn't see how viewers want understand and so dad went only theme night and wrote the song and gilligan's island went on the air. >> they could make a latrine. they could make huts. they could make radio receivers. they could make a cinema complex. a raft was beyond their capability. >> the critics hated it. thought it was the worse show ever. >> this is the stupidest plot ever. it won't last five years. >> have to stay here for a long, long time. >> i just remember laughing so hard that gill again and scaper were balanced. >> look at us. it's like a cantaloupe. >> i knew what a cantaloupe was. >> neither marianne fan or a ginger fan? 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>> loved "get smart." >> i wanted to be don adams. ♪ ♪ >> be home at 7:30 to watch him in that phone booth. >> "get smart" was a district satire of james bond, which was the biggest thing in movies. >> bond, james bond. >> and we satirized the blank out of it. >> oh. allow me, princess. >> he's spiced up, he's got the february in the shoe. >> i will take credit for the shoe phone. >> smart, maxwell smart. >> which happened to be the cell phone which i should have patented and i wouldn't even be talking to you. >> the cone of silence. >> the case i signed 9 to has to do with the formula. >> what? >> agent 686 couldn't actually hear each other. >> the code signs would never work and it would work in a different way every time. it was too fast. >> it would hit the desk. >> a lot of catchphrases are in part of our culture. >> i loved when he'd say sorry about that, chief. >> sorry about that, chief. missed it by that much. missed me by that much. thanks. >> would you believe -- >> i shall be able to rip these chains from the wall in one minute. would you believe it? one minute. >> i find that hard to believe. >> would you believe two minutes? >> every job he was given, he totally failed and agent 99 would help hem out. she was sharp. >> micro cosmic. >> you certainly have a way with words, 99. >> teentsy-weentsy. >> i counted six shots. >> they're making a terrible mistake. >> you're the one with the .38 special. >> barbara weldon, rolling her eyes at the camera was her feminist statement on get smart. >> there were never direct references to what we should think about what was going on in the '60s. what was subbersive about get smart and framing in the world in such broad strokes that if you as the viewer wanted to attach meaning to it. >> once you're laughing, you forget everything. laughter is a wonderful diversion from thinking about death. >> it's airing in the '60s at the pinnacle of the vietnam war. it's when the marines are being sent off to vietnam. >> you could see like dead bodies on the news every night. and so the idea that you could then escape with a show like gomer pyle has appealing because people didn't want to think of the military in solely negative terms. it was definitely a feeling like let's have a guy who's almost like a thoughback of the old g.i. in the cartoons. >> gollee. >> golly golly golly golly. >> gollee. nothing will happen to your car. >> gomer pyle was many things but it was not in any way reflective of vietnam. >> this is even worst than being married. >> we couldn't watch was dwoemer pile. mother said there were enough idiots in the world without people acting like idiots. >> just pranks and fun. pure escapism. >> escape from stall ag 13? that's a good one. >> it debuted in the midst of the vietnam war. >> i have to go to those news reels. >> hogan's heroes. can you imagine that pitch? guys, it's going to be great. >> let's sit calm about a nazi prisoner of war, i'm just spitballing here. i'm thinking nazis, men trapped without running water. >> i'm in. ♪ ♪ >> my dad and i used to watch "hogan's heroes" together and laugh, laugh, laugh. ♪ hogan, showing an ♪ >> you never, never underestimate your enemy. >> i was not here. >> this is airing when there are many americans trapped in vietnamese prison camps which are not a very funny thing to think about. >> television was like if we come up with really broad ideas that are full of slap stick comedy, people will want to gravitate to that. >> you know, where did that come from and with that, you get to release all that angst and with that comes humor. >> it is attacking. human. >> humor is always an inversion. fts always can we find what's ironic about this situation. >> and thankfully, we have sitcom as a medium to do that for us. it's an escape. small businesses like yours make gift-giving possible. now, comcast business has an exclusive gift for you. introducing the gift of savings sale. for a limited time, ask how to get a great deal for your business. and get up to a $500 prepaid card with select bundles when you switch to the network that can deliver gig speeds to the most businesses. or get started with internet and voice for $64.99 per month with a 2-year price guarantee. give your business the gift of savings today. comcast business. powering possibilities. we need laughter. we need sitcoms. we need it. because if you don't laugh, goddamn it, you're going to cry. >> new york city area blacked out last night. court-orred bussing remains one of the most politically charged issues which this country. the search for gas becomes an every other day ordeal. >> when you were looking at the '70s there was a lot of let's not look at that complicated stuff right now. let's make it go away. "the love boat" was the ultimate in fluff. ♪ ♪ love exciting and new ♪ i can't go that low. tonight? tonight? aboard we're expecting you ♪ the love boat ♪ the love boat, makes you smile, doesn't it? >> my agency called and said i finally watched this little thing called the lo boat. >> it's great. >> people hollywood that abc snood for arons broadcasting. >> he had a touch for knowing what the audience wanted to see. >> the love boat. sitcom or not a sitcom. sitcom. >> love boat was a new format for a sitcom. >> i think the love boat is a sitcom. >> love boat was not at sitcom. no. >> to me, the love boat was a sitcom. >> it spammed what we thought we knew as a sitcom. >> all i know is it was a hit. >> it was usually comprised of three story lines. one would be a pure comic story. one would be a mellow dramatic story. >> how do you tell the lady that you love she's never going to walk again. >> and one would be a romantic comedy. >> i'm just a bar the ender, and you're a star. >> they used a laugh track which was never really done, especially in an hour filmed show. >> don't worry about the termites, lady, because when the house falls, it will kill them. >> they had laughs, but there weren't laugh, laugh. >> charro was outrageous. she was so free. coochie coochie coochie. >> i was on the love boat four or five times. >> what are you gawking at? >> i guess i didn't expect to see so much of west virginia out here many middle of the ocean. >> i often marvel at how wrong some of knows plots are. >> and i'll be back with your prescription. >> it's practically a cave map beating the woman over his head sometime and dragging the woman back to his cabin. >> now the shift's doctor could not sleep with a paepg. >> it provided an escapist experience because you could feel like you were on a cruise escaping your life. >> entertainment has changed. everything has changed. human beings are still human beings. people want happy endings. they need happy endings. >> bye. >> bye. >> and we gave it to them every saturday. >> in 1977, abc was pure escapism. it was a formula that really ep shurd success. >> oh, come on! don't take it so seriously. >> abc was flying high with happy days, lavern and shirley, the $6 million man. the bionic woman. j abc could do no wrong. >> so the premise of eight is enough is a man, tom bradford, has eight children. he of course has a wife but that wife passed away. he falls in love again. the kids still brooefg the mother now have to deal with this other woman. >> we're getting married to each other. >> we were the evolution of the pretty bunch. >> oh, come on. you'll never know it. we break a little rule or two. >> who's going to tell them? >> you wouldn't squeal, would you? >> it was a dramady and a longer form show. >> for missing dinner. >> because we know where she was. we didn't know where you were. >> i was eating pizza. >> a family that sits down and discusses things. really? >> i want to know what you're going to do about tommy. he's got a party saturday night and he's still a kid. >> why don't you mind your own business. >> eight is enough is a rrp to something that seemed maybe safe. you look at the ra and what's going on. divorce rates sores in in 'sets. it's breaking apart. >> i'm eight. i can understand complicated things. >> women are weird, that's all. now, move. >> the world had come out of this revolution and anger and everybody's looking for chewing gum for the eyes. >> all of a sudden it's like let's watch a family that's working. let's watch a family that probably doesn't exist outside this box. ♪ >> we have to be able to repair the enamel on a daily basis. with voltaren arthritis pain gel. my husband's got his moves back. an alternative to pills, voltaren is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory gel for powerful arthritis pain relief. voltaren, the joy of movement. black friday is back at lowe's. shop now for the best deals. make everything twice as nice, and twice as merry. don't miss black friday shopping and cyber steals. or buy online and pick up in store. ♪ ♪ when the chapstick goes on. it's on. get yours on at chapstick.com ♪ (man) still asleep. 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>> i remember the impression like children are never allowed to speak like that. >> what's going on there sn. >> i think bart's stupid again. >> i'm a man h fan of the simpson. there's no one who does the higher joke density. >> i think it's genius. >> that story telling on the simpsons was so unlike anything that came before it. there were these ornate broek stories. they could have a second scene at a nuclear reactor and jump somewhere else. >> endlessly clever. so many good characters on the simpson. >> casts a long shadow. he's a great ville anne. his relationship with a rake. you -- destroyed him. >> the simpsons, great animations, love it. >> tracy, what are you doing here? you're all better. >> nobody tells necessity these things. >> when the simpsoning came out, it was a massive hit. >> this could be the best day of my life. >> the simpsons helped usher in the modern era of animation. >> hey, brian. what's up. >> is it an escapist form? usually you're looking at something more colorful than life. >> you can be risky and obscene and transdressive and really, really dig into humor that other shows are kind of afraid to touch. >> oh, god, it's so bloody naughty. i need to be taught a lesson and you're the one to do it. >> it is wrong to eat human beans. >> says you. >> south park took that a whole leap further. >> oh, my god, they killed kenny. >> you bet they -- >> they make mart seem like we'ver believer. >> hey, lady, bitch. >> in the '90s we see the rise of the concept of political correctness. audiences were looking for an escape for that. >> she showed the power and the comedy that you could find in being politically incorrect. >> all right. but it looks like we have 2. -- wow. 2.9 inches. wow. >> i think about south park. it's full of comments about modern subjects. >> i had a sex change operation. i am experiencing womanhood the first time in my life. see you in class. >> it would push the envelope in such an extreme way but in the voice of a child. >> jesus was black. regulary was the devil and the government is lying about 9/11. >> boon docks were south park. >> dives deeper into a subset of the community that white people maybe don't see at all. the dharkts aren't human get to say things people might be able to say. >> how many times have i told you better not anticipate dream about telling white people the truth. >> one of the most hilarious episodes was martinez martin coming back and seeing how black people were living and being shocked. >> i had a dream once, but lo and behoeshlgsd some four decades later, what is are i found but a bunch of triefling, shiftless, good for nothing [ bleep ]s. >> whether it's about racist white folks, whether it's black folks being problematic on themselves, the boon docks did not pull any punches. >> can't run this one on the white man. what am i saying? of course i can. >> when i was a kid, my top sitcom was probably dinosaurs. >> shake it, mama. >> it was bonkers. >> everything that the jim henson company does is escapist. >> hey. frozen dinner. >> oh, that's great. >> the original idea was all really generated in the year that my father jim henson passed away in 1990 and he just liked the idea of dinosaurs who live so irresponsibly that they will inevitably go extinct. >> there's bound to be some unfortunate casualties. >> what he loved about sitcoms is when they could do something powerful. >> what this show actually was was always a warning. >> it sounds like we're clairing war on nature. >> exactly. >> dinosaurs have like very good '90s style, you know, let's take care of the climate earth messaging. >> no plants means no food at all. >> the finale of dinosaurs is one of the best finales inform movies ever. >> are we going to move? >> well, no. there's no mace to move to. >> we always knew that that irresponsible treatment of the environment in dinosaurs had to destroy the planet. >> and because it was pop etry, because they weren't human beings spouting at you, you tolerated it. hi susan! honey? 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"the good place" is a show about four people who died and went to hell and a demon who made them believe they were in heaven. >> during your time on earth every one of your actions had a positive or a negative value. >> a show like "the good place," i don't think it could have existed without animation pushing the boundaries of what people will watch. >> today we'll start with something that everyone has always wanted to do. >> flying. [ applause ] >> now that you are dead, let's live a little, right? >> i supposed there is a fantasy escape element to it where they are in a magical place where there is a character named janet who knows every fact about the universe. >> janet, i am finished with cleanup and i'm ready to fly. how do i start? >> hop on the launchpad and conjure an image that brings you pure joy. >> people puking on roller coasters. people puking on roller coasters. >> but, there is always a sort of weird, looming threat. i think kept it from pure escapism. >> is that giant terrifying lady bug supposed to be there? >> great question. no, no it's not. >> "the good place" came out in 2016 right when a lot of people are feeling incredibly disillusioned by trump's election that year. >> we will make america great again. >> at the time where i think people were craving that kind of dialogue talking to our veterans. >> i am sorry, i am so grumpy, i wanted to get my hair wet and i want to talk briefly to someone and say take it sleazy. >> i think there's so many big things happening in the world right now, to have a message that kind of is it's going to be okay, this is your place in the universe, keep trying to take care of your soul a little bit. >> "the good place," i think it's an actually perfect show. >> anyplace or thing in the universe can be up to 104% perfect. that's how you got beyonce. >> you don't realize that they're talking about really deep fisophical things about good and bad, who are we at our core and can we change. >> oh, god. >> the trolley problem really showed what the show is trying to do. >> we're in a trolley car. it was chidi with his hands on the control trying to figure out who to kill and who not. it pointed out we're faced with these horrible choices all the time, and we should have some empathy, you know, because they're hard. >> make a decision. >> on the one hand if you prescribe to a -- >> it was a very funny scene. >> okay, so, what have we learned? >> there's something escapist about letting all these things we're dealing with here play out in this fantasy world. >> that's the whole idea about tb. >> i recommend full cellphone battery. >> oh, it somehow tastes how i felt when my cellphone was fully charged. so relaxed. >> people like laughing, and i think when they laugh they're more likely to listen to what you have to say. >> nothing more human than that. besides texting people you're five minutes away when you haven't even left the house. >> thank you. >> you're very welcome. i'm not obsessed with sex. i just can't stop thinking about it. >> sexuality has come a long way in sitcom history. >> can you donate a penis to a person who's transitioning? >> laughter is a great way to deal with a very tricky world. >> daddy horny, my god. >> sitcoms talk about sex. >> my underwear. >> my god. >> and about relationships. >> i'm breaking up with him

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