Did you ever know that youre my hero the stuff they got away with because its 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. Theyve dealt with all kinds of issues of racism, of sexism. Dont ask me, im just a girl. Right on, say it, sister. Its 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 thats going on in our lives through the filter of the simpsons. American Network Television has long been considered the home of the blands, the cautious and the predictable. So it was with some trepidation that it the abc Network Launched a new series that was none of those things
An exploration of news and events in the 1990s. In the opener, TV shows from the decade are examined, from animated hits South Park and Beavis and. An exploration of news and events in the 1990s. In the opener, TV shows from the decade are examined, from animated hits South Park and Beavis and. An exploration of news and events in the 1990s. In the opener, TV shows from the decade are examined, from animated hits South Park and Beavis and. An exploration of news and events in the 1990s. In the opener, TV shows from the decade are examined, from animated hits South Park and Beavis and. An exploration of news and events in the 1990s. In the opener, TV shows from the decade are examined, from animated hits South Park and Beavis and. An exploration of news and events in the 1990s. In the opener, TV shows from the decade are examined, from animated hits South Park and Beavis and. An exploration of news and events in the 1990s. In the opener, TV shows from the decade are examined, from anima
the sopranos. woke up this morning got yourself a gun sopranos just is one of those shows that was a benchmark change. it changed a lot of things for everybody. throw out the handbook. tony soprano, the lead actor in a drama, he killed a man. we watched him. he took his daughter on a college tour. pretty, huh? yeah. it was just a melding of a guy and a world what the [ bleep ] you doing? what the [ bleep ] you doing? and a behavior that promoted all the feelings that you would have for a guy that you love in a guy that you hate. you know? sopranos came on tv and it really showed us the future, whether we realized that was
going to be the future of television or not. this husband of yours, carmella, how much we love him. he s the best. oh, come on. he s like a father to me. just make sure nothing happens to him. that character in that show was a great inspiration to a great many shows that came after it, including one that i worked on. you know what i want, tony? i want those kids to have a father. they got one, this one, me. tony soprano. and all that comes with it. oh, you prick. the 90s is a mixed decade of tv. some of my favorite shows of all time aired in that decade and everybody was watching them. there was still that communal sense from the earlier decades of tv, but it was being applied to shows that were reaching higher and farther, and they were great. because there was so many channels and because so much storytelling was going on, you started to get more variety of stories being told. get the skull film, schedule a c.a.t. scan, and call the neurosurgery resident. objec
bel air, baseball cap on backward. like he doesn t even know how to act in this environment. the black producers and directors and writers were always playing with this kind of subverting expectations of what is blackness. the incredible work of the fresh prince at its most triumphant is when it was showing the ways that being black is always going to be a problem no matter what. vehicle registration, please. just a second. but the thing, officer, this isn t my car. there s the episode i remember where they get pulled over in a car. what? he is going to tell us to get out of the car. you watch too much tv. get out of the car. we have an interaction with the police officer that is horrible and racist in a lot of ways. and carlton has this epiphany about how money won t save him. no map is going to save you. and neither is your glee club or your fancy bel air address or who your daddy is. because when you re driving in a nice car in a strange