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oh, well, uh, i ll take the first class. class has always played a role in the history of sitcoms. bon voyage laney. class is fascinating to us as a culture. i never check my baggage. i can t stand that wait, baggage area. it s good to laugh at it, to get it all out on the table you re going to have to go back to your seat. you know, our goal should be a society without classes! if we didn t laugh about social class in the united states, we would engage in class warfare. do you realize the people up here are getting cookies?! mmm! that is not a show about nothing. oh, come inside. so, to the left we have the bar, to the right we have the bathroom. oh, we have bathrooms upstairs, downstairs, many, many bathrooms. i do still believe that for all the things going on in our current society in america, you can come from anywhere and end up any place you want. immigration? revenue. [ screams ] i ve been gutted! it s crazy, people are just, ....
The movie. i m having a blast sitting on this hard chair paying bills on a plastic tray stolen from hometown buffet. one of the reasons i think that the conners works in the 2010s is because income disparity is an even bigger deal now than it was in the 1990s. i am completely financially unprepared to have a baby. i m screwed. the conners themselves are still dealing with the same issues of a blue collar family living smack dab inside the american dream. look how much money you re saving by not drinking while you re pregnant. they re not cognizant of it, and i think people can appreciate that these characters are being honest about what they re going through. this is ridiculous. these people are just trying to have a better life. he was here illegally, darling. so you don t have a problem with what s happening? i have a big problem. i like the guy. my daughter is about to have his baby, and he may be getting ....
the show immediately hit the top 10. it rated higher in the rural parts of the country. the main producer, sheldon leonard, famously said, you can take new york, you can take la, you know, give me the corn belt. this blue collar vs. white collar class divide extended to the critical reception that shows received in the 1960s. the dick van dyke show, they re wearing suits, they re in the big city. got a trunkload of emmys, and the andy griffith show got almost none. you can t live up to your potential here. in a big city, you have room to grow and live a different kind of life. and that right there shows you the class divide in america. how can life be that much different if you re happy? ....
goodbye city life. green acres, we are there. it s just absurd and ridiculous. look at that floor. that s solid oak. green acres was about a man and a woman living on fifth avenue, and he decides he s going to be a farmer. oliver! yeah? there is someone here to see you from the state department. i ll be right down. darling, mr. kimball would have waited. you should have used the ladder. green acres, it s the kind of show america loves. and cbs thinks, well, we can do more of these rural characters. yeah, the rural comedies. petticoat junction. petticoat junction. i mean, some really, really silly, funny stuff. hee-haw! hee-haw! but the characters were ....
To make fun of the rich, sort of, you know, expose them for everyone to see. luce, that coat costs more than your house. oh, that s how we joke. she doesn t even have a house. because a lot of really wealthy people have gotten in their positions by stepping on working-class people. i m sorry, we can t afford to live lavishly anymore. drink your milk. it s lumpy. then chew it. by the 21st century, america s shaky economy begins to shrink the middle class, and we see that represented in sitcoms like fox s malcolm in the middle. we ve had to economize before. remember last year when we were saving up for disneyland? we re going to disneyland? no. it s like that. except this time, we re just trying to keep the house. malcolm in the middle is a fascinating show in terms of class because it is about trying to give your kids a good life even when you re not sure you can pay for it. malcolm is this genius, and he does not want to be a genius. now, malcolm may not lo ....