You could find things to relate to in both. Howdy, neighbor yeah, yeah, yeah. Why dont we sit down. It was a lot of fun to be had and al and peg bundy. After fox introduces married with children, it does very well, then back on abc, they came up with another major hit roseanne. You think this is a Magic Kingdom where you sit up here on your throne. Oh, yeah . Yeah. And you think everything gets done by a wonderful wizard. Poof, the laundrys folded. Poof, the dinner is on the table. You want me to fix dinner . You just fixed dinner three years ago. Typical American Families Werent On Television for the longest time. The donna reed days, father knows best, hardly anyone lives like that. Thats the way advertisers want you to live. I know what will make you feel better. I do, too. The ideal situation is if you can subvert whatever is said about families and parentliing. Whats in this, lead . I got you leg irons. Her loudness and unfilteredness was key to why we liked her. She was staying s
controversy tonight. rivera drew sharp criticism with his recent television special on devil worship. but today he found himself in a real free-for-all. i get sick and tired of seeing uncle tom here, sucking up, trying to be a white man go ahead. go ahead. sit down. hey, hold it. hold it. sit down. rivera suffered a broken nose, but he said the show will be broadcast later this month in its entirety. well, that s not something i would have done. but there was a lot of hypocrisy. one of the major magazines put the picture of geraldo getting hit with a chair on the cover, and the article said, isn t this awful, look what s happened to television. yet they couldn t wait to use it to sell their own magazine. let s go to the audience, all right? i want to speak to you guys. over the years, broadcasting has deteriorated. and now in this era of deregulation, it s deteriorating further.
being more introspective and more emotional. and some people weren t buying it. but for other people when they were talking about things like having kids and who is going to go back to work and some of these issues that hadn t been talked about a whole lot, it was important to people. i was so looking forward i was so looking forward to doing this. to be a grown-up for just an hour. in the beginning, there was talk of this being the yuppie show. and you mentioned it tonight. you said if there were a category for the most annoying show, this might win as well. now what some people perceive as annoying has nothing to do with yuppie. i think yuppie is a word made up by demographers and advertisers to sell soap. it doesn t have anything to do with what the show is. 30 something was not a giant hit, but it was a niche hit. it attracted an enormously upscale group of advertisers. the network cared who was watching, not how many were watching. and that was more and more catching
everyone on “dynasty,” like the carringtons. and it all just ended up being a wonderful picture of fun and debauchery. greed was encouraged in the 80s. there was a sense of conspicuous consumption as being okay. and those shows kind of exploited that. primetime families like the carringtons who live here in luxury on the “dynasty” sound stage are not the only rich folk on tv. in the last five years, more than half of all new shows have featured the wealthy. ten years ago, that figure was zero. it was an accident. your father s dead. falcon crest was a wine family. there s lorenzo lamas, and there s ronald reagan s first wife. jane wyman is on that show. emma is pregnant. i know a doctor who can take care of it right away. that will never happen. all of the shows, where, oh, my god, what s next? what s going to happen with that? he can t get away with that. and then you tune in, it was appointment television. what will become of the missing twins on knots l
of three networks. more than 30 million people are addicted to it. social critics are mystified by its success. what is it? it s television s prime time prairie potboiler dallas. a move like that will destroy all of ewing oil and ruin our family name! i assure you, a thought like that never crossed my mind. brother or no brother, whatever it takes, i ll stop you from destroying ewing oil. dallas really did establish new ground in terms of a weekly one-hour show that literally captivated america for 13 years. dallas is a television show which in some ways is rooted in the 1970s. and one of the crazy things that emerges is this character, j.r. ewing, as a pop phenomenon. tell me, j.r., which slut are you going to stay with tonight? what difference does it make? whoever it is, it s got to be more interesting than the slut i m looking at right now. he was such a delicious villain. everyone was completely enamored by this character. at this point, so many people we