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30 March 2006

I was just watching TV Land and All in The Family's on. Something occured to me: I'm frustrated and often angry at the world, I work at a tedious low paying job, people drive me crazy, I drink beer too much, I have a favorite chair* and I live in Astoria, Queens.

*sigh*

Alla youse meatheads and dingbats, stifle yourselves.

post by: jonmc at: 18:01 | 12 comments

*its in front of the computer, not the TV, by why pick nits. and get the hell outta my chair.

posted by jonmc 30 March | 18:02

Console yourself knowing that you are more attractive than Archie.

posted by Miss Bitchy Pants 30 March | 18:11

enough about that, gemme a beer, hah?

posted by jonmc 30 March | 18:13

~Mutters~ I'll pour it over your fat head...

posted by Miss Bitchy Pants 30 March | 18:14

As long as you don't spin-off later as jonmc's place I'm OK with it.

posted by Slack-a-gogo 30 March | 18:16

Oooh, now Sanford & Son is on, ya big dummies!

~Mutters~ I'll pour it over your fat head..

How you like one cross yo' lip?!

(these shows are proof that the 1970's was the golden age of the sitcom and that Norman Lear is a God walking among us as a man)

posted by jonmc 30 March | 18:19

You know, not to get all serious but on the DVD commentaries for Family Guy, the show's creator talks a lot about AitF, and how at the time Archie could be a stupid racist bigot, and it was assumed audiences were sophisticated enought to know that he was the joke, but now, we've regressed to the point where it's all surface, and you can't have any character say anything objectionable, even one who's clearly an idiot.

Now would youse stifle already?

posted by Capn 30 March | 19:08

how at the time Archie could be a stupid racist bigot, and it was assumed audiences were sophisticated enought to know that he was the joke,

This is true. And to give Lear even more credit, Archie (and Fred Sanford and George Jefferson) were never allowed to become one-dimensional cartoons that would let the audience off the hook. There was always compassion and even exploration into what made them: witness the famous 'shoe-bootie,' episode.

posted by jonmc 30 March | 19:12

The dumbing down of America, mirrored to us in our sitcoms.

posted by Five Fresh Fish 30 March | 22:36

Please don't jump the shark by taking in a prepubescent Danielle Brisebois, or worse. Promise me that.

Look on the bright side: You'll always have Kelsey's.

posted by go dog go 31 March | 00:05

*and your favorite chair could also end up in the Smithsonian.

posted by go dog go 31 March | 00:06

Not with all them boogies caked up underneath it!

posted by Hugh Janus 31 March | 08:44

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