People may get insulted by this, but the truth hurts. This is what has happened - even to the point where wholesome stuff is now considered "not real", and old shows are meant to be spoofed, such as with THE BRADY BUNCH MOVIE. It's now supposed to be funny and 'not real' when a guy wanted to...
People can only watch what is made available to them on television in the first place as part of a menu. If, for an extreme example, the networks only offered shows like THE WALTONS, THE BRADY BUNCH, THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW, LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE and FATHER KNOWS BEST, then these would be...
Jason - I see you were born in 1973. That was a great year. I was 11 and recall watching one of my favorite premiere episodes of THE ODD COUPLE only a few days before you came into the world ("The Odd Decathalon"). :)
Did you ever hear of a TV series called JULIA? It premiered in 1968...
Cheers, Gary. Just look around the TV channels --- on one channel (or two or three) we've got what passes for "music" today with cRap -- then bounce to another channel and you're watching the latest court reports on who's on trial for killing who -- then you can watch COPS trying to arrest...
Or the exact reverse today, where that's ALL mom and dad are doing - screwing around, and perhaps mom and/or dad has a little "extra" fling going on the side. I don't see why it's wrong to have an "upbeat values" approach but it's perfectly fine to have a dysfunctional "everything sucks and...