nostr:npub1dq6k9s6pyy42c9yp0nk4ny7ma6wuadg4rmcfrsh23ek7suq06r2shnkl95 Nearly all sitcoms are based on people lying and trying to not get caught and then having a humorous outcome. The best reversal was a long ago Diff’rent Strokes where the racist father of a white girl that Arnold had befriended supposedly “learned his lesson” from Mr. Drummond at the end. What do you learn, Mr. D. asked: “to keep my opinions to myself.” (Bigot not rewarded, btw.) That was amazing. Overturned the convention. Sadly rare.
nostr:npub1dq6k9s6pyy42c9yp0nk4ny7ma6wuadg4rmcfrsh23ek7suq06r2shnkl95 But you’re also not wrong! I semi-hate-watched it. Frasier was the show that got the “squick” moment of sitcom discomfort faster than any other and then maintained it longer. It was sometimes in the first minute! I kind of despise the whole sitcom mechanism now, despite having loved many shows.
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