Interesting that The Cosby Show is not mentioned. Not even in the top ten? Come on.
I think M*A*S*H was a cut above, combining humor with an occasional dose of reality.
If I may be grumpy for a moment, 'All In The Family" was grotesque, if watched closely. The characters were absurd caricatures. Archie Bunker was basically, an "elite" New York Jew's impression of what a working-class Protestant was like. Archie Bunker didn't exist and no one like him ever existed.
Mike Stivic was a shallow piece of garbage whose life and views were so counter to a typical working-class Polish man as to be insulting. Again, Norman Lear and his cronies obviously had no clue about what normal people are like, so invented this caricature and convinced a gullible public that it was realistic.
The whole thing was a Liberal wet dream - made up working-class people who could be made the butt of a perpetual stream of snide jokes and innuendo. What better way to make fun of people with whom you disagree?
I think M*A*S*H was a cut above, combining humor with an occasional dose of reality.
If I may be grumpy for a moment, 'All In The Family" was grotesque, if watched closely. The characters were absurd caricatures. Archie Bunker was basically, an "elite" New York Jew's impression of what a working-class Protestant was like. Archie Bunker didn't exist and no one like him ever existed.
Mike Stivic was a shallow piece of garbage whose life and views were so counter to a typical working-class Polish man as to be insulting. Again, Norman Lear and his cronies obviously had no clue about what normal people are like, so invented this caricature and convinced a gullible public that it was realistic.
The whole thing was a Liberal wet dream - made up working-class people who could be made the butt of a perpetual stream of snide jokes and innuendo. What better way to make fun of people with whom you disagree?