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friendly_iconoclast

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18. Sorry to burst your bubble, but *PBS* (yes, PBS...) invented it
Tue Jan 8, 2013, 03:48 AM
Jan 2013

With An American Family:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_American_Family

An American Family is an American television documentary filmed from May 30 through December 31, 1971[2] and first aired in the United States on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in early 1973. After being edited down from about 300 hours of raw footage, the series ran one season of 12 episodes on Thursday nights at 9:00 p.m.

Originally intended to be a chronicle of the daily life of the Louds, an upper-middle-class family in Santa Barbara, California, the groundbreaking program documented the break-up of the family via the separation and subsequent divorce of parents Bill and Pat Loud.[3] The documentary inspired the MTV reality television series The Real World as well as spoofs such as the Albert Brooks feature film Real Life.


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