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In reply to the discussion: Whats your all time favorite comedy show? [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)It gets under your skin--you remember all those idiotic things from the eighties. The mother (you want to kill her at first, then you start liking her in an odd way--she's a real busybody who wants the best for her children) has the Fawcett flip, the father (who takes off his pants when he comes home and wanders around in his underwear so he doesn't ruin his crease) doesn't know how to work the VCR and yells a lot, ineffectually, the children fight over stupid things that are half-forgotten cultural references, and the grandfather is one of those old horndog guys you'd see at the disco who bridges the generations because the youngest kid, especially, confides in him. It's got the same snark vibe as The Millers with a kid at the center of it all -- a kind of Jewish THE WONDER YEARS, only a bit more sardonic.
I enjoy the hell out of television--it helps me fill in the gaps when I was away from USA, which was often. When VCRs first came out, I was one of the earliest adapters, and I had my family send me great swathes of recorded over-the-air television; I'd get eight hours of TV at a pop (recorded on the slowest speed to get the most outta the tape!), commercials and all, and it helped me keep in touch with American culture and changes to it.