Hard to believe nowadays

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and Morecambe and Wise

Never thought it was especially funny back then, but now, yeeccch! Women are only worthwhile in tight clothes and jiggling, amirite?

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I'm still a fan of Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Jason Alexander, but even Seinfeld has made some anti-woke comments lately, and some hyper masculinity nonsense.

Too bad, I was an early fan in the '90s. No more.

Also nothing of Clint Eastwood anymore since his anti-Democrat empty chair rant at the RNC a few years back.

The rest of them were pretty stupid, notably The Flying Nun, My Mother the Car, Happy Days, most everything from the '70s.

I can't name them on the spot...

"Spear Chucker" and he wasn't white! He wasn't a regular on the show, but when I heard that a few years ago, it turned my head.

Otherwise, a fantastic series.

The character was an NFL pro and a neurosurgeon. Col. Blake and others in the MASH unit requested him to be transferred to them because they were to play a football game against a general’s team. He was their ringer.

He was called that because he was a javelin thrower for his track team.

The ringer on the general’s team was from the NFL.

hates MASH for the way they depicted Koreans. The anti war message is timeless . But, lots of things on MASH didn't age well.

How many people of color graduated from medical schools?
How many people of color were Army officers?
How many people of color in the Army were in positions to order white folk around?

Actually MASH was pretty accurate. Think of the movie. How did the unit, or why did the unit get the black surgeon? He had been one of the great pro football players prior to the war, and the MASH unit needed him for their football game against the general's team which had several AA players such Buck Buchanan and Nolan Smith (who by the way was sitting next to me when I was a kid when I went to the movie, yes I was underage)

Whole different story. Just sitting there at the movie MASH and the black guy next to me looked down the row and called to my brother, they knew each other. My brother looked at me and told me that was Nolan Smith. My brother worked at one of the public golf Courses in KC. and He met several Chiefs through working there: Nolan, Buck Buchanan, Ernie Ladd, Emmitt Thomas, and few more Chiefs.

Nothing else comes even close

The stoned by brownies episode comes to mind first though not a particularly unique storyline.

One of the best sitcoms for its time, IMO.

Love the werewolf episode

Unforgettable. I love Hal linden. I think he's still around, God bless him

The perfect foil for all the others. (Someone had to be sane) 😏

I loved it when Wojo thought he saw a UFO and a guy from the govt came to their office to discuss it, clearly not believing the claim. It was an added touch to have the guy wear the visor of his hat so low you couldn't see his eyes. 😆 There were a few references about it, made by the guys, which really cracked me up.

He seemed like the real deal

It was rumored he was a good guy. He was a band leader before he took up acting.

I guess I forgot just how much Dietrich added to the show.

The Pterodactyl quip about half through was good.

I still watch ir and am amazed that most of the social problems they had are still around. I liked the one where the woman wanted her husband arrested for rape and how novel it was at the time. Didn't always like Fish though.

that a woman accused her husband of rape. Yeah that's funny. Of course she was lying. No, that didn't age well.

https://www.wmtc.ca/2017/09/the-strange-case-of-barney-miller-rape_7.html

It was really ugly. Stopped watching that show.

And Barney treated it with respect and called in the DA and actually treated it seriously. At the time i was glad to see the subject raised..

Plus, it had some of the best opening music ever.

especially early on.

I recall an episode where there was a chance the camp would be overrun by North Koreans.

Margaret asked what guarantee would the nurses have not to be "repeatedly violated"--which was as close as you could get to saying "gang rape" on TV back then.

Hawkeye answered, "What kind of guarantee do you want?" Cue the laugh track.

I think the show improved enormously once the laugh track was elminated.

In fact, for me most early TV is unwatchable precisely because of a laugh track.

in its societal message, so I give it that. Same with Maude and several other shows of that era.

Even those shows that were probably funny at the time are hard to watch now because of those horrendous laugh tracks. Uggh.

Perhaps All in the Family is hard to watch because so many of the issues are still with us. Pervasive.

Tried it again a couple years ago …so misogynistic couldn’t stand it. Funny thing is my wife suggested it at the time she thought was good for laughs. Time does make a difference.

8:00 was Cosby with Cheers at 9:00
Then it was Cheers and Seinfeld
Then it was Friends and Seinfeld

In between was formulatic until the 10:00 cop show.

ER was on Thursday night too.

The Andy Griffith Show, The Beverly Hillbillies, and Petticoat Junction. I couldn’t stand Green Acres then, or now, and of the others only the Griffith show is still watchable for me.

Still think so.

how they were : unprepared for the country

I think it’s surviving based on the good vibes we remember from the nineties, but just barely.

Fly these days.

The girls all were very emotional and dang nam it Jim always knew the right answer.

If for no other reason than the "Bang, zoom, to the moon, Alice" line.

...Alice's reaction to him saying that always told me Ralph was all bluster. He'd never actually hit Alice.
And, she knew it. He brought home the paycheck, but Alice ran things.

always yelling, and he treated his buddy like crap.

TV is shit nowadays. All in the Family is one of my all time greats!! But then again, I haven't watched a TV show regularly since West Wing and Boston Legal. (Breaking Bad doesn't count since I streamed and binged it.)

I think television from the past 25 years is far, far, better than television pre-2000. Racism, sexism, homophobia and general un-funniness were the order of the day.

I don't watch it today, but I liked it back in the day - except for the way Archie treated Edith. That just pissed me off.

I remember only the ending of one episode.

Archie was mistaken for a Jew and a swastika was painted on his door. A Jewish extremist named Paul (I think) visited the Bunker home. Surprisingly Archie and Paul hit it off. When Paul left the house, after Archie closed the door, there was an explosion. Archie looked out the door and said "It's Paul . . . they blew him up in his car."

Anyone else remember that one?

...and I believe the very Hispanic Gregory Sierra played Paul.

I remember, at the time, they had content advisories before the episodes and, because of those, I had the "thrill" of feeling like I was getting away with doing something I shouldn't be doing when I watched. Of course, the content was relatively mild by today's standards.

In reviewing the reruns nowadays, there are only a few episodes I still like. The ones with Bea Arthur as Edith's cousin, Maude Findlay, still make me laugh. Also, I still like the episodes with Betty Garrett as the Bunkers'/Stivics' neighbor, Irene Lorenzo, and Vincent Gardenia as Irene's husband, Frank. Other than those, I can skip the rest of the reruns and not feel like I've missed anything.

her because of it. Beverly was good friends of Edith.

but Cheers certainly did. I re-watched it in its entirety a few months ago and felt is was just as funny now as it was in the 80's.

the later years.

Margaret Houlihans character and other nurses changed.

The Honeymooners is not on my
watch list.

Call me a heretic. It just isn't funny.

...I was bothered by how stupid, inept, deceitful and manipulative the Lucy character had to act in order to get what she wanted and needed.

Gleason's character seemed very mean to my young self.

Never could stand the Barney Fife character or either Gomer or Goober Pyle characters.

Knowing what we know about him now, all that fake virtue signalling he did in the Cosby Show makes me sick.

And then there's a scene in one of those shows that reminds me of my abusive step father, whom couldn't see past his own motives and prejudices and always projected that onto myself and others.

The scene in question is where he rips into his TV son, Theo, for not doing well in school, accusing him of all sorts of things, where later on we find out the reason he did so poorly was dyslexia, something he was born with and couldn't fix easily on his own. That scene made me want to punch Cosby for emotionally abusing his son that way.

weird how it all turned out.. that Cosby was a serial rapist.

annoying. Never thought Lucy was funny. Friends I don't know never watched one episode.

Which was going on at the time. I think that made for some cognitive dissonance and they also kind of ran out of plot lines once they'd exhausted all the schtick (Jamie Farr in women's clothing, the Hot Lips Houlihan storyline, Radar being kind of dorky, the snarky surgeons). That was one show that went way past its shelf life, IMO.

Couldn't stand it then, even worse now.

I actually wish it didn't hold up as well as it does, because we're still fighting a lot of the same battles.