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What's the most realistic American sitcom?

TheGhostOfAbeVigoda

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Dummy Gaynuts said:
Roseanne captured the struggling white trash experience pretty well until it got stupid with the wacky lottery winner plot. Grace Under Fire too
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I find it hilarious that Grace Under Fire ended because Brett Butler couldn't stop being such a fucked up wreck. The one 12 year old kid's mom pulled him off the show because Brett The Hitman Butler flashed her tits to him.
 
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All in the Family
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I watched a handful of old "All In The Family" and "MASH" episodes recently, and it's pretty amazing how radically things have changed since then. The early episodes of "MASH" featured a black character named Spearchucker, and Hawkeye was basically a sex-crazed date rapist with a serious drinking problem. And Archie Bunker was the stuff of legend. Hearing him tossing around "fag", "hebe", "coloreds", "Polack" and etc. is as funny now as it was then.
 
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satanssockpuppet said:
I watched a handful of old "All In The Family" and "MASH" episodes recently, and it's pretty amazing how radically things have changed since then. The early episodes of "MASH" featured a black character named Spearchucker, and Hawkeye was basically a sex-crazed date rapist with a serious drinking problem. And Archie Bunker was the stuff of legend. Hearing him tossing around "fag", "hebe", "coloreds", "Polack" and etc. is as funny now as it was then.
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The early episodes of M*A*S*H were often taken from the book. Book even had a Spearchucker character. The author was a surgeon in the Korean War and was depicting a fraternity but in the army. He ended up hating the show for becoming an anti-war sobfest because he didn't agree with those politics.
 
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The Brady Bunch: a show about a closeted homosexual who marries a beard and adopts her kids so that he can stay firmly in the closet.

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Reed and fellow Northwestern student Marilyn Rosenberger married in July 1954.[34] They had a daughter, Karen Rietz, before divorcing in 1959.[35][36]

Reed kept the fact that he was actually gay a close secret, since public knowledge of his true sexual orientation during that era would likely have damaged his career.[37][38]

Several years after his death, Reed's Brady Bunch co-stars – notably Barry Williams and Florence Henderson – publicly acknowledged Reed's sexual orientation, and revealed that the entire cast and crew of The Brady Bunch were aware of it.

Henderson spoke of Reed being in the closet during a 2000 interview with ABC News: "Here he was, the perfect father of this wonderful little family, a perfect husband. Off camera, he was an unhappy person – I think had Bob not been forced to live this double life, I think it would have dissipated a lot of that anger and frustration. I never asked him. I never challenged him. I had a lot of compassion for him because I knew how he was suffering with keeping this secret."[37]

Regarding Reed's unwillingness to discuss his sexuality, even off-camera and in private, Williams told ABC News during an interview in 2000 that "Robert didn't want to go there. I don't think he talked about it with anyone. I just don't think it was open for discussion–period. Had it ever come out that Robert Reed was gay, it probably would have caused the demise of the show. I think it would have hurt his career tremendously."[37]

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In November 1991, Reed was diagnosed with colon lymphoma, a rare form of colon cancer.[39][40][41] When he became ill, he only allowed his daughter Karen and actress Anne Haney, a close friend, to visit him.[35][39] Haney later said of Reed, "He came from the old school, where people had a sense of decorum. He went the way he wanted to, without publicity."[35] Weeks before his death, Reed called Henderson and asked her to inform the rest of The Brady Bunch cast that he was terminally ill.[23] He died on May 12, 1992, at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, California, at age 59.[7]

Initially, Reed's death was solely attributed to cancer, but details which were written on his death certificate were later made public, revealing that Reed was also HIV-positive.[42] The actor had been diagnosed with HIV in the spring of 1991.[40] It remains unknown when Reed contracted HIV because he kept his medical condition and private life a secret from the public until his death, telling only a few close friends"
 
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Dummy Gaynuts said:
Roseanne captured the struggling white trash experience pretty well until it got stupid with the wacky lottery winner plot. Grace Under Fire too
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That’s what made the show great, plus her and her husband were fat which wasn’t something you saw on TV. Usually the fat guy at least has a thin wife. I remember one joke about one of the kids going to the cabinet to get stuff for the food drive and Roseanne told him to get them send them food.
 
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