Does anyone else enjoy watching old shows, from their childhood or even older than that? I watch more classic television than I do current shows. Sitcoms that were already old and in syndication when I was a boy, the western series I used to love after school, the seventies crime-dramas we watched with mom.
I'm currently watching The Bob Newhart Show. It premiered when I was six and went off the air when I was twelve. My family watched it and I remember laughing a lot at Howard, but I don't think I was savvy to Bob Newhart's low-key humor until later when I was older and watched his Newhart series. I'm loving this show and my childhood crush on Suzanne Pleshette has been rekindled.
Next I'm going to binge The Rockford Files.
It'd be seen as striking back against "woke culture".
The way this septic isle is going I won’t be surprised if reruns of Love Thy Neighbour etc aren’t just around the corner.
I've never seen 'Til Death Do Us Part. Watching an episode right now on youtube. It's weird seeing these unknown characters that I know so well. The physical resemblance between Edith Bunker and Elsie Garnett is incredible.
On the opposite end of that spectrum, I still revere All In The Family and can watch it without being offended by all the bigotry because I'm fairly certain that everyone watching it understood that the entire premise of the show was to ridicule bigotry and reveal the ignorance of Archie Bunker.
I've just finished the entire run of Barney Miller, a favorite in our family when I was growing up. It's still funny and the cast was great, but the amount of stereotypical jokes aimed at Harris, the only black detective, Yemena, a Japanese detective and, to a lesser extent, the Polish Wojciehowicz, was astounding. They were gratuitous jokes that lent nothing to the stories and, looking back on it now, tarnish the rest of the otherwise great scripts.
Oh, and of course Married With Children (hence the avatar). Trail blazing comedy TV in completely inverting the standard sitcom family trope.