The 70s sitcoms may have been 'liberal', but at least they promoted values.

[Deja Q]

Love, community, respect, working for values...

What do today's sitcoms show? Fart jokes, sarcasm, cynicism.

Fuck today's "society". It's degenerate and evil.


I'll try to sober up later so I can tolerate the feces that our "entertainment" has become.

[DarkTirade]

1. Hey, plenty of shows in the 70s had sarcasm and cynicism...

I've been watching MASH lately. Great show. Plenty of snarkiness and sarcasm. :)

[Deja Q]

2. Oh. I've been stuck watching inferior mash such as

All in the Family
Mork and Mindy
Maude
Good Times (season 1, anyway)
I doubt Three's Company would count...

[LoZoccolo]

4. One day me and some friends were talking...

...about how we are seeing signs of the Jackass generation coming of age. One of them said they learned their values from Star Trek: The Next Generation, and another one said "I think I learned mine from Three's Company: lying *always* fucks things up, and being scared of everything is the key to survival." I think about that a lot.

[Bucky]

3. I'm on the same page with you... and I'm not even drinking

Altho the Tylenol is about to kick in. But yes, tv shows have gotten incredibly amoral. There's a great episode of the Andy Griffith show I saw once in which Andy scolds Opie for tape recording someone admitting to a crime. Andy was still the sheriff (this was before the infamous "Andy and Barney join the Klan and murder Freedom Marchers" episode) and wanted to catch the crook, but he lectured Opie on why it was especially important for law officers to follow the law they uphold.

I quite watching television years ago, but the stuff I've seen on the fly lately has always been about cops breaking any rules they need to in order to bust the punks, the creeps, or the weirdos who "plague" the city. Today's dramas are about dumbed down good vs evil plots and today's sitcoms are about immature giggling at pee-pee jokes.