I was never much of an All in the Family fan (I preferred Mary Tyler Moore), but I do agree with Tony Figueroa about the state of sit-coms today. He hits that proverbial nail on the head in this excerpt from a reprint of a column from 2004:

Painful because most of the sit-coms that we have left are just bad. It's painful to even watch them. No new ideas, bad acting, and bad writing. Instead of a plot they string together a bunch of sexual innuendoes and call it "sophisticated". That's not a sit-com. That's a burlesque show.For example, the girl with the large breasts is dumb and the girl with the small breasts is smart. But the girl with the small breasts is still jealous of the girl with the large breasts because she has large breasts. I guess that's more sophisticated than what we did in the old days when the blond was dumb and the brunette was smart. Or we see, Enter smart black guy. He greets stupid white guy. Within a few seconds we hear, "You know, some of my best friends are black".

Read the rest of CHILD OF TELEVISION: Those Were the Days.

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