Word: sitcoms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...stuff (including Gilligan's Island) before graduating to feature films, thinks not. "There are no sacred cows in television," he says. "The medium is too young." Still, it's hard not to wince in anticipation of three projects based on '50s TV classics: Sgt. Bilko, from the Phil Silvers sitcom You'll Never Get Rich, Father Knows Best and The Honeymooners. These series, pretty perfect in their original incarnations, would seem hard to improve on and all too easy to debase. Yet Ron Howard's Imagine Films believes that casting Steve Martin as Silvers' wheeler-dealer sergeant at a Stateside...
...Father Knows Best, which starred Robert Young as that sitcom rarity, a patriarch who wasn't a buffoon, co-producer Jim Jacks has high hopes for the script by novelist Larry McMurtry (Terms of Endearment). "We'll take on real life as it is today," Jacks promises -- or threatens. "It won't be sensational; they're not going to catch Bud at school with an Uzi. But we'll be looking at very serious problems that must be resolved. It won't be as simple as Princess worrying who's going to take her to the prom...
...They stick with one another through thin and thin. Father Homer, mother Marge, 10-year-old Bart, eight-year-old Lisa and baby Maggie seem to be a typical sitcom family -- the Honeymooners with kids, the Flintstones in suburbia -- with typically outlandish dilemmas to face and resolve each week. But there the similarity ends. Since it sprang in 1990 from cartoon spots on The Tracey Ullman Show, The Simpsons has proved uniquely dense and witty. And thanks to top writers, directors and actors in the care of creator Matt Groening and comedy veteran Jim Brooks, it has stayed that...
Amazingly enough, with its combination of thinly veiled ethnic slurs and body-part jokes, the movie can-not even be offensive. It does not stretch good taste any further than the average bad sitcom or thirty-second spot for anti-perspirant. Instead, it just joins a long line of Hollywood films accepted by the generous arms of pop culture. Quickly produced with their sequels released even more efficiently, they keep the shelves of the nation's video rental stores amply stocked. The Indians have not only forgotten how to play baseball, but also how to be funny...
...send your our tunes, should we send you our Simpsons or our Partridges" department the newest nationally circulated college mag. The Link, arrived in dorms around the country this week. Their music reviews, curiously enough, are rated according to a sliding family-sitcom scale; this week, every album reviewed scored a "Brady" or above (the highest rating is "Simpson," the lowest rating is "Cleaver"). FM guessed that the albums were judged according to what sort of families would listen to them, with the Simpsons tuning in to Elvis Costello and the Partridges preferring the intense emotion of Tori Amos...