The history of sitcoms as performed by Will Smith and Jimmy Fallon is pretty cool to listen to since you can hear the history in the music and remember all these great shows from back in the day when they used to still be so popular. The Jeffersons, Good Times, The Golden Girls, Family Ties, The Andy Griffith Show, I Dream of Jeannie, Martin, Three’s Company, and of course The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air were all classics that earned their spot in TV history years ago. There might be a few I missed but you might recognize them if you watch the video. The point is that all these classics are seemingly being forgotten the older a lot of us get and yet thankfully some folks can still recall them and the theme songs that helped lead us in to each episode.
While the TV shows of today aren’t that bad and in some cases are just flat out awesome they’re still not the same since they don’t always have the same feel as the shows of back then. Or at least that’s what we tell ourselves since nostalgia plays a big part of how we tend to feel about things from our past. Still, it seems like the shows back then had a lot more heart at times than those of today since now it’s a matter of packing in as many shows as possible without the thought to how people are going to feel about taking away one show and replacing it with something else that might not be quite as good but somehow reached a required approval rating with a test audience. That just sounds so cold and technical doesn’t it? What happened to people just being able to like a show and enjoy it throughout the length of its run? Oh, right, we don’t enjoy things anymore unless they’re approved of by those that know what good television is all about.
Sadly those experts don’t always seem to pick the best shows and yet are still lauded for their genius and business savvy over their sense of taste and knowing what people want. Focus groups might serve a purpose in some cases but when it comes to TV people are going to watch if they feel that it’s something they can relate to. If not then they’re going to watch because there’s really nothing else on, not because they particularly enjoy it. The people pushing the sitcoms back in the day, even if some of them are the same today, seemed to get it a lot more than those pushing shows left and right in the modern era. It’s not so much about quantity as it is about quality, the latter has really been neglected while the former has been pushed again and again. People are going love the shows they watch if they happen to relate to them in some way, but pushing them on the public doesn’t always seem to work.
At least we have the memories of shows that used to appeal to a lot of people.
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