The shows I will compare are ‘All in the Family’ and ‘Weeds’. What both show have in common is obviously that they try to portray families in different eras. They are both funny in different ways, and deal with family related issues and how the deal with stuff that happens day to day.
In the “all in the family” episode we saw, Archie discovers one of his good friend is gay. In this episode the characters keep making gay stereotype references and jokes that honestly don’t even make sense to me. One example was when the bartender tells Mike “I don’t want my place to become no hangout, if you know what I mean” clearly referring to the fact that he doesn’t want his bar to become a “gay bar”. Or when they do the “chair” experiment where only the girls and STEVE could lift up the chair while no other male could and Mike concluded that because of that Steve was gay, reinforcing a fake stereotype.
Nowadays shows try to portray in the best way they can this kind of issues, instead of just talking about them. Sometimes they even make jokes about them. But the big difference between both of this shows is the kind of humor that is used, and I am sure that if all In The Family was still on today people wouldn’t be laughing as much as they did back then.
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