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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 410666" data-attributes="member: 23">Thanks for the warning. I&#039;ll brace myself for a possible further dip when I begin the next season. This goes some way to explaining why it&#039;s become more noticeable at this point. The Mary/Murray relationship has switched if anything, with Mary sometimes supporting Murray through some crisis or self-doubt, so the fact that he gets unconditional support while everyone seems barely able to tolerate Ted (who, as you said, was not a mean-spirited character) seems to somehow reinforce Murray&#039;s treatment of Ted. As you know, I regularly dip into a lot of TV from the era. Mostly British sitcoms, but there is certainly that element there and as a result I probably have a reasonable threshold for it in general. I wonder if British comedy was responsible for the Comedy Of Cruelty wave. American adaptions of British sitcoms seemed to be a big thing around this time.This would not have registered with me at all had I not watched John in both Maude and MTM in recent months. Both great characters, and very different from each other.And I need to watch Roots one of these days (it&#039;s only been on my bucket list for something like four decades).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 410666, member: 23"] Thanks for the warning. I'll brace myself for a possible further dip when I begin the next season. This goes some way to explaining why it's become more noticeable at this point. The Mary/Murray relationship has switched if anything, with Mary sometimes supporting Murray through some crisis or self-doubt, so the fact that he gets unconditional support while everyone seems barely able to tolerate Ted (who, as you said, was not a mean-spirited character) seems to somehow reinforce Murray's treatment of Ted. As you know, I regularly dip into a lot of TV from the era. Mostly British sitcoms, but there is certainly that element there and as a result I probably have a reasonable threshold for it in general. I wonder if British comedy was responsible for the Comedy Of Cruelty wave. American adaptions of British sitcoms seemed to be a big thing around this time. This would not have registered with me at all had I not watched John in both[I] Maude [/I]and[I] MTM[/I] in recent months. Both great characters, and very different from each other. And I need to watch [I]Roots[/I] one of these days (it's only been on my bucket list for something like four decades). [/QUOTE]

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