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<blockquote data-quote="Crimson" data-source="post: 417019" data-attributes="member: 5079">It would be a long time before American sitcoms were ready for &quot;unlikable&quot; characters.&nbsp; Dabney Coleman flopped a few times in the 80s trying to make that happen. Sketch comedy can play at a different pitch than a sitcom, which can pull off being broad but still needs some degree of relatability.&nbsp; The FAMILY sketches worked because they were relatively short and infrequent.&nbsp; 30 minutes of Eunice, Ed and Mama screaming at each other for 22 weeks would have been a headache. Even ABFAB rather turned into three harpies shrieking at each otherI think the first two seasons of the sitcom struck a good balance between the sketches and the needs of the sitcom format.&nbsp; The later seasons are sweet and goofy, which is fine, but as far removed from the original concept as the garish color HONEYMOONERS of the 60s were from that original premise.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crimson, post: 417019, member: 5079"] It would be a long time before American sitcoms were ready for "unlikable" characters. Dabney Coleman flopped a few times in the 80s trying to make that happen. Sketch comedy can play at a different pitch than a sitcom, which can pull off being broad but still needs some degree of relatability. The FAMILY sketches worked because they were relatively short and infrequent. 30 minutes of Eunice, Ed and Mama screaming at each other for 22 weeks would have been a headache. Even ABFAB rather turned into three harpies shrieking at each other I think the first two seasons of the sitcom struck a good balance between the sketches and the needs of the sitcom format. The later seasons are sweet and goofy, which is fine, but as far removed from the original concept as the garish color HONEYMOONERS of the 60s were from that original premise. [/QUOTE]

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