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...when kids are bred on cynicism. But back then, to me, growing up in a nice middle-class clan with a passing resemblance to the Andersons, the show had the ring of familiarity, if not of gospel truth. Though I didn?t always follow the precepts peddled by Jim and Margaret, I was raised on them. It wouldn?t be a stretch to say that FKB was the documentary of my 1950s - the way the '70s PBS series An American Family might have mirrored real life for younger kids, but with the accent on the positive, not the corrosive...
...created by Ed James for the radio show). Did the writers and directors, and the cast, believe in the small world they reinvented each week? I think they believed in it as a TV reality. What?s more, they sold that reality to the audience with the entrepreneurial conviction Jim must have used on his clients. It was a slick construct, and it was good...
...typical plot had one of the kids getting into a social gaffe or an ethical scrape before Jim stepped in to adjudicate. OK, but where did that leave Margaret...
...kitchen apron, her pretty face set in a near-permanent smile. As each episode?s plot played out, she would be baking cookies or measuring the living-room couch for new slip covers, assuring that the mother ship was shipshape. In a show that ventured infrequently into Jim?s office or the kids? school, where the home was the essential set, Margaret - the only Anderson without a nickname - was also the only one whose daily business didn?t take her away from the house. She was the rock, the one the others came home to. She was the home...
...sitting and 15 minutes of picking up paperwork. As spectator sports go, this is up there with a visit to the DMV or an ice hockey game. I figure they keep it dull to provide contrast with with the moment of 300 millionth American unveiling, just like how Jim Carrey movies are so stupid so he can look more funny in them. Or maybe it's so dull because America only wants people who desperately want to become citizens. If you don't have the stamina, try another country, Bermuda is just down the ocean...