Word: sitcomic
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...high school days, the family had moved to Colorado Springs. There wasn't much money around -- the bungalow Burns lived in would probably fit into her current office -- but you could set a sitcom at Cheyenne Mountain High in the '60s. There were "keggers" (beer parties) and "woodsies" (gatherings in a nearby park) set to Simon & Garfunkel and the Beach Boys. Her old pals remember her as a lively girl, just the kind you'd like to take for a spin in your first fire engine. She did seem to figure things out fast and was aware of a wider...
DREAM ON (HBO, various dates). A neurotic New Yorker (Brian Benben) copes with divorce, dating and other modern trials, while scenes from old TV shows rattle around in his head. A clever gimmick perks up familiar material in this engaging sitcom series from executive producer John Landis...
...treatment of most social problems on the networks cannot avoid being tinged with escapism and societal wish fulfillment. With the best of post- Cosby intentions, television seems determined to become the only place in the nation where the black middle class is growing exponentially. Most black sitcoms are like old-fashioned white ones except with better music. On Family Matters, the Winslows all joined together to perform in a rap video to help Eddie win a contest. The kids enjoying a beach vacation on A Different World may be black, but their primary identity seems to be boisterous middle-class...
...does TV breezily dismiss the crisis of the black family. On Bagdad Cafe, Whoopi Goldberg plays a recently jettisoned wife whose son's only adjustment problem is that working in the restaurant kitchen interferes with his ambition to be a classical pianist. This atypical dilemma is resolved in 1950s-sitcom style: Henry Mancini decrees that the kid has real talent...
...program of self-help economics. It largely ignores the ghetto, where the black underclass has built its own furious culture on the slag heap of Great Society failures. It discounts much of the young white working class, in tattered towns and trailer parks, who feel left out of bland, sitcom America...