DIFFERENT STROKES SEASON 1 EPISODE 9 TV

вЂњ were always scheduled for sweeps weeks, and so clearly had ratings expectations.вЂќД®mily Nussbaum, the TV critic for The New Yorker, says that while very special episodes tend to be artless, condescending, and simplistic, their greater influence is harder to assess. вЂњI think that might have had to do with cynical marketing opportunities as much as a desire to serve the public,вЂќ says Arthur Smith, an assistant curator at the Paley Center for Media.

Eventually they grew into something more clumsy and predictable. VSEs trace their roots back to the Norman Lear sitcoms of the вЂ™70s, such as All in the Family and Good Times, which directly tackled social issues for the first time.

In their time, very special episodes were the modern equivalent of GrimmвЂ™s Fairy Tales: a sitcom formula designed to foster dialogue, with a serious tone that helped parents talk to their kids about drugs, sex, and violence. And yet while the device itself may be dead, the socially conscious objective at its core has evolved, and lives on in a spate of subtle, cleverer TV series. Consequently, after being a small-screen staple for years, this often awkward model of entertainment is nearly nonexistent. To sophisticated modern viewers wary of soapboxes, very special episodes are now dated relics that feel excessively earnest and painfully overt. Tanner, Zach Morris-and put them in close contact with harrowing life events to send a moral message. Like carefully crafted public service announcements, they took characters audiences laughed with and cared about-Theo Huxtable, D.J. вЂThe Timeline YouвЂ™re All Living in Is About to CollapseвЂ™ Amanda WicksДЇrom child molestation on DiffвЂ™rent Strokes to WillвЂ™s emotional вЂњdeadbeat dadвЂќ rant on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, the very special episodes of вЂ™80s and вЂ™90s sitcoms introduced young viewers to intense, real-world issues.

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