• Altima NEO@lemmy.zip
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    Dont forget that while Al was miserable all the time, he did have a good family that always had each others backs when the Bundy name was sullied. He always had plenty of free time and money to spend at the nudie bar. And enough cash to take a vacation from time to time.

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      I feel like everyone is not remembering just how miserable their lives were. Yeah he was in a house with a family, but their trips were always either a trick or a horrible mistake, like the radioactive lake. Or the cursed town.

      The main running gag of the Bundie’s was that they couldn’t afford to eat and Al’s car was barely living. They weren’t enviable, they were cousin Eddie in the suburbs.

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    It’s a good meme, but that show had far too much overt and normalized misogyny in it. Watching it these days is cringey as fuck.

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      It’s important to understand cultural context in old shows. You don’t need to agree with them or find enjoyment in every single thing of a show.

      For example, The Honeymooners from the 50s openly joked about domestic violence (“pow, right in the kisser”), but the show was still pretty endearing overall.

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        Well, Married with Children was making fun of that. And a lot of other things, too. It was an anti-sitcom before Seinfeld perfected the idea.

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          All in the Family did it first. The problem with both shows is it’s real hard to tell satire from actually espousing conservative views and sexism.

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        The cultural context for myself as a teenage boy was that Christina Applegate was in it.

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        Sorry, best I can offer you is a flippant observation about decade old media perceived only through the myopic lens of progressive youth shielded from the realities of culture in America.

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      In fairness it punched both ways. For every complaint Al made about his nagging money-spending wife, Peggy dunked on his poor performance in bed or inability to aim at the toilet.

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      This is true but I would argue that you’re supposed to watch it like you would watch It’s Always Sunny. You’re supposed to tell from the moment they open their mouths that these people are assholes and you’re not supposed to root for them

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      If that’s your take then you’re ignoring an awful lot.