Sort of a Brady Bunch/Kelly's Kids merger:
Black woman with two girls marries white man with two boys. Together, they adopt an Asian and Spanish child (girl and boy).
Black and white equally bigoted neighbors form sort of a weird "alliance" because they equally hate the "mix".
I don't know if this was meant for humor or not. If it was meant for humor, I'll pop open a brewski tonight and raise a toast to Poe and his fabled law.
But if it was meant seriously ... good God, no! Yet another Hollywood platform for preaching political correctness? Ugh!
If this was meant seriously, I'll pop open a few brewskis tonight and try to forget I ever heard the idea. Sorry, just one guy's opinion, but there it is. :)
Now TOTAL political correctness would add:
One child comes out as gay when he is six
One child identifies as a tree who think's it's a rock
Mike used to be Michelle and Carol used to be Carl
Alice/Alex/Zork changes gender throughout the day
And, one of the boys should be white, heterosexual, and Christian. The others would constantly yammer about how wonderfully tolerant they are, accepting of everyone and everything ... but when that boy is five minutes late getting home from school, the others would scream at him that he is "racist," "sexist," "homophobic," "ageist," full of "hate," etc and that he should "check his white privilege"; and when he says anything at all on any topic they'd claim it's "code language" for bigotry, white supremacy, etc.
shareOf course, the story would always be spun so that the white, heterosexual child was the "wrong" one and the he-she-made up gender is completely right.
shareYep. And here's a thought ... why wait until six years old for the gay kid? How about this for a episode.
1) Two year old son finds mother's makeup kit. He has no idea what it is, and certainly doesn't understand that it's somehow "womanly." Doesn't matter. It has a lot of weird looking stuff he's never seen before. Bottles, brushes, wands, etc, each with a distinctive goo. It's new to him so it's interesting. He indulges his curiosity because that's what two year olds do.
2) Parents see him smearing lipstick, mascara, etc on his surroundings and himself. "Oh, how wonderful! He's claiming his own gender identity ... err, she's claiming her own gender identity! We must support her!"
3) Off to the surgeon; snip, snip!
Can't happen in real life? https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sex-change-treatment-for-kids-on-the-rise/
Oh wait--even better-- Christian married pagan.
shareThey did reboot it in the 90s. It was called Step by Step.
shareYeah and they can call it "The Ethnically Diverse Bunch" they'd have an illegal alien maid who every week gets into hijinks with the ICE officer that almost catches her but she always seems to get away.
shareWell, she/he/they would get away because the multiple personalities would keep authorities from catching "Alice".
Maybe for more political correctness, her name should be Alicia.
There could be a discussion about how "we can understand deporting her if she was here from Poland or Hungary or a country like that illegally. But to deport a Mexican here illegally is just racist!"
How about we throw unexpected social classes in the mix too? White side is poor, black is wealthy yet the mother and father fell in love and married anyway.
Black wealthy kids look at the poor white kids as privileged and oppressors while they dress themselves in designer clothes and make fun of the white kids for still not having upgraded their wardrobe.
White kids start working out that the black family is only wealthy due to racial quota laws and all the leg ups it has been given. ..
Could be fun. But will never happen.