watching it every night
I'm addicted...I've been watching it almost every night since I bought it.
She's so rad.
It really was such an innovative show.
Sigh...
It really was such an innovative show.
Are you kidding me?
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Then please explain. How precisely was this show "so innovative"? Was it the stereotypical asian characters (e.g., the brother who's good at math)? The non-koreans playing korean roles (i.e., all asians look alike)? The laughably bad accents?
Do tell. This should be good...
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I don't know about headphone, but I remember being like 10 and watching TV to see a funny Asian character (I'm Korean American) and was so amazed...I had never seen something like that on TV...granted, it was a bit corny, but look at the other sitcoms of that time, they all kind of had that Full House/Blossom quirk...ah the 90's...regardless, I got the boxed set and loved it all over again, I'm 23 now...haha
shareP.S. That is exactly how my family and families of my Korean-American friends were, so sometimes, whether we like it or not, stereotypes are true...you just gotta learn to laugh at them...how do you explain the whole black comedy franchise?
shareNo, why would it have to do with race? Race isn't innovative.
I just enjoyed the unique situations they found themselves in. They weren't necessarily a happy family, it took place in San Francisco of all places and had a more accurate depiction of it (as much as a sitcom can) as opposed to something like Full House.
Shows never focus on the Mother/Daughter aspects of growing up...and if they do they're totally best friends. That's just not how life works. I loved that they got together and took over the Oprah show with their problems. I felt that to be out of character for your typical sitcom.
Most of the actual show takes place outside of the home.
1. The Perfume Counter
2. A seedy club (as a regular set??)
3. The Family Book Store
I felt it showed that you can be disfunctional and still love each other without bad-mouthing each other like on Married With Children...and don't get me wrong I adore that show but its a different type of humor.
That is how this show was innovative in my eyes. These are my feelings and if people agree great...if not that's cool too. I have no problem explaining myself but next time I can do without the snippy responses "this should be good." Mmm Hmm. :) Hope that makes it more evident.
Aleixa: I'm korean american too, and you've kind of missed the point. Stereotypes may have truth, but they're anything but innovative. Now, if they'd actually made a show based on Margaret Cho's true family (i.e., the one that owned the adult bookstore) that would definitely have been innovative.
headphone: In a weird way, I see your point. I'd never considered that this was one of the first shows to focus upon mother-daughter relationships.
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Don't people have anything better to do than bash this show for being stereotypical. Even if they had copied Cho's life scene for scene, it'd include accents and other things that might be viewed as "stereotypes".
And there's nothing wrong with using non-Koreans to play Koreans. Nobody said they all looked alike.
i think the reason its stereotypical like most media. gay men who talky girlishly, asian people who cant speak english well, is so people can clearly indicate what or who they are, if it werent for stereotypes wed be sitting around watching monotonous robots on tv.
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you mean like Bill O'Reilly and Ken Jennings? Now that man (Jennings) sure as hell IS a robot!
shareHA! Could you picture a show "about" or even seeminly mentioning an adult bookstore on ABC!?! God, I can just hear them now : "That is against my religion - I am truly o-fended." Though, on something like Showtime, it would be MAGIC.... (see that episode from Queer as Folk, season 1, where they're in an adult "novelty" shop for more.)
shareUmm... well, do you have a problem w/ a Chinese actress playing a Geisha?
or a black man from the U.S. (**cough cough** Don Cheadle**cough cough**) playing a Rwandan?
or Nigerian actors as South Africans?
Ben Kingsley as Gandhi?
or any of the million other times when someone who is not of that nationality plays that part? a Californian playing a French citizen, or a Candian?
an Austrian playing the role of the governour of California?
I heard they banned Memoirs of a Geisha in China because they used Chinese actors and actresses to portray Japanese people. =/
"Son of a submariner!" - Kefka Palazzo
Further, Margaret Cho herself (a Korean-American) said she couldn't even tell the various Asian counterparts apart!
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