that's kinda funny what you said:
this was like 8 or so years back but still:
on my track team i was the only white guy there, and I remember talking to someone about Seinfeld and it was an ep from years ago, (i think it was the master of your domain ep which was from 92 i think? now bear in mind this story is from '98 and he just it the first time the other day on tv, and i brought up the whole hey you;ve never seen that before? its been on a number of times, (the show itself's been in reruns since 95) so the show's been in reruns for a couple years now as well.
His response "oh i never watched these shows until there was nothing else on that I wanted to watch. they;re actually much better then i thought they would be, but they just seemed too white to me." its too true, I at leasted watched Martin when it was on though cause it followed The Simpsons (favorite show both back in the day and now quite frankly because i'm too much a die hard fan to ever think about not watching it, i hope the movie is godly. yes i said godly.)
and becuase it was on Fox and because it was all the rage in my school--my elementry school but still. (ditto In Living Color) but you know I never thought about white guy watching show with black people or black guy watching show with white people until just then, cause he was right--and once again when Friends and Frasier went off, this time I was working as an usher at a movie theater with a mostly black staff of college kids, once again, none of them could care less that they were goin off, (of course this won;t stop anyone from potentially watching em on tbs or in syndication sometime in the future--it came as a near shock that this guy i knew who was overly concerned with appearing macho to put it mildly was saying something to me about an old will and grace rerun, and when i finally woke up and figured out what he was talking about, i was like you like will and grace? well i never saw it till ch 11 started playing em at midnight, but they;re pretty funny, for a show about... i'm gonna choose to leave out the word he used but i thjink you can imagine what.
what i;m saying is that its funny how that works, a lot of shows don't get sampled by a wide assortment of people until syndication anyways, the way its always been where a middling rated sitcom gets enough years and makes it way to syndication where it finds an audience and a somewhat renewed poularity (for me it was newsradio--oh did i love discovering that show!) and 3rd rock from the sun hit some people i know like that. Oh a good current example would be King of Queens, a very funny sitcom, wel lfunnnier then i ever would have predicted it to be based solely on commercials, that i had zero interest in before ch 9 started showing the reruns (I think this might be the new married with children, i say that becuase that was the gold standard of reruns that ch 9 used to show constantly and now they have the same format with king of queens reruns) Its funny how many non whites ignored and bemoaned the popularity of friends or fraiser or even seinfeld becuase of the love they were constantly getting from white people, only to see them on reruns and sorta like 'em.
its just too bad that networks stopped programming the shows the way they did in the 70's when they had sitcoms with (gasp) different colored people, and assumed that white America would have no problem watching and relating. (a la Good Times and The Jeffersons and Sanford and Son.)
its even worse that the nets have stopped being patient with sitcoms, and only renewing the incredible performers or critically buzzed ones, and canning ones that could potentially be discovered in syndication... Freddie from what i understand was an able performer, and held on to George Lopez's aud, so i did not understand abc's claim for cancellation. (ratings didn't prevent it from axing hope and faith a year ago when it had a steep decline even though it has been canned since.)you know? what's up with lack of patience from the nets and the half hours shows. fox could[ve kept bernie mac limping along for another year, its not like what they have replaced it with (nanny 911) is gonna make any difference ratings wise, and at least they could have sold themselves the new bernie mac eps for syndication and made some money off that. (stupid tenth of a ratings point) likewise, nbc could've kept joey limpin along or something else limpin along. The only net that gets slack Cbs becuase they actually don't have too many time periods where they afford to be slack. too bad though.
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