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Norman Lear Sitcoms ‘All in the Family,’ ‘The Jeffersons’ Being Eyed by Sony for Reboots
variety.com ^ | December 16, 2016 | 07:00PM PT | Senior TV Reporter Daniel Holloway

Posted on 12/19/2016 2:30:15 PM PST by Red Badger

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To: boop
One that will never be funny in reruns is Maude.

Yeah, but it had Adrienne Barbeau.


61 posted on 12/19/2016 5:25:01 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Red Badger

Might as well redo Sanford and Son.


62 posted on 12/19/2016 5:48:50 PM PST by Mozilla (Truth Is Stranger than Fiction.)
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To: Paladin2

He’d be perfect for What’s Happening.


63 posted on 12/19/2016 5:49:52 PM PST by Mozilla (Truth Is Stranger than Fiction.)
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To: Red Badger

They will ruin these shows like they ruin everything else they remake. These shows were not politically correct.

More importantly, these shows were not mean.

Any thing concocted now will not understand that concept.


64 posted on 12/19/2016 5:54:46 PM PST by dforest
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To: Red Badger

I laughed when Edith talked about Archie calling the dentist the tooth “fairy”. Lol.


65 posted on 12/19/2016 6:01:47 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (Lock her up!)
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To: dfwgator

No argument.


66 posted on 12/19/2016 6:10:17 PM PST by boop ("We don't feel like we are doing anything illegal"- Democrat credo)
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To: Mozilla

Might as well redo Sanford and Son......Oh, pulllleeeeze! We just had eight years of that old schtick!.


67 posted on 12/19/2016 6:13:18 PM PST by Safetgiver (Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: Red Badger

Because rebooting old movies is working out so well, I suppose?


68 posted on 12/19/2016 7:17:00 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: cyclotic

Gloria is a tranny and Meathead has to have breast reduction surgery for his moobs.


69 posted on 12/19/2016 8:53:53 PM PST by JaguarXKE (n1973: Reporters investigate All the President's Men. 2013: Reporters ARE all the President's men d)
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To: dfwgator

Those should be registered as a deadly weapon!


70 posted on 12/19/2016 8:55:13 PM PST by JaguarXKE (n1973: Reporters investigate All the President's Men. 2013: Reporters ARE all the President's men d)
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To: JaguarXKE

She was definitely one of my big schoolboy crushes.


71 posted on 12/19/2016 10:22:29 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: JaguarXKE

Then meathead converts to Islam and has to repress his urges to decapitate Archie.


72 posted on 12/20/2016 5:16:27 AM PST by cyclotic (Democrats haven't been this mad since we freed their slaves)
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To: Red Badger
Norman Lear Sitcoms ‘All in the Family,’ ‘The Jeffersons’ Being Eyed by Sony for Reboots

Proving once again that there is no originality in Hollywood.

73 posted on 12/20/2016 5:18:08 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Mozilla

Sanford and Son itself was a Americanized version of a British sit-com....................


74 posted on 12/20/2016 6:04:43 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Responsibility2nd

In the spin-off, Mike had left Gloria to live in a commune in Oregon with some young student of his (he was a professor of something in CA), leaving Gloria and his 7-8 year old son, so they moved back to NYC. The show also starred Burgess Meredith as a curmudgeonly veterinarian for whom she worked...............


75 posted on 12/20/2016 6:10:38 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

OMG I LOVED these shows, it was a time when we had humor and could laugh at ourselves!!! The PC crowd heads will explode!!! George Jefferson was a hoot but I LOVED the maid Florence she was hysterical, George called the upstairs neighbors a mixed race couple Zebras FUNNY!!!! There is NO ONE in the world that could replace Archy that WILL BE impossible!!!


76 posted on 12/20/2016 6:16:21 AM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

I don’t think they can recreate them with the same level of comedy AND comity the had then.

A 90’S show starring Henry Winkler as a conservative talk radio host, patterned after Archie Bunker, was a flop......


77 posted on 12/20/2016 6:35:10 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: dfwgator

For me it was Mary Ann on Gillian’s Island :)


78 posted on 12/20/2016 11:35:15 AM PST by JaguarXKE (n1973: Reporters investigate All the President's Men. 2013: Reporters ARE all the President's men d)
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To: Salamander
little girls doll babies with willies..

How 2016!

79 posted on 12/20/2016 7:13:41 PM PST by Oztrich Boy ("Laws are for the guidance of wise men and the blind obedience of fools" Solon, Lawmaker of Athens)
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To: BenLurkin

‘Good Times’ and ‘The Jeffersons’ were rather conservative weren’t they? It was about family and hard work being rewarded. Norman Lear turns 95 today actually.


80 posted on 07/27/2017 3:11:37 PM PDT by Borges
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