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70, if I could add to your second paragraph. Many comedy shows are just one big string of sexual innuendos, and most of them not so subtle.
I routinely watch pilots and first episodes to find new “gems.” I remember watching about half way into the second episode of two broke girls after watching the entire pilot. I guess I was waiting for it to get better. One big sex joke after another.
Tried Two Men etc and same thing.
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I have given up on comedies on t.v. and film (with the exception of Big Bang Theory). I keep waiting for the laughs to come, they never do. This is what I meant on my earlier post as to younger “writers” not knowing how to write a good script that is entertaining. This is the blowback from a dysfunctioning educational system. I do believe the two are connected.
On a recent Rifleman show a friend of (the lead character) Lucas McCain, was mortally injured. He asked Lucas to make a 3 to 4 day ride to bring his recent bride back so he could see her one last time. When Lucas got to where she was he discovered her cavorting with 3 men who obviously had money. She didn't want to go but he brought her anyway, out of devotion to his friend.
Various other details added to the moral tension, but specifics were barely discussed. There were no moralizing speeches, no big changes. There was temptation for Lucas, and he was also challenged by her. In the end Lucas' friend died after he saw his wife. Lucas went his way with his integrity intact. She went her way clearly planning not to rebuild hers. No easy answers were given. But right and wrong and their possible consequences were presented in a subtle but very real way.
Today we have "friends" who make sex jokes and verbally abuse each other in between bedding each other. Scrips are, apparently, written at a level a notch or two above a Scooby Doo cartoon. Why should we be surprised that America is so hungry for a show like "Duck Dynasty"?