“The age of bumper sticker politics is upon us and this show was part of the shameful promotion of it. Laughter was the camouflage...”
It’s interesting watching the old sitcoms from the early 70s and seeing the politics written into the shows. I recently watched the first few seasons of Mary Tyler Moore. I noticed at season 3 (I believe) the Nixon jokes in the first several episodes and out of curiosity I checked to see the year those shows aired, just ahead of the ‘72 election as I suspected.
There had been plenty of anti-LBJ jokes flowing from (justified) opposition to the Vietnam War. Comics have ribbed all our presidents up until Obama. Now it’s all one sided and mean against Republicans.