See post 175, George Jefferson served his purpose as well.
The job of Norman Lear was never to hit you over the head to confront middle America and drive them away, it was to get you to watch, and to use his 25 minutes to always move you gently to the left of where you started.
If you study advertising you learn that the dumbest commercials that people mock as too stupid to be effective, are often the most effective, because they don’t trigger the defenses of the audiences mind, rather than think or ponder, the audience merely absorbs a couple of simple, basic, messages which are repeated for months and years.
What do you think of 13:08 through 16:28?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ODbpbXrC0vw#!
Thanks.