life is never like the tv shows, at least not like they portray it explicitly. but if you learn to read between the lines, you can make a good idea of how life was by watching shows from that period.
Roseanne did hit close. I could relate to many moments in the show. The house set up even had a feel of so many houses of friends I had been in for that time.
For some stupid ass reason one of the earlier memories I have from the 90s (like 1998?) was when we were on vacation in San Francisco and saw two girls kissing each other.
I think the truth is that the media is as pozzed as real life is (and truly was once you got behind the curtain).
>Roseanne is the best depiction of average American life
A certain type of America, perhaps
I don't think any show has ever really focused on how different it is living in different income brackets. The Friends crew should have been poverty level but they were living like millionaires
Born in 83. The kids spent way too long in their house. We were out all day as kids. Parents had no idea where we were or what we were doing. We did a lot of shoplifting from toy and pet stores. Walked or rode a lot. We didn't have walkmans or headphones and our lives didn't revolve around music.
Yeah, LA used to be majority white since the spics/Black folk/asiatics all stuck to their own neighborhoods until the early to mid 2000s. Moved out of LA back in 2010, it's filled to the brim with hispanics and Black folk these days.
It was more like Step By Step
day by day
>set in san francisco
>not a single asian character
>not a single gay character
lolz no
The show rarely leaves the Tanner's house.
statistically speaking two of the kids should have been korean. to their credit, uncle joey was a homosexual
imagine if their house got raided by chinks and leather daddies
Asians were 20% of the population in 1980, they stuck to a handful of neighborhoods and most were first-generation and spoke very little English
umm sweaty
Harry Takayama.
The mock wedding. He has to go when he finds out his mom has meatloaf cooking.
it really was a simpler time
life is never like the tv shows, at least not like they portray it explicitly. but if you learn to read between the lines, you can make a good idea of how life was by watching shows from that period.
Given the show was set in late 80s San Fran, where there any episodes dedicated to AIDS?
I think every 80’s and 90’s show had an AIDS epsiode
No, not really. Do not take as a historical document or a reflection of real life. Very unrealistic in several fundamental aspects.
Roseanne is the sitcom that comes closest to real life at the time.
What about Boy Meets World?
Roseanne did hit close. I could relate to many moments in the show. The house set up even had a feel of so many houses of friends I had been in for that time.
one of the all-time great opening themes
yes, life was exactly like tv until 9/11 that when things started changing
No, if you barely zoom out of the Painted Ladies on their street, it's a hellhole.
One of those went on sale earlier this year for $3.5 million, I'd bet the final price was closer to $5 million
How is that a hellhole? It’s a park and some high rises. Why are Americans so afraid of tall buildings?
How stupid are you
theys a problem with all the open air pooping ala india
It was more like Family Matters
a lot of full house was really boring
For some stupid ass reason one of the earlier memories I have from the 90s (like 1998?) was when we were on vacation in San Francisco and saw two girls kissing each other.
I think the truth is that the media is as pozzed as real life is (and truly was once you got behind the curtain).
And you deduced this from a single experience in the late 90s on a trip to the most left-wing city on the planet?
>The 90s is 30 years in the past
>was life on TV accurate of real life
No. Not once. Not ever.
Not even Everybody Loves Raymond?
I hate that guy.
yeah it was frickin awesome
No, if anything Roseanne is the best depiction of average American life in the 90s, at least for the first 5 or 6 seasons.
>Roseanne is the best depiction of average American life
A certain type of America, perhaps
I don't think any show has ever really focused on how different it is living in different income brackets. The Friends crew should have been poverty level but they were living like millionaires
>living like millionaires
Their apartment building didn't even have an elevator or designated parking or central air conditioning.
A huge fricking flat like that in Manhattan is millionaires.
If that's millionaire living in Manhattan I don't know why anyone would want to live there unless they have to for work.
Born in 83. The kids spent way too long in their house. We were out all day as kids. Parents had no idea where we were or what we were doing. We did a lot of shoplifting from toy and pet stores. Walked or rode a lot. We didn't have walkmans or headphones and our lives didn't revolve around music.
I grew up in AZ and we were inside if we could help it. Usually.
sounds like hell
Yeah, LA used to be majority white since the spics/Black folk/asiatics all stuck to their own neighborhoods until the early to mid 2000s. Moved out of LA back in 2010, it's filled to the brim with hispanics and Black folk these days.
Whatever happened to predictability?
The Milkman the Paperboy, and evening TV.
iirc San Fran was actually really nice in the 80s. I lived there until 91.
>.t super boomer