Tag: Sitcoms
‘Good Times’: 50 years ago, Norman Lear changed TV with a...
Angela M. Nelson, Bowling Green State University
I loved watching Norman Lear’s trailblazing television shows when I was growing...
What made Bob Saget’s Danny Tanner so different from other sitcom...
Jessica Troilo, West Virginia University
Bob Saget, who died on Jan. 9, 2022, is probably best remembered for his...
Why are sitcom dads still so inept?
Erica Scharrer, University of Massachusetts Amherst
From Homer Simpson to Phil Dunphy, sitcom dads have long been known for being bumbling and inept.
But it wasn’t...
4 reasons why we’ll never see another show like ‘Friends’
Martie Cook, Emerson College and Manuel Basanese, Emerson College
On Sept. 22, 1994, six telegenic 20-somethings frolicked in a fountain in front of credits that...
What Orwell’s ‘1984’ tells us about today’s world, 70 years after...
Stephen Groening, University of Washington
Seventy years ago, Eric Blair, writing under a pseudonym George Orwell, published “1984,” now generally considered a classic of dystopian...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
