2. Pride of place in Vigoda's career was his turn as Tessio in the Godfather movies. But let's not forget Sgt. Phil Fish in Barney Miller
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3. Barney Miller belonged to a waive of workplace/working class comedies in 1970s: like Taxi, Laverne & Shirley, All in the Family, etc.
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4. There were working class sit coms before 1970s (i.e. Honeymooners) but the genre really flourished in that decade.
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5. The working class was visible in popular culture in 1970s in way it hadn't been since 1930s and hasn't really been since 1980.
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6. Special juncture that made working class sit coms flourish was breakdown of consensus culture which assumed USA was middle class country
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7. Tied to the breakdown of consensus was new working class militancy which often broke from unions to wildcat strikes.
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8. What made Barney Miller a working class comedy rather than cop show was tone and setting: set in police station.
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9. World of Barney Miller was a frumpy, dishevelled world, with lots of inter-office struggles beyond cops versus robbers.
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10. Barney Miller was a middle manager who could barely control unruly station. As the weathered Fish, Vigoda was anchor of station.
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11. Vigoda's Fish (like Redd Foxx's Sanford or Carroll O'Connor's Archie Bunker) was a character who wore weight of his class on his body
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12. Vigoda was fortunate to have the opportunity Barney Miller gave him and he made the most of it.
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13. That working class culture moment came to an end with Reagan & the crushing of the union. Sanford & Son gave way to The Cosby Show.
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