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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 26 Jan 2016
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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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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 26 Jan 2016
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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.

      15 replies 24 retweets 52 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 26 Jan 2016
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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

      1 reply 6 retweets 17 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 26 Jan 2016
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      7. Tied to the breakdown of consensus was new working class militancy which often broke from unions to wildcat strikes.

      1 reply 4 retweets 11 likes
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 26 Jan 2016
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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.

      2 replies 7 retweets 9 likes
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 26 Jan 2016
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      9. World of Barney Miller was a frumpy, dishevelled world, with lots of inter-office struggles beyond cops versus robbers.

      1 reply 6 retweets 17 likes
    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 26 Jan 2016
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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.

      2 replies 7 retweets 12 likes
    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 26 Jan 2016
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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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    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 26 Jan 2016
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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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    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 26 Jan 2016
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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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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 26 Jan 2016

      14. People rightly point out that post-1980 we had Roseanne. But that, and a few cartoons like The Simpsons, are the exception.

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 26 Jan 2016
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          15. (There's another essay to be written on why American TV is often most comfortable dealing with working class in cartoons).

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        3. Michael Hendricks‏ @MHendr1cks 26 Jan 2016
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          @HeerJeet 30 Rock looks at this in the ep "Let's Stay Together," where a working class sitcom pilot is rewritten with a talking dog.

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        2. James Crampton  🇺🇦‏ @JimCramptonWPG 26 Jan 2016
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          @HeerJeet You're right. Most sitcoms reflect middle class, or upper middle class. The Huxtables, for example.

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        3. judy rudin  🇨🇦 ☔‏ @judyrudin 26 Jan 2016
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          @JimCramptonWPG @HeerJeet Perhaps 'aspirational' Amreican Dream? We were just talking Norman Lear comedies in my UBC class on humour../2

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        2. Esther Breger‏Verified account @estherbreger 26 Jan 2016
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          @HeerJeet there was a burst of working class comedies in late '80s/very early '90s (Roseanne, Simpsons, Married w/ Children)

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        3. Esther Breger‏Verified account @estherbreger 26 Jan 2016
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          @HeerJeet I think NBC's Must-See-TV helped kill the trend. Though TV has improved on this front very recently (Mom, Shameless, Raising Hope)

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        1. Caroline von Golum‏ @carolineavenue 26 Jan 2016
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          @HeerJeet Don't forget "Cheers" - Diane is a champagne socialist fish out of water

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        1. Is friends with foxes‏ @PossibleMermaid 26 Jan 2016
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          @HeerJeet Family Matters, Roc also

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        1. Is friends with foxes‏ @PossibleMermaid 26 Jan 2016
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          @HeerJeet but your larger point stands.

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        1. Sigmund Lamarr says #BLM‏ @siggyllama 28 Jan 2016
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          @HeerJeet Also Married With Children!

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