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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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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@estherbreger Yes, but cartoon nature of Simpson created distance and Married was more mockery than empathy.
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