my suspicion is it was the CBS Deforestation
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
oh boy! so in the late '60s/early '70s CBS had some of the most popular shows around like Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction, & Green Acres, the PROBLEM was even though they had fat ratings advertisers didn't want to buy air time cause they weren't the RIGHT ratings
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Replying to @saintwalker98 @Nymphomachy
IE they were watched by rural families who didn't buy much, so the CBS head canceled "anything with a tree" replacing them with urban focused shows which didn't have as high ratings BUT were far more popular with moneyed single young people who bought new products
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @saintwalker98
Yup this was a big moment in TV history, the "Rural Purge"
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It had an echo in the '90s when the success of Seinfeld and Friends made TV execs realize they didn't need to have a family at all and they might make more money making shows 100% about hip single young people with lots of disposable income
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Which is why WandaVision has a gap in the '90s and skips right from the Growing Pains era to the Malcolm in the Middle era
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Replying to @arthur_affect @saintwalker98
Hey, they could have done an animated episode
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @arthur_affect
I SO wish they'd done that! I said it at the time! but it'd probably be stupid expensive or some shit (also it was smart to not try and make like Everybody Loves Raymond or Married With Children)
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Yeah or Roseanne
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
LORDY! Yeah skipping right to Malcolm in the Middle was the good call
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They could have all inexplicably been dinosaur puppets for an episode.
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