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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 23
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy

      Frederick and Salvay were a songwriting team who made it big in the '80s with their signature style for sitcom theme songs -- they really liked big, epic lyrics with a soaring, heartstring-tugging melody

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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 23
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy

      The producer duo Thomas Miller and Robert Boyett (Miller-Boyett Productions), who'd already made Mork and Mindy and Laverne and Shirley, took a shine to Frederick and Salvay and commissioned theme songs for their big '80s hits from them

      1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 23
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy

      They're the ones who wrote the Perfect Strangers theme ("Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now"), the Full House theme ("Everywhere You Look"), the Family Matters theme ("As Days Go By"), the Step by Step theme ("Second Time Around")

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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 23
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy

      Nowadays we might say that these lyrics come off as really melodramatic and overwrought for the kind of show they're actually about, like the whole defiant "It's MY life, it's MY dream/Nothing's gonna stop me now" is a bit much for Balki Bartoukomos' life story

      2 replies 0 retweets 6 likes
    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 23
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy

      But they kind of made that the expected style and it stuck for a decade and a half Like yeah I guess you could say people really did want sincerity at that time and previous eras' overt tweeness and goofiness felt old-fashioned

      1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
    6. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy Feb 23
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      that's kind of my thinking—that sincerity in a theme song felt like the emotional equivalent of going from 480p to 720p, like "look, we can use this new technology to act more like humans!"

      2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 23
      Replying to @Nymphomachy

      The time transition in WandaVision people notice least seems to be the '50s to '60s one between the first and second episodes, and yet there's a really major one right at the beginning -- the house looks like an actual house

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    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 23
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy

      '50s sitcom sets like the apartment in I Love Lucy and the Petrie house in The Dick van Dyke Show barely looked like real houses They were obvious soundstages

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 23
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy

      It's not just that the fourth wall is missing it's that the whole architecture of the room cheats outward so it expands like a trapezoid so the whole studio audience can see directly into the stage

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    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 23
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy

      And the actors likewise are cheating out and using their outdoor voices when acting because they weren't being amplified at all They played it like an old stage play, hence the melodramaticness

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 23
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy

      The style of acting and set design in sitcoms got more "realistic" over time just due to TV being bigger business and getting higher budgets Having the money for more cameras and more cameramen so you didn't need a big open space to capture all the action

      9:55 PM - 23 Feb 2021
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        1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 23
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy

          A studio audience setup with monitors and speakers so they didn't need to actually be looking out toward the audience for the audience to catch the lines

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