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While the quan y of black sitcoms has dramatically increased since 1970, the proportion of quality shows has plummeted.
I'm trusting Wikipedia (entry: Black sitcoms) for the data for the shows and decades that they aired.
Quality is defined as shows that I think are good.
Also, there's a lot of shows I'm not familar with.
1970's: 13 sitcoms
Quality shows: Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, Good Times, Sanford and Son, The Bill Cosby Show, The Jeffersons, What's Happening!!
Result: 6/13 = 46.2%
EDIT: fixed bad math
1980's : 18 sitcoms
Quality shows: A Different World, Different Strokes, The Cosby Show
Result: 3/18 = 16.7%
1990's : 55 sitcoms
Quality shows: Martin, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Family Matters
Result: 3/55 = 5.5%
Edit: added Family Matters
2000's : 44 sitcoms
Quality shows : The Bernie Mac Show
Result 1/44 = 2.3%
2010's : It's early but there are 5 sitcoms listed and none are quality
So, what's the deal?
Last edited by cantthinkofanything; 08-17-2011 at 12:13 PM.
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Fixed. Thanks.
it went from black people acting somewhat normal to black people acting "black"
You think the Bernie Mac Show was quality
Yes.You think the Bernie Mac Show was quality
it had it moments breaking the fourth wall was cool. The kids were pretty stupid though especially the one with the glassesYou think the Bernie Mac Show was quality
coming from the fan of shows like:
"it's always white in philadelphia"
"2 and 1/2 white men"
"white friends"
Me???
I've never seen 2 1/2 Men. But Sunny in Philadelphia is funny as . It's quality to be sure.
Common sampling error is that those stats mean jack without comparing it to overall quality of total sitcoms for those time periods. I'm willing to bet they all suck ass equally.
It is funny, but I get blinded by all the whiteness at a while.
No. I already did that calculation.
Black sitcoms were far more proportionally not quality than any others. Except Korean which was 0/1 thanks to Margaret Cho.
Friends is a pretty re ed show. How do you live in New York for 10 years and never meet a black person?
its always sunny is just a really grimmy white trash wannabe version of Seinfeld. I don't see the appeal to it, but yeah it has NO minorities in the episodes I've seen.
I know. And I been to Philly. More black ppl there than NY
if you count the ones you did for nineties you might as well throw in My Brother and Me, The first two seasons of the jamie fox show, the parent hood, city guys, sister sister, and living single
The first or second episode of always sunny revolves around mac getting scared and scoffed by black people at the local black college, and charlie gets a black girlfriend to make the waitress jealous. Also Cutty from the wire is in several episodes.
Friends is a pretty re ed show. How do you live in New York for 10 years and never meet a black person?
its always sunny is just a really grimmy white trash wannabe version of Seinfeld. I don't see the appeal to it, but yeah it has NO minorities in the episodes I've seen.
anybody remember The PJ's? that show was pretty funny. I think it got cancelled because the super of the building was lazy and drank beer. Blacks said it made them look bad, iirc... ( e lee, and others)
I remember that. Edddie Murphy's claymation series. I think my friends' reactions sum up why it failed. There were a couple of my buddies who thought it was the funniest thing they ever saw because they had a few aunts, uncles, cousins who would have fit right in on that show, but just as many hated it because they had parents and siblings who would have fit right in on the show and saw it as rich ass Eddie Murphy making money mocking their family.
That would have screwed up my premise.
And FWIW IIRC TBH I think that Everybody Hates Chris lasted long enough to make it to syndication and was well liked by critics.
What about "That's My Momma"?
Different Strokes wasn't a black sitcom. It was a sitcom with a couple of black actors (term used loosely).
There were as many white people if not more.
whoops. well...don't say I never did anything to help the black man.
the parent hood was garbage the parent hood and that fat piece of crap son character. I was just a little kid and i wanted to whoop the out of that little er
don't forget "fat white guy and his whale woman"
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