[ClearCase_guy]

A fair comment, I suppose. I remember watching "Happy Days" and "Laverne & Shirley" with my parents when I was growing up. Those were not really high quality shows -- but a family could sit together and watch them. It was nice. You just can't watch TV like that any more.

I guess just about all shows today are tawdry and overly sexual. But I would still maintain that Chuck Lorre tries very hard to push the envelope on network TV. The man desperately wants to produce crap, and he succeeds.

[Borax Queen]

We were only allowed to watch “Little House on the Prairie,” “The Waltons,” “The Brady Bunch”..... “Chips”... :0)

The tv shows today, however, really disgust me. The sitcoms especially are so pushing to say every vulgar and crass word, as often as possible. Not only a dumbed-down nation, but a complete lack of respect for anything. I keep wondering what is next too - bestiality, four and a half men fake-married to four goats...