Sitcoms are horrible. There used to be some good ones, but now it's stupid people saying stupid things that nobody would ever say and doing things that no one would ever do. The example I always point to is the one episode of NewsRadio I watched. The characters go to lunch at a Chuck E. Cheese-style restaurant, and one of them says, "Where is our waiter? I haven't seen him in a while." Suddenly, the guy rises up from under the balls in the ball pool, smoking. "Oh, I was on break." Okay. I'm not an All in the Family fan, but you would never have seen that BS there.
When the show was on, I identified very much w/Michael and Gloria.
Nowadays, I shock myself with how much I sound like Archie Bunker.