Cultural clarifications/pop culture

[naamagatus]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "moongirlk" <moongirlk at y...> wrote:
> 
<snip all the really interesting stuff>
> One phenomenon may be more firmly entrenched in the collective 
psyche 
> than the next, but everything from Buffy to Gilligan to Friends to 
> Star Trek to Masterpiece Theatre enters into the equation and while 
> some of it is terribly embarrassing 
(I can't tell you how embarrassed 
> I was when I learned that Married with Children was show in other 
> countries), 
when you put it all together there's so much to draw from 
> and it really does add texture to the world.  
> 

Are you kidding?! They show Married with Children here - in Israel - 
and it's great! It's the one with the Bundys, right? Al, Peg, Bud and 
Christina Applegate? It's so funny. 
The embarassing stuff is sitcoms like, um, Full House, Step by Step 
(I'm just throwing names off the top of my head) and such like shows. 
Married with Children is a scathing satire - or rather a farce - on 
just those kind of shows, don't you think? 

Naama, who can watch the lousiest sitcom in the world but breaks into 
hives at the merest glimpse of a soap opera