Cultural clarifications/pop culture

[moongirlk]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "naamagatus" <naama_gat at h...> wrote:
> 
> 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. 

Oh dear, then it's worse than I imagined - I don't even know what 
Step by Step is, but I had sort of hoped the rest of the world had 
been spared Full House.  I suppose that was naive of me.


> Married with Children is a scathing satire - or rather a farce - on 
> just those kind of shows, don't you think? 

It's definitely a farce, but (for one thing) not everyone realizes 
that - I was a guest at someone's home when I learned that the show 
was playing in Belgium, and the family didn't really get it - they 
thought it was realistic.  And then (for another thing), there really 
*are* people like that, and if you know any of them, it makes 
watching the show seriously embarrassing...  Ok, so I kind of just 
contradicted myself, but I don't want to keep thinking about it, so 
I'm gonna quit now.

kimberly
easily embarrassed