America in Primetime (2011) s01e02 Episode Script

feeling on america and drying time and i think longing for a more innocent smile a little bit interesting since you will months racism denials roland animation using complicated to be a man's name doesn't need much more of an issue notices a war anymore changes we sing it a little bit disappointed when someone changes indians working very hard and he was in the morning with television visa writers medium connected to me in directors executives that you know that they make a difference that it's really about developing those characters and when it's really well done it provides the most kinda death ise it's because those characters coming in your living room scam never believe that it is a kid iowa it's because weekend for weeks however our review the feeling like you're connecting those characters and see man cope with things that whatever the tone where the outcomes retrieves the care of me you really start feeling stuff minimal certain again today he doesn't need much more than his parents television potato chips and the ballgame he's been instrumental in which is worth taking a nap is where the buck stops has to be happy at work and when it comes home he wants slide might have sex goes out there really a brings a living comes home is struggle interested because then above water in the world of of relevance a rocking horse that every respect except the occasional body explosive ordinance features which is to get a little bit of peace and quiet once in awhile these always had a guy that's only seem like he was on every week the goddess modern living is crazy ten minutes and three five aag itself denied trying her inherited three women do try to send us five their motion or physical needs them raising children and trying to have a career in trying to support everybody it starts getting kinda stressful you know coming in the door and say hi miserable it's but what's happened this past orders it's become standard insurance conference trying to keep all this together going it's pretty tough people longing for simple or uncomplicated more innocent times country hold all fifties television actually on made me feel good william going out their because the picture of american derives from the fifties i think most of what was the consulate in the fifties has nothing to do with reality it may not have had a lot to do with what was happening really in homes around the united states i had a lot although alamo wonderful children of all world containers and insights and everybody knows back no matter what was happening homes have united states they were watching the show sp literally that a show called father knows best and the father was the the repeal and all uh dot of the household and he was the one that you took your problems too when would always have this wise solution to a problem happy remember yesterday when it rained all day and you want to go outside and play but you could mean the house remember how unhappy you were commitment to quickly be locked up like that all the rest of your life just like in prison are and and and it's very reassuring too on managing an under duress that father of the house can consistently come up with solution greater fifties you know find classic him while still making out television viable view of how your family was supposed to be but when people work in your living room maybe that's the way people all people are or should be and i know i've had a lot of people at the feeling that perhaps they were of the crying you know i didn't have the picket fence or you know for me it was being gain and i i didn't fit into that perfect son lol leader could be worse situation comedy there were no families like that often recently commons problems dealing with each other stables candy coated it's not real that it's speaks to something in human beings candidates is creeping initial steps are not filled neutralize loop positively belonged big dream here you're you know gardens in we think about what this country was going through in terms of the cold war in terms of the cuban missile crisis though he knows the bomb can explode any time of the year radio one night is ready for it private you finish their what tv would provide for conferences alright paragon anticipated really really are if they at fallen and andy griffith used to say open even though stanzel is set in the sixties and is with this was the this small town so they're use ports and so he was already knows how to when we were doing he didn't feel safe you know the father did always know that stand mom was always home he created pay a fee father knows best was the perfect there at the end of the did anything wrong and other vince i will be judged by using correlation she'll love affair with the time was was half of the sexes bothered her husband and his wife always fighting i mean lucy they had no relationship that we would wanna live in and by the way they didn't turn over from people broke up lauren rob the relationship my wife and i did read read about most things writing things for people realize the respect of his wife even though they argue about certain things the situations were taken from real life and from my father's real-life in his working a uh you know for cities are working on a friday show rock country was me he would work on weekends many times in his again heroes like sixty out of the first ninety f esos five celtic sitting in that room friday wednesday's when all of us on the type of woodstock lacking he would come into my room and i was at you don't care if he would say anything new on your life lately anything happen and only with mark trying to find anything tomorrow and for for the show all the only thing that felt friel was effectively misleading in twenty minutes denied if are in the same that at least one four has to be on the floor debated every reason world uh people don't make love people the base that i think maybe they don't know anyway it was the women that i could win that we couldn't say pregnant rear actually got to have a alright uh something really obnoxious into this trip repair that fight like the were fired review of the them but everyone district the word out legionnaire while wide-eyed in putting in lots of uh what do be sure to push in the batteries or anything i'd just initial based on what i felt about uh situation comedy about husbands and wives and i was told later that i think first boundaries a lot i think she's in the nineteen sixties going to remember back in a sweet little reporter today and we believe that our culture is fragmented into reported that were in the midst of culture war that in nineteen sixty eight there were a lot of people of overlap civil war we were killing people you know like bobby kennedy and martin luther king of things were pretty bad by the end of the nineteen sixties and america was shirts anyways and going through a kind of a first came of eight different consciousness resolve marriages breaking up all over the place in and people trying to roads and a whole sexual revolution all kinds of things happening but in the nineteen sixties when we started seeing the rise of counter culture or the rise of civil rights of the rise of feminism or the rise of these other points of view the straight down patriarchal father knows best idea was a little water and and when you have people getting assassinated and all of these things that are their contribute to the consciousness and you behave the way for kind of alternative views whether it's own family or uh the times maybe it was inevitable ninety one we are a lot of credit sort of walking right into the new one program you are about to see is all of the family it seeks to throw a humorous spotlight came on on a tuesday night for the big disclaimer not just because of the sex but also the the political in racial overtones for the show and it was a big disclaimers saying basically uh don't watch michelle uh we know what putting it on but we've really rather you didn't watch it's all were we don't have anything to do it the other email you my delicious white man i ever seen chronicled in the latest wakefield i wish screamin that heat he was putting on a recent people just to call me lazy good lead you said that not me university of black beauties just lazy the suspicious here's this not what i'm doing it would scream back ponnu at the time it's worth it reminded us that god glasses acquitted by us classes before i think i was a fantastic lena archie bunker with a friend well progress isn't even the most interesting on wednesday and loves com window long-shot but conducted he was constantly losing control of his house he thought he had it under control the rules cat changing every single day heat beat the gmat accepted and that was kind of the financing him insisting that he was thinking of his castle realize it was the canceling it had been resumed is something if it was the fact that the probably you don't want to know that today yes i did all right initiate it is very suspicious that he was out of work some kind of a scan image black people white people handicapped people indeed the whole thing issue slush funds everybody's workers banking the fact that they should have been successful videos vittu that these people be themselves you know this uh we were able to make them from the inside out from the outside will invalidate it wouldn't it pianist seminars at uninsured standing in the middle vs what are you doing as would anyone i don't really know with initial condition got into this implies discussion i'd like to thank everyone for the right before writing it down and taking it astrodome is entire handed that had nothing to do with anything that was going on in the time that's just human that's assuming here it still holds up because that's this bridge character stuff on a serious person i think like seriously placing the comedy taxi the foolishness with condition at the light and that is around two hundred million people in america forty five million of them every week watched on the family that's almost of fourth of the country so we've created this kind of national dialogue that doesn't exist now from any television show a civilian stance missed the point that these people personal hodges reaction to having a miscarriage gloria lost the baby clothes talking about what do you mean like acting but exactly says she's gonna be fun when he transient loss if that's the i get collects idea but it now years later i think that's what was appealing about him was that the economy of of these terrible things he would say and this kind of said this week person underneath who well who would then was just trying to figure out what was going on in the world than getting pumped up and then came here sometime in the system trenching intention findings consistently and it's definitely and they showed vannu them with done television comedy with four looking at nuclear families and yet even in the early eighties diffuse situation comedies that were about families that that's were kind of weekend bumble weighing or really politically correct and and along problems bill cosby we have a dinner at my way five point of view abducted stunned asked me to come up here too it was something is like instead allowed kids on television to be portrayed as being really quite strongly defiant tonight we take the pilot for the cosby show are sitting in the audience and there's a c where deo makes a speech about just being regular people so what you're saying is you your mother and i shouldn't if you get these because you don't need to be reached to be regular people and doctor she's a lawyer happened just regular guy you can just accept one and and that meet anyway because the audience clap because they were somewhat condition too clapping for and aborted that stands up to his father video to almost the catherine the audience from world leaders for the audience this room more appropriate though you are going to try as hard as you can and you're gonna do it because are six all financial part approaches for picture output and from home and got out of here if you take it back to house finally baghdad who had some wealth financial samples particles that female in office the spoken the theme because across all of american mail wife he's not living up to some standard solution of internationally in our generation took place in the shadow of feminism well we thought we would have been father didn't notice what happened to you the farm father actually was ambivalent that i have been someone interests if you're working for you there are a lot of people to this day include members when family who look up on that kind of introspection as absolutely pointless it made a lot of people uncomfortable to see this in a public sphere on television stays within the house and and they have food on the table and and jobs and then in such a thing want to get on with that we could call this year and it was because it was an exploration of the fact that you can have different feelings about the same thing visual c when it is the drum uni-y exactly that you have set up yourself because you business is doing well you have to rent space a bit on the commercial for the very beginning the network was very concerned that they were called say will do you think the storyline to to depression missile wears on a doctor media business which is going to be about their lives was indeed mostly with they were upset about visit the shows are so difficult to promote tonight on thirty-something um michael try to get a babysitter yeah the notion the anybody who watched with anybody get attention with it then it began to be talked about in the way it was talking about martial arts source howard him and today's society means uh having to defend yourself plot and you're sort of their game it's not really fashionable to me a man these days yet in some sense there's the misconception that men around the world and in reality nobody runs the world tv this debate all he for cac because day don't because i don't care where does that mean i don't understand afford clearance that taxable are the ideal fathers and call home or a catastrophic father it never perspective that fiske it should comforts that anything archive says facts fax it it it what u callers made it worse than my father was an alleged estimated people really want the mother in a family to be stable that from flattering really doing a lot fix on some level reply could be an account being selfish blocks selfish pleasures seeking one it's not a horrible realizing somebody historical exceeded it liberalism is dead reversion of meter rainier beer enormous interest in super is a reversion of river is is great to stop in this scene police that almost certainly would say you know it doesn't matter where forgotten is that the other half the this file you winter reading my first letter the letters that there should be filled and they said about looking for writers to create a true friend and that uh phil rosenthal and i said something about yourself and he said uh well i come from queens i had twin boys at the water at a brother was a cop my parents live close by in the release bothering me and my brothers police are treating so if you're listening in fact he sort of war and one for stand up and he said it never ends for raymond instead everybody loves raymond i said well there doesn't seem like there's anything there we can use it's pretty simple kravitz you know god lives across the street with his family from his parents grandma and grandpa stoplight tension of trying to get away from his family while at the same time the lobbying his family is i think something bad a lot of men convicted if you're around a little more michael cooke picture ha acknowledge right surface faxes all actions or and brutal sorry but time again scripts and read them if wall that money stockpiled seldom riders go home getting a fight with your wife and come back and tell me about and that's what they did one of our rises for a minute said his his wife could tell in the middle of a fight it did not look in his eyes like confirm article this is not for the show being i wrote a short note issues which have begins with him wanting more control over decision making in the household an incident in nineteen eighty gmail point plastic aspect of principle dark horse k it youth china takes control it as the christian increase on these these westerns everybody starts getting increasing she can't help but please go well those are the ones that we know we got its fine he overreacts access three different cell for putting the tissues near still which catch on fire and the and never higher fixture just kind of like this is sort of phallic extensive africa's great by flight six hundred here man they and and and saves the day once again he has no power in this game the man being for everything and decision maker in the rock needs really hard to come life is changed damage that comes with the best issues in life you know because the issues you have to deal with eating changes let the pics you got your family speaker muscles his own cecille summit of family members messed up too what amounts both of you allow the three tier schools state some false the whole also white couple algo along sandoval wastes about race i saw him talking are probably right that you know frank they he he he kids sparkle andy deal with that the whole idea the size of israel's opposition eliza relaxed into his kids he sees the cutest terrorism finances package enacted to negotiate stickers different naturalism feeling because he was so frank and he freezes in motion for self nakedly laid out there that and your heart is kinda went out for a few thoughts often they look at some of their own and may not be your daily about what the white it's just like finding all and i was going to be an additional wasn't how hard it is to raise kids really the hiding reason kids the emotional simple taking care of kids was enough just overwhelm burning in his his world of freedom that he had to give that to to did this time something is lost for forty it begs example it not but i would change the way except that for women at all in this country that something has been lost for men in terms of making her place it's very complicated fifties amend today cage is coming to read the paper uh because you know there's too much to do supposed to do what itself your responsibility everybody's working suspected workers partners bother and be a great provider expected to participate in a completely different within our fathers do the same time i'm expected to be there for every practice and every soccer game and i'm expected to come home and clean up the kitchen everything is changing and were there were on branch shaky ground all of us online jobs yet but the house at hydrogen withdrawn satellites finds for floating overall is there a protector that's reassuring rattling at six forty away from everything you know but don't worry things are normal your your father suffered fairies did you want to have uh page a gay couple that read through america being like their mom and dad in many ways they're very traditional paul candidate missile goes to work stay at home the parents but there are a lot gay couples that are like that you know i think maybe on the page if it's a that mitchell is good for me the father and and some other financially classified and but bad is completely in boxes that they don't deserve to be into his car drive away problem there but there how are you on the askican cloud little question like a balloon them off idled featured ad against his barber until the airbags deployed so apologized for my boyfriend right now part word for it but of sorry kimmel change diaper justice quickest of kick your butt yesterday went to uh first in front of press on this show who was almost nothing practical sixty-eight couple it was ordering companies deviant as the father except the baby you never know or or product chase of culturally in spore reinstalling waged a pig tastes redirection of television that's it for two tough menon of lilac bearish but but but i can't go out there although i had a i wanna you'll admit that i think a lot of honeymooners that shows was for the great influential shows when i was a kid my family is so good to my grandmother's house in newark in my grandfather would hold force that's going on with nobody was talking about my grandmother was allowed to speak and what it was over will go upstairs to my but always house planet watch them anymore just strange thing about it crammed apartments what level of the park handcuffed and it was all only continuation because there's ralph kramden bellowing carrying on the eighteen like a big infant just like my grandfather billing moments before managing for the honeymoon we love the ralph because he was such up uh uh molpus joel put digital split up here there's an early episode where ralph i insisted his beloved counterfeit money and immediately goes on a spending spree and that's exactly the kind of thing that home okay programming resonates through all things will be cuts he's the most wall form of that got it's so we're singing so memorable relief for dinner at the cells who had a lot of people don't even realize it who can watch that show with the sound of with europe and it was always with the widening coming on whining completed boz i used to carry the collapse of cable through the homes in the community and connected to the end of the of the whole former television set television surest change since cuba months you know graced screen all and we want to be challenged we ought to be entertained you wanted a shocker he had never be the last uh that uh we're a golden age of tv seek it started really with the advent of cable really getting into producing this next soprano sopranos and love this princess soprano since a proper sopranos sopranos you had left it that i started watching this program is at a time when elicits situation comedy i dot for abc had been cancelled where got cancelled i thought a television television socks there's can't do anything in television he demonstrated watchers crandall's which sort of kind of change my idea along with a lot of people i believe from in terms of what television could be and reversal conceptual jobs rose was justified on right here and there is so much selfishness in the first this is an american that was making a mobster sick the guy who actually have a universe that there was even too much for him anything social money blessing stressed lately they knew i was right in the pilot that there were in even later on that they were especially and this has personally straight on the table no used bill was openly everybody in that shows the laws of the leading a life dictate before you are all here three-year-old ukr watched that show just as a family drama take all the moms stuff out of it it would be as interesting people would say so you know you're in this macho i think him quentin i defined as a mild shall i put it this you know that a family forgotten and next what was the lives of does diseases adds that houses uh urgency life and death and people always get caught up in the moms party gone was your basic you know family man going through these problem it's about a guy tuesday newsday's waking up having breakfast with his family uh going to work leading he morrie uh story and then going to bed but first i'll make it artistic the kind of man i didn't know it was carried coppola strong silent type how or where it is a little is trying to say shit people plan allowable appreciate highlighted the characters and like the tension uh as the picking any moment everything into one and worry and is it dropped fourteen people murderers slanders shears left ophthalmol we won it in any tweak watched with making everything else wondering staff with so we don't really starts is the truth i was already born that bothered me unilever one of the first of all nytimes that the speedo belittle freaked out home my god tony and mentor what to look at colleges and tony black thank god being here political opponent was the first interviewers and wait a minute this might just be form said to me you created but the most dynamic uh game changing character independent last twenty years television you're gonna kill em right now camp is domlur left prices of if he doesn't feel like a israel i still like it victim dislocate going decline this is a stink about what's all this and that the maybe aren't necessarily true seems to me that were dramatic television ads and human beings mtv simple we said exactly what was on the line session of families version of the people don't know about that we've all been thanksgiving dinner i would say ninety eight percent of what tony senator christopher more poorly run even without the truth personally says yes he's now he says no he means yes attorney says vote you know somebody's got to go down about three four six all the emotions overstated emotions are fake and for a writer for certain kinds of raising this that's wild when he was looking for something he was looking for me wasn't funny helms pronto it's not just feeling the loss of control of his whole and his family he is representative of asshole feeling like we've lost control of the entire world that's always what you think his name several i feel on for you and started ceiling life-threatening alike and that's been analyzed as like what i mean has this created problems like the flight route to the white that's not what i want it i want to say was there's no period here we still live in this drop ceilings the lights look exactly like that that flying is not from nineteen sixty minutes just to fly madman is about an advertising agency in the early nineteen sixties and kind of architect recorder hero any person with a completely invented identity who was exceeding in this world this man is in a panic and signed and he's falling and he's and he's out of control but he has the appearance of the hob ultimate confidence first job there was an absolute for company official probe copier greek name teddy potentially the most important idea you know advertising my original interest in this character contract for was based on people like we are talking a and sam walton and bill clinton fifty it's adam in little brother it's done and bear ability to start in one place completely hide their childhood uh that was filled with shane and invent percent that's the american dream years of his condition uh lying about who he is and so that effects is day-to-day existence and yet she needs to for his own well-being that just personally but especially professionally represent this very confident very uh forthright uh very strong willed person but as we see his is actual self is is very much the opposite but it's only been a great myself literally means the pain from old world twenty in the park far more powerful than memorial really for the first time in six collect that time period in a very nice time and has shown its incorrectly bank and has really shown that it wasn't are perfect who do the things i love about two hundred for institution that exists between what he knows he should be and his need to sort of flight chest really actively go over that early in the first season he's out there putting at the playhouse for starters birthday but he doesn't feel connected interested but should be reciprocal raj he sits and smokes and drinks and then he decided to take it doesn't come back so it's a man who can't live in his own speaking to you of his house happiness is a is a is a fundamental desired inconvience but the has to be through far deeper connection with your life in your people in your life school terrace struggle with child-rearing roaming around battlefield we know we were wrong gridlock can actually premature but it's hard to fit between the ages of forty sixty at some point in that area gets into a mode where they just start thinking about everything in where are they in where are they going and tonight if you don't you think and yet land or maybe it was the thing i did five years ago the best things are going to be for me you know we've mentioned specifics spiritual remembers that mr ordinance grandma and child sound like a smart because that's the first ever heard of it was spectrum was one microgram script last time i was in response to that should be salesman nothing you know that some you know if you do that i've been taking a salesman too to subpoena through what the establishment of the hill barbara background his goal is to get them and that's what he's been so late but every scene hard ultimately he's pieces of this because he has job he has you know something to focus on something that could have anything to do something from our youth from now series with to think of and i was about you know what the future was gonna be what i would like to zimmer father i was going to be and others served life is just so grab a call patrick when we first meet walt his a man who's working very hard to keep his dignity he's living a life that he feels we all should live fuels change their bombs elements combining and change the compounds he is making them best effort has been staffer to to be that person but is eerily he's struggling he's he's has to have two jobs to pay his bills he's got a special needs son who needs expensive therapy that's not covered by insurance his wife has an unexpected baby that's two he is not a matter of respect that uh he wishes to be careful y fantasize side he fees you understand set n lincoln's and confirmed and for that comes wasn't comes and urban and probably that anger the focus of leads to this decision and yes yes it's a stupid idea what i could crystal meth while decides to uses now if chemistry two for crystal meth made this decision it was a rat's his balls that requires bold action behind and uh bold action sense adrenaline is pumping in space for the first time two decades brown even feel is better than feelings nothing drag ironworkers is about a man who has nothing to lose it was just trying to do something good and he's just picking himself deeper and deeper and deeper into a hole that seems to be going straight to disaster he's breathing oxygen clearly any he's he's feeling things that that malcolm of emotions has been the irony is that he's he's more alive in our city received that that's what was that was before it's mesmerized barrier show is that that's the one thousand importance of the will provide his family uh it's what he is a sense of where doing what he does for his first trying to save his family and yet and processes is ruining planning the real role of man of the house has changed analyze from fifty all of us are stealing levels of confusion you infield before really wants me to be handed over that you still have to find ways to reflect that i was like feels like within us selves and it's only a couple anymore it's not they must be very complicated to him today because you're expected to be very sensitive and respectful uh and standards ring entrance off but at the same time elsa still supposed to be and interested brains television out student on the road faction were challenging more psychological state because they're not trying to wrap story lines up and framework of twenty-something answer forty six minutes an alcoholic instead they're serialized television does best is to presents itself unit no longer needed for with tv's becoming literature continue page the indians are sense of what we need for a job too much for since it is cnn's sports and more about before visit indians dot through florida america infringement on ups's visit shot media center so-called one eight hundred plane yes