Considering Married ... With Children and The Tracey Ullman Show debuted at the same time on the same fledgling network (Fox), the latter and The Simpsons just kind of complemented one another in making fun of all the smarmy family sitcoms that we'd had since the 1950s, from The Beaver and Ozzie and Harriet up to Silver Spoons and Full House.
Yeah, when Fox was the youthful, edgy network (I watched their stuff via CityTV, Canada's "edgy" "youth" network that stopped being good when Mark Daley was demoted to "token white".)
Considering Married ... With Children and The Tracey Ullman Show debuted at the same time on the same fledgling network (Fox), the latter and The Simpsons just kind of complemented one another in making fun of all the smarmy family sitcoms that we'd had since the 1950s, from The Beaver and Ozzie and Harriet up to Silver Spoons and Full House.
Yeah, when Fox was the youthful, edgy network (I watched their stuff via CityTV, Canada's "edgy" "youth" network that stopped being good when Mark Daley was demoted to "token white".)