I liked "Dr. Katz" a lot -- very funny and very Jewish. I think you might imply a greater place for it as the exemplary Jewish sit-com, though. Check out "The Goldbergs" which was -- Jewish pride alert -- perhaps the first significant sit-com of all time. Invented by Jews, written by Jews, and starring Jews, it may have set the pattern for the sit-com as "laughs within the family/neighborhood/workplace" until the anti-sit-com movement of the 1980s which Seinfeld (an M.O.T., of course) essentially pioneered.
Were the Seavers on "Growing Pains" at least peripherally Jewish? If I remember the show right, they had a Christmas tree, but I also remember the little Jeremy Miller character saying something about Hebrew school.
Would be funny if true given what a "born again" zealot Kirk Cameron is.
I liked "Dr. Katz" a lot -- very funny and very Jewish. I think you might imply a greater place for it as the exemplary Jewish sit-com, though. Check out "The Goldbergs" which was -- Jewish pride alert -- perhaps the first significant sit-com of all time. Invented by Jews, written by Jews, and starring Jews, it may have set the pattern for the sit-com as "laughs within the family/neighborhood/workplace" until the anti-sit-com movement of the 1980s which Seinfeld (an M.O.T., of course) essentially pioneered.
ReplyDeleteWere the Seavers on "Growing Pains" at least peripherally Jewish? If I remember the show right, they had a Christmas tree, but I also remember the little Jeremy Miller character saying something about Hebrew school.
ReplyDeleteWould be funny if true given what a "born again" zealot Kirk Cameron is.
Highly unlikely.
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