And “most beloved,” no less! But, you know, I was shocked when of all the family shows from that time Full House was chosen for a reboot, and people seemed excited about it? So I’m questioning everything since then. lol Maybe it was beloved and just nobody told me.  I just remember it being one of the first shows that…

“Beloved” is definitely overstating the popularity of this show.

If John Stamos told me my child was ugly I would throw it in the trash

Right, with so few choices it was easy to be “beloved” according to Nielsen which just measured what people had on rather than how they felt about it. I imagine all of us who grew up during that time period were watching the exact same stuff, as I too watched Suddenly Susan and Grace Under Fire. LOL And none of it was…

Yeah but I mean I am the person who grew up with it as a youngster and I knew then and I know now that it sucked ass.   I don’t know that “completely inoffensive” translate into “America’s most beloved”?  But apparently it does by some definition.

I guess you can do that when you look like John Stamos.

A really dumb motherfucker was sitting in the clinic I worked at the day after the election, and I heard him say “I’d rather have Trump than Trudeau.”

Yeah, that’s the thing about most “beloved” sitcoms: they weren’t “beloved” so much as...on. My family watched Home Improvement every week. I don’t think a single one of us particularly loved it hated it; it was just preferable to whatever was on the other networks. Occasionally you'd luck out and what was on was…

Dude really told a story about how he tried to get two infants fired and then relented when their replacements were too ugly? Wow.

Yeah I was really surprised by this article calling it one of America’s most beloved sitcoms. I was 7 when it debuted, and I watched it every Friday for pretty much its whole run (we didn’t have cable), and everyone I knew watched it and everyone I knew hated it. My sister and I used to loudly groan whenever the music…

John had a right to be so demanding. He had just done a movie with Gene Simmons and Vanity. I’m sure Hollywood was knocking down his door. 

He issued that executive order messing with people’s visa status almost immediately after taking office. And nominated Gorsuch. But I guess there wasn't a pandemic yet. 

I remember work the day after the election, and the uncomfortable silence was noticeable, even in the hallways (I was living in a liberal part of Pennsylvania at the time, so I think the sense of shame was especially strong).

Days of Our Lives has churned out nearly 15,000 episodes since 1965.

It’s the same people watching that.

Those days didn’t exist. The guy was selling indulgences before he even took office.

That was every single day from his unbelievable selection (I spent that next day in a fog of disbelief) until the protesters were hauled out of the Capitol. I was at work and my sister DMed me - and I thought maybe a handful to a dozen MAGAts were being on brand until I checked news sites. JFC.

This was apparently in 2019, when it was approaching the end of his presidency. Spicer was (I think) his first press secretary, and he had gone through a few others by then.

Ah, the early days of the Trump presidency, when things were merely scary-funny and not scary-“oh jesus fuck christ what’s he doing now?”

Just a bizarre business decision. The show wasn’t going to attract new Trump loyalist viewers, and Bergeron is spot-on that people watch a show like this to just turn their brains off and be entertained. I don’t care what side of the aisle the person comes from, it’s going to be polarizing.

Right-wingers bedrock belief that Hollywood is liberal is easily disproved when Dancing With the Stars hired Spicer, The Masked Singer hired Roodles, and, most egregiously, SNL hired Trump to do episodes. Turns out entertainment companies are giant, multinational corporations that are more aligned with Republican…