Do you know, I was thinking exactly the same thing. All these modern sitcoms, and let's be honest, all TV shows from the US have these slim, long haired beauties in all the major female roles, it's like there is a production line for them. Cop, slim, long legged, tumbling locks. Wife, no matter how old or fat the hubby, slim, long legged, tumbling locks. Leading doctor, detective, sidekick, yeah, you get the picture. The most embarrassing one recently? The Odd Couple, Matthew Perry, very talented, but, way past his best in the looks department, but, okay for a chap when it comes to casting a part and the dolly bird, way younger than him girl who was attracted to him, admittedly I only watched the first four or five episodes, I gave up after that. How I long for the days of Debra Barone or Jill Taylor, real women who are actually the same age as their screen husbands.
I am a four eyed evil genius.
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DonutLover
8 years ago
Bravo!! Very aptly put! I loved Everybody Loves Raymond too, but one of my favorite re-runs is The Waltons. That show had pretty much everything good going for it, until they changed John Boy out. That wife was also the same age as her husband, and her husband didn't weigh 300 pounds.
Roseanne was also a different kind of show, and that got the careers of many stars started. She and John Goodman were about the same size, and it was funny for the time as I recall. You are so RIGHT about the cops/doctor/scientist/lawyer: long legs, long locks, ha ha.
Thanks for the warning about the Odd Couple and Matthew Perry's new show, I won't be checking those out.
I have a confession to make, though. One of my favorite shows is Breaking Bad, and on that show there is a heavy DEA agent with a slim, pretty wife. But the way I see it, a cop usually starts out thin and in shape (in order to pass the physical tests) and that's when she would have also met him. Also he's pretty darn macho.
A simple mind is a tidy mind.
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