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<blockquote data-quote="Chris2" data-source="post: 310665" data-attributes="member: 495">I’m always a little put off by how MTM (the show, not the actress) looks visually. The film is grainy and the sets and fashions are ugly. The sound is also off - it’s clearly a product of the earlier days of television (ha - the 70s are now the earlier days of TV) when they didn’t have the sound technology they have now, so the actors are often shouting their lines.But while the show doesn’t have the production polish of “Cheers”, from a decade later, its writing and acting are very strong, and you can see how it strongly influenced Cheers and other sophisticated sitcoms that came later on. I was watching an episode this weekend where Sue Ann made a comment about how one of her recipes will “satisfy your husband in the kitchen, and in other rooms later on” or something like that. It’s something that never would have been said even on The Dick Van Dyke Show, a similar sophisticated workplace/home hybrid comedy from a decade earlier.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chris2, post: 310665, member: 495"] I’m always a little put off by how MTM (the show, not the actress) looks visually. The film is grainy and the sets and fashions are ugly. The sound is also off - it’s clearly a product of the earlier days of television (ha - the 70s are now the earlier days of TV) when they didn’t have the sound technology they have now, so the actors are often shouting their lines. But while the show doesn’t have the production polish of “Cheers”, from a decade later, its writing and acting are very strong, and you can see how it strongly influenced Cheers and other sophisticated sitcoms that came later on. I was watching an episode this weekend where Sue Ann made a comment about how one of her recipes will “satisfy your husband in the kitchen, and in other rooms later on” or something like that. It’s something that never would have been said even on The Dick Van Dyke Show, a similar sophisticated workplace/home hybrid comedy from a decade earlier. [/QUOTE]

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