Marriage and Babies and Bastards, oh my!

How come nearly every popular TV show these days is either having a marriage (Frasier) or a baby (Friends) or folks trying to have a baby out of wedlock (Will & Grace).* Is it that the shows had reached a point where something big like that needed to happen or is there A Deeper Meaning. Post 911 do we all just want to see our favorite TV characters screw like bunnies and have kids?

But what's interesting is Cheers had a similar out-of-wedlock baby plot arc, but they ultimately decided not to. Are we more open to such things now or what? Also, I don't have any kids, but damn if these shows don't fling about the idea of having kids pretty willie-nillie. I can imagine some stupid folks (the same people who send in tapes to Jackass of themselves doing Jackass thing) saying, "Hey, this baby stuff is for us! Let's fuck!"

*That all of them are on NBC may mean something...hmmm...

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goya_kod at yahoo.com (Goya Kod) wrote in message news:...

Yeah I agree. It's almost as though they are afraid they'll lose viewers if they don't do something huge like introducing a wedding/baby. I miss the older seasons where Friends relied on great jokes not dramatic storylines.

On 21 Sep 2002 06:43:11 -0700, [email] (Holly) wrote:

There's a show called "Friends" where you live, too? Here in America, we have a show called "Friends," but I don't recall it ever having any great jokes or dramatic storylines.

In article , (Goya Kod) wrote:

Well, one part of it is the age of the stars of shows like Friends, Will and Grace, and Frasier. Hollywood studios seem to believe that *every*one in their 30s is desperate to have kids. But some of it's just coincidence: Niles and Daphne have been waiting to happen a damn long time now; I've always believed that Rachel's pregnancy on Friends began as a CYA exercise because the show had three female stars all in their 30s and all married, and the writers thought surely *one* of them would get pregnant (and then none did); and for Will and Grace the baby thing has come up before as a long-term problem for the Will character, so at least that's kind of interesting.

The one I find depressing is the baby on Sex and the City.

wg

True indeed. While I don't have a problem with people getting married, I was "slightly" disappointed when Rachel got pregnant (but, it wasn't "too" bad). As far as Will & Grace...I hope it doesn't happen. They live too fabulous of a single lifestyle to have it ruined by 3am feedings and baby poop (IMO).

Seems as though shows now are becoming "breederific". gyah!

On Sat, 21 Sep 2002 04:08:08 GMT, after hours of intense interrogation, goya_kod at yahoo.com (Goya Kod) finally admitted that:

Doesn't this same thing happen with any type of general plotline?

I think there is only one team of writers for all TV shows. This means that there is a very limited set of ideas from which all TV plots can be drawn.

"Phil (the Extreme One)" wrote:

YM "There are only so many episodes of "I Love Lucy" to copy from".

HTH.

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LawnBoy

On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 15:16:37 GMT, after hours of intense interrogation, LawnBoy finally admitted that:

Yes, and since Lucy has been in reruns since 1937, all of the writers must be dead by now, so the theory that there are no new ideas in TV still holds.