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Family Ties was hilarious, and usually well written beyond that. In 1982 and the next 4 years, it was the funniest show on TV next to Cheers. Everything else, besides Newhart-82, was dopey canned laughs gum balls.
Taxi, WKRP, Three's Co, Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, Mork & Mindy, Jeffersons, Bosom Buddies, and MASH were all just ending, jumping their last dull unfunny sharks. Family Ties and Cheers were beacon of laughs for years until we got to the Simpsons and Seinfeld at the close of the 80s.
This would be a good time, culturally, to have a new Family Ties show... where you could poke fun at beliefs of various sides but in a sincerely loving ironclad family way.
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