There's some substance to this. Green Acres, Petticoat Junction, Beverly Hillbillies, etc were well liked and highly rated. But the networks wanted Good Times, One Day At A Time, The Jeffersons, etc because it normalized apartment dwelling urbanites that hated authority.
Watergate was fresh in the news and 'comedy' shows took great pleasure in bashing Nixon and Ford. By comparison, Jed Clampett used to send extra money to the IRS, making his banker crazy.
There's some substance to this. Green Acres, Petticoat Junction, Beverly Hillbillies, etc were well liked and highly rated. But the networks wanted Good Times, One Day At A Time, The Jeffersons, etc because it normalized apartment dwelling urbanites that hated authority.
Hollywood was subverted a long, long time ago.
Where do you get the hating authority part?
Watergate was fresh in the news and 'comedy' shows took great pleasure in bashing Nixon and Ford. By comparison, Jed Clampett used to send extra money to the IRS, making his banker crazy.