Gargoyles Remington Steele Castle The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. The Muppet Show
Clearly, this is a wildly eclectic list -- of the five, one's animated, one is a variety show, one is (partly) a Western, and while Steele and Castle are structurally and thematically similar, there's a lot of time and distance between the two.
At the end of the day, though, I think that what ties these shows together is a more or less consistent worldview, characterized by persistently starry-eyed optimism no matter how silly, scary, crazy, or downright dangerous the world around you may get in any particular week.
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Date: 2010-07-14 04:32 am (UTC)Gargoyles
Remington Steele
Castle
The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.
The Muppet Show
Clearly, this is a wildly eclectic list -- of the five, one's animated, one is a variety show, one is (partly) a Western, and while Steele and Castle are structurally and thematically similar, there's a lot of time and distance between the two.
At the end of the day, though, I think that what ties these shows together is a more or less consistent worldview, characterized by persistently starry-eyed optimism no matter how silly, scary, crazy, or downright dangerous the world around you may get in any particular week.