Lately, I've been on an old movie binge.
And by lately, I mean the past five or six years.
I can't tell you when it started. I know that it was musicals that drew me first to the genre of what is considered 'old,' only to be sucked in further by black and white movies, fast talking gangsters, and whirlwind romances that seem silly to a modern day audience, but not to me.
That's just movies though, and that's just me. What really has most of my generation's interest now is, don't worry, 90's sitcoms.
Maybe it's because Nick@Nite is the only thing worthwhile on the TV at midnight when you're frantically trying to finish that essay that was supposed to be turned in the next day. Maybe it's because some of the jokes are actually funny, even if the pop culture references are a little, well, not so relevant anymore. Maybe it's because there's really nothing like this anymore. Or maybe it's because every girl just has a thing about Jennifer Anniston and believes whole-heartedly that she deserved to find love.
Either way, some 20 years after these shows premiered, they're slowly being brought back to life by young adults.
Now, bear with me. There are adult sitcoms that are on now that are pretty funny. "Two Broke Girls" is great, and "The Big Bang Theory" will probably be shown in science classes nationwide in a few years.
But for the most part, in a world full of reality TV, and now fake reality TV, the art of sitcoms is slowly dying. If it didn't actually happen, people don't want to watch it (never mind that there's nothing real about reality shows, but that's a whole other topic).
Thus, the classic sitcoms were brought back for all ages to enjoy. There's "Full House" for the young, where good, clean, family comedy reigns ("Fuller House" isn't so terrible either, but try telling a critic that). Then there's the raunchier side in "Friends," where we get such classic lines like "She's your lobster," and "We were on a break."
In my opinion, I think we need more of these shows. Comedy is needed in daily life. We should be looking forward to an episode of something silly, not people like the Kardashian's complaining about how hard it is to build their million-dollar mansions.
These sitcoms remind us of us, of our own lives, of what we, as normal people, are going through. We can laugh at a group of friends who are similar to our own, and have a great time taking quizzes based off of their characters.
Because at the end of the day, we'll know that they're just playing a part, and it's OK. They're not claiming that this is their actual life, or portray themselves on TV as victims because paparazzi follow them everywhere.
We're able to relate to these sitcoms of the 90's because they relate to us; isn't it time we started making some more?
