Single-cam comedies - shot on film, with no one watching at the time other than members of the crew - still got made, and sometimes became big hits, but even ones like Get Smart or M*A*S*H added canned laughter, so viewers would know where the jokes were. At the moment it debuted, multicam sitcoms - shot on a stage in front of a live, studio audience, whose laughter could be heard by the folks watching at home - had been the great ruling class of the genre from I Love Lucy all the way to Will & Grace. Malcolm, though, is one of the two most important sitcoms of the 2000s, along with the original UK version of The Office. The Best Audiophile Turntables for Your Home Audio Systemįood, Family and Psycho Turkeys: 12 Off-the-Wall Thanksgiving Movies How about Elizabeth Olsen stepping into her older sisters’ shoes on Full House (which began in 1987 but aired the majority of its episodes in the Nineties)? Or an Everybody Loves Raymond pastiche where Wanda and Vision are living across the street from a meddlesome parent? Surely, James Spader could have done some Ultron voice work if needed. (*) The Nineties are better known for sitcoms about single people in the big city, like Seinfeld or Friends, but the decade also had plenty of family comedies that WandaVision could have riffed on. The show has cheated decades before - Darcy described the premiere episode as something from the Fifties, even though The Dick Van Dyke Show premiered in 1961 - so perhaps the writers are hoping nobody cares about exactly when Malcolm debuted (January 9, 2000, for the record). With “All-New Halloween Spooktacular!,” WandaVision basically skips over the Nineties(*) and heads straight to this century for an episode in the mode of Malcolm in the Middle. A review of this week’s WandaVision, “All-New Halloween Spooktacular!,” coming up just as soon as I smell crime…
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