All in The Family vs. 8 Simple Rules

A television sitcom today, does not resemble the same impacted message as it did thirty of forty years ago. During the seventies, All in The Family, brought to attention the conflict of homosexuality and challenged it. Previewing a specific episode that illustrated the struggle between a son and his father, and the son's secret of being homosexual. It's interesting to see how we can look to a family-based comedy today, such as 8 Simple Rules, and that same factor doesn't stir up half as much conflict. 

8 Simple Rules tends to focus more on smaller subjects that are followed through the daily life of a family than relatively anything else. For example, if a girl doesn't get along with her father, or the boy is trying to ask a girl out. TV shows, like All in The Family, centered around certain subjects of matter that had not been solved or were seen as some type of discrimination in that era, provoking and trying to blend it into equality in a sense.

Yet, altogether both All in The Family and 8 Simple Rules express humor and wit, raising the mood, and using specific situations and themes that relate to their audience. These television shows, among many others, have entertained us and allow us to escape for half an hour.