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|''Will & Grace''

|''Will & Grace''

|1998–2006; 2017–present

|1998–2006; 2017–2020

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|This sitcom stars a homosexual lawyer, Will Truman, and a straight interior designer, Grace Adler, who share an apartment in New York City. It attempts to normalize homosexuality in society and uses Will's lifestyle to pander to a targeted LGBT audience. The third main character, Jack McFarland, is a sporadically-employed actor and a flamboyant, promiscuous homosexual whose life revolves around homosexuality almost every waking moment and attempting to get sexually involved with every man he comes across. Finally, the fourth main character, Karen Walker, is an amoral socialite whose existence plays up to and makes light of [[alcoholism]] and prescription [[drug abuse]].

|This sitcom stars a homosexual lawyer, Will Truman, and a straight interior designer, Grace Adler, who share an apartment in New York City. It attempts to normalize homosexuality in society and uses Will's lifestyle to pander to a targeted LGBT audience. The third main character, Jack McFarland, is a sporadically-employed actor and a flamboyant, promiscuous homosexual whose life revolves around homosexuality almost every waking moment and attempting to get sexually involved with every man he comes across. Finally, the fourth main character, Karen Walker, is an amoral socialite whose existence plays up to and makes light of [[alcoholism]] and prescription [[drug abuse]].

In spite of its subject matter, the series became a surprise hit for NBC as part of its Thursday night "Must See TV" lineup, drawing an average of over 17 million viewers at its peak during its third and fourth seasons before its rating fell in its later seasons. One seventh season episode, "From Queer to Eternity", drew a record low viewership of just 5.8 million as viewers began tiring of the show. It ended production in 2006 after eight seasons, and its reruns, which entered syndication in the fall of 2002, largely vanished from broadcast syndication in 2008, retreating to cable thereafter. It was revived by NBC for an abbreviated ninth season on September 28, 2017, during which time the network claimed it had already renewed the series for a tenth season. However, its return episode, "11 Years Later", dove straight into politics as it made pathetic jokes about conservatives, attacked Donald Trump, and took a cheap shot poke at Ronald Reagan's later struggle with Alzheimer's disease<ref>[https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/amelia-hamilton/2017/09/28/will-grace-embarrasses-itself-trump-reagan-jokes 'Will & Grace' Embarrasses Itself With Pathetic Trump Jokes, Abhorrent Shot at Reagan's Alzheimer's] at NewsBusters</ref>, causing it to garner only 10.18 million viewers for its return. Later episodes in the revival steadily lost viewership; its November 14, 2019 episode "The Chick and the Egg Donor" fell to just 2.16 million viewers, a record low for the show to date. The ''Will & Grace'' revival will not last as long as it did in its original run, as it was announced on July 25, 2019 that its current 11th season will be its last.

In spite of its subject matter, the series became a surprise hit for NBC as part of its Thursday night "Must See TV" lineup, drawing an average of over 17 million viewers at its peak during its third and fourth seasons before its rating fell in its later seasons. One seventh season episode, "From Queer to Eternity", drew a record low viewership of just 5.8 million as viewers began tiring of the show. It ended production in 2006 after eight seasons, and its reruns, which entered syndication in the fall of 2002, largely vanished from broadcast syndication in 2008, retreating to cable thereafter. It was revived by NBC for an abbreviated ninth season on September 28, 2017, during which time the network claimed it had already renewed the series for a tenth season. However, its return episode, "11 Years Later", dove straight into politics as it made pathetic jokes about conservatives, attacked Donald Trump, and took a cheap shot poke at Ronald Reagan's later struggle with Alzheimer's disease<ref>[https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/amelia-hamilton/2017/09/28/will-grace-embarrasses-itself-trump-reagan-jokes 'Will & Grace' Embarrasses Itself With Pathetic Trump Jokes, Abhorrent Shot at Reagan's Alzheimer's] at NewsBusters</ref>, causing it to garner only 10.18 million viewers for its return. Later episodes in the revival steadily lost viewership; its February 20, 2020 episode "Accidentally on Porpoise" fell to just 1.95 million viewers, making it the lowest-rated episode in the show's history. The ''Will & Grace'' revival did not last as long as it did in its original run, as it was announced on July 25, 2019 that its 11th season (which ended on April 23, 2020) would be its last.

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|''Witches of East End''

|''Witches of East End''

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|Although traditional family values churn at the core, ''The Wonder Years'' has a politically liberal, specifically antiwar undertone. Arnold family patriarch Jack Arnold, is a veteran of the [[Korean War]], but the second season episode "Walkout" has Jack's son Kevin Arnold and other students walk out of school to protest the ongoing [[Vietnam War]]. The only person who tries to stop it is the school's vice-principal, who is vilified for threatening to suspend any participants in the walkout and put those suspensions on their permanent records. The series makes other jabs at the war, such as characters like Kevin's rebellious, teenage hippie sister Karen going to vigils and displaying the peace sign.

|Although traditional family values churn at the core, ''The Wonder Years'' has a politically liberal, specifically antiwar undertone. Arnold family patriarch Jack Arnold, is a veteran of the [[Korean War]], but the second season episode "Walkout" has Jack's son Kevin Arnold and other students walk out of school to protest the ongoing [[Vietnam War]]. The only person who tries to stop it is the school's vice-principal, who is vilified for threatening to suspend any participants in the walkout and put those suspensions on their permanent records. The series makes other jabs at the war, such as characters like Kevin's rebellious, teenage hippie sister Karen going to vigils and displaying the peace sign.

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|''Young Sheldon''

|''Young Sheldon''