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That show really bugged me -- it's all well and good to parody the cliches of the family sitcom, but it should have parodied the clean-cut upper-middle-class cliches of the genre (the 90s animated sitcom "Daria" was a perfect example of how to do this well) without all the dumb working-class caricatures. Satire is supposed to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted. If it goes the other way, it's not satire, it's mean-spirited ridicule. Ridicule isn't funny.
This is my biggest beef with too much comedy of the last thirty years. It points downward from a position of privilege toward the less privileged, and that misses the whole point of comedy. Knocking a king off his throne is funny. Pulling the chair out from under the guy who cleans the king's slopjar isn't.
The Bundys seemed to be launched just as a rebellion against the cheesy Cosby/intact family-"genre". Succesfully, especially in old Germany.
Similar to 1981 in Germany, when Horst Schimanski shocked the middle-aged Tatort-audience! It was a reckoning with the 70s.