Family Ties - References To Prior Media

References To Prior Media

Media critic Ben Shapiro has stated that, based on his interview with Gary David Goldberg, the show was an unintentional comic reversal of All in the Family (which had conservative parents and liberal kids). Goldberg didn't plan it that way, but discovered that later as a happy accident.

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    “Forbear to mention what thou canst not praise.”
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