Chillin’ out maxin’ relaxin’ all cool at the Sunrise Assisted Living Community
Sunday, March 29th, 2009Two high school girls boarded the Orange Line train to head home in the afternoon. One began quoting the theme song to The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
"What's that?" the other girl asked.
"The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air? Have you heard of it?"
"No."
"It had Will Smith. It's this super old show. Like, thirty years ago."
Nick at Nite's transition from showing classics like I Love Lucy and Dragnet to instead showing sitcoms from my youth like Home Improvement and Roseanne has thus raised the great causality dilemma of basic cable: is a show on Nick at Nite because it's old, or is it old because it's on Nick at Nite? Could Ron Howard's premature balding be the cumulative effect of playing both Opie Taylor and Richie Cunningham, the result of exposure to UV rays during too many Block Party Summers?