I wasn't much for watching family-based TV shows, well shows that were rated under PG-13...but I remember watching "Everybody Loves Raymond" everytime it came on when I was watching TV. This show was so much different than "All in the Family" even though they were shows about a family and had a lot of comedy.These two shows differentiated because of the content that was shown during their airings.
Since "All in the Family" was aired during the 1970s, they're a lot of controversy about how discrimination was percieved at the time. These disputes were about racism, sexuality, and other social issues. What "All in the Family" did was broadcast a family that represented a common family during the 1970s in which they brought up issues on these subjects. In the episode shown during the screening, it brought on the issue of sexuality and how it was first being accepted.
Nowadays even though they show re-runs of it, "Everybody Loves Raymond" was about issues within the family during the 1990s and later. It represented a family that would be on each other especially trivial fights between the husband and the wife. This show didn't focus on social issues as "All in the Family" so bluntly did. It talked about issues between grandparents butting into family situations, spending time with the children rather than being away all the time, and other common issues you would see in a household during this time.
But just because these shows had different ideas and time periods doesn't mean that they didn't have the same goals. As you can tell just by watching maybe the first 5 minutes of an episode that the show was a comedy since you can hear the laughter of the audience that you'd never see. They gave the audience a warm feeling when they both brought in scenes of the family together in which they can relate to. It didn't take much to get the laughs and it brought families closer as they would sit in the living room during a specific time just to watch the show.
Here are clips from both shows below and you can tell how they differ and how they are the same.
All in the Family
Original Link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_UBgkFHm8o
Everybody Loves Raymond
Original Link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAFiU6bZ678
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