Comments on: What’s the Most Surprisingly Dark Episode of a 20th Century Sitcom? https://popculturereferences.com/whats-the-most-surprisingly-dark-episode-of-a-20th-century-sitcom/ Brian Cronin takes a look at interesting pieces of pop culture history from the worlds of TV, film, music and more. Thu, 07 Apr 2022 04:58:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 By: Brian Cronin https://popculturereferences.com/whats-the-most-surprisingly-dark-episode-of-a-20th-century-sitcom/#comment-2759 Thu, 07 Apr 2022 04:58:56 +0000 https://popculturereferences.com/?p=1977#comment-2759 In reply to Rish Outfield.

Fascinating, Rish, I never knew that. Maybe I’ll go see if I can find the interview where he said that for a piece.

]]> By: Xander https://popculturereferences.com/whats-the-most-surprisingly-dark-episode-of-a-20th-century-sitcom/#comment-2484 Tue, 22 Mar 2022 18:14:00 +0000 https://popculturereferences.com/?p=1977#comment-2484 I’d have to vote for the ending to Dinosaurs. It had been a fairly solid riff on the usual family sitcom, but the end was REALLY dark.

]]> By: Rish Outfield https://popculturereferences.com/whats-the-most-surprisingly-dark-episode-of-a-20th-century-sitcom/#comment-2354 Thu, 17 Mar 2022 21:21:59 +0000 https://popculturereferences.com/?p=1977#comment-2354 Gordon Jump was a devoutly religious man (Mormon, I’m 99% sure), and it seems like I read an interview with him once where he said that he felt that the message the episode was trying to get across was more important than the damage it might do to his fanbase or career.

I do wonder how much criticism he got for it over the years, though.

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