I just so happened to have a channel on that I was too lazy to switch. An old show called The New Adventures of New Christine came on. I’ve seen a few. Never loved it. Didn’t hate it.
This episode opened with Christine in her kid’s elite school on the Pacific ocean. She’s reading a story about a historic moment a black girl, Ruby Bridges, broke through to become the first student in an all-white Louisiana school.
She looks up and suddenly notices all of the kids in the class are white. So Christine, a progressive who drives a Prius (but doesn’t vote, but wears a shirt that says she voted to guilt others into voting) decides to do something.
Conveniently (it’s always that way on the Tee Vee) she’s at a conference and sees a black couple with their kid about to take a tour of the school. She begs them to let her sponsor them.
The black kid is accepted. Christine feels like a civil rights champion. The black couple invite her to dinner.
During the conversation the black father says he hopes this new school works out because the last school his kid was in had “too many fags.”
The way they dropped that in was actually pretty damn funny.
Now Christine has a dilemma. She wants the kid out of the school because she doesn’t want the homophobic values rubbing off on her kid, but she won’t do anything about it because she can’t attack the lone black family, lest she look like a racist.
So, she has a new idea. She finds two gay guys who have an adopted kid looking to get into the school. She brings them in for the interview. The gay dad says he hopes this school is better than the last school, where there were too many Jews.
The episode was pretty funny. It pointed out a deep flaw with progressives. They automatically assume that their “pets” will all think exactly how they think. This was illustrated by a line that was particularly scathing. When she was looking to replace the black people she talked to her black friend and asked her if she knew any “good” black people.
The friend quipped, “oh, you mean you want your tokens to behave as planned?”
Good stuff.
Because I dislike the hyphenated actress, never watched it, does sound interesting, just not that interesting, rather watch Ax Men.
Hardly ever watched TV until I retired. Never heard of this show, but just as well. Sounds like a role-reversal Archie Bunker.
Funny clip, but your description is great! Makes me want to watch the show some time.
A rare case of liberals self examining their own hypocrisy and rarer still being critical of themselves.
Of course the liberal audience is suppose to relate with Christine, who has all the correct opinions, and find her dilemma funny when everyone else in the world is flawed.
So the liberal mind set of viewing everyone in the world as a member of a particular grievance group who needs a liberal champion (rather than taking each individual on their own merits and abilities) remains intact, since she was just trying to do the right thing for SJW points.
Leftists don’t SJW in order to help anyone, they do it so that they can feel morally superior. That is just how it is, a critical examination of what they have produced doesn’t allow any other conclusion.
It would be interesting to find out who wrote the script and see if they ever had another one accepted, or even have a job now. This could make the Progs look silly in the eyes of sane people, which is a form of heresy, and heretics are to be punished.
I expect we will see more of this as the SJW and BLM crap continues to inconvenience the Left establishment.
Last night, I was also too lazy to change the channel and ended up watching one of those Letterman episodes where Richard Simmons is being cut to shreds by homophobic bully David Letterman. Can’t stand Lettermen, but that was pretty funny stuff.
I’ve seen a few episodes of this show. Great description, by the way. It actually is a bit like All In The Family, since the main character’s hypocrisy is obvious, and a source of comedy. Her ex husband is married to a young, pretty girl who does exactly what he says. Better written than most sitcoms for sure.
I’m bettin the description is better than the show.
Eliminated all the folderol.
“The New Adventures of Old Christine” was a popular, welll written primetime comedy series on CBS. It aired from 2006-2010. Though, it may not have been the intention of the writers, the show illustrated the insidiuos, twisted nature of a progressive lifestyle. I watched the show because it was funny, and I also got some insight concerning the liberal mindset.
I saw that particular episode and it was funny.
(Julia Louis-Dreyfus is the daughter of a billionaire. So she was never a struggling for money actress before becoming famous)