It preserves the blue-collar setting of The Flintstones, and the family constellations are similar, but the "warmedy" Flintstone world is turned on its ear.
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Warmedy
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Another popular “warmedy” (warm family comedy) of the late 1980s was Family Ties, which starred Michael J. Fox as the eldest sibling in a close-knit family.
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The "capitalization, dematerialization, and idealization" of this "warmedy" (an awkward term used by Budd, Steinman, and other critics to denote a "comedy overlaid with empathetic audience identification") extended even to the lives and celebrity status of the actors who played the show's universally loathed or much-loved characters...
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