That '70s Class: What we can learn from 1970s TV

[Rick6315]

I can name all 99 episode's of Gilligan's Island, Can I get a $500,000 gov.grant

[candygirllive]

OMG he is my teacher right now and i love him

[grammyd55]

Yes, we talked about the tv show we watched the night before every morning before school....it was a great time, and I am so lucky to have grown up then.

[snoops71]

@grammyd55 Me too!

[mushita98]

I loved Welcome Back Kotter, Happy Days, All in the Family, I dream of Jeannie, Bewitched, Casper the Friendly Ghost, The Adams Family, The Munsters, the Brady Bunch, etc. Those were real fun to watch television shows that all the family could enjoy. I really miss those days.

[ohmynickjonas1219]

That's my teacher :D

[rtds9fan]

I have to agree.Back when I was in school if the teacher made it fun...such as a triva game with the class split in two teams..or any way that made it more fun than the boring old talking and note taking...we loved it and learned more.

[TheSeventiesChild]

Hey Everyone !!! Come check out my Groovy Channel and take a trip back to the 70's!!! Please leave any comments or suggestions.

[unfortunatebeam]

The prof says tv shows today are almost too real? Wha?? I don't think most shows on tv today reflect real life much at all (not even cable shows except for maybe the swearing). I think there were many good realist shows back in the 70s. It's just that there are more channels now so therefore more shows, so you have more variety of everything (and more facets of real life might be represented too therefore but only shown in a kind of hyperbolic/sensationalistic way, I find)

[mistofoles]

WTF? Was that John Travolta at 2:06??

[elyseny]

Yes, he was Vinnie Barbarino.

[stebaer4]

The Bottom line of this commentary shows how TV just as much influences the media as vice versa and that like with older and younger siblings taking after each other it's a two way street.

[schs1977]

This "professor" is an example of public education at its finest!

[proinsiaspad]

Get this Shit OFF!

[proinsiaspad]

Hey Man,

We can lern nothin from the 70's. Its all SHIT man.

Man, jeans that looked like skirts, and asshole laugh tracks on every show. Man, the 70's was nearly a century ago, it's for old-times, so get this SHIT OFF YOUTUBE!!. Youtube is the multimedia age...it's not for old-timers. Yeah, and why the fuck did everybody wear these bright clothes in the 70's - man. Problems with your color vision, gramps and grandma's?

GET THIS SHIT OFF YT now!!

[eleventhdr]

I don't have to learn it i was there and let me tell you it really was just that way the 70's was not some ddark age or stone age it was a very real time and was a carry over of the 50's and 60's hey to bad it's not with us like that today if it was we just might still ahve a very real chance!

Oh well!

[cowabungadoug]

All in the Family, Taxi, Bob Newhart, Mary

Tyler Moore, Happy Days,Sanford and Son

M*A*S*H- the greatest era for sitcom

telvision. Man, Archie Bunker was right,

those were the days!

P.S. All in the Family will always be the

funniest and greatest sitcom ever- to me

anyways.

[rjam1974]

All in the Family was Hilarious but the acting

when they got into deep subject matter was

on point. Carol O Connor to me was one of the finest actor's in sitcom history. You remember the episode when Gloria had a miscarriage? I am a black dude and even I got teary-eyed because you can feel the

father/daughter moment between his character

and sally struthers character(Gloria)

[TheFreedomfighterguy]

I thought Bob Newhart was the most boring show on tv at the time. It was just so lame.. I have to agree with you on All in the family though. An absolute classic that will always be my favorite. They weren't afraid to discuss the social and political problems of the time with that show...

[LeoBurns728]

Hey fat is beautiful! And I'd love to take his class... I'm forever learning~

[Grant98]

That is a brillant idea and makes so much sense to use it in the classroom, shakespeare was pop culture and it makes learning about modern day pop culture even better! YOU ROCK PROF. TENUTO!!!

[newenglandvideo]

I love television but this is not something that should be taught as a class in schools.

[ApacheSteele]

you say something now, like they did on all in the family and the media tags you as scum. all in the family was one of the best shows on tv. now it's filled with pussy bullshit...

[aljazeri]

Archie Bunker is my hero

[profhum]

Prof Tenuto: check out two scholarly books on the subject, one called Retro by Elizabeth Guffey, the other Happy Days and Wonder Years by Daniel Marcus. Best, G. Leonard concept, choreography, Sha Na Na.

[scareykatt]

i will LOVE to be in that 70's Class.

that is my childhood!

[snoops71]

OH, ME TOO!

I'd get straight As, and it'd be so much fun...

[voguevixen]

Did you catch David Letterman there at 2:20? Nice!

[scareykatt]

voguevixen,

that was the first season of Mork & Mindy.

I saw the same episode last month on KDOC!

[joemantheman]

He's fat...I'm fat....So I like him...

[jennifer4u2day]

My favorite show from the 70's: All in the Family, Welcome Back Kotter, Brady Bunch, The Jeffersons and Good Times!

[scareykatt]

jennifer4u2day.

mine too!

i have all of them on DVD, except Kotter!