July 16, 2025 • 21 mins
OC talks about the most offensive and hilarious shows to ever air on tv! The War at Home is the only show that displays the inter workings of the typical family and their internal fourth wall breaking thoughts! Easily top ten comedies of all time!! Thanks for listening!
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(00:00):
Welcome back everybody to another episode of the Core of
Entertainment hosted by me, The OC.
This is an audio only podcast available on Apple and available
on Spotify. And today, today is Wednesday.
Wednesday, doing some solo work here.
Just all of you lovely listenersand your boy OC.
(00:20):
Now, today is not going to be a collaboration today, it's just
some solo work. Now for today's topic is another
hidden gem, another piece of entertainment that has
dissipated to the winds. It is a piece of entertainment
that is gone away with, but in my mind and in my home, it is
(00:44):
something that I continuously revisit and that is Rob
Lauterstein's The War at Home. Now, this show only got two
seasons, and some of the episodes in season 1 didn't even
air because they were too extreme or crude or questionable
(01:09):
or offensive to what the networkdeemed acceptable.
And today we are going to talk about this hidden gem of a show.
Now, the original air date for this show, it was September
11th, 2005, 2005. We're going back a bit.
(01:30):
We're going back. All right.
Now, the interesting thing aboutthis show, as I said, Rob
Lotterstein created it. It's based upon his own
experiences and his childhood about how shows today are not
that accurate and not that relatable to closeted teenagers,
to teens in general, boys, girls, and to some parents that
(01:53):
just don't get it. And the brilliance of this show
and probably to its detriment. It was labeled homophobic.
It was labeled not politically correct.
It was labeled politically incorrect.
It was shit on by about every network head out there because
(02:16):
of the content in which the showdisplayed.
As I said, Rob when he created this basically started from the
inception of no shows are relatable to today.
No shows display kids going through puberty.
No show displays what it's like for young women to grow up, what
(02:37):
it's like for nerds to grow up, what it's like to have the
youngest sibling be just fighting for every scrap of
food. And especially no show gives an
honest, narrow, true, hard boiled representation of what
it's like for a closeted gay kidgrowing up.
(02:58):
So let's jump right into it, shall we?
This show got cancelled. Its last episode aired on April
22nd, 2007. It only had 44 episodes, believe
it or not, and it's just a such a bummer because Fox, I mean,
obviously they're pretty, you know, they they cancel shows
(03:20):
like it's a bowel movement essentially.
You know, they cancel Family Guy, bring that back.
I mean, dark Angel, Wanda at large, that 80s Show, Joey, I
mean, like you like it's just a dime a dozen.
Now this show sadly much like one of the familiar shows that
we spoke about before early on, which was Surviving Jack which
(03:43):
is the quintessential 90s amazing, beautifully written,
excellently casted sitcom that also was cancelled on that
network didn't give a chance to grow an audience.
However, the word home was lightning in a bottle as far as
comedy is concerned and that is a credit due to the cast.
(04:04):
So the head of this cast is the brilliant and hilarious and
talented Michael Rappaport playsDave Gold, the patriarch, the
top dog. He is the father of this awful,
terrible, horrendous family. Anita Barone plays Vicki Gold,
the very amorous, the very aggressive, sometimes volatile
(04:31):
mother, but still a mother nonetheless.
And Vicki Gold, Kaylee Defer is the hormone raged oldest
daughter of the family who is, Imean, we're talking about
itching to lose virginity, experimenting with drugs,
experimenting with men, with women.
(04:51):
I mean, of her age. It's just the typical teenage
oldest daughter story of the narrative that's preached
through her. She can come off as annoying
sometimes, but really grounded and true nonetheless.
I mean, the person that's telling you this right now is
someone who's watched four daughters grow up.
(05:12):
OK, So they hit some of the emotional beats right on the
money. Now, without further ado, let's
move down the line. Kyle Sullivan, Malcolm in the
Middle's own Daphne. Remember him from Malcolm in the
Middle? Kyle Sullivan plays the middle
child, Larry Gold, a very, very closeted kid that wants to be
(05:33):
accepted. He's not gay, but he is closeted
in his insecurities from his parents approval, from his
father's approval. He is driven by, you know,
nervousness, very unsure of himself, copiously insecure, but
played perfectly by Kyle Sullivan.
(05:53):
And rounding out this cast, we have Dean Collins as Mike Gold,
the youngest little brother and awful family once again.
That is so funny. I mean, we're talking a kid that
lies about his age. He manipulates his parents.
He blackmails his parents. He experiments with just about
(06:14):
everything under the sun that teenage boys would experience.
And no humility, no shamelessness.
He is who he is. And that is played brilliantly
by Dean Collins as Mike Gold. Now, rounding out this cast,
believe it or not, is 1 Rami Malek.
Rami Malek, the Oscar winner anda staple in that community.
(06:43):
OK, the gay community. He is a staple primarily because
this role as Kenny, the next door neighbor, Larry's best
friend. Let me tell you something.
Let's put put put pause on this for a hot 2nd.
(07:03):
Kenny is the amalgamation, the representation, the stand alone
piece of the show that stands out and stands on his own.
He is a closeted gay kid who by all accounts is where a lot of
young men and women are in theirlife.
(07:24):
And a lot of kids find themselves going through
puberty, growing up, changing, not understanding where they
fit, not understanding how alonethey truly are, not believing
that anybody will believe them for fearing that there will be
rejected, disowned, beat up, hurt, or even worse.
His representation of Kenny is hilarious.
(07:46):
It is funny, it is sad, it is disturbing, it is truly
remarkable. Every single one of these
characters, whether that's Michael, Anita, Kaylee, Kyle,
Dean, and Rami, are amazing. Now, it's not without its
special guest stars, too. Remember, this was early 2000s,
(08:08):
so we had Family Guy's own creator, Seth MacFarlane, who
plays a awful, awful, terrible individual.
I'm not going to tell you what role he plays or what his part
is. It is terrible.
But by God does he milk that forall it's worth.
(08:28):
One of those comedians that knows exactly what he's supposed
to bring to that role, and he brings it tenfold in the worst
kind of way. And there's also Yvette Nicole
Brown from Community Zone. She's in it too.
She brings that spicy, aggressive, you know, angst if
you will, a lot of sarcasm there, and lays the blueprints
(08:52):
down for what she would later beknown as.
And her role is small but powerful and hilarious and once
again, very self aware, knows what the show is, knows what the
role is, and she crushes it. So as I said before, this is the
narrative surrounding these parents that got pregnant and
got married way too young. And it's kind of centered around
(09:16):
these two parents as Vicki and Dave that just don't get their
children. They don't get the desire to be
accepted. They don't get that the kids
have interests. They don't get that they're
their own people. And you know what?
They don't like them. Yes.
And the biggest selling point ofthis show and what separates the
(09:38):
show aside from some of the verycontroversial topics that the
show touches on. And we will get to those because
they touch on everything, and I mean everything.
Now, aside from the cast, and aside from the brilliant, very,
very sometimes inappropriate anduncomfortable humor that the
(10:00):
show displayed, the thing that sells the show so perfectly is
the internal dialogue. Now, the internal dialogue is
1/4 wall break. It is this very fascinating and
unique tool in which every time someone on the show goes through
(10:21):
something, makes a comment, makes a statement, makes a firm
decision or makes an awful decision, you cut to a
silhouette white room with that character and they tell you what
they really think. They tell you what they really
believe and they tell you how they really feel.
(10:43):
For example, there's one very controversial scene that happens
in Season 1 and instantaneously it cuts to inside of Vicki's
head and she tells you what really happened or from her
perspective, what has happened. And that's a continuous
(11:04):
dialogue. It's a continuous train that
never stops going. I mean, we're talking about it
cuts away to see what the child therapist really thinks of the
kids. It cuts to what?
It cuts to what Rami Malek really thinks about Larry a few
times. It cuts to so many of these
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characters through the show and it just shows the internal
dialogue in the 4th wall break where they're talking to us, the
audience, and by God, is it not hilarious.
Now, as I said, the ironic thingabout this show, the irony is
that it is a family sitcom. Now, aside from it being very,
(11:46):
very inappropriate and by today's standards wouldn't even
have made it probably past the studio heads with some of the
episodes that got aired, most ofthe season 2 was chopped.
It was chopped because it was so, so inappropriate.
Every other word was bleep this,bleep that.
But it wasn't without its heart.OK, obviously you have a certain
(12:11):
standard when it comes to the inappropriate family nature or
the family humor. You have Simpson, South Park,
American Dad, Family Guy. Those were given.
Those are an absolute given. It's a cartoon, it's animated.
You know what to expect. You know exactly what you're
getting. But then you cut away for a bit.
And when you cut away for a bit,you see the honest, narrow
(12:34):
representation of what it life is like for a middle class
family done perfectly by Malcolmin the Middle.
And it's also done weirdly by another show called The Middle.
So you get this blend of real sweet family messages.
You get this blend of real sweetfamily unity and Modern Family
and fresh off the boat, Blackish.
(12:57):
And most of those shows are hilarious, great messages,
sometimes even emotional, like Tearjerkers and Times the war at
home is not that at all. OK, It is not that these parents
are not likable. These children are not likable.
It sounds like a show of lunatics and that is 110% what
(13:20):
it is. Basically, the show does carry
that line. There are some episodes that
have excellent messages and excellent purpose, like a really
realized plot that brings the narrative full circle in such a
complete and beautiful way. And then obviously, as I said,
(13:43):
it was cancelled. It only made it two seasons.
There's only 44 episodes of thisshow out there.
And believe it or not, I still revisit it.
I own season 1 and you can find season 2.
There's a few different areas out on the Internet that you can
kind of dig it up and find. YouTube is one of them and a few
other areas. You just type in the War at Home
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season 2, you'll be able to findit.
It might be chopped, it might bea little blocky, but it is so
worth it if you are a fan of South Park, if you're a fan of
Family Guy and you're a fan of that unity that Malcolm and the
Middle brought. But you want to hear the eternal
dialogue, the internal dialogue of what they're really thinking,
how they really feel and what they really take their family to
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be and what the decisions their kids have made.
It is that show. And we've all been there.
Every single person out there listening to this has been there
in certain situations, in certain instances, whether it's
your family, whether it's your job, whether it's just hanging
out with your friends. Somebody does something and
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internally, you know what you'rethinking, you know what you want
to say, and you know how you really feel.
The War at Home does that brilliantly.
It does it perfectly and such a hilarious way.
And that is due to the credit. That is due to the credit of
Michael Rappaport, who is the nucleus of this comedy, his
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flying off the handle nature. Not quite like Archie Bunker,
but it is is pretty remarkable nonetheless.
So yeah, this one is a bit of a shorter one on on a Wednesday
today, but I would be remiss if I didn't tell everybody out
there to check this show out. The War at home seasons 1 and 2
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are out there right now. You can buy season 1 and you can
stream season 2. Now.
I warn you, I warn you, I warn you, I warn you if you have a
sensitive style of humor, if you've ever uttered the phrase
such and such is not funny. There's nothing funny about dot
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dot dot. There's nothing silly about XYZ.
You shouldn't make fun of that. You shouldn't make fun of this.
I'll tell you right now, this show is not for you.
Don't even bother. Do not watch it.
Don't waste your time and don't at me either, OK?
I'm smart enough to understand that this is a reflection.
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This is a reflection. This is a comedian amplified
representation of awful people in a family that at the end of
the day truly loves each other, if that makes sense.
But it's a show. It's not real.
It's played for comedy with honest and earnest messages
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about how a family should be. What carries it is the messages.
What carries it is what they arebringing to you, the audience.
And I'll tell you, shows like this do not exist and this show
doesn't exist. This show was something that was
very unique. It was very different.
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It was very special. And like I said, the 4th wall
breaking the internal dialogue, breaking the situations that the
dad finds himself in, the situations that his mom finds
herself in. And as I say this, I'm thinking
of a few of the episodes. I'm not going to give any of
them away because I want everybody out there to please
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watch this. Please give the show a shot.
But every single episode centerson a various event that we've
all been through in life, whether that's how much you do
care about your family, how loyal are you to your family?
How committed are you to being aparent?
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How interested are you in being a parent?
These are all questions that theshow displays in such a
hilarious and calloused inappropriate way.
Before I get out of here, I think I've sold you on the show
enough. The War at Home seasons one and
two. Check it out.
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But if you're not sold, here's alittle teaser of what kind of
tempo this show brings. OK, so as I said, Mike, the
youngest member of the family, is thinking he may be want to be
a rock star, so he's writing song lyrics.
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The episode progresses, the parents find the lyrics.
They think he is suicidal, they think he is dark, they think he
is troubled. Meanwhile, their middle son and
Larry, who is very troubled and has depression and has all these
issues, they think that Larry isdoing that for attention and
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taking the focus off of Mike andit all plays for comedy until
they put Mike in therapy. Once they put him in therapy,
the 4th wall breaking in betweenthe therapist, between the
parents, between the kids is remarkable.
It is so funny and it's not without its doings of other cast
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members. Like I said, Seth MacFarlane,
Yvette Nicole Brown, it just goes off the rails when you meet
Vicki's parents, when you meet Dave's parents, when you meet
other kids in school, when you meet the neighbors.
And as I said, it touches on everything, everything that
makes this world tick. This show touches on everything
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in the most crude, rude, inappropriate way possible.
And it is tremendous, such a good show.
And as I said, there is some real strong, real hard themes
and messages in this show that alot of young adults and young
kids could definitely relate to.And in a lot of ways, it can be
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therapeutic. It can be helpful because this
show shows the representation ofa lot of people that don't feel
represented. And for that, this show is
easily one of the funniest ones out there and it's such a
bummer, but not surprising at all that it got cancelled
because as I said, if you buy the DVDs, you open them up,
(20:26):
you'll see on the case it says did not air unaired episode
something something could not air.
So take that with a a grain of salt.
And yeah, just be prepared for what it is you're going to watch
when you check out the war at home.
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I'm actually going to start watching the show again right
now. Thank you so much and I'll talk
to all of you later. Peace.
Welcome back everybody to another episode of the Core of
Entertainment hosted by me, The OC.
This is an audio only podcast available on Apple and available
on Spotify. And today, today is Wednesday.
Wednesday, doing some solo work here.
Just all of you lovely listenersand your boy OC.
(00:20):
Now, today is not going to be a collaboration today, it's just
some solo work. Now for today's topic is another
hidden gem, another piece of entertainment that has
dissipated to the winds. It is a piece of entertainment
that is gone away with, but in my mind and in my home, it is
(00:44):
something that I continuously revisit and that is Rob
Lauterstein's The War at Home. Now, this show only got two
seasons, and some of the episodes in season 1 didn't even
air because they were too extreme or crude or questionable
(01:09):
or offensive to what the networkdeemed acceptable.
And today we are going to talk about this hidden gem of a show.
Now, the original air date for this show, it was September
11th, 2005, 2005. We're going back a bit.
(01:30):
We're going back. All right.
Now, the interesting thing aboutthis show, as I said, Rob
Lotterstein created it. It's based upon his own
experiences and his childhood about how shows today are not
that accurate and not that relatable to closeted teenagers,
to teens in general, boys, girls, and to some parents that
(01:53):
just don't get it. And the brilliance of this show
and probably to its detriment. It was labeled homophobic.
It was labeled not politically correct.
It was labeled politically incorrect.
It was shit on by about every network head out there because
(02:16):
of the content in which the showdisplayed.
As I said, Rob when he created this basically started from the
inception of no shows are relatable to today.
No shows display kids going through puberty.
No show displays what it's like for young women to grow up, what
(02:37):
it's like for nerds to grow up, what it's like to have the
youngest sibling be just fighting for every scrap of
food. And especially no show gives an
honest, narrow, true, hard boiled representation of what
it's like for a closeted gay kidgrowing up.
(02:58):
So let's jump right into it, shall we?
This show got cancelled. Its last episode aired on April
22nd, 2007. It only had 44 episodes, believe
it or not, and it's just a such a bummer because Fox, I mean,
obviously they're pretty, you know, they they cancel shows
(03:20):
like it's a bowel movement essentially.
You know, they cancel Family Guy, bring that back.
I mean, dark Angel, Wanda at large, that 80s Show, Joey, I
mean, like you like it's just a dime a dozen.
Now this show sadly much like one of the familiar shows that
we spoke about before early on, which was Surviving Jack which
(03:43):
is the quintessential 90s amazing, beautifully written,
excellently casted sitcom that also was cancelled on that
network didn't give a chance to grow an audience.
However, the word home was lightning in a bottle as far as
comedy is concerned and that is a credit due to the cast.
(04:04):
So the head of this cast is the brilliant and hilarious and
talented Michael Rappaport playsDave Gold, the patriarch, the
top dog. He is the father of this awful,
terrible, horrendous family. Anita Barone plays Vicki Gold,
the very amorous, the very aggressive, sometimes volatile
(04:31):
mother, but still a mother nonetheless.
And Vicki Gold, Kaylee Defer is the hormone raged oldest
daughter of the family who is, Imean, we're talking about
itching to lose virginity, experimenting with drugs,
experimenting with men, with women.
(04:51):
I mean, of her age. It's just the typical teenage
oldest daughter story of the narrative that's preached
through her. She can come off as annoying
sometimes, but really grounded and true nonetheless.
I mean, the person that's telling you this right now is
someone who's watched four daughters grow up.
(05:12):
OK, So they hit some of the emotional beats right on the
money. Now, without further ado, let's
move down the line. Kyle Sullivan, Malcolm in the
Middle's own Daphne. Remember him from Malcolm in the
Middle? Kyle Sullivan plays the middle
child, Larry Gold, a very, very closeted kid that wants to be
(05:33):
accepted. He's not gay, but he is closeted
in his insecurities from his parents approval, from his
father's approval. He is driven by, you know,
nervousness, very unsure of himself, copiously insecure, but
played perfectly by Kyle Sullivan.
(05:53):
And rounding out this cast, we have Dean Collins as Mike Gold,
the youngest little brother and awful family once again.
That is so funny. I mean, we're talking a kid that
lies about his age. He manipulates his parents.
He blackmails his parents. He experiments with just about
(06:14):
everything under the sun that teenage boys would experience.
And no humility, no shamelessness.
He is who he is. And that is played brilliantly
by Dean Collins as Mike Gold. Now, rounding out this cast,
believe it or not, is 1 Rami Malek.
Rami Malek, the Oscar winner anda staple in that community.
(06:43):
OK, the gay community. He is a staple primarily because
this role as Kenny, the next door neighbor, Larry's best
friend. Let me tell you something.
Let's put put put pause on this for a hot 2nd.
(07:03):
Kenny is the amalgamation, the representation, the stand alone
piece of the show that stands out and stands on his own.
He is a closeted gay kid who by all accounts is where a lot of
young men and women are in theirlife.
(07:24):
And a lot of kids find themselves going through
puberty, growing up, changing, not understanding where they
fit, not understanding how alonethey truly are, not believing
that anybody will believe them for fearing that there will be
rejected, disowned, beat up, hurt, or even worse.
His representation of Kenny is hilarious.
(07:46):
It is funny, it is sad, it is disturbing, it is truly
remarkable. Every single one of these
characters, whether that's Michael, Anita, Kaylee, Kyle,
Dean, and Rami, are amazing. Now, it's not without its
special guest stars, too. Remember, this was early 2000s,
(08:08):
so we had Family Guy's own creator, Seth MacFarlane, who
plays a awful, awful, terrible individual.
I'm not going to tell you what role he plays or what his part
is. It is terrible.
But by God does he milk that forall it's worth.
(08:28):
One of those comedians that knows exactly what he's supposed
to bring to that role, and he brings it tenfold in the worst
kind of way. And there's also Yvette Nicole
Brown from Community Zone. She's in it too.
She brings that spicy, aggressive, you know, angst if
you will, a lot of sarcasm there, and lays the blueprints
(08:52):
down for what she would later beknown as.
And her role is small but powerful and hilarious and once
again, very self aware, knows what the show is, knows what the
role is, and she crushes it. So as I said before, this is the
narrative surrounding these parents that got pregnant and
got married way too young. And it's kind of centered around
(09:16):
these two parents as Vicki and Dave that just don't get their
children. They don't get the desire to be
accepted. They don't get that the kids
have interests. They don't get that they're
their own people. And you know what?
They don't like them. Yes.
And the biggest selling point ofthis show and what separates the
(09:38):
show aside from some of the verycontroversial topics that the
show touches on. And we will get to those because
they touch on everything, and I mean everything.
Now, aside from the cast, and aside from the brilliant, very,
very sometimes inappropriate anduncomfortable humor that the
(10:00):
show displayed, the thing that sells the show so perfectly is
the internal dialogue. Now, the internal dialogue is
1/4 wall break. It is this very fascinating and
unique tool in which every time someone on the show goes through
(10:21):
something, makes a comment, makes a statement, makes a firm
decision or makes an awful decision, you cut to a
silhouette white room with that character and they tell you what
they really think. They tell you what they really
believe and they tell you how they really feel.
(10:43):
For example, there's one very controversial scene that happens
in Season 1 and instantaneously it cuts to inside of Vicki's
head and she tells you what really happened or from her
perspective, what has happened. And that's a continuous
(11:04):
dialogue. It's a continuous train that
never stops going. I mean, we're talking about it
cuts away to see what the child therapist really thinks of the
kids. It cuts to what?
It cuts to what Rami Malek really thinks about Larry a few
times. It cuts to so many of these
(11:25):
characters through the show and it just shows the internal
dialogue in the 4th wall break where they're talking to us, the
audience, and by God, is it not hilarious.
Now, as I said, the ironic thingabout this show, the irony is
that it is a family sitcom. Now, aside from it being very,
(11:46):
very inappropriate and by today's standards wouldn't even
have made it probably past the studio heads with some of the
episodes that got aired, most ofthe season 2 was chopped.
It was chopped because it was so, so inappropriate.
Every other word was bleep this,bleep that.
But it wasn't without its heart.OK, obviously you have a certain
(12:11):
standard when it comes to the inappropriate family nature or
the family humor. You have Simpson, South Park,
American Dad, Family Guy. Those were given.
Those are an absolute given. It's a cartoon, it's animated.
You know what to expect. You know exactly what you're
getting. But then you cut away for a bit.
And when you cut away for a bit,you see the honest, narrow
(12:34):
representation of what it life is like for a middle class
family done perfectly by Malcolmin the Middle.
And it's also done weirdly by another show called The Middle.
So you get this blend of real sweet family messages.
You get this blend of real sweetfamily unity and Modern Family
and fresh off the boat, Blackish.
(12:57):
And most of those shows are hilarious, great messages,
sometimes even emotional, like Tearjerkers and Times the war at
home is not that at all. OK, It is not that these parents
are not likable. These children are not likable.
It sounds like a show of lunatics and that is 110% what
(13:20):
it is. Basically, the show does carry
that line. There are some episodes that
have excellent messages and excellent purpose, like a really
realized plot that brings the narrative full circle in such a
complete and beautiful way. And then obviously, as I said,
(13:43):
it was cancelled. It only made it two seasons.
There's only 44 episodes of thisshow out there.
And believe it or not, I still revisit it.
I own season 1 and you can find season 2.
There's a few different areas out on the Internet that you can
kind of dig it up and find. YouTube is one of them and a few
other areas. You just type in the War at Home
(14:04):
season 2, you'll be able to findit.
It might be chopped, it might bea little blocky, but it is so
worth it if you are a fan of South Park, if you're a fan of
Family Guy and you're a fan of that unity that Malcolm and the
Middle brought. But you want to hear the eternal
dialogue, the internal dialogue of what they're really thinking,
how they really feel and what they really take their family to
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be and what the decisions their kids have made.
It is that show. And we've all been there.
Every single person out there listening to this has been there
in certain situations, in certain instances, whether it's
your family, whether it's your job, whether it's just hanging
out with your friends. Somebody does something and
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internally, you know what you'rethinking, you know what you want
to say, and you know how you really feel.
The War at Home does that brilliantly.
It does it perfectly and such a hilarious way.
And that is due to the credit. That is due to the credit of
Michael Rappaport, who is the nucleus of this comedy, his
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flying off the handle nature. Not quite like Archie Bunker,
but it is is pretty remarkable nonetheless.
So yeah, this one is a bit of a shorter one on on a Wednesday
today, but I would be remiss if I didn't tell everybody out
there to check this show out. The War at home seasons 1 and 2
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are out there right now. You can buy season 1 and you can
stream season 2. Now.
I warn you, I warn you, I warn you, I warn you if you have a
sensitive style of humor, if you've ever uttered the phrase
such and such is not funny. There's nothing funny about dot
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dot dot. There's nothing silly about XYZ.
You shouldn't make fun of that. You shouldn't make fun of this.
I'll tell you right now, this show is not for you.
Don't even bother. Do not watch it.
Don't waste your time and don't at me either, OK?
I'm smart enough to understand that this is a reflection.
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This is a reflection. This is a comedian amplified
representation of awful people in a family that at the end of
the day truly loves each other, if that makes sense.
But it's a show. It's not real.
It's played for comedy with honest and earnest messages
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about how a family should be. What carries it is the messages.
What carries it is what they arebringing to you, the audience.
And I'll tell you, shows like this do not exist and this show
doesn't exist. This show was something that was
very unique. It was very different.
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It was very special. And like I said, the 4th wall
breaking the internal dialogue, breaking the situations that the
dad finds himself in, the situations that his mom finds
herself in. And as I say this, I'm thinking
of a few of the episodes. I'm not going to give any of
them away because I want everybody out there to please
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watch this. Please give the show a shot.
But every single episode centerson a various event that we've
all been through in life, whether that's how much you do
care about your family, how loyal are you to your family?
How committed are you to being aparent?
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How interested are you in being a parent?
These are all questions that theshow displays in such a
hilarious and calloused inappropriate way.
Before I get out of here, I think I've sold you on the show
enough. The War at Home seasons one and
two. Check it out.
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But if you're not sold, here's alittle teaser of what kind of
tempo this show brings. OK, so as I said, Mike, the
youngest member of the family, is thinking he may be want to be
a rock star, so he's writing song lyrics.
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The episode progresses, the parents find the lyrics.
They think he is suicidal, they think he is dark, they think he
is troubled. Meanwhile, their middle son and
Larry, who is very troubled and has depression and has all these
issues, they think that Larry isdoing that for attention and
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taking the focus off of Mike andit all plays for comedy until
they put Mike in therapy. Once they put him in therapy,
the 4th wall breaking in betweenthe therapist, between the
parents, between the kids is remarkable.
It is so funny and it's not without its doings of other cast
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members. Like I said, Seth MacFarlane,
Yvette Nicole Brown, it just goes off the rails when you meet
Vicki's parents, when you meet Dave's parents, when you meet
other kids in school, when you meet the neighbors.
And as I said, it touches on everything, everything that
makes this world tick. This show touches on everything
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in the most crude, rude, inappropriate way possible.
And it is tremendous, such a good show.
And as I said, there is some real strong, real hard themes
and messages in this show that alot of young adults and young
kids could definitely relate to.And in a lot of ways, it can be
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therapeutic. It can be helpful because this
show shows the representation ofa lot of people that don't feel
represented. And for that, this show is
easily one of the funniest ones out there and it's such a
bummer, but not surprising at all that it got cancelled
because as I said, if you buy the DVDs, you open them up,
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you'll see on the case it says did not air unaired episode
something something could not air.
So take that with a a grain of salt.
And yeah, just be prepared for what it is you're going to watch
when you check out the war at home.
This has been an episode of the core of entertainment.
Some solo work on Wednesday withme, your boy OC.
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And I want to thank everybody for making this platform a part
of your day. And while we're at it, you can
check me out at OC Entertainment01 on Instagram and YouTube, OC
Entertainment on Twitter, OC Entertainment 01 on TikTok.
Do me a favor, drop me a line there and give me a follow.
And it's for this platform. Like subscribe, punch that
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notification bell so you never miss another episode.
Jump down into the comments section below.
Have you seen the war at home? Do you know what show I'm
talking about? What's your favorite episode?
If you haven't seen it, go out, watch it, come on back and let
me know what you think. Thank you so much for listening.
Thank you for me so much for being a part of this episode.
It is amazing. I cannot wait.
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I'm actually going to start watching the show again right
now. Thank you so much and I'll talk
to all of you later. Peace.
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