The New Normal - sit com

I just heard this commercial for the first time (I've seen it a few times but always with the sound down.)

The premise is as you might expect - a straight woman has an 8 year old (I'm guessing on the age) child...and lives with her mother. She also lives with two gay friends who acts as "dads" to the child (and presumably this woman is pregnant so they're going to act as dads to the new baby, too.)

First off, of course, this isn't "the new normal." The new normal is for a woman to not have a husband or male presence in the house of any kind, have an illegitimate baby, and live in poverty for the rest of her life.

But out in California, I suppose, it could be normal there. Who knows what goes on in that state?

Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not dissing loving gay couples standing by their straight friends. Not at all.

It's just that this is the typical sit-com formula. The mother verbally abuses everybody - the 8 year old girl-child is a smart-mouth who of course knows everything. (She calls her grandmother a bigot. It's true, but should a little child be talking to her grandmother that way?)

Frankly, I think parents should boycott all sitcoms - just allow their kids to watch the good ones - the Cosby show, the Brady Bunch, etc - shows in which parents know things and are not fools, and kids may rebel but always learn that parents know best.

The one thing I wish all sitcoms would get rid of is this verbal abuse character. There's always one in every sitcom, whom the other characters just tolerate and who is supposed to be, apparently, "Crusty but loveable."  (It will turn out, of course, that this homophobic grandma isn't really bigoted, she just likes to pretend she is.)