An American Family

It's great, but you have to direct this because I don't know how to do this.

And all this leads to this movie with the main inspiration being this PBS documentary from 1973 called American Family.

About the Loud family, which I've never seen.

Is it Loud or Lau?

And then immediately just start like spanking him.

And you're like, oh, that...

Yeah, the American family.

It's not the Leave it to Beaver people we thought it was.

I believe it was Cinema Verite.

It was definitely Cinema Verite, the American Family, the Lau Family.

And guys, you can actually watch the original show on PBS, and then you can watch the biopic that was played by Diane Lane and Tim Robbins, I believe, on Netflix or something like that.

Oh, I never knew that there was a biopic about an American family.

The Brady Bunch.

What was the name of the family in An American Family on PBS? Oh, wow.

What was, okay, say that question again.

What was the name of the family that was in the sitcom, or not sitcom, the show An American Family on PBS?

That was that first reality show, wasn't it? I

have no clue.

So the family that accidentally invented modern reality TV, okay? So on January 11th, 1973, PBS aired something American audiences really had never seen before.

It was called An American Family.

I actually did a video on this a while ago.

There were no actors, there wasn't a laugh track, Wasn't supposed to be some sort of giant competition.

Yeah.

So this is, at the time it came out, a direct reference to the PBS series, The American Family or An American Family, which is about the Loud family, or as they were referred to in the opening text of this film, the Bill Louds, which, just a sidebar, isn't that a great archaic practice, the misogynist practice of referring to a family as the dad's name? Yeah, absolutely,

yeah.

Mr. and Mrs. John Walker.