TV On the Edge: Moments That Shaped Our Culture - Season 1
Season 1
Episodes
Dan Quayle vs. Murphy Brown
Amid the heated 1992 presidential campaign, Vice President Dan Quayle attacks the television show Murphy Brown for its portrayal of single motherhood. Instantly, the Bush campaign is catapulted into a national conversation and debate around family values, while the "culture war" playbook is officially born.
Oprah's Wagon of Fat
In 1988, Oprah walks on stage wearing slim size 10 Calvin Klein blue jeans, a black turtleneck, and… wheeling 67 pounds of animal fat piled into a Radio Flyer red wagon. The stunt not only reveals how much weight she lost but shines a light on America's obsession with fatness, proving that diet culture spares no one.
Ellen Comes Out
It's April 30, 1997, and Ellen DeGeneres is about to do something that hasn't been done before when the title character of her hit sitcom Ellen comes out on primetime television right after she comes out in real life. More than 40 million viewers tune in for the big reveal that broke barriers and lit the spark for accurate gay representation on television for decades to come.
Hurricane Kanye
After Hurricane Katrina decimated New Orleans in 2005, Kanye West goes on NBC's telethon Concert for Hurricane Relief and famously says, "George Bush doesn't care about Black people" to a live national audience. This becomes one of the first viral moments, but more importantly, a spark that galvanized a generation, laying the groundwork for the Black Lives Matter movement.
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