i cannot believe that this exists there's a show on cbs uh nbc then uh you know maybe they'll give
us a little extra show money because we're calling out their competitor here uh they have a sitcom
called uh united states of al basically it's about and i think uh he's from afghanistan
he lives with a white family that's the premise of it so oh mixing cultures tension for comedy
but they decided to incorporate world events into this latest episode here is a preview
riley is it confirmed the taliban took her out kabul might be next al's family's there
we're at the airport hello there's so many people i don't think i can do this
listen to me i am right there with you
i'm dying do you remember that one scene from what was that i can't remember like the um
if it was the west wing or like the newsroom whichever aaron can show when like they announced
that like osama bin laden has been killed like on a plane and they're like everyone
just like salutes the pilot or something yeah yeah yeah osama bin laden is dead
you know maybe that cb can do a crossover episode where uh where young sheldon joins isis
and then you can get al to be the intermediary between the evil young sheldon and the president
of the united states and then he can drone young sheldon which um obviously we want all of that
to happen in any capacity and uh then no civilians will die and then we can have an even like greater
level of propaganda for the united states war machine and manufacture consent
through just symbiotic cable programming people should know this show is a sitcom
apparently it's a sitcom i've never watched it but it's supposed to be a comedy i guess it is what
they thought i mean i guess they thought the whole situation was so far removed that they could uh
uh create a show on it and then oopsie they just happened to launch this show just as afghanistan
is back in the news regardless of the fact that we've been over there and the war was ongoing when
they launched this show um i guess they just felt like it wasn't on people's minds so they could
find some sort of comedic angle to the situation they're trying to like do a very serious episode
because yes like the united states leaving afghanistan has caused such a calamity and
the taliban is taking over and did you notice how the actor like who plays al he's his gesticulation
is like he's a terrible actor too and i can already tell from the promo
like the way his shoulders move can we go back to that he's he's not even afghan by the way which i
don't think is necessary all obviously but you think if you're gonna do a show like this maybe
you would try to have gotten an actor from uh who who or you know who was born maybe but like
clearly have they don't okay look at this is his dramatic acting here look look what he does
listen to me i am right there with you
all right i don't know i'm getting fixated on that but do you have that wikipedia description of
another episode this is like this is an example of the kind of art that is in cable television these
days right like you know they all i don't know who watches still shows on like major networks
um because it's like pretty people old people right um al greets riley's daughter hazel and
introduces him as her godfather on a video call with his mother al is berated for wearing shorts
as it is against his religion as a muslim to do so this is offensive the following day al
and riley go to the dmv where al becomes nervous after seeing that his female driving instructor
paula is also wearing shorts and as a result fails his driving test wanting to adjust to american
social norms al talks with riley arden offended liz and offended lizzie to sort things out
deciding to avoid forcing his religious double standards uh on on people on other people in
his following visit to the dmv with paula as his driving instructor al overcomes his
issues by acknowledging both paul and himself are wearing shorts only to become nervous once again
after stopping at a traffic light next to a charity car wash with bikini-clad women
it's amazing this is like a new show because if this were like 2005 like yeah this one i could
see like a lot of seasons like you know reba comes on and then this yeah like this is i was
gonna even say 90s well what was that w show about the foreign exchange student that included scott
patterson from gilmore girls that's what i that's how i knew about it um damn it come on this is
when brandon you're supposed to step up i'm sorry what show we're talking about aliens in america
aliens in america yeah that was kind of similar a hilarious video how a 16 year
old pakistani exchange student adjusts adjusts to the toll truck household despite the cultural
chasm between justin and raja they develop an unlikely bond so very similar trope but
that came out in what 2007 2006 a little bit more of that time this show but like i mean
to attempt to kind of reclaim that that that offensive sitcom those offensive kind of like
types of sitcoms they're they're like not evolving whatsoever because it's it's
it's an archaic trope no matter what yeah i know it's gonna sound bad but i miss when things were
bad in simpler ways now that that was a whole like list of problems in that synopsis that
like i just you know makes you just wish it was reba like then you know episodes about something
really problematic that's great it supposed like a million like problematic things with this like
thin veneer of wokeness over it like oh yeah no it's a show about uh treating immigrants as
though they're people like okay great oh yeah i can only imagine how you're gonna like you know
make us feel that oh wait no i yes i can that was a great clip yeah it really it really was want to
take a call matt sure let's take a call by the way this this show is apparently viewed by uh millions
upon millions of people i've been definitely gonna watch it it got a new one new viewer today right
i five american sitcoms teaching people of all backgrounds to be more tolerant of american values
right like that's the concept of the uh the bikini uh clad woman like that's super messed up he can't
drive a car is the because he sees a woman in the bikinis just like it's that's like not it's
not cool a fierce deity i think the premise of the show is that the main white protagonist was
a soldier and became friends with al when he was in afghanistan then he like brought him
back with him i guess very white savory and if i remember the actor who plays al is not afghan
or even middle eastern um it's like robin crusoe and man friday yeah uh s spore inspiron antonio uh
michael tracy seemed impossible to talk to i don't know how you did at map b
well no it was uh i enjoy that type of stuff so it was fine for me yeah i mean
it does it does take a special person i don't think i was i would be able to do it
uh although i did you know like when we were colleagues i did i did attempt to speak with
him but alan ivermechten remember when sitcoms had non-political very special episodes like alex
getting addicted to speed on family ties i miss the 80s i remember when will smith got shot on the
fresh prince of bel air and carlton brings a gun into the hole into like his hospital room
and will have to take it from him and then like empty the revolver into his like lap
in like the hospital bed very vividly and to this day that's why i'm against gun violence
thank you alfonso ribeiro you have my number if you ever need anything
big dick cheney energy look up a writer named dylan park on twitter he says he pitched the show
the cbs as a drama then they stole it and turned it into a sitcom he's currently prepping a lawsuit
against the network he definitely should sue but i think they were right to make it a company
i can't i can't deny that yeah i mean i appreciate the lawsuit go after them uh with all of your
might and hopefully you win but there's no way that at least the premise that we saw
uh isn't in in some way comedic i have another premise that you that that sort of spins off
from this you could do like a kevin can [ __ ] himself style show where like al
pretends to be like integrating into america but he's actually like a sleeper agent for like
the american like uh sell like the americans i mean false flag americanization yeah so it
goes from like sitcom filming to like more gritty like 24 style filming whenever uh his white savior
friend is not on the uh the camera right exactly i just discovered another show hadn't heard of uh
kevin kim what is it kevin can [ __ ] himself yeah i don't have to check that one out too
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