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Voices: Are trigger warnings turning a harmless old sitcom into the perfect Gen Z hate-watch?

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There’s nothing worse than going back to one of your favourite shows from days gone by – a nostalgic little comfort of a simpler time in your life, perhaps a sitcom you used to watch with your parents as a kid – only to realise that it’s aged about as badly as you have.

Wow, the sure do make a lot of, don’t they? And the gang would be me-too’d faster than you can say “legen – wait for it – dary” if they pulled any of their unorthodox dating shenanigans today. And don’t even get me started on the class politics of .

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