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It's a good meme, but that show had far too much overt and normalized misogyny in it. Watching it these days is cringey as fuck.
It's important to understand cultural context in old shows. You don't need to agree with them or find enjoyment in every single thing of a show.
For example, The Honeymooners from the 50s openly joked about domestic violence ("pow, right in the kisser"), but the show was still pretty endearing overall.
The cultural context for myself as a teenage boy was that Christina Applegate was in it.
Yep, she may have been my first real teenage crush lol