Wonderful submission, baleen.

Even the furniture looks like ours!

That was the appeal, like the Cosby Show, but also a fantasia for immigrants who wanted to fit in. I think when the studios were taken over by megabanks the concerns of immigrants in the mainstream really started to go down the shitter.

Reading up on this... it was a radio show that lasted for 15 years until the man who played the husband died, and when they decided to move it to television, people actually mourned when they replaced him with another actor. Originally lived in a Bronx walk-up and Mrs. Goldberg would start every episode with a monologue to an unseen neighbor in the street below.

"Yoo hoo, Mrs. Bloom!"

She'd also start the show with a very long, meandering stereotypical Jewish mother shpiel about the benefits of Sanka, her main sponsor. The show would segue directly from her talking out the window about Sanka, "You should switch to decaf, because we're wired all the time and need to relax, don't you? And don't you want the good taste of Sanka, I mean, you should because you deserve it, don't you?", and then go right into the cheery Jewish family idyll that must have made its 10 million viewers feel relaxed and accepted/tolerant.

I've watched a few episodes of this show over the past couple months, and it always seems to cheer me up even though it's so over the top.