There weren't many television sitcoms produced in the 1930's.......but for anyone who's seen movies from the time -- the wife wasn't always depicted as a ditz.  And sometimes the father was depicted as a ditz.

Or, as in the case of the 1940's era Blondie movie series -- BOTH husband and wife were depicted as ditzes.  Or as in the 1940's Bonita Granville Nancy Drew series -- the girl was depicted as the smart one, and she was constantly lording it over her dumb and dull-as-dishwater boyfriend (Why was a smart girl like her interested in a loutish neighbor boy like him, anyway?).

The reference might be somewhat more accurate if it's applied to 1950's TV sitcoms -- but even there it doesn't always hold true.  But that was a different era.  We've advanced far beyond such backwards thinking these days..........and we are beginning to pay the price for it.

Oh, yeah -- and I should add that in the 1960's, sometimes the family maid was the smart one (Hazel), and sometimes the wife was both smart and had all of the real power (Bewitched).  Or perhaps the woman was dumb, but still had all of the power (I Dream of Jeanie).

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