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Sound familiar? Why I am making the comparison between the 1988 ABC TV series The Wonder Years, and the current 2016 ABC TV series The Real O'Neals, is both are comprised of a family of five with two sons and one daughter living in a middle income home and both have a narrative style where the families issues are described to the audience by a family member in the third party style of describing their actual feelings and circumstances/experiences. There are similarities such as the Arnold family was comprised of a gruff dad who holds a senior management position at NORCOM a defense contractor, and the loving wife, two sons and one daughter.
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Of course ABC is attempting to modernize their comedy series for a more acceptable and approving 2016 audience than what was expected from the then wholesome 1988 Arnold family of five starting with the then 13 year old Kevin Arnold played by Fred Savage in his breakout role. I think what ABC is attempting to accomplish with their new TV comedy series "The Real O'Neals" without leaving themselves open to any legal challenges that have the word "piracy" or "copyright infringement" in the lead statement was to utilize one of their own former successful TV series namely the 1988-1993 The Wonder Years. When a producer is competing to capture their fair share of a television viewer audience with a new comedy series they either have to create a whole new comedy genre stratosphere such as the huge success of The Big Bang Theory and/or Modern Family accomplished, go back to an earlier era of simpler times such as the 1974 Happy Days series that ran for 11 years, or they will choose to piggyback off of the success of a defunct series that had previous success for many years.