While this episode does divert from the standard TAGS fare that has led so many fans to embrace the show, it was just following a trend in motion pictures at the time. Other shows, such as The Lucy Show and The Beverly Hillbillies, also bent over to have generation gap stories, all to conclude it was not really different than the older generation had known previously. I don't really oppose a show making a relevant statement, even if it does have to reach beyond its normal focus. Even Gunsmoke did so a couple or more times; like once when a 'mentally challenged' young man, who could not cope in the the adult world, faced being put away; or when a Jewish family from Russia settled near Dodge City, and refused to be run out.
Review of The Senior Play
