Your Family or Mine?

They will open the door for their home. We will enter their lives. We loved them. We will see somewhere between them one of us or one of our own family. We will enjoy Mother's madness. We will share the father's concerns. We will laugh at the nerve of the mother-in-law. We will be moved by the brothers' erotic frustrations. We will hide the bride's innocent secrets. We listened patiently to the groom's outbursts. And of course we will say: but this is our - family. Jonathan, Ellen, and the - full set of their terrific relatives are coming in heavier. Jackson and Dawson come, for five consecutive years, to lay down their family table with lavish portions of laughter, to eat, to eat, to quarrel, to love, but above all to overcome themselves. Television's most beloved family comes across as funny, unpredictable, subversive, again finding a reason to make our evenings interesting.