Daily Inspiration Quote by Sharon Gless

Gless’s line lands like a compliment wrapped in a complaint: the “really, really” is doing double duty as emphasis and as an eye-roll. Coming from an actress who built a career in television’s big-tent era, it’s less a snob’s dismissal than a veteran’s audit. She’s implicitly measuring an industry that produces a lot of product, a lot of noise, and surprisingly little that feels built to last.

The specificity of “about three” is the trick. It sounds offhand, even generous, but it’s also a challenge to a medium that sells itself on abundance. Sitcoms are supposed to look easy: a half hour, a few sets, a familiar rhythm. Gless punctures that illusion. The subtext is craft. A truly good sitcom needs writing that can sustain characters without flattening them into catchphrases, performances that can carry jokes without begging for them, and a tone that can weather cultural shifts. “On the air” matters, too: she’s not talking about the canon, she’s talking about what’s currently surviving the churn of schedules, algorithms, and trend-chasing.

As an actor, she’s also protecting the genre from being treated like low stakes. Comedy is where careers get pigeonholed and networks get complacent: if it’s “funny enough,” ship it. Her comment pushes back against that acceptable-mediocrity threshold. The throwaway cadence makes it feel casual, but the intent is pointed: good sitcoms are rare because the system rewards volume, not refinement, and because the hardest thing in TV is making something look effortless week after week.