A show or real life??

I heard someone telling another person a story today and one particular part caught my attention. However, let me give you a little information first. He was discussing the living situation of his father who recently moved in with his sister because their mother passed away. What caught my attention was:
"In my parents eyes the woman did everything around the house. My mother did, right up until she died. When we went to visit my Dad after she pasted, the house was a mess because my mother was not there to clean things up. My dad just did not know how to do anything. Now that he is living with my sister, he is driving her crazy because she won't wait on him hand and foot like my mother did. I swear my dad is stuck in Leave It To Beaver or something."
Now the wording may not be exact however my point gets across. Why is it that we relate things to shows? Especially gender related things? Our society created those shows and they simply reflect our life, our image of where a woman/man should or should not be in our homes and lives. While I do think to a certain extent that the shows and movies we watch help mold our society, it is more society molding the show then we may like to think. If we realize that we made that show, even Leave it to Beaver, then we must admit to ourselves the show holds truth and no one likes to do that. Shows reflect the time in which they were popular and it makes all of us wonder how men and women lived in those times, how they lived like that. Truth is, it may not be to the extreme of the husband and wife in the story above or as Leave it to Beaver anymore but even now shows reflect the same thing! It is just better hidden and the wife has a skirt suit on instead of a dress. Wow....we have made a huge leap! Saddest part is....that leap looks to only be from black and white to color.