I Love Lucy's Influence On Pop Culture

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The show I Love Lucy was favored almost by everyone in America. It was a huge influence on pop culture in the 1950s. It was appeared to be entertaining and comedic crossing with real-life issues that many Americans especially, married couples can relate to. The trials and tribulations of the married couple that were seen through the show and Lucy’s ditzy characteristics is what the viewers favored also linked with comedy. Two ideas that were theorized about I Love Lucy is Doyle Greene’s idea that it views women dumb and humiliating and that’s how most housewives are viewed as. Whereas Lori Landay says Lucy represents feminism through her character’s action. At this time of the era, women were viewed to be weak but, they struggled

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