It had a “groundbreaking success in the history of sitcoms”. (http:/ /www.people.com/people/archive/article/020120220,0 0.html) and is said to have more views than any other show. It had gained a positive viewer’s response once the show started and it never lost it. The show dominated the weekly TV ratings and maintained at #1 in the Nielsen rating and never dropped below #3 the entire six seasons.…
It also provides cultural experiences that can broaden viewers’ perspectives and allow them to gain respect and tolerance towards those lifestyles they are not familiar with. Certain shows highlight new trends and styles that allow the American lifestyle to evolve. Some shows highlight the divergent trends of homes, food, fashion, and other cultural customs. Peculiar ideas and trends have been introduced through television over the years. At first viewers are usually appalled by the new “craze”, then they find the whole idea humorous.…
The Office is a television show that aired in 2005 and went off aired in 2013. The show was filmed as a documentary that looks into the inside of a small paper company Dunder-Mifflin in Pennsylvania. Being filmed as a documentary the show was able to capture everyday interactions in a work place. The Office was remarkable in capturing conflict throughout the nine seasons. Conflict is defined as when two or more people come into a collision or disagreement.…
I Love Lucy I Love Lucy have been able to stay on the air for half a century and entertain millions. It is a comedy series in the 1950's about a couple ,Lucy Ricardo and Ricky Ricardo, who are friends with Ethel and Fred the owner of the apartment building in New York City were they live. The show I Love Lucy has some funny jokes and is interesting to watch to see how life was like back then but a lot of the times the jokes aren't funny and the show pertays women and immature and childish and sexist. I Love Lucy is interesting to watch because you get a slice life from how it was back then. Some examples are Rick is smoking which was common an excepting while now if you smoke people will glare at you.…
Matt Groening Illuminated the world by making a whole other world of TV. This was the world of animated adult comedies. This world started because the Simpsons was getting so much money and was so popular other companies thought it would be a good idea to make more animated adult comedies. Most of these shows (Family guy, South Park, Archer, and more) got really popular and are still going on today. Futurama was popular but ended because Groening said that he had too much on his hands.…
Although, this is the tagline widely associated with the show it mainly deals with the lives of the main characters. This is not a common show to call your favorite childhood show when there were perfectly good cartoon shows to watch during my childhood like SpongeBob, Fairly Odd Parents, The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, and Powerpuff Girls. Nonetheless, there is a reason that dates back all the way to when I was in daycare.…
Kendall describes many frames throughout his paper, and each one provides a different view of United States pop culture and mass media. One of my personal favorite frames that Kendall talks about is the Middle-class values framing. This type of framing focuses on the “values of this class and suggest that they hold the nation together” (Kendall 59). A show that features this type of frame would be Arrested Development. This show makes fun of the typical middle-class by showing how dysfunctional the family really is.…
These offensive lyrics aim to make people laugh and most importantly, to make people to discover the hidden meanings. Offensive humor is done by letting the viewer believing the joke is actually talking about something else or is the person who is supposed to be laugh at (Sienkiewicz & Marx, 2009).There are many individuals who after hearing the song condemn these lyrics as being powerful enough to incite a rebellion, whereas others will view the song as a satirical statement of the U.S. government operates today (Ricke, 2012). Shows like Family Guy are brewing a cultural rebellion. It shows that animated sitcoms play the role not only as a communication tool but also an interaction medium. Audience have a growing sense that anything goes mentality permeating our electronic culture, and electronic culture contributes to the moral crisis facing America.…
One of the most classic comedies of the 90s is, of course, Seinfeld. Its unique humor started the trend of many similar sitcom comedies, mostly Friends and How I Met Your Mother. With great casting and superb writing, it became one of the best sitcoms to be made. Created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, putting Jerry as himself in a sitcom about nothing, seriously nothing.…
Whether the show is discussing family values or the role of women in society The Simpsons have continually been on the forefront of change and political discourse.…
Social commentary makes subtle comments and judgements on present society. Futurama is a workplace comedy about a naive boy from the turn of the century. He goes to work for Planet Express, a package delivery service, one thousand years in the future. Futurama, a satirical science fiction show, first aired on March 28, 1999, aims to undermine social boundaries using social commentary. The main character, Fry, finds himself so totally alone in a technologically confusing world that he becomes best friends with a robot.…
This show focused on sexual references and jokes, more than it did friendly humor to make the audience laugh. Even when the jokes were shameful, they were kind of humorous and made the show enjoyable to watch. This shows that today this behavior is found funny and is practiced by teens, too. This is shown by noticing that most of the jokes were sexual, even though there were some that were indeed not sexual. This poses the question: does what actions on TV shows affect the way the society acts today?…
The Simpsons is one of the longest running and most popular television (T.V.) shows in the history of television. As a result, the show has had a lasting affect on American culture reaching down to even some of the words we use today. These influences are a direct result of the show’s many characters relatability and the way in which they are presented. It’s place in popular culture, an icon of American life, make it a standpoint for the way in which Americans live. No doubt its use of satire to critique American culture has led to its popularity and controversy.…
Modern Family is a TV show that is written by Steven Levitan and Christopher Lloyd. This show is a comedy about an American family who are close knitted and are always dealing with a small or large issue. I believe that the best thing about the show is that the directors were together talking and retelling stories about their own families. Later the authors realized that they might make a show out of it, then before you know it the TV was created.…
The sitcom genre which is short for situation comedy has been around since 1947 which is when the first sitcom was aired. William Asher was believed to have made sitcoms…