Brady Bunch Vs Modern Family Essay

Television has been around since the 1950s and has improved in many ways. Television transitioned slowly to reflect today life such as color, equipment, technology, and the way the characters are shown through the show and life. While The Brady Bunch and Modern Family are both tv sitcoms that featured a housewife, the ways in which appearance, chores, and roles that are portrayed are widely different. First in terms of appearance, both tv sitcoms The Brady Bunch and Modern Family have similar clothing style. The Brady Bunch was aired in the late 1960s and early 1970s while Modern Family was aired in the late 2000s. In both sitcoms the housewives played a big role in most of the episodes aired, one thing that we noticed as we compare the two …show more content…
In both sitcoms The Brady Bunch and Modern Family the housewives are stay at home mothers that takes care of the house while the father and children goes to work or school. In both sitcoms the housewives Carol from The Brady Bunch and Claire from Modern Family their job duties is to take care of the kids and to take care of the house cleaning job task. Such as help the kids get ready, prep the food for the family, dust the house the house, and help the kids with any tasks. In contrast The Brady Bunch has Carol the mom of the family and Alice as the housekeeper. As we watched the sitcom Carol doesn’t do as much work as seen because she has an assistant to help her. As we watched The Brady Bunch sitcom we noticed in the episode “Father of the year” the two parents Mike and Carol sitting at the dinner table while Alice is in the background cleaning the kitchen and serving them their morning coffee. As for the housewife from Modern Family the episode “Pilot” Claire is seen cleaning the kitchen after the morning breakfast, make sure her kids are dressed apportialy, putting the laundry away, and organizing events for the family. Overall the two housewives are shown to be a little different from the different