Futurama

Weeds is a dramedy that ran on Showtime from 2005-2011. It wasn’t your typical sitcom that had your occasional stoner who got the munchies and freaked out. Weeds brought us into the life of a single mother struggling to support her family, but finds ways to overcome this struggle by selling marijuana. The show was completely about marijuana—dealing, growing, baking, consuming, and all the fun that comes with it. Weeds received both positive and negative feedback from viewers across the country. Not only was this show innovative because it was one of the first sitcoms like itself, but it also defied and agreed with many stereotypes. They gained a huge fan base because of the relatable problems they included that stoners could relate to. The show also received a lot of criticism because of their distinctive stereotyping and the way they portrayed all the characters in the show. Weeds stood out to many audiences due to its’ character list and how the writers played off of each of their personalities t create the stoner comedy. The main characters on Weeds all maintain an upper middle-class lifestyle in a suburban neighborhood in California. The main characters in the show are the Botwins led by widowed mother Nancy who loses her husband to a heart attack prior to the beginning of the series. Nancy resorts to selling marijuana and other similar illegal activities to maintain the family’s lifestyle and without getting a ordinary daily job. The suburban neighborhood…

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.…

Matt Groening is arguably one of the best cartoonists in the history of television. When people hear the name Matt Groening, they immediately think about the hit cartoon series "The Simpsons" or "Futurama." However, not many people know much about Matt Groening as a person. Groening was born on February 15, 1954 in Portland Oregon. Groening graduated from Lincoln High School in Portland Oregon and graduated from Evergreen State College in Olympia Washington. Right after Groening graduated…

sublime. For example, the spectacle of race was extremely apparent in the Colombian Exposition due to the symbolism of the Midway Plaisance and the White Palace. Race was an aspect and attribute of life that many had been closed off to at this time. Similarly, futuristic technology was awe inspiring during the New York World’s Fair in the same way. The inventions of the microwave, a magnets, ”objects suspended in the air,” and a big brain that could answer questions. Not to mention the striking…

I chose the book The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Matt Ridley because I have always been fascinated by how our culture views sex and how it has had an effect on our evolution. The author discusses how the biological factors of sexual selection has affected human psychology. You probably remember the Red Queen hypothesis from recently. From Through the Looking Glass, Alice meets the Red Queen who is constantly running just to stay in one place and not fall behind. This is…

Ice and how its seen Ice, frozen water that is very brittle. That is the definition of ice. While it may have one definition it can be interpreted in many different ways around the world. Depending on who you're speaking to they might interpret ice as cold and unforgiving. However, another person might say that ice is the breath of god. The symbolic meaning of ice can be seen in literature with Game of Thrones, Film with Futurama and Batman, art with ice sculptures, religion with…

professional and they can improvise any cue if missing during their plays, if everyone helps out each other and produce hilarious skits will definitely make the audience laugh and they won’t even notice their mistakes. Commedia dell arte has echoed all the way to this day. Many theatre plays have taken commedia and apply to theirs, comedy, melodrama, tragedy and tragicomedy. Also commedia has a huge impact on modern television shows like Fawlty towers, Friends, Futurama, How I met your mother…

in Mrs Sunram reading books out loud to us I really paid attention because she read books I was interested in I felt sad when I didn’t get reading as much as the other kids before third grade I noticed other kids could write so the teacher knew what they meant and I couldn’t no one could help me because I didn't even know I had a problem it seemed like I was in a hall of mirrors. It felt like everyone in class cud read but the only one who couldn’t. My mom used to read to me starting when I was…

films were actually more likely to have thin waists and large chests than their counterparts in live-action films – even when compared to characters in R-rated movies”. Can you imagine Sleeping Beauty an overweight princess? However, it is not limited to movies only. TV shows also represent the mass media’s negative body image. The same concept applies. The main characters are usually appealing the viewers. Researcher Gregory Fouts “has found that only 5 per cent of women on sitcoms are…

He would always go wake surfing with his family and friends. Jackson had done baseball his whole life, his position was catcher, he had been there since he was eight years old. He used to watch television shows such as Futurama and Simpsons. Jackson had done some art throughout his life, he had taken art class for a few years before he moved to South Carolina. His most favorite activity, was to simply be around friends, he constantly wanted to go swimming with them, go play basketball with them.…