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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…

“I Love Lucy” and “Andy Griffin” shows are similar in so many ways. There also have many differences as well. The shows in the 1950 and 1960 are very entertaining compared to today’s television. Today is based on reality television that includes drama, fighting, and the fact that it is their real life. All the shows that is not reality television seems just as real. The majority of people just want to watch interesting show that maintain at interest to them the entire show. The I Love Lucy show…

The Reel Life The Goldbergs, a television sitcom show shown on the ABC network, focuses on a family living in a town in Pennsylvania in the 1980s. The producer, Adam Goldberg, uses events that happened to his family in the 1980s to create each episode. Adam, what most people would call a nerd and a little quirky, follows all the new pop culture arising during the 1908s. Because of his love of pop culture, he documents his life by using his VHS camcorder and recording several aspects of his life…

The politics of representation encompass the way in which we, as a society, view the outside world. The media uses this as a way to form what can be a biased and most of the time a misinformed on race, culture, religion and as well as country. As media is a driving force of our everyday lives we often do not question it as it is seen as a reliable source. Leading sources such as Fox News have established a reputation in which viewers despite being extremely biased deem them believable.…

Have you ever experienced family conflict at some point in your life? If so, has it ever affected you mentally? Emotionally? Many people would have answered “yes,” especially those with an Asian background. Dysfunctional families have plagued Asian American communities, leaving a large number of younger generations stressed out. [insert statistics] Several symptoms include self-esteem issues, anxiety, depressive thoughts, leading to suicide ideation in the extreme case. As for Annie Choi of…

First, I have to say its hilarious to see Gene Simmons in a question, about a perfect family. I think it would have been even funnier if the Beverly Hillbillies was included or compared to Gene Simmons. However, the Cosby Show or Fresh Prince of Bel-Air was more relatable in my upbring. According, to society we were the burgesious or higher, when I was growing up. Therefore, shows depicting the perfect family were never tye reason for why our family unit survived and lived above…

As we look at popular animated television series that have been running for at least a decade and continue to run, the two that can get brought up are “American Dad!” and “Family Guy.” Both shows ultimately demonstrate core family values in the most comedic way but they are equally different and in point of the main characters both have several differences. As a contrast between the main character of “American Dad“, Stan Smith and of “Family Guy”, Peter Griffin, one is more disciplined and…

Themes in family shows have changed drastically over the years. Themes have seemed to transfer from classic topics such as friendship troubles and simple family misunderstandings to family drama and complicated relationship issues, as well as contemporary and borderline controversial issues. Famous TV shows from the 19th century that featured families that dealt with classic TV sitcom topics were shows such as The Brady Bunch and Full House. Popular TV shows today that deal with edgier language…

Design In regards to intertextuality, Teddy from my picturebook is the Humpty Dumpty used in the television show Playschool. This served two purposes: Humpty is known to be an incredibly unlucky character, creating doubt in the readers mind even at the beginning of the story that Teddy is the lucky one; and it also creates a connection to Australian children (and even adults) that watch Playschool. Salience and colour were used hand-in-hand in my picturebook through the colour red: it is one of…

It is fascinating to find that things that apparently seem to be so different can be developed in such way that they sustain the same point of view. If we think about the career of a very tall, basketball player; people attraction to voyeurism; the career of a country music singer who beats records in discs’ selling, and the use of laugh tracks in comedy sitcom, it looks like there can not be a strong connection between them. Now if we consider that the public is looking for this basketball…