Situation comedy

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…

liking to shows that were either dramatic or comedic. Musical movies were making a boom in Hollywood. With this in mind, Ryan Murphy created a teenage musical dramedy (drama, comedy) that succeeded more than what colleagues had expected of the show. Glee took these three genres and combined them, however, even with these comedies in mind there was a twist. Many of the episodes had actual lessons that pertained to teenagers that were in middle school and high school. Unlike most teenage shows,…

Leave it to Beaver vs. Last Man Standing: A Compare and Contrast The structure and topic selected for this paper is a compare and contrast of two family sitcoms, “Leave it to Beaver”, from the 1950’s, and “Last Man Standing”, from present day. Throughout this paper we will compare the similarities and differences in the plot of the shows, the values they present, the structure of the families, and the roles they play. In addition, we will determine application of the sociological concepts of…

The plot in Modern Family consists of three families that are all related. One of the families consists of a Latino wife, a White husband and their son Manny. Gloria is his real mom, but Jay is his stepdad. Nowadays, divorce is a very different situation than what it was in the past during the time of Full House.It was harder to get a divorce back then because you had to have a believable reason. Nowadays getting a divorce is just as easy as getting married. Then on top of that in modern family…

We’ve all seen these adult animated sitcoms, or at least heard about them. We watch these shows and grow up with them, they mold our personalities and change our perspective in life through the years. So when you think of the legends in this category you need look no further than Matt Groening’s classic The Simpsons, or the more recent twist Family Guy created by Seth Macfarlane. The Simpsons and Family Guy are American comical cartoons that share many similarities and differences. Although the…

my own, I find that I can relate so much more with many of the messages each episode provides. At times I will catch myself laughing during an episode and saying “hey, I went through the same situation” or “my kid did the same thing”. It is interesting to see how other families handle different situations differently or similar to my own. In the end I would have to say that both sitcoms have more similarities than differences from one another, with the large generation gap between both being…

and a movie, leave that for people in small towns. Make it a date you will remember. Dates should be fun while seeing if you have a connection. So why not do something different. Laughing in midtown west Magnet theater in manhattan is an improv comedy theater and school. It os a nice small intimate theater. They have drop-in improv classes on saturdays for just $10. Improv is acting made up as you go and is usually comedical. It is a playful, fun, and unique idea of a date. You might be…

Arrested development, and Modern Family I noticed that even though they were all filmed in different decades they all seemed to have similar settings and themes. Meaning by the of each episode it was a certain thing that the family will overcome the situation that is in front of them during that episode and be together. After reading Richard Butsch “Five Decades and Three Hundred Sitcoms about Class Gender” I can see how over the years that society viewed families in a new perspective especially…

Multi-Camera Analysis So what is the difference between a multi-camera and a single camera production? The difference between single camera and a multi-camera production is the use of several cameras simultaneously recording at the same time instead of just the one. Multi-camera is used to film genres such as chat shows, sports, concert and public events. Directing a Multi-camera production can be incredibility difficult; Not only does a director have to manage themselves but they also have to…

Today, I watched the pilot episode of Modern Family. I’d never watched the show before, but assumed it might provide some interesting gender roles and non conformities. Unfortunately, I was disappointed by the typical nuclear family portrayals and gender-role stereotypes that I’ve seen on most other family sitcoms. Let’s start with the Dunphy’s. Phil is the wage-earner of the family. He seems fun-loving and a bit goofy. I suspect that his wife, Claire spends as much time policing him as their…