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Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon are two of the most popular kids TV channels in the US. Despite being rival channels, they have many similarities. Despite that, they are definitely not the same. The two channels have many different aspects that have contributed to their success and their rivalry. Cartoon network was launched in October, 1992 and is owned by Cartoon Network Inc. The languages on their channel are English and Spanish with SAP. Cartoon Network has a website called…

Have you ever wondered if there is a difference between sitcoms back then and now? This paper is going to compare and contrast the differences between an episode of Full House and an episode of the Modern Family. We are able to spot notable differences and similarities by comparing the characters, plot, and setting for both of these sitcoms. In both, Modern Family and Full House, there are many characters we can compare. As seen in Modern Family, Manny steals a necklace on “accident” but…

10. Paranoia Agent (2004) Satoshi Kon was so content with his cooperation with Madhouse that immediately after the end of producing Tokyo Godfathers, he proposed to shoot a TV anime series. The script would be based upon a few of his concepts, which he had not used before, as much as upon newspapers' headlines, particularly their crime and social ones. The leadership of the company accepted, thus initiating the creation of the 13 episodes of Paranoia Agent. A series of attacks occur in Tokyo,…

Family Guy is an animated comedy focusing on a dysfunctional nuclear family known as the Griffins. Peter is, in short, an idiot and the patriarch of the household. Lois, the mother of the family, is a stereotypical housewife with a wild side. Peter and Lois have three children named Meg, Chris, and Stewie. Meg is typically treated with a cold shoulder and is the black sheep of the family. Chris, much like his father, lacks common sense and dignity. Stewie is the youngest member of the family and…

Classic TV Shows are something the whole family can enjoy. These shows were very tame compared to what’s on television now. True, they could be silly and not usually true to life, but sometimes a good laugh is needed. So sit back, read a little and see if you remember some of this classic tv! The Mary Tyler Moore Show aired from 1970-1977 and was a true classic. The show featured Mary Tyler Moore as a career minded single woman working in a newsroom. Moore played the feisty independent woman who…

The popular Showtime TV show Shameless is a dysfunction portrayal of a family living in Southside Chicago. This show has just about every dysfunctional family aspect you can imagine and it does a good job of correlating real life situations. The parents in the show, Frank and Monica Gallager, are two lowlife junkies that raised a family. Each child they created what made on Different drugs. Fiona was conceived while they were on acid, Phillip (Lip) was conceived while on mushrooms, Ian was…

Have you ever watched The Martin Show ? According to tv.com, "Martin is a sassy sitcom centering on a radio-and-television personality named Martin Payne". The Martin Show is one of the best sitcom because the humor was amazing and you could learn something. The Martin Show was on TV for five seasons. Some people can that The Martin Show is one of the best comedy shows of all-time. One of the many episodes that was on TV and that was good happen to be “Why Can’t We Be Friends”. This was a good…

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…