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Analysis: It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia

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The shows I decided to analyze are three episodes of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and three episodes of Futurama. I chose comedies instead of crime dramas or superhero show was because I knew those types of TV programs shows more violence. I wanted to see if an animated sci-fi comedy like Futurama is more violent than a single-cam live-action comedy like It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Gerbner views dramatic violence as "the overt expression of physical force (with or without a weapon, against self or others) compelling action against one's will on pain of being hurt and/or killed or threaten to be so victimized as part of the plot" (Griffin, 2012). My definition of violence is the expression of physical force that is malicious (with

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