Television : The Sitcom Genre

The Haralovich's article helped me understand the genre of the suburban sitcom better because it explained more about what sitcoms meant to people during that time. A lot of them related these sitcoms to their own lives and problems and sought it out in times of struggle. The homes that were used for sets on the show were also very admirable to those who watched because they were the model homes of that time that every homemaker and bread winning husband dreamed of having. A lot of companies also used shows like that to boost consumerism and get an idea of what women prefer aesthetically as well as functionally, which was understandably important even if I do disagree with it. While I do still think these shows were sexist and unfunny, I do

I chose Cheers as my sitcom because of what I have seen growing up. Cheers reflect life as it might be for me when I become an adult. Cheers take place in a watering hole commonly known as a bar in Boston, Massachusetts. The sitcom is based on a small bar owner. His quest for love creates a story what dreams are made of. Men mostly and a few women gathered to form a small group to socialize and laugh. The time the group sends together could have been equal to the 50 percent of their waking hours at work or at least a part-time socializing job. The cooperative principle worked well in the group. Verbal message equaled out with the conversation at hand. Most, if not all, situations negotiated through humor and supportive interaction. The synchronization

Since I have been watching Friends from the beginning I chose to write about their culture using the next episode. In season 4 episode 19 “The One with all the Haste”, Monica and Rachel are trying to gain their apartment back from Joey and Chandler, Phoebe is pregnant with her brother and his wife’s baby, and Ross ask Emily (his short time girlfriend) to marry him.

Historically, sitcom has been used to display an aspiration lifestyle, as stipulated by dominant norms (Brown 1990:18). However, UKS creates narrative complexity by depicting multiple social issues and conflict, which are brought together by the protagonists’ friendships. This includes landlady Lilian’s struggles to resist gentrification in season three, Titus’ continual search for employment, and all the characters’ ongoing negotiation of romantic relationships. The humour derived from these overly familiar topics offers critique on the complexity of contemporary tensions in a society of “employment instability, fast change, and insecure transient neighbourhoods under capitalism” (Wickham 2013:33). The depiction in UKS of friendship reflects

The culture of United State is very well known to the rest of the world, the reason behind that is the powerful media that the United State has. As for me, I was engaged with the culture by a variety of movies and TV shows since I was a child, which helped me improve my English and made understand the United State better, but the most representing show of the American culture for me was “Friends”, which an American sitcom show that started in 1994 and aired on NBC network and went for 10 season and it ended in 2004. “Friends” was about six friends that live with each other in New York City and it shows their relationship and how is they live in a comic way. There were six characters in the show: Ross Geller, Chandler Bing, Joey Tribbiani, Monica Geller, Rachel Green and Phoebe Buffy. The qualities that were most noticeable in the show are Freedom, Equality, Friendship and how it is compared to my country at the time.

Those people who watch the show, watched it when it first premiered, and are today’s teens (ages 15-22), who watch it because it is now on Netflix. These generations of people know and watch friends, because it is a relatable show. It has six friends that live normal lives in Manhattan, New York. They all have jobs, pay rents, go on dates, have terrible relationship, grab coffee together, and just enjoy each other’s company. The lives that the characters live are easy to relate to because they have “normal” lives and go through things that people go through every

The quote within this essay title argues that sitcoms are incorrectly regarded as simplistic, and that to uncover their complexity and fully explain sitcom a comparison to other television and film genres needs to be made (Mills 2005:25-29). There is truth in the claim that sitcoms are complex. This is proven through analysing how sitcom relates to a wider cultural and social context, and understanding how hidden cultural references work as vehicles of humour. The narrative complexity and cultural references of the American sitcom Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt will be discussed to explore Brett Mills’ claim, to argue that it is only by situating a specific sitcom within wider social, cultural, and political context can the true complexity and relevance

Best friends and roommates Leonard and Sheldon, have much knowledge, but getting through most basic social situations, especially ones involving women, troubles them. The Big Bang Theory T.V. show has a positive influence on society because it portrays how modern friendship works and exposes people to the scientific world. The Big Bang Theory T.V. show has a positive on society because it portrays how modern friendship works. Modern friendship till this day are very diverse.

New beginnings occur in epic showdowns or with a simple “hello”, but with every new beginning is a start of a different chapter in life. Chandler, Joey, Monica, Phoebe, Rachel, and Ross are six single friends living the life in New York, NY, but when two of these friends (Ross and Rachel) dive into their emotional confusions, their friendship takes on a new definition: parenting. F.r.i.e.n.d.s was an iconic 90’s American TV series that shaped culture in many ways, but has also deceived society to create a false meaning of friendship and love. The TV sitcom revolutionized society's view of friendship but has mostly caused distraught ideas of the true meaning of companionship. At the end of season eight, Rachel gives birth to Ross’s child, Monica and Chandler decide to begin a family of their own, Phoebe starts to develop romantic feelings for a hospital patient, and Joey accidentally proposes to Rachel. During the season finale, Rachel thinks she will be left alone to raise

Popular television shows in the previous decades share some similar and different characteristics. For instance, in earlier decades, such as the late 1980’s and the early 1990’s, the way people saw television screens were different. In this decade, we have a thing called high definition, or HD for short. High definition makes the television screens appear clearer. This is something that did not yet exist in previous decades. Had high definition existed, the popular television shows in the past may have had more similar characteristics to the popular television shows today. Even without the effect of high definition, there were still different categories of television shows that there still are

Last time on course we watched an episode of Friends.Friends is an American television sitcom ,created by David Crane and Marta Kuffman on the 90's .Friends received positive reviews throughout its run ,and became the most popular sitcom of all time.It revolves around a circle of friends in Manhattan ,who struggle to find success and happiness in life.

In a 1988 BBC ‘network’ examination the former Chief Executive of Channel 4 Jeremy Isaccs said of sitcom “It is a form in which it is impossible to bring new work. It is the most conventional form in British television,”(Neale & Krutnik, 1990) while this comment is nearly 30 years old I feel Isaccs point still stands. Since television 's rise to dominance in the 50’s and 60’s television sitcom hadn’t progressed much from their radio sitcom forerunners, by the 1980’s the cliche and the tropes were so ingrained in British culture that it could have been viewed as a tired old medium. However I would argue that the archetypes, cliches and tropes that may seem old hat are actually the key to the successful rise of the surreal and post-modern

Finishing a television series is like the ending of another world. What happens next? The show Friends was that show for many people. The sitcom remained on-air for 10 years, beginning in 1994 and closing in 2004. During its time of existence, it was manipulative to the society (“Friends Central.”). One episode specifically was influential on the 1990s society. This episode was the very first event that occurred in the show Friends. In the beginning of “The One Where Monica Gets a Roommate (Pilot)”, Ross’ ex-wife moved out because after being married for a short time, she realized she had a love for women instead of men. The wife-to-be, Rachel, left her fiance at the altar when she recognized she did not love him the same way he loved her. She did not know where to go, but found her high school friend who is also Ross’ sister, Monica, in the Friends hangout area, a cozy coffee shop called Central Perk. She welcomed Rachel and left for a date that night; Monica and her companion came back to the apartment and had sex. Her successful neighbor, Chandler, is at work much of the time and his roommate, Joey, is an unrecognized actor. A friend to everyone was Phoebe who did whatever she put her mind to. How did an episode such as this manipulate the society? In the 1990s, American culture viewed premarital sex and homosexuality as immoral, however, the Friends episode, “The One Where Monica Gets a Roommate (Pilot)”, depicted both of the controversial topics in a light, joking

Anyone who owns a television had watched a sitcom of some kind. Ether it’s a good episode of Big Bang Theory or a whole season of How I Met Your Mother we all had experience a sitcom. A sitcom or situation comedy is a kind of genre that forces on a set of characters in a certain environment. Each episode would have an event that will affect the characters in the show, and then those characters will react in a comical way. Over the decades of sitcoms airing on television, certain sitcoms started to fellow some kind of formula. Each sitcom are different in some way, however some have clear similarity to one another. For instance take Family Guy, which is a sitcom about of a middle-class family, and The Simpsons, which also a sitcom about of a middle-class family. To show the similarity and different of these two sitcoms, I will compare and contracts two episode; episode 1 of season 1 of the Family Guy and episode 3 of season 1 of The Simpsons. I claim that both Family Guy and The Simpsons have similar aspects, which are the theme, style of comedy, the fathers, and their family.

In all TV programmes, the producers will have made their best attempt to craft the show to appeal to their targeted audience (Bignell, 2008). With this in mind, they would have carefully considered production elements such as the choice of presenter, types of segments, camerawork, visual effects, sound, vision mixing and editing, set design and costumes when thinking about how they can attract and target particular viewers. The evidence of this has been on CBS’s ever so popular late night talk show, ‘The Late, Late Show with James Corden’, where the producers have successfully employed these techniques, to create a show that appeals to their target demographic of males and females aged 18 to 49 (Heller, 2016).