Abraham Simpson

One example of a “traditional” family depicted on television is Lois and Peter Griffin from Family Guy. Lois is a stay at home wife while Peter works at the Quahog Brewery. Although the show focuses on the family’s dysfunctionality it does portray how the traditional family works. A lot of the time Lois is shown taking care of Stewie (the baby) and doing housework such as cooking. Peter is almost never shown taking care of the baby or doing any housework. Some of the benefits they receive from this

So, after securing roles in films such as Analyze This and Marci X in 2003, Kudrow's return to television as a producer, writer and actress was welcomed. Appropriately titled The Comeback was, in reality, correspondent to Kudrow's life at the time. It told a story about a star of a sitcom who had taken a dive in ratings and was trying to make a comeback. Kudrow plays this character named Valerie Cherish (Valarie is Kudrow's middle name) in a new comedy that mocks her previous giddy roles. Valarie

The House of Ducks: The Perception of Southern Culture in Duck Dynasty and Tyler Perry’s House of Payne In order to explore the representation of “Southern” culture in television, I am comparing and contrasting two popular television shows: Duck Dynasty and Tyler Perry’s House of Payne. Both shows attempt of portraying Southern families and their beliefs, traditions, pastimes and everyday obstacles. Although House of Payne is a sitcom and Duck Dynasty is a reality television show, the two television

The tv show Modern Family and I made an immediate connection a few years ago. I was hooked after the first episode after being able to directly relate it to my family. My moms side of the family through a divorce and second marriage many years ago built quite a complicated family tree very similar to the Pritchetts and Dunphys. Aside from my smaller family with my two sisters and I, acting as the braniac, the awkward younger sibling, and typical teenager my grandpa has remarried to a young woman

Moral Learning in Animated Television: Examples from “The Simpsons,” “King of the Hill,” and “South Park” Animated shows such as “The Simpsons,” “King of the Hill,” and “South Park” integrate social criticism with moral values. This integration might seem to be contradictory, since much of the social criticism in these shows mocks self-righteous traditional values as supported by conservative Christians. However, the paradox of these shows is that they are capable of critiquing conservative hypocrisy

The Rugrats Review The Rugrats is a Nickelodeon cartoon series created by Arlene Klasky, Gábor Csupó and Paul Germain. Rugrats is also a slang term used for toddlers. The series takes place around a group of toddlers; Tommy and his best friend Chuckie, Phil and his twin sister Lil, and Tommy’s older cousin Angelica. The show takes place through the eyes of the toddlers that are constantly changing their everyday lives to imaginary adventures. The show plays with baby talk, having the group constantly

In Antonia Peacocke’s essay, “Family Guy and Freud: Jokes and their Relations to the Unconscious”, she defended how vulgar Family Guy is. Although she agreed with many people who the show is “a cartoon comedy that packs more gags per minute about race, sex, incest, bestiality, etc.” (pg 300), Peacocke clearly stated “Family Guy is not harmful and derogatory, but a comical parody of day-to-day circumstances about taboos.” (pg ) She supported her thesis very well by including many evidences from

Family Guy is an American animated sitcom whose creator is Seth MacFarlane. Its first episode was aired in 1999, and up to now, almost 300 episodes grouped into sixteen seasons have been aired. The main characters are the Griffin family, formed by Peter and Lois, their children Meg, Chris and Stewie, and the pet dog Brian, whose most remarkable trait is the fact that he can talk. In this dissertation, I concentrate on Meg and Stewie, who are, from my point of view, the ones that change the most

In a 1987 sitcom Full House they portray something close to an average family. The family consist of Danny Tanner the father of DJ, Stephanie, and Michelle. His role as the father in the family is to teach the children ‘life lessons’ and to discipline them. He also has the role of cooking, cleaning, etc. a role typically giving to the mother in family sitcoms, but because of the mother's death he also has to take on these roles. Michelle being the baby of the family is portrayed as cute,but slightly

Family relationships are a common theme in novels or television shows. One of the most famous and successful contemporary animated sitcoms in television is “The Simpsons” which portrays the family and its dynamics in a very satirical way. Before “ The Simpson” appeared on television, the traditional American family of the 1950s was considered as the perfect one. It was a patriarchal family where the father went to work, the mother raised the children while taking care of the household and the children