I Love Lucy

A lot has changed in the years of TV, but in terms of sitcoms between the two shows I love Lucy and the Simpson there has been a lot of change. I love Lucy is an American television sitcom that was made in 1951 and ended in 1957. I love Lucy was an old modern television showed that was in black and white, the picture was old and not as advanced as television today. The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom started in 1989 and is still showing as of today. The Simpsons is a more colorful and also

as Leave It To Beaver and Father Knows Best Lucy’s show was a refreshing rendering of the American housewife. As the lecture from week two stated, most shows at the time focused on “cookie cutter” versions of the American middle class family. I Love Lucy showed that a woman could be messy, silly, scheming, emotional, and driven in addition to being a housewife. Her television persona was demonstrating a more realistic interpretation of what it meant be a loving equal half of a marriage while striving

I Love Lucy was one of the most popular sitcoms of the 1950s. The show starred Lucille Ball as Lucy Ricardo and her real life husband Desi Arnaz as club singer Ricky Ricardo. The couple lived in a New York City apartment building across the hall from their friends Fred and Ethel Mertz. Lucy’s character is a portrayed as a trouble making newlywed who is always causing problems for her husband and herself. Although I Love Lucy was a groundbreaking for its time, it still kept true to many of the sex

television program I Love Lucy came out, the culture at that time had a different idea of gender roles. In the television show, Lucy is seen at home and never at work. This is because women during this time did not work. They would stay at home and be the typical housewife, while the husband works. In television today, women are seen as independent. These women are allowed to have the same job as a male. In the television show I love Lucy, season 1 episode 4, after getting her fortune told, Lucy begins to

It allows further insight into the complexity of human emotions. I Love Lucy shows the interaction between human feeling and work placement as a single housewife in the 1950’s; “…each of Lucy’s temporary occupations requires her to put on a costume and act like someone else, as if to suggest the new instability in the post-industrial

Mellencamp speaks of two key issues, that of the rising female star within the 1950’s and the erosion of their power occurring within comedies. During the time of my first text ‘I Love Lucy’ (1951-1957), women are being urged to leave the city and move to the suburbs for leisure and children. TV supported this idea of blissful domesticity, this form of excluding women from the work place and keeping them at home can be seen as a form of military containment. On screen images of women are conventionalized

The show “I Love Lucy” was shot from 1951 to 1960; only six years after World War Two had ended. During the war there was a lack of men in the United States to do all the physical labor and common office jobs. Women were then given the opportunity to escape the boundaries of the private sphere of their homes and go out into the workforce. Although, after the war was over and the men came back to the United States the women, who were then used to working and being the breadwinners of the family, were

Desilu’s iconic show “I Love Lucy” did not only break the industry norm for television broadcasting but pushed the envelope for social issues during its time but also open the door for other shows that seemed risky. America was in the post-war era and looked towards the television to stay informed and connected. Television sets were quickly entering homes which became what the radio was in 1920’s. It became a prominent product during the decade of the 50’s, for instance, 3 million TV owners and by

A sitcom is a situational comedy, which is when the same setting and same characters appear in every episode. In terms of sitcoms much has changed between time and a good example of that is, I Love Lucy and The Simpsons. I Love Lucy first premiered in 1951 and for television viewers of the fifties; Lucy and Ricky could have been well known neighbors from down the street. Many people are able relate to this young couple, the Ricardo’s, who were experiencing the hard times and trails of marriage as

flippant, lacking judgment skills, regularly baffled, and here and there irate. It legitimates his low pay and his work’s close supervision. Facilitate, it is a mentality of lack of regard for him wherever else in the general population domain. I Love Lucy made situation comedy the mainstay of prime-time television. Situation comedy is worked around a comical "circumstance" in which strain creates and is settled amid the half hour. In scene after scene the circumstance is re-made. In numerous sitcoms