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In the comic series, Modern Family, the show depicts the lives of three families including interracial, homosexual and heterosexual families who all come together at the end of the day because of their love for one another despite their differences. Although the families are quite contrary views on various topics, the show successfully intertwines their lives allowing viewers to obtain a new perspective of family life from the show character’s point of view. In Jennifer Posner's excerpt, “Ghetto

The Bernie Mac Show’s Correlation to Families The Bernie Mac Show is relatable to the modern day family. The synopsis of the show is: the famous comedian is granted custody of his sister’s three children after she is sent to rehab for her drug problem. Vanessa, Jordan and Brianna are moved from Chicago to Los Angeles to live with their “Uncle Bernie”, who has a more traditional way of raising children. Although never raising nor having children of his own, he and his wife Wanda do they best they

couldn't get aired on TV for a while is If You Wish Upon A Weinstein. This episode has insults towards stupid people and it has constant stereotypes towards Jews. The whole episode is literally about saying all Jews are good with money. While shows like Simpsons can go to episodes revolving around different people.

The analysis of the first episode of Family Guy is important in that, as Winckler puts it, the pilot of any series is representative of the whole program (44). The general atmosphere, the characters introduced, and a few catchphrases set the tone of the sitcom. Some cutaway gags appear, cultural references are made and a few borderline jokes are told, thus categorizing the show as an adult series. The pilot truly embodies these characteristics that will remain the hallmarks of the show. In the case

The Simpsons A sitcom is a situational comedy television series. Sitcoms usually use comic devices to make them funny like puns, violence and exaggeration. They use satire, farce, parody, jokes, gags and slapstick to entertain the audience. Sitcoms usually last 30 minutes if shown on commercial TV and they involve chracters having problems which they try to sort out. "Leaver it to Beaver" was about a typical, white middle-class 1950's family that had problems and worked

The Simpsons often parody many classic films. One film they parody is Goodfellas by Martin Scorsese. In this film the character Henry Hill narrates his life as a gangster. He goes through the reasons why he decided to become a gangster. He explains how being a gangster makes him feel like a somebody and how they offer him protection. The Mafia gives Henry Hill a place to call his own. The mafia becomes his family. The movie Goodfellas is based off of a book called Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi which

Introducing America’s New Family: The Bundy’s American television today has drastically changed from the first appearance of the television in the 1920s. Currently, television is nothing but sitcoms poking jokes at the disabled, the LGBT community adapting to the American family standard, and even late night television poking fun at our 2016 Presidential candidates.1950s television depicted America’s heterosexual, patriarchal society in which an “ideal and acceptable” family consisted of a generous

The Power of Satire in Babbitt and The Simpsons      Sinclair Lewis used his writing to promote the enrichment of American society by attacking the weaknesses he perceived in his era.  His most notable work, Babbitt, is a satire on the middle class lifestyle and attitude of the 1920s.  Lewis' satirical style and voice is comparable to the modern television series The Simpsons, written by Matt Groening.  Babbitt and The Simpsons contain numerous similarities in satirical writing, presentation

characters but there one cartoon that stinks in my mind. The Simpsons is a show that stereotype gays because the image of Waylon Smithers. Waylon Smithers is a regular character on the hit animated series, The Simpsons. Waylon is the assistant to C. Montgomery Burns, Homer Simpson's boss and the owner of the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. Waylon is typically referred to as Mr. Smithers, or simply Smithers by Mr. Burns. On the Simpsons, Waylon Smithers plays the role of the stereotypical gay male

Final Draft Stereotypes/ The Glass Castle Stereotype plays a big part in today’s society. In the Memoir “The Glass Castle” by Jeannette Walls, others would easily misjudge Jeannette’s family just by their image and the way they lived their life. Although they lived the way they did the walls family had much potential and were very well educated in their own ways. People need to live by the quote “Never judge a book by its cover” because you never know who they are until you meet them. In todays