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    American Dad is an animated TV sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane, Mike Barker, and Matt Weitzman to characterize the different members of an american family. MacFarlane and his colleagues put a twist on the average family by exaggerating each member's role. The main characters in the series are Stan Smith who plays the father, Francine Smith playing the mother, Roger who is an alien and must disguise himself to keep from being noticed, Steve Smith who is the son, Hayley Smith the liberal daughter

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    The Netflix Original show Big Mouth by Nick Kroll is an animated series all about middle school students and all of their experiences going through puberty. These students go through some awkward moments, which people can relate to. I mean who didn't go through awkward moments at that stage in life? It shows a variety of life experiences such as first kisses, first period, random erections, fascination with sex, and much more. The show is very vulgar and has a lot of inappropriate scenes

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    Chief Bogo In Zootopia

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    Additionally, the other characters in Zootopia such as “Chief Bogo: head of the Zootopia Police Department, Mayor Lionheart: the noble leader of Zootopia, and Assistant Mayor Bellwether: a sweet sheep… who constantly finds herself under foot of the larger-than-life Mayor Lionheart” (“Walt Disney,” n.d.) are all alike to humans. Officer Clawhauser: the chubby and charming cheetah who loves to eat donuts, Finnick: a fennec fox who is the partner in crime of Nick Wilde, and Flash: “the fastest sloth

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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

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    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

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    Why Is Family Guy Banned

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    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.

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    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

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    The Simpsons Essay

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    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

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    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

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    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

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