The Television Show Freaks And Geeks Created By Paul Feig And Judd Apatow

When you picture a teenager you picture fighting, drinking, or answering back, am I right? However, this is simply not the case. Sure there is the minority of trouble makers. However this minority is exaggerated due to the news showing only this behaviour. This stereotyping has found its audience and crept into television shows and series. This has led to the creation of a mockumentary called “Summer Heights High” which has unfairly represented teen

In an essay published in the New Yorker in May 1999, entitled “High-School Confidential: Notes on Teen Movies,” writer David Denby analyzes movies targeted towards teenagers and the stereotypes associated with them. He begins his essay by describing the archetypal characters in high school genre films: the vapid popular girl and her athletic male counterpart, and the intellectual outsider and her awkward male counterpart. He then describes the reality of teen life, and compares it to the experience depicted in these films. Next, he analyzes the common theme that the geeky characters are the protagonists, and suggests there are such because of their writer's personal experience and a history of geeks being ostracized. Finally, Denby analyzes the tropes in

Saved by the Bell was a fictional show about high school students. “The writers of Saved by the Bell always seemed to suggest that most adolescents are exactly the same and exist solely as props for the popular kids, which was probably true at most American high schools.” (140) What happens when one looks at culture that is ultimately not real as being representative of

Traits like being smart or being geeky are often overlooked or unnoticed by other students. Some are even targeted for their differences, but coming into adulthood all those changes. Students with these kinds of skillsets and traits make them more compelling when they become adults. Alexandra Robbins, the author of " Revenge of the Geeks ", makes engrossing claims of students in high school where these characteristics led them into adulthood. In the article, "Revenge of the Geeks" by Alexandra Robbins, the author presents several claims about teenagers and adults.

Lindsay is a star "mathlete". However, in the show, she changes dramatically from an academic student to a "freak". In Freaks and Geeks, the prevalence of peer pressure causes teenagers to search for their identity. Lindsay is a great example of someone who undergoes dramatic change due to peer pressure. Once an academic student, she has evolved into someone who isn't interested in the "good girl" image and gave up on school life.

With passionate diction, Leonid Fridman integrates parallelism, compare and contrast, irony, along with rhetorical questions to stress the importance in accepting nerds and geeks in America; instead of shaming and stereotyping them.

There are countless television shows in today’s media. The content of some shows is extremely poor and low in value it is arduous to find congenial content. Television shows are filled with violence, sex, or drugs, making it arduous to find a clean show that families can enjoy. A television show that has commendable moral values and overall positive content value is “Boy Meets World”. Corey Matthews (the main character) from “Boy meets World” serves as a positive role model for Millennials due to the fact that the show tackles real day to day issues such as drugs, that teenagers face and he is always able to do the ethical solution.

A serious issue of today’s society, which is referenced in the TV series “Scream Queens” is homophobia. In the show, actress Jenna Han who portrays the character Sam on the TV show, is bullied as a result of her sexuality. Other characters on the show nicknamed Sam “The Predatory Lez,’” as a result of Sam being a lesbian. The show attempts to highlight the struggles experienced by homosexuals in a comedic fashion. Nick Jonas’ character, Boone, like Jenna Han’s character, Sam, highlights the struggle homosexuals experience in an attempt to be accepted by society. Boone attempts to fit into a fraternity house by

The cultivation perspective which, was developed by George Gerber and Larry Gross states that the more time people spend living in the television world the more likely they are to believe social reality portrayed on television. With the advances in technology, television still continues to dominate children’s interests, on average youth spend about 4.29 hours watching television per day. Other forms of electrical devices such as ipads, laptops, and cellular phones make it easier for children to watch their favorite programs on to go. I have chosen to analyze an episode of “Family Guy”, which is a cartoon television show which is intended for adult audiences. The show is based on the Griffin family, which consists of a mother Louis, father Peter, teenaged children Chris and Meg, a talking

It is sad to see how these teenagers think of themselves as being cool because of the activities they choose to do, when they each see how it is making them live a shorter life and none of them are doing a thing about it. Life is worth more than feeling cool. Proverbs says, “Since they hated knowledge…the waywardness of the simple will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them” (Proverbs 1:29a, 32). The teenagers in “We Real Cool” have an image of their selves as being cool on the outside because of the badly behaved things they are taking part in and want others to think them as being cool. These teenagers want to think that they are cool for doing the things they do, but they know that the destructive life they live will soon be a factor to their deaths. Brooks demonstrates in “We Real Cool” that even though people acknowledge their own behavior and think of themselves as being cool, their destructive ways will be a part of their short lives and none of their coolness will ever matter again.

The difference between the intended meaning of media texts and what the audience actually perceives can be shockingly different. Producers of media can do everything possible to force audiences to experience their work in the way they want them to, but in the end they still take away many different meanings even within the same audience. Stuart Hall outlines this in his encoding and decoding model. One of the most apparent examples of this is the television show South Park. The television show South Park is a media text with the producers’ preferred meaning of being decoded as joke or as being satire, but many audience members take an oppositional stance of taking it seriously. This is clear from the examples of controversy when South Park aired episodes focused on Scientology, red-headed people, and Islam. Through these examples it is demonstrated that the producers of media have less power compared to the audience in determining the meaning of media.

For those elders who have no idea what the show is about; “Freaks and Geeks” is a television show that aired one season in 1999. It focuses mainly around two cliques in high school: the freaks and the geeks. Lindsay Weir and her younger brother Sam Weir are the protagonists of the story. From the start, the audience learns that Lindsay is a top student and the best mathlete in the school, but recently she’s been acting up. She has been trying desperately to shed that view of herself,

In today’s society, parents are challenged with the ability of children to grow faster than ever before. Tweens are moving closer and closer to teens, and fulfill these adult-like roles. The media plays a major part in this dilemma, along with the need to fulfill major responsibilities, and the lack of family presence.

In sociology, the term deviance refers to behaviors or attitudes which go against certain cultural norms. It is evident that deviance is a fascinating topic not only for sociologist, but for television industry and its viewers, as well. In recent years, increasing number of shows begun to feature individuals violating every kind of social norm from folkways to taboos. The Secret Life of the American Teenager, an American television series on the ABC Family television network, is one of the many contemporary shows that portray deviant behaviors on national television. It’s intended for the target audience of teens and their families who are trying to cope in a culture where teen girls and boys are sexually active.

There is no doubt that when it comes to American youth television is one of the biggest influences by far. Many parents would love to say that their child does not watch that much TV but in reality they are spending a lot of time watching television or using media in some way. “The study by the Kaiser Family foundation shows that children ages 2-8 spend an average of 5 ½ hours a day “consuming media” kids 8 and older spend even more time in front of the tube nearly 6 ¾ hours a day” (Kaiser Family Foundation, 2005 ). Astonishingly, more time is being spent with media then doing homework, studying or even spending time with family. A child’s retention of what