2. How the Sitcoms are portrayed Eg. the office is disguised as a documentary How the males, females and families are represented? How stereotypes are used How the figure heads represented? How the cultural and religiuos issues are addressed? How the time and place are represented? Representation! what am i looking for ? How they represent Real life situations Fact - each successful Sitcom has at least one character that creates empathy
3. Father Ted Religion Alcholism Age Peacefull community Caring and a good role model
4. Red Dwarf Heroes characters create empathy Technology and the future Contrast in character representation Social class
5. Will and Grace Homosexuality Relationships Sterotypes Real life issues Capitalism / the american dream