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Comparing Roseanne and My Family

Roseanne

Themes

  • Anniversary
  • Romance
  • Work ethic (the Cs got by the two girls for different reasons)
  • Moral principles (cutting up the frog)
  • Striving for the American Dream (adults want a better life for the kids and Roseanne wants it but Dan doesn’t)
  • Male and female expectations of the other

My Family

Themes

  • Anniversary
  • Love and the showing of it
  • Man’s love for his car (Ben but not Nick)
  • Family ties (Abi has never seen any)
  • Manipulation of Ben (financial by Nick; emotional; by Susan)
  • Male and female expectations of the other
  • Michael and his pubescent sexuality.

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Compare how the plot /storylines contribute to representation of gender in your two chosen sit-coms

June 2007

Men Behaving Badly

Gary’s storyline is how he’s coping after being dumped by Dorothy

Tony’s is his temporary girlfriend after a long period of abstinence who finds his porn stash and who dumps him when he is unable to get rid of it on the basis of needing it if she dumps him, which of course she then does!

The plot concerns the dinner party held to rival Debs’ which fails and articulates Gary’s very personal failure.
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