Say what you will about 2 Broke Girls, a lot of people out there love and adore it. Which got me wondering why? Where did they go right? If you haven 't been watching the show you 've probably at least seen the billboards and commercials and magazine articles about 2 Broke Girls and know the basics. 2 Broke Girls is Kat Denning 's character Max is the poor, waitress with a gift for making cupcakes as well as the rebel of the batch, and Beth Behr is her bubbly preppy fun loving blonde BFF Caroline, whose dad is in jail for being a total bad guy, leaving the one-time goody two shoes totally alone for the first time in her life broke and dependent on Max. Despite all of this, I kept right on watching, but it wasn 't until about halfway through …show more content…
You start to root for these girls and first few episodes they 've kind of found their rhythm. 2 Broke Girls isn 't like other shows I 've seen where the show falters is that the characters do things like take forever to realize that there 's a house full of fancy items at Caroline 's old house just waiting for them to sell on eBay. 2 Broke Girls is a comedy about the unlikely friendship that develops between two very different young women who meet waitressing at a diner in the trendy Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and form a bond over one day owning their own successful cupcake business. Max was surprised that Caroline had as much personality as the style that she started to respect as an equal knowing her differences in the background compared to hers. With some financial help from this newly found friend, they opened a cupcake shop to only lose it. Not giving up they then opened an after-hours cupcake window at the diner in a side alley, drawing all kinds of manner of people, where they 're now trying to build their business while continuing to wait …show more content…
The portrayal of the working class within sitcoms has been underrepresented since the Golden Age of television. This is saying that our American society is predominantly an idealized "American Middle Class," simultaneously making it appear as if the working class does not exist. The more modern sitcoms seem to completely ignore the working class family portrayal and accuracy altogether. This will be done by examining working class family images and characters in earlier sitcoms and then through singular working class characters as the modern sitcoms are explained. 1970 's Working class struggled and endured into the unsure times of the 80 's as the chain and effect when Reagan took office. The working class was growing while the middle class began to shrink. Overall, television definitely does have an impact on our attitudes and changing opinions on issues like socio-economic class. A viewer from Massachusetts, according to Adweek which reported on the FCC complaint on Thursday griped about another episode in which the rich, blonde character, Caroline, asks what 's expected on the first date with a poor
The first character who is unlikely to get off the street is Amber. Amber is street smart and incredibly alone. Amber can’t go one conversation without saying every bad word known to man. Amber struggles with prostitution, and she is pregnant. When she talked to Dylan, she was very mad at him for leaving
After viewing an episode of I Love Lucy, positive aspects of family and financial issues can be clearly seen in the 1950s. The Ricardo's are middle class, Ricky works as a club band leader and Lucy stays home and `poured all her energies into their nuclear family.' (37) This is a positive side of the 1950s because compared to a few decades before, `women quit their jobs as soon as they became pregnant,' (36) and concentrated more on raising children. These families were much more stable and made almost `60 percent of kids were born into male breadwinner-female homemaker families,' (37) which is a important factor for children to have a good childhood.
As Kendall notes, “the media portrays people who produce goods and services as much less interesting than those who excessively consume them” (429). Viewers want to be entertained, and simply just don’t care about the struggles of the working class. They overlook “low wages (and) lack of benefits” (429) because through caricature framing the media sways people to believe works to be stupid and reckless. Using this frame, they created people such as Homer Simpson, showing people that the working class doesn’t deserve raises, better healthcare, or any such luxuries because they can’t think for themselves. If that wasn't bad enough, the media often characterizes all workers as wanting to transcend their class (429). Through shows such as Extreme Makeover, they depict people who want to spice up their life and improve themselves as people, and that they need help to get to the next level. The media has undercut all of the hard work of this class, and has made people believe that the working class is unavailable, dumb and needs help to be their best self when in fact they are what allows for the success of
In the article “TV’s Callous Neglect of Working- Class America” written by Noel Murray explains the modern day TV shows un-relatable plots to Americans today. Murray describes how shows in the ‘50s through the ‘90s were relatable to Americans and how they lived their lives. The TV shows then were able to get such great reviews because the jobs the actors had in the shows were average money making jobs. The characters are meticulously when it came to how they used the money they earned. However, as the years have passed, the shows that are on today are not as relatable to Americans. The shows express the fantasy, perfect life that everyone strives to have, but in reality, it is not possible for every family. The programs on today do not convey the difficulties that average Americans face each day, causing the shows to become more and more relatable to average TV viewers.
...nd less likely to change. Ewen does suggest that the trends of the middle class are becoming increasingly ingrained in the values and mindset of the middle class because of World War II and the “yuppie culture of the 1980’s.” (196)
The premise of the Honeymooners center on the life of a domestic couple and their everyday actions of trying to achieve happiness in post war America. Sterrit proclaims that the Honeymooners were set in atypical environment; he would on to say that the Kramden did not look the part in mirroring at the time the current household and contrast it with shows that would portrayed the common household at the time such as Father Know Best. Quoted he said that “Ralph and Alice are less typical than they appear at first glance, and less typical than they would probably like to be at a time when conformity and consensus are strong American Values” (16). I do agree that the Honeymooners setting did not mirrored the state of a household, but to an extent, the Kramdens were not financially in the upper echelon that could afford the comfortabilities of the High Class or Middle Class. They however were the depiction of the lower class, individuals that would struggle to make end meets and were comfortable with having a home than the commodities. Money played a role in the settings of the Kramdens, if the Kramdens were to say have been more financially successful than they were, the whole show would have been different, perhaps not a...
The gender conflict styles also played a role. The girls both tended to listen, rather than hold the attention of the others. This was especially true in Allison's case, whom never spoke. Allison was introduced in the movie as the basket case.
...ound. It seemed as though Missy had no social life, and that she never knew how the outside world was like. Her mother also treated her like a child as though she had nothing to live for. They seem to think that Alicia has it all, she has the look, the wealth, and the men kissing at her feet. Alicia had an intimate relationship and discovered what love was. She had romance and enjoyed her everyday life. She didn't care about what other people would think because she had her beauty to rely on. Even Missy's mother respected Alicia, she lost her dreams and hope for Missy therefore she transferred it towards Alicia. As pretty and smart the town thought Alicia was, she ran off with the chauffeur to get married.
... for your life. If a woman wants to be a housewife who focuses on raising her children or a career woman, it is her choice ultimately. If a man wants to be equally involved in his career and family, it should be his choice too. It should not matter what the gender stereotype is and this show helps women and men believe that the individual feeling is often more important than the typical societal belief.
...la. These are characters that while overly dramatic at times, are relatable because they are not perfect and they don’t struggle with being the perfect wife or machismo husband. Instead they are in constant struggle with their inner demons and desire just to be loved in a way which they deserve without prescribing to society’s norm.
in history, most sitcoms that had affluent families, were white. It wasn't until shows like the Bill
For a large part of the history of TV sitcoms women have been portrayed as mothers or as having to fulfill the woman's role in the private sphere. Family based sitcoms were one of the forms of sitcom that keep women in these roles, but what is interesting is that even in other forms of sitcoms women do not truly escape these roles. Sitcoms, like Sex and the City and Murphy Brown showcase women whom have seemingly escaped these roles, by showing liberated women, but that does not mean that both do not fall into the gender role showcased in family sitcoms. It draws the similarities between ensemble sitcoms and family sitcoms when it comes down to the role of women. The starring women in both Sex and the City and Murphy Brown, and even the Mary
Television and the housing boom are both products of post-war American prosperity. Both developments are linked not only temporally, but culturally as well. Their significance is often times interdependent. The introduction of network television programming into American homes began in the late 1940s, as did the housing, and post-War baby boom. Suburbs became the new melting pot as migration from ethnic working class neighborhoods created enclaves of whiteness. At the same time, families on television were reflecting this change in social hierarchy. Early television sitcom families were happy and safe, with a professional father, a loving, nurturing mother, and two or three well-adjusted children. And they were always white and money was never an issue. The suburban home was an oasis of domesticity, free from communism and atomic threat.
Over decades, television shows have reflected the social changes of the family structure. Starting with the 1960’s, a family commonly consisted of parents and their children. Nuclear families, with parents and children, embodied shows like Leave it to Beaver and The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriett. Family was everything to people back in the day. People lived to create and spend time with their family. Television shows were emerging steadily and became popular. Also, television was a main source for families to bond over, and it influenced the behavior of family members. Leave it to Beaver and Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet played a major role in shaping the family structures. During the 1960’s, middle-class white families dominated television shows. Situation and family drama’s mainly influenced the traditional family structure (Television and Family 1). In Leave it to Beaver, the focus was on the ideal suburban family in the fifties through the sixties. The show was mild and the spotlight was more on the children in the family compared to the adults. The theme presented was a happy and loving family (Cox 1). The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet was an enduring family-based comedy on television. For decades, the Nelson family symbolized a wholesome and normal family. Their main focus was to epitomize a happy, upright family life (Wesblat 1)....
Desperate Housewives is a fictional based show about four women known as Susan Mayer, Lynette Scavo, Bree Van De Kamp, and Gabrielle Solis. They live in what most consider a “normal” suburban area; however, with each episode a secret or mystery is told and unfolded. These mysteries may come in the form of a death or a new person moving onto Wisteria lane. Together viewers watch as these housewives manage to not only solve these mysteries but also deal with their, work, children, each other and romantic lives. Although these four w...