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In four pages this paper examines the television sitcom genre with the focus being on the first episode of All in the Family entitled ‘Meet the Bunkers’ and originally aired on January 12, 1971 with answers to various relevant socially essay questions provided and a comparison made between this sitcom and another popular CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men. Two sources are cited in the bibliography.
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to a short, two-act play than it is to a standard film, it is typically filmed in front of a live studio arguments by using either three or four moving
cameras set up at different angles to film the action while not in any way obscuring the audiences view. Another difference from the standard film is that the sitcom
usually focuses upon one particular situation that is traditionally resolved within that twenty-two minute time window. The setting is commonly the home and the focus is on a particular
family comprised on one or more stereotypical characters (Himmelstein 115). The sitcom All in the Family (1971-1979) represented the quintessential sitcom in that most scenes took place in a
household and each week featured stereotypical family characters and situations that were ordinarily resolved within the same episode. However, its portrayal of the patriarch as anything but patient and
all-knowing, showcasing of a family that both loving and dysfunctional, and focus upon controversial social and political issues of the time period enabled All in the Family to reinvent the
sitcom format by expanding the genre while leaving the same basic structure intact. The characters of All in the Family were first introduced to America in the episode entitled
"Meet the Bunkers" that CBS originally aired on Tuesday, January 12, 1971 at 9:30 p.m. The credits open with a series of row homes in a working-class section of
Queens, New York, with the leading characters Archie and Edith Bunker (Carroll OConnor and Jean Stapleton) sitting at the piano and singing about happier times ("Those were the days") in
their lives, when Glenn Millers orchestra played popular swing tunes, gender roles were clearly defined, there were no social welfare handouts, and conservative political attitudes like those of Republican President
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