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Bill Cosby Show Analysis
In class we this week we discuss the influences television has on our society culturally. We discuss how tv shows wanted their content to be relatable for specific audiences or lifestyles that was not credited on tv so often. The Bill Cosby Show introduce a new type of family situational comedies that viewers didn't see often on tv in the 80's. The show presented an African American family of the upper-middle class living in a fictional well developed household with four children. The shows capability to introduce a fresh concept to television revived the the growth of tv-sitcoms that are popular still to this day. There is so much variety on television after this, viewers are introduced to female dominant roles that exude a difference
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