The Sitcom

The television sitcom is typically plays out in an episodic format. Each episode tends to have a separate plot and the episodes do not necessarily connect to the others in plot line. With a sitcom, you can turn on any episode and understand what is going on without any prior knowledge of the show. It is easy to follow a sitcom and usually all loose ends are tied up by the end on an episode.

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Lately, a sitcom I follow weekly is Modern Family. This show consists of three families. There is the grandfather and his new, younger wife, his son and his partner, and his daughter and her family. Every week, the three families get into some sort of trouble. Each week starts off new and does not connect back to the week before. The last episode I watched was one where there was an earthquake and each family was affected by it differently. By the end of the episode, everything was taken care of and life was back to normal. The last minute of the show just about always consists of a wrap up where a narrator reflects over all the things that happened in the episode and presents the moral of the story. This brings the episode to a nice close and the next week it starts off a new with a clean palate and room for a brand new plot line. This makes it extremely easy to follow the show and if an episode is missed, there isn’t anything to catch up on.