Recently, I started watching several American sitcoms to learn about them. One of the sitcoms reminds of me the SEINFELD is THE BERNIE MAC SHOW. This sitcom is not exactly the same setting as SEINFELD, but its narrative structure and setting are very similar. First, this show is about daily life just like SEINFELD. It’s about the black family’s happening everyday. Bernie, the main character, is suddenly entrusted with the care of his two nieces and his wheezy little nephew and he struggles with unexpected by becoming a father. This sounds really normal life, but Bernie set as “The show about nothing” which is about happening around him just like SEINFELD. Secondly, THE BERNIE MAC SHOW has same narrative structure as SEINFELD. On THE BERNIE MAC SHOW, Bernie is the narrator who started by just talking directly to the audience about what was happening, and also he tells them how he felt about it as in SEINFELD, Jerry talked about happening around him. Although they have different characters, like SEINFELD, THE BERNIE MAC SHOW is about neighborhood and friends but THE BERNIE MAC SHOW is about the family. They have same narrative structure and setting which made me feel that THE BERNIE MAC SHOW has modeled itself as SEINFELD.
Saturday, February 2, 2008
#4 Bernie = Jerry??!!!
Recently, I started watching several American sitcoms to learn about them. One of the sitcoms reminds of me the SEINFELD is THE BERNIE MAC SHOW. This sitcom is not exactly the same setting as SEINFELD, but its narrative structure and setting are very similar. First, this show is about daily life just like SEINFELD. It’s about the black family’s happening everyday. Bernie, the main character, is suddenly entrusted with the care of his two nieces and his wheezy little nephew and he struggles with unexpected by becoming a father. This sounds really normal life, but Bernie set as “The show about nothing” which is about happening around him just like SEINFELD. Secondly, THE BERNIE MAC SHOW has same narrative structure as SEINFELD. On THE BERNIE MAC SHOW, Bernie is the narrator who started by just talking directly to the audience about what was happening, and also he tells them how he felt about it as in SEINFELD, Jerry talked about happening around him. Although they have different characters, like SEINFELD, THE BERNIE MAC SHOW is about neighborhood and friends but THE BERNIE MAC SHOW is about the family. They have same narrative structure and setting which made me feel that THE BERNIE MAC SHOW has modeled itself as SEINFELD.
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Would you please revise and place the appropriate blog number (#4: Catchy Title) before your title? This way, the blogs will be easy to find when you're sifting through all them at the end of the semester. Thanks.
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