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I Love Lucy Or The Andy Griffith Show Analysis

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What has happened to all our wholesome, slap stick family sitcoms? It seem as if todays shows all have violence, cuss words, nudity and scandal. Sometime it would be nice to watch a show with the family that we did not have to prescreen first. Take for example, if one wanted to have family time watching I Love Lucy or the Andy Griffith Show, there would be no worries of some obscene gestures popping up or a man with a butcher knife coming out of the closet trying to stab someone to death. Sitcoms like those made in the fifties are hard to come by and dearly missed there are many things that have been lost in the progression of film. The old sweet style of Sherriff Andy seems to have been replaced with mean and devious characters, and the fun …show more content…

The fact that for the most part, the background of I Love Lucy consisted of just a basic idea of a home, and that the camera only focused on the interior of these environments, the illusions and antics kept us coming back for more. Lucy’s manipulating but hilarious scheme to get off her schedule that Ricky made for her, in the “Lucy’s Schedule” episode, had such clowning between all the ladies during the dinner scene, that viewers never really focus on the fact that the camera only focuses on the table, then a few face shots here and that there are some shaky shooting. The entertainment is so delightful that we don’t care that we are missing some of the seamless flow that we may see today in …show more content…

I just feel that some of the nostalgia has been lost in the new shows on television today. It is great that we have fabulous filming; we have lost the refuge we once had with tv. Now we get caught up in rich families feuding lives or feed off another person’s real life addictions and self destruction. This is not the kind of thing that we want to sit around on a Saturday night with our kids and watch, we want to be able to laugh, cry and love these characters. This age is lost, but not forgotten, hopefully one day in the near future we will see the past family shows incorporated into something that will be appropriate for all and include the modern film production of

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