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  Made In Canada: Lovingly Mocking the Canadian Television Industry

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  Andrea Ruehlicke University of New Brunswick

  May 20, 2020

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  a dark satire, the program soon shifted to be a workplace sitcom for the remainder of its run. The show ...
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  The “N” Word

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  Tim Havens University of Iowa

  February 12, 2007

  always run up against the fact that meaning only inheres in the social uses of culture, in the encounter ...
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  And Thats Whats We Appreciates About Letterkenny

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  weswise Fresno State University

  May 21, 2020

  they negotiate the inter-connected subcultures of a small community. Across its eight-season run, the ...
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  Fetishizing Cognitive Difference in The Big Bang Theory and Atypical

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  Ted Gournelos Old Dominion University

  October 11, 2019

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  Fetishizing Cognitive Difference in The Big Bang Theory and Atypical disability autism big bang theory sitcom television Curator's Note In the past two decades Asperger's Syndrome and autism, or the "autism spectrum," have become commo ...
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  Who Are We Laughing at Tonight: Black Absence in 2000s American Sitcoms

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  Jeffrey W. Peterson Georgia State University

  May 11, 2026

  his anxiety halfway through the show's original broadcast run, partners with two white ... overlapped during their original broadcast runs, from May 2006 through Sept. 2007, all three were present in ...