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comedy styles of televsion

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dues ex machina   mechanism to return to the "status quo"  
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internal situation   the different conflict dealt with each episode  
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concrete mise en scene   believeable, lived in environment  
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functional mise en scene   background, generic but serves no purpose  
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comic surrealism   show ignores what is going on in the real world and creates its own world  
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comedy contrast   takes incongruent things and puts them together for humor  
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external situation   same conflict each episode  
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classical unities   unity of time, space, and action  
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closure   the end of a sit-com; conflict is resolved  
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sub-text   deeper meanings of actions and dialogue  
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internal action   the inevitable issues being faught by characters  
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fragmentation   breaking things down into an episodic fashion; a great amount of plasticity  
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artificiality   calling attention to the fact that it's not reality  
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intertextuality   weaving in references from other media  
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cultural capital   the knowledge expected of the audience  
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self-reflected humor   reminds audience that what they're watching isn't real  
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