My Wife and Kids

One of my favorite shows that I've been watching lately that's aired on regular television now late at night and use to watch it a lot when the show was aired on ABC from March 28, 2001 to May 17, 2005 is the hilarious sitcom My Wife and Kids.  I use to watch this television series from eighth-grade to my senior year of high school before it went  off air.  The main reason why this sitcom is so hilarious and extremely funny because the character Michael Richard Kyle (played by Damon Wayans), is a very comical and entertaining actor; especially from his early work in his career.  He is someone I can relate to when I have a family, a profession, and household of my own one day.  I can relate to him for the simple fact that when it comes to family, no matter what the outcome may be, he's there for them.  When giving the option of showing manhood to his son, he's an example of that.  Also, when giving knowledge or receiving it from his wife and kids, no matter what situation may have occurred, he's one to take hold of that.  But on-top of all these great characteristics that defines him as a father figure, husband, man, or even mentor; the best one of all is how humorous he is on the show.  Every episode has a very funny and catchy story point.  It will have you laughing so hard to where you may have a felt like you just left the gym after an intense ab workout...lol...SERIOUSLY!  From the Humanistic scholarship as qualitative science: contributions to mass communication research by Klaus Bruhn Jensen mentioned in the article and discussed in class from the notes gave three meanings of how media is constructed in social reality. Discourse was the first one, which is a way to create knowledge and truth.  From my understanding of discourse and how it was incorporated in the show would be how you have your typical American family seen on television which is something you'll notice in your everyday life with the dad, mom, and children who goes through average, daily struggles.  With Subjectivity (from the Jensen article) giving a way on how language has a position and (from the notes) what is valued/excluded played a part in the show by the parents expressing themselves in a way of giving there children something to learn from and carry on with them through life; which is something some, but not all household do today.  And lastly Context, (from Jensen article and notes in class) which is a system of stories.  This term was used in many episodes of this sitcom by showing change throughout the years of this television series which its viewers may take what they incorporate in the sitcom and apply it to there everyday life from my understandings.