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pebbles826 · 07-04-2008, 07:38 PM

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I totally agree. Stuff like that does happen. They just heighten it a little to make for funny television. Which it was.

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It's a comedy

I had to come up with a bunch of ways to say just that last semester in one of my classes. It was difficult trying to say why something is funny in a comedy and sad in a drama.

I saw another example of this today when Red told Eric that he would teach him how to play basketball and then made him do 100 pushup-type exercises before actually starting on the playing. That would have been child abuse in a drama, but it was funny on the show. I think it's funny mostly because, as we all know, Eric is a small guy and I can't imagine him actually being able to do that many. It was very exaggerated, hence the funny.