Chance of Ideas vs. Where They Happen

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As with most things in life, success in television is really just a matter of following the formula. Canned laughs, sexy actors playing inappropriate roles, and stereotypes that appeal to the lowest common denominator. All of these things make television American’s greatest art form! Even when we hate it, we love it; we love to hate it. It’s comforting and it’s part of who we are. Let’s take a look at a few elements that make TV so predictable (and so phenomenal).

What I Do Not Want My Child to See

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What a Studio Audience Laughs at during a TV Sitcom

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What matters in desperate housewives

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The Birthday Card Paradox

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Relation of funniness of a joke and when it was told.

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Stand-up Comedy

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Clowns

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Things a five year old boy can get away with that I can’t

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