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The term Sitcom is a portmanteau of "Situation Comedy". Originally, sitcoms were broadcast on the radio. Before long, they progressed to television; the Ur-Sitcom on TV is I Love Lucy, which pioneered many of the technical and comedic techniques used to this day, including Three Cameras, but the first television sitcom is generally agreed to have been 1946's Pinwright's Progress on The BBC (all footage is lost, however). The Honeymooners did much to standardize many of these tropes as well. Generally, situation comedies deal with a small cast of characters encountering humorous situations while living their everyday lives. What counts as "everyday" varies between individuals — daily life for the staff of a bar in Boston is very different from daily life for anachronistic cavemen. Sitcoms are not, however, to be confused with series of other genres that contain Comedic Relief Characters. The two most popular subjects for sitcoms are family life (usually two parents with 2-3 kids) and the workplace full of oddballs. Most sitcoms are a half-hour long (minus commercials), but this isn't a hard and fast rule. Older sitcoms frequently have a Laugh Track. More than any other genre, sitcoms enforce Status Quo Is God. A work that uses any of the traditional sitcom setups below to mislead the audience before revealing or pairing it with dark or surreal material is Subverted Sitcom. See also Sitcom Tropes for a list of common tropes in the genre, Slice of Life, Gag Series, and Comedy Tropes. |
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