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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Studying Workaholics
A show I have recently started watching is "Workaholics." It's a show about three single roommates/co-workers who get into crazy mishaps at work and at home. They like smoking weed and drinking alcohol. I think the show is really funny so I hope researching the culture of the show doesn't ruin it for me. The target audience are male college students to males in their thirties. "Workaholics" shows a fun lifestyle after college and tries to prove that the party doesn't have to stop once you are forced to grow up. If people from the future were to watch this show they would probably assume that the bachelor life is highly sought after. Women in the show follow the stereotype that they tend to get in the way of men's fun, and it's one of the only shows I have ever watched where there is no romantic backbone holding the show together. Any time one of them finds a girl, it's the same story line: she gets in the way of their friendship, the guy eventually realizes she's a jerk, and then he goes back to his bachelor pad. One of the two main female characters is their foul mouthed boss, Alice, who is single and hates the world. The other female character is their coworker, Jill, who is sweet, extremely naive, and easy to manipulate. This actually works for the show because the main men have horrible characteristics as well but they just live life as best as they can and things usually end up working out for them. "Workaholics" does not really focus on current events. The show is used more as a means of escape from every day life. I think people who enjoy this show like living vicariously through the characters. They get into crazy situations, get drunk and high every day, and play a lot of pranks on each other. The characters make work look really fun despite the fact that they are telemarketers who sit at their desk all day.
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