Television And The Family

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his or her notes because I was the one who would put it all together. Within the next two weeks I received almost all of the notes, but in discussion we all found out that they were all in the wrong format. Bonnie Jean did not want paragraph form, which was the format that everyone chose to do it in so everyone had to go back and revise his or her notes. Also we had another problem with two of the episodes. “The Cosby Show” episodes that were watched did not really show much about the Cosby family, so some of the group members were a little concerned about whether we could in fact write a paper regarding it. Rachel was not in discussion that day so we let Nicole know about our concerns and she told us that she would speak to Rachel and if she was willing they would watch another episode. Then later on during the week, both Rachel and Nicole assured us that the episode would be efficient enough to write our paper on and we did not argue much. We all decided as a group that since both Rachel and Nicole had seen the episodes and they both agreed that it would be possible to complete the assignment with those episodes, we would accept them. Nobody in the group slacked off. We all finished our portion well before the due date and had plenty of time to write our papers.
The first show we chose to write about was “The Nanny”. This show was aired from November of 1993 until June of 1999 on CBS. The basic plot of the show was that a woman named Fran Fine was just dumped by her boyfriend and was selling door-to-door cosmetics until she came to the house of Maxwell Sheffield and became the nanny. Maxwell was a Broadway producer and a father of three children. Fran was a Jewish girl from Queens, New York who had an over-weight mother, a stupid friend, and a grandmother named Yetta. Basically Maxwell is rich and lives in a mansion and Fran moves in and becomes the nanny to Maxwell’s three children: Maggie, Brighton and Gr...