Like an old married couple

[ricardo shillyshally]

It must have driven Sheldon crazy, Penny helping herself to stuff in their fridge. It'd do my head in if someone sneaked in and moved stuff! Interesting quotes>'In essence, then, situation comedies are the story of our psychodynamics and "sociodynamics", told over and over by formula in slightly different forms. They are examples of the theories we read in the social sciences, but acted out by fictional characters instead of being offered to us in complex theories.''Sitcoms, on the other hand, draw us into a more modest world,.......... from comedy of manners, vaudeville and our tacit perceptions of everyday life. Their theme is our inability to conquer our petty desires as we go about the minor tasks of the day.' ' It means that situation comedies don't merely give us characters like us to identify with, who are struggling against their limitations in the quest to be happy, or failing to struggle and giving in to their weaknesses. They also tell us it is okay to fail and they do so by turning that failure into the good feeling of the joke. The message they offer is that things are nowhere near as serious as the characters think they are, because the characters' belief that all of this is so serious is part of what's funny.' from http://transparencynow.com/sitcom.htm He also talks about 'moral fiction', which I think takes the form of the romcom.