short 3.5 page essay on the television show Roseanne The Moderation of Roseanne         With this year being an election year, the topic of family values is near and dear to us all. With Hollywood getting a left jab from the liberals, and a right cross from the conservatives, about the lack of values in television today: it only intensifies the debate of what is normal, functional, and abnormal, dysfunctional, in television today. The hit television series …showed first 75 words of 1361 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1361 total…their problems, but they pass these same values along to the viewing audience. Dysfunctional family series have no value base, nor do they convey a message of positive value that the viewership can comprehend as positive. The Connor family should not be judged on their superficial actions, but on the basis of the underlying meaning of the actions. The underlying meaning of these actions is that of a moderately functional, average family in America today.