Compare how the representation of characters in the 2 chosen TV programmes reveals issues of gender.
I will be comparing Frasier season 10 the episode "Daphne does dinner" with Men Behaving Badly episode "Pornography"
In Frasier, Niles and Frasier are constructed as camp or effete males. However, unlike in most sitcoms, these stereotypical roles are unconventional, because they are not actually homosexual. In direct contrast we have Men Behaving Badly (mbb), in which the two male characters, Gary and Tony are constructed as stereotypical Lads. In the basic construction of the male …
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…get less 'frustrated'. In mbb the male characters lean on each other in times of crisis. However they are not the best people to actually help each other. We can see this clearly when Tony tries to comfort Gary with "perhaps he's just better with his nob" which is very insensitive, but Tony only says it because he honestly thinks it will help and he's not intelligent enough to understand why it might not be.
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