Spelling Bee My Baby Satire

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The scene that I chose is from an animated sitcom called American Dad!. The episode I chose, Spelling Bee My Baby, ridicules the excessively high competition between modern parents to put their children into good colleges. In the episode, Jane develops a conflict with a Japanese woman who is a mother of Steve’s friends. She teaches her children musical instruments to make more extracurricular activities for their college application and makes fun of Jane and Steve who are not preparing for college entrance at all. As shown in the episode, the competition to enroll into a decent college is drastically increasing. In order to stand out during the college application process, students are forced to do many extracurricular activities during the

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