The F Word (Season 6 Episode 3) is the title of a fifty three minute tv show created by Paul Abbott. The series depicts the dysfunctional family of Frank Gallagher, a single father of six children in which he spends his days on the use of drugs or having misadventures in the city while his kids learn to take care of themselves and to survive. In all the episodes, each character use many satire and comedy devices to get their point across in a way. There are themes of poverty, society, and parenthood in which is shown through the devices of verbal irony, dramatic irony and understatement. The F Word episode addresses the comedy or satire aspects of the piece and the targets of each example also how it ties the piece’s message as a whole.
To begin with, the antagonist, Frank is portrayed a deadbeat, alcoholic dad who does drugs and does anything to benefit himself rather than provide for his family. Somewhat towards the beginning of the episode, Fiona, the oldest and strongest character, talks to Frank over a window as she saw that there were Hispanics in their backyard as they were sleeping there like homeless setting up their makeshift homes. She tries to figure out why they are in the backyard and Frank told her, “Generations of American melting pot getting kicked out of their homes?” In this quote, he uses verbal irony and the target is on the topic of poverty in how the government is kicking peoples’ out of their homes and the aspect of not having a home such as