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The Gang Broke Dee Essay

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Dee, as the only female character in the group, often mistreated by the group. The gang describes her as “a giant, big feet bird” She was being ignored all of the time. The gang took her apartment and her car for granted and often left her with a hell of mass. In season 9, episode 1, “The Gang Broke Dee”, Dee was finally got tired of being argued and mistreated all the time. She decided to not care about anything. While she was eating a trash cake and smoking, Dennis said “Dee, you know what, you look like a bird lady covered with bird shit and eating cake”, followed with Mac, “Dee, you look like a bird with no tits and no ass”. Pathetically, Dee responded with “what’s the point of this? I can’t get any lower than I already am. I might just throw myself in front of a bus because I’m so ugly and I can’t even get a bus to hit on me”. (Youtube) As I mentioned already, the gang is extremely indecent human beings. I do understand that sitcoms have it own way to make jokes. However, in …show more content…

All of the characters suffer from their family issues. Charlie’s mom was a prostitute and the father’s identity still remains unknown. Mac’s mom smoked and watched televisions all day. She is apathetic and folly. Mac’s dad got arrested for drug dealing, he once asked Mac and Charlie to smuggle drug to the prison for him. To sum up, it is clearly to see that family does play an important role to the gang’s personality. It is the biggest reason why they grow up to who they are now. On the other hands, I found the gender role is clearly distinguished. All of the three moms are portrayed as dependent, depraved, immoral, and extremely promiscuous. None of them has jobs. To compare and contrast, the fathers are dominant, immoral and career-oriented. As a conclusion, even in a show like SUNNY that everybody is messed up, we can still find vivid evidence about how different men and women’s status and roles in the

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