The characters in the IT crowd are mostly constructed as failing at one or more aspects of their life. Moss is constructed as failing at social interactions, Roy is constructed as failing with his anger management. We can see this because he goes on a huge rant about the people "up there" in the office, and how they have no respect for himself or Moss.
On the subject of Moss, it seems that he fails at social interactions as he takes everything completely literally, for example, he reads very deeply into Roy's "yesterday's jam" comment. (Wow, 'Yesterday's Jam', that's the name of the episode!)
Both Moss and Roy are standard nerds as they work in the basement and have conversations about computers that the elder people of this Earth may not fully understand. They also don't dress entirely fashionably, and seem fairly socially inept.
Jen, on the other hand, completely fails at IT, which is why it's earth-shatteringly hilarious that she's been appointed as the head of IT. She doesn't even know what a hard-drive is, and therefore seems wholly unfit for her job.
This has the makings of an acceptable answer as your English expression makes it clear in places that you are answering on audience pleasures ('it's...hilarious") but you have to improve exam technique.
ReplyDeleteHow the characters are constructed: frame this through an explanation that sitcoms use stereotyping. That's your topic sentence.
What about the advice to draw on the 4 audience pleasures? Where are your references to how the audience is positioned (superior? omniscient?)
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