Compare how the Television sitcoms "Only fools and Horses" and "Men behaving badly" offer comic representation of gender?

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Compare how the Television sitcoms “Only fools and Horses” and “Men behaving badly” offer comic representation of gender?

“Men behaving badly” and “Only fools and horses” are both exceedingly hilarious sitcoms, Only fools and horses was shown on the BBC and Men behaving badly shown on ITV (but later moving to BBC with a later time), when it first hit our screens. Although they eventually began to fade out the sitcoms, well at least off of the standard channels of one to five. Now days the BBC and ITV only produce special episodes around Christmas time and on other special occasions. But if you still cannot resist the temptation of watching the odd episode here and there you can catch them on UK Gold, UK Gold 2 and UK Gold +1, on Sky and cable channels. Yet both sitcoms are still just as funny watching them second time round.

The British sitcom tends to rely on quick-fire jokes and quirky characters than plots, the analysis of the British individual and exaggerated caricatures of everyday stereotypes. There are, or course, some exceptions, but neither Men behaving badly or Only fools and horses are one of these exceptions. The sitcoms do have their similarities but when looked into more detail things like their achievements and aims seem to differ buy at the same time they arte looking for a better standard of living. In Only fools and horses Dell Boy (the main character) is looking to be rich and wealthy whereas Gary is striving for a better relationship and sex life with women. Along the way they encounter many different problems like the pub closing down in the Men behaving badly episode “Good Pub Guide”. To both Gary and Tony (the main character and his best friend) this is horrific as it is one of the few things they still have in life but if we take Dell Boy and Rodney (Only fools and horses) it would still be a desperate measure but not as desperate as it is for Tony and Gary. This is a similar situation as if Dell boy were to loose Rodney. Tony and Gary’s lives seem to evolve around:

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        Beer

        Women

Although on the other hand Dell Boy and Rodney’s life depends more on:

Money

Relationships

This shows that in men behaving badly women are only treated as an object by Gary and Tony they do not know how t treat a women correctly they just want them for a little fun. If we look at the episode “Good pub guide” Gary talks about a cartoon character in which he says; “Look at the top b****x on that” showing how Gary does not care who it is or what it is he will always refer ...

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