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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 442104" data-attributes="member: 22">I think that's sort of what the woman in the video was saying, that the US sitcoms are more of an aspirational fantasy. The obvious example being that everyone in Friends has perfect teeth and hair and lives in a huge apartment no real life twenty-something could afford, but yes, even in a blue collar show like Roseanne, everyone's funnier and smarter and quicker than we are at home.  In the UK sitcoms, it goes the other way, with our everyday flaws taken to a comedic extreme. Same with soaps: in the US, everyone's rich and glamorous and melodramatic; in the UK, (almost) everyone's living hand to mouth  while knee-deep in "issues".</blockquote>