Strangers With Candy
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- This is the title of a satirical show that inverts sitcom tropes to critique conformity and toxic positivity.
- In plain terms
- A show about a bad student returning to school.
- What can you take from it?
- Satire can expose social norms by reversing them.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How does reversing norms reveal hidden assumptions?
Another view
The show requires cultural context to understand its jokes.
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