4. (b) Discuss in detail how one programme offers audience pleasures. Give examples from the programme. [15]

Bad Education is a sitcom comedy which is set in the same location in the school and will finish the program at the school. It also have characters that linger throughout the series without new characters being introduced so that it creates a strong relationship with the audience, and it gets the audience to know them better. Furthermore, there is a starting scene at the beginning of each episode so that the audience has a idea of what the episode will show.

This program offers audience pleasures such as narrative resolution as it starts and ends at the same place, there is rapport between the audience and the characters; some students learn that Mr Wickers is an 'idiot' and they disrespect him. there is verbal comedy such as 'sexual' innuendo as they tell jokes that relate to sex.

After, it also uses narrative pleasures refer to the audience enjoying how the story line is constructed. In situation comedy, the plot starts and ends in exactly the same place (narrative resolution). What happens in between is usually a snowballing narrative of one problem added onto another problem, This is usually caused by the stupid decisions of the character and the audience laugh as they make each poor choice. Some characters make stupid decisions; e.g Mr Wickers makes bad decisions when he talks to his crush-Miss Gulliver.

Character identification is how the audience knows the characters well and can predict how they will behave. Audiences feel they can relate the the characters and they become well loved because of these predictable character traits. Mr Wickers is seen as the worse teacher ever but he is surrounded by some of the weirdest teachers who by comparison make him seem far better than any alternative. His students act immature even though they are young adults. they are classed as bad students as they backchat to the teacher, showing no manners whatsoever.

Pleasure of recognition means audiences enjoy the anticipation of what a character will say next. Certain characters have catchphrases or typical behaviors that the audience expect to see. This makes them predictable and adds to them being well-loved by audiences who feel like they know the character well. The action happens in the same setting, which the audience are familiar with. In bad education, some students such as 'Ren Dog' will make accusations that will downgrade the teacher(Mr Wickers) which makes the program funny because its humorous.

Pleasures of difference-within-repetition means that the audience can easily recognize this as a situation comedy but the show plays with the repetition of the same narrative structure. Each episode sees the characters facing alternative plots and comedy through the script but the same sort of events happen. In bad education, the setting is always in the school and it contains toilet humor. The audience will know the situation because it hints what will happen next.

Transgressive pleasures are the comedy elements which go beyond the boundaries and into offensive or rude topics. They are based on taboo and are designed to offend the audience into laughing because they feel uncomfortable. In Bad education, They use transgressive pleasures such as racism, 'toilet words' and stereotyping. The words they use is "pooing". They called a colored man "Winston" so it shows there is a stereotype and saying that all colored people are called "Winston".

Familiarity is a way to interact the audience so that they get to know the characters more by making the character use specific phrases or commonly used words. for example, Mr Wickers is always the same by acting his silly self. He also makes unintelligent remarks which is humorous so that the audience have a rapport with the character.