The Cleveland Show

The Cleveland show used to be my absolute favourite thing to watch on a Monday night in high school and no one I knew ever like it! It is basically about an African American family... and their lives really. However, there is so much tongue and cheek humour I thought it was hilarious, but it can be quite raunchy at times therefore is most definitely not for a young, immature audience.

All the characters have personalities that can be differentiated from one another i.e, the audience can easily remember who is who, which I find to be one of the key things to look out for in ANY television show. Usually personalities meld together and you can forget their names and what not but this show is beautiful in awarding each character with unique traits. There is also a lot of irony in the show which I don't think a lot of children would get either, for example the youngest 'child' is actually an old, rude man mentally.

I don't think this show has any political, economic or social impact on the world other than I think it is empowering that there is an entire cast of African Americans which is very rare to find in animation especially. But I think it is wrong to even have to notice that. This should be more common, but unfortunately it is not. As for the messages and values within the content on the animation, there isn't really apart from some crude humour.

Sadly I haven't heard from this show in a long time but I think I would have become desensitised to this type of humour my 15 year old self loved way back when, anyway. I think for it's audience, which should be mature for the most part, the show is successful in providing a laugh and providing some small moral value, however for what it is, it could be more virtuous. 

Though aesthetically, it reminds me of 'The Simpsons', but that doesn't bother me because I love how 'The Simpsons' looks too. The 2D animation is sufficient and it is nice to look at. Though the colours for me are slightly dull, I think this casts more attention on the humour of the show rather than looking at it as a masterpiece. Overall I used to love this show, I haven't watched a full episode in so long but I remember it captivating me at that time so I think if it was successful for me then, it must have been successful for a lot of people too if it had more than one season.