If children's impressionable minds can be adversely affected by watching too much violence on television, is it also possible that they may be negatively influenced by watching too much happy-ever-after comedy? Below I have listed five deadly sit-com lies that could convince your kids to waste their lives lounging around in trendy coffee shops conducting inane conversations with equally vacuous stereotypes. So if your child seems to expect rapturous applause every time he walks into a room, you may want to address the following dangerous yet deceptively amusing untruths:
1. Anyone can afford a spacious and luxuriously furnished penthouse apartment in the city even if they can never seem to hold down a proper job.
2. Morons are adorable
3. A short coda of laconic, horn-based jazz-blues fusion is the soundtrack of life, especially when you are looking at the exterior of your home or office.
4. Everyone has a loud and obnoxiously shrewish Jewish/Italian mother who, no matter how unsophisticated and gauche she may appear be, will later discreetly reveal herself to possess the practical wisdom of a domestic Socrates mixed with Dr Ruth.
5. There is an invisible studio audience that actually thinks such worthless dreck is funny.
