Pop Culture: What's really real on TV?

I don't watch TV as much as I used to, but when I do, I usually watch The Real World and Family Guy. Both shows have realistic traits. For instance, The Real World is a show where strangers are picked to live in a house together and have their lives taped. The most current season took place in Washington D.C.. The show is realistic for a number of reasons. The strangers on the show become roommates and have to adjust to each other. The disagreements and arguements are real. Some of the arguements and disagreements can be about one roommate disagreeing with another roommate about their personal choices to one roommate sayin something to another roommate that they didn't like. Some people say that The Real World isn't realistic because they may think the show is scripted because of the disagreements.


Family Guy is an animated family sitcom about Peter Griffin and his family. The show can be realistic for a couple reasons. One reason is that the Griffins are a dysfunctional family. They go through real-life issues like everybody else in reality, but do so in a hilarious, comical way. The reasons that Family Guy can be unrealistic is because the youngest child, Stewie, is a talking baby that thinks like and sometimes acts like an adult. Brian, the family dog, can also talk and does the same things an adult would do.