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Grace Cuiming Li

          The sitcom celebrates the family, the room in which it operates, and its own politics of negotiation and compromise. Hence, there is a continuous section which reveals a linear sequence of spaces: family room to dining room to kitchenÖ or reception to waiting to office... In domestic comedies this is usually the family room or kitchen, yet in situation comedy this is often the restaurant or coffee shop. The majority of action and dialogue occurs here. The actual sets are typically programmatically disjunctive spaces, which are rejoined into a logical understanding through camera edits.