Blog Post 10 (due 5 PM Wednesday 16th April)

In the British sitcom, Miranda, Miranda Hart plays a fictionalised version of herself who frequently breaks the fourth wall, addressing the audience whenever she feels… Read More »Miranda and Zany Work Spaces

The Vicar of Dibley hosts several zany characters that often create awkward moments for poor vicar Geraldine Granger. Although Geraldine is depicted as the sanest… Read More »The Zany Vicar

“Patterns of speech are relatively stable and predictable, with most turns lasting roughly two seconds and pauses between turns usually lasting around 200 ms—about the… Read More »Off the Social Script – The Big Bang Theory

In her work, Alexandra Plakias explores ‘the way awkwardness emerges from discoordinated interactions’ (p20), arising from situations where there is a discord between those interacting… Read More »Gavin, Doris and the Awkward

In “This Is Awkward” Plakias mentions that the possible scenarios for awkwardness to arise is near endless, but one interesting scenario is the plot of… Read More »Kimmy Schmidt? I hardly know her!

Flight of the Conchords is a musical television show featuring two men who pose as a direct opposition to Alexandra Plakias’ assertion that people aren’t… Read More »Flight of the Conkwards

In “This is Awkward” Alexandra Plakias explores the feeling and phenomena of awkwardness, studying social behavior. Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Crashing is a British comedy limited series… Read More »Crashing into the Awkwardness of Life

In the absence of social scripts, which Plakias describes as unconscious prescriptions of behavior that guide us through social interactions, the resulting awkwardness can produce… Read More »Awkward interviews, unstoppable forces and immovable objects

In ‘The Zany Science’, Sianne Ngai considers the emergence of the ‘zany’ as an aesthetic category that reflects anxieties surrounding the increasingly blurred distinction between… Read More »‘I’m charmed I’m sure’ – The Zaniness of Mrs Featherbottom