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Published on August 8, 2019 8:30:02 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL0q130j00o

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On the surface, Meet the Jamesons may seem like mindless entertainment, the product of an age inundated with media not intending to enlighten or provoke thoughts, but merely to help pass the time till our inevitable non-existence. However, beneath the veneer of https: mind-numbing humor and laugh tracks so generic they could belong to any one of thousands of identical schlock, Meet the Jamesons is actually a subversive masterpiece attempting to open our eyes to the very thing that it seems to be invoking. In this essay I will prove beyond all doubt that MtJ is a masterstroke of intellectual thought and that it's very existence heralds the beginning of a new renaissance of media.

In the very first episode we are introduced to our main character, the aforementioned James Jameson, almost immediately, and are greeted by his transcendental catchphrase "Hiya family." While on the surface this simple greeting may seem to exhibit the dim nature of the character whose mouth the phrase emanates, however, it's true purpose is much more scathing. For truly, "Hiya family" speaks to our hearts and minds; all at once it is the greeting to a loving family and a cry into the void.

For at his heart, James is alone. Out of all of the many characters on Williams Street, from the lovably generic Does to the oddly perfect Prescotts, even among his own family, //youtu James is the only character who does not possess some sort of quirk or oddity. And this purpose is thus: to put a lens up to the human condition. In a world where all humanity feels isolated from one another, when it seems as if all the people in the world are so much better off than you. That they are perfectly happy like the Does, or have everything, like the Prescotts, you are boring and generic, and why is everyone else so happy? And that's what James is, he's our cry to the void. He's humanity personified. This is only deepened of course in episode 404, when James gives his life so that our worthless existence-- [Page missing]

As we are talking about James' family, how could we possibly forget to mention the scathing commentary of the traditional familial unit. Betty is a primary example. She clearly has no interest in James sexually or personally, so why does she stay with him? .be/0w Is it financial, does she worry about her ability to support herself if James is not there, or is it simply because it is easier to stay with James than to attempt to strike out on her own? If she had continued along her aborted character arc with the Milkman, this would seem to be the case, however, in an effort to make her more sympathetic--either that, or the rumors that her replacement actress after the pilot episode refused to be seen participating in adultery are true--they seemed to have scraped this concept after the pilot. So the character of Betty and her motivations remain somewhat up in the air.

Now we move onto the children. James and Betty have three children, Garfield, Jenny, and William. Of William I shall speak little as he appeared to have become more of a non-entity as the series progressed--also largely due to Betty's aborted Milkman arc--but Garfield and Jenny are of endless fascination. Essentially, they are the same character with a different gender and different quirks. They are yin and yang, two sides of the same coin, each an outwardly simple character but once the veneer of dead inside is removed, you can sUaQE see what they truly represent: the degradation of the teenage generation and especially of those whose parents have allowed them to be raised by the uncaring eye of the internet rather than by genuine human connection. Both of these character have developed complexes due to their lacking childhoods, and each of their need for attention and desire to be accepted manifests itself in different ways.

For Garfield, his rampant Furryism is a clear symptom of a young man in confused about his position in the world attempted to reconcile his desires with finding a place to belong. The fursuit is a symbolic representation of his insecurities and his attempts to displace them, to become someone or something else, anything but to live with the person he is and the lot in life that the cards have dealt him.

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Jenny’s desperate ASMR attempts are really a cry for help. She feels abandoned by society and the world at large, and desperately needs someone to appreciate her and need her in their lives. The fact that she’s willing to do just about anything for approval, including sucking on [MARSHMALLOWS] live in front of a camera, uploaded to the internet space proves this beyond a doubt.

And now we finally move onto the big one, the character that you have all been waiting for me to analyze: introduced in episode 106, the family dog, G—

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