Monday, 23 January 2017

Peter Kay's Carshare - Audience Pleasures


  • Same setting in the car - The audience becomes familiar with the setting and doesn't expect anything different.
  • Main plot line each episode is resolved 
  • Snowballing in each episode - A joke that keeps popping up during an episode, like in episode 1 where John gets urine on him and it becomes a joke that reoccurs during the episode.
  • Transgressive pleasures - When some jokes are borderline offensive
  • Anticipation - When you are anticipating what is going to happen in a certain situation
  • Innuendos - Jokes that have sexual references in them. Such as the 'dogging' joke in episode 2 where Kayleigh misunderstood dog walking as 'dogging' when it has a completely different meaning.
  • Same characters in each episode - The audience gets to recognise all the different characters like John, Kayleigh and 'New Ted'.
  • The audience gets familiar with the episodes - They go to work, guess the year of a song, have work and go home. Although it may seem like a bland structure, the target audience can relate to it as they possibly have a similar routine of going to work.
  • The audience gets used to the characters' personalities, like John's deep knowledge of songs and Kayleigh's unknown knowledge on slang words like 'dogging'.    
  • The radio becomes familiar to the audience as it plays classic songs the would appeal to the target audience. Also, the parody radio adverts become more recognisable to the audience as they take mick out of similar sounding real radio adverts, making it relatable to the target audience.

          Episode 6

In episode 6, quite a lot of audience pleasures take place. For instance, a situation reoccurs from an older episode where Kayleigh is jealous of Rachel talking to John. The joke then carries on when they are in the car and the audience recognises that this has happened before in an earlier episode. This also suggests at the start of a possible relationship between the two, but learn more about this later in the episode.
One part in episode 6 is when John and Kayleigh talk about Cannon and Ball. Cannon and Ball is comedic duo who were extremely popular in the  



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