
Sitcoms Part II
Stuff You Should Know
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Breaking the Fourth Wall
The couch in the centre of a room became a trope nteit allows actors to interact with the person on the couch without standing in between them and the camera. It is bazarre, if you step back and think about it, that actually ties in chuck with another little tid bit about sicoms called the fourth wall. You can really toy with this whole thing because every once in while, a character can turn and address the viewer. And that's called breaking the fourth wall,. Yes, which can be fun. I love spin offs. There've been a lot of very bad ones but in some cases, spin offs have been at least as popular as the original show
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