PARASOCIALIZE

A mechanism or tactic · 1960 · Television

The sitcom family

A recurring family, played by the same cast, five nights a week, for years, in a house you could draw from memory.

Application

Attachment to a fictional household, watched nightly, in the pre-internet equivalent of a comfort rewatch. Research on sitcom parasocial attachment found the same pattern as soaps: it is the accumulation, not the plot.

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