Introduction to Chapter 25
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Family
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Responding to an Image
Examine the scene above from the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory, which depicts former roommates and colleagues Sheldon Cooper and Leonard Hofstadter dining with friends and with Leonard’s wife, Penny, in the apartment Sheldon and Leonard shared for nearly a decade. In what ways does the scene reiterate traditional depictions or definitions of families you’ve encountered? In what ways does it challenge or reinterpret those depictions?