6 Xandir P. Wifflebottom, Video Game … Hero?
Karen M. Cook
Content Warning: This chapter discusses an adult cartoon that uses shock humor that many readers might find offensive. Racism, homophobia, sexual and scatological acts, weight and body size, violence, self-harm, and suicide are mentioned throughout the chapter, although fleetingly.
Drawn Together (2004–2007) is an adult cartoon that aired on the Comedy Central channel.1 Advertised as the first animated reality television show, it blatantly parodies MTV’s then-popular The Real World (1992–2019) and Big Brother (2000–), in which a cast of strangers lives together for weeks on end. In Drawn Together’s case, the cast is composed of caricatures of well-known ...
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