Cover
Contents
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
1.1 Methodology
1.2 Structure
2. Conceptual Impulses and Cultural Context
2.1 American Culture and the Invective
2.2 Humor and the Invective
2.3 Situation Comedies and the Invective
3. Invective Humor: Discourses of Otherness
3.1 Invective Fools in Mike & Molly
3.2 Ceasing to 'Do' Female: Auto-Invective Comedy from Phyllis Diller to 2 Broke Girls
4. Reflexive Invectivity: The Comedy of Super Niceness in Parks and Recreaction
4.1 The Invective Logic of Serial Outbidding

4.2 Michael Schur's Œuvre: From Postmodern Cynicism to the Metamodern Belief in Human Interconnection
The Office
Parks and Recreation
Brooklyn 99
The Good Place
4.3 Why We Hate Jerry Gergich: Selective Disparagement in Super Nice Sitcoms
Parks and Recreation's Jerry Gergich
Brooklyn 99's Hitchcock and Scully
5. Dynamizing Invectivity: The Role of Invectives in the Boundary Work of the Genre
5.1 Embarrassment as an Invective Strategy in the Mockumentary Sitcoms The Comeback and Parks and Recreation

5.2 Deconstructing the Dramedy: Invective Structures in the Fusion of Drama and Comedy in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
5.3 Reviving Roseanne: Capitalizing Nostalgia and Invectives in Times of the Trump Presidency
6. Conclusion
Bibliography
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