something i noticed about social parodies ....

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Theres a side discussion about the fans of rick and morty in the pit thread about the nugget sauce promotion fiasco about a certain subset of fans that think the rick character something to emulate and the creator of the show despises them
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=838518

my question is this : has anyone ever noticed that in any parody or comedy that’s "lets show this group/type of people/person as funny assholes " that the people there making fun of seem to take it as life affirmation?

Like when beavis and butthead was on in HS I made the comment that I didn’t watch it because they were 80 percent of my HS and I didn’t need to watch it to laugh at people being stupid in that manner as I could do it all day everyday live

And my teacher made the comment that the fans of the show never noticed they were being made fun of (well some did a decade later when they were in the "yeah I was stupid in hs stage )

although I’m told one of the biggest liberals in Hollywood couldn’t convince people he didn’t believe anything he said as archie bunker …

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Archie Bunker is a special case. Yeah I see people share Archie Bunker memes and I think “Do you realize he wasn’t supposed to be correct?” But most of those people either are too young to have seen it or haven’t seen it in decades. At the time I don’t know if people were nodding along with him or not. To Lear’s (and O’Connor’s) credit he did not make Archie a monster. He made him human and vulnerable which allowed him to become one of the best characters ever on tv. As a whole the show was very nuanced with Meathead being wrong for the right reasons and Archie sometimes being right for the wrong reasons.

Ok now that I think about it you’re right about All in the Family. The liberals of the time didn’t realize the show was poking them too. Mike wasn’t the moral center of the show, Edith was.