warmedy

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English

Etymology

Blend of warm +‎ comedy

Noun

warmedy (plural warmedies)

  1. (television) A warm-hearted comedy targeted at a family audience.
    • 2004, John Alberti, Leaving Springfield: The Simpsons and the Possibility of Oppositional Culture, →ISBN, page 144:
      It preserves the blue-collar setting of The Flintstones, and the family constellations are similar, but the "warmedy" Flintstone world is turned on its ear.
    • 2005, James T. Patterson, Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore, →ISBN, page 220:
      Another popular “warmedy” (warm family comedy) of the late 1980s was Family Ties, which starred Michael J. Fox as the eldest sibling in a close-knit family.
    • 2008, David Scott Diffrient, M*A*S*H, →ISBN, page 3:
      The "capitalization, dematerialization, and idealization" of this "warmedy" (an awkward term used by Budd, Steinman, and other critics to denote a "comedy overlaid with empathetic audience identification") extended even to the lives and celebrity status of the actors who played the show's universally loathed or much-loved characters...