Background Information: My parents are aliens

My parents are aliens is a childrens television programme for CITV it was made during 1999 - 2006 consisting of 8 series.

The first 7 series (original family) had brian and sophie (the alien parents) and there foster children; Lucy, Mel, Josh, Cj and Harry 

The episode i'll be analysing is 'the naked truth'
 When Lucy gets in trouble with one of her teachers for apparently copying homework, Brian and Sophie discover the power of punishment. Poppy writes an article in the school magazine criticising Josh. Mel accidentally kills the school budgie and Josh writes this in his own school magazine. To get revenge, Mel gets Brian to morph into Josh and take naked pictures of himself to give to Poppy to print in her magazine.

(breakdown into two genres comedy and childrens)

The codes and conventions of 'My parents are aliens'

Conventions: It has two genres Comedy and Childrens TV so it has to combine these two into one catergory. So it has to have the element of comedy but within restrictions of what is and isnt suitable for day time televisions.

Codes: what I (as the audience) expects to see from My parents are aliens is 'stupid' humour for instance predictable silly humour in which young children would find funny to watch unlike other comedy shows in which they use whit. Also expect to see a lot of mishaps as the shapes the narrative of the story.

Narrative: basically throughout each and every episode the family get into a situation that needs to be resolved mainly because of the alien parents Brian and sophie which the children need to go out of there way to sort out (most of the time)