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drkgodess t1_j5i4541 wrote

I disagree. They can be cheesy, but for me, the cheese is part of the show's charm. It might also be a cultural mismatch. There are jokes about the immigrant experience in them - the nephew's terrible pronunciation/syntax in Spanish, his blase attitude about his lavish lifestyle, etc.

As for their usefulness, the cutaways served the purpose of progressing the story in various directions. The story would pick up again with another character or days later or at a special occasion after the cutaways (e.g. "Meanwhile, Memo was..."). How would it make sense for those story snippets to happen without the exposition bits in the middle?

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