Disability in Media - The Inbetweeners

Why is the clip funny? The clip is funny because the characters who hit the disabled girl with frisbee, don't actually mean to hit her. It was an awful aim which resulted in controversy whether or not it was many to hit the disabled female. It makes the audience laugh due to the awkwardness between the characters as they now it looks very bad as the disabled are represented in the media to need a lot of care.

How is the disabled girl being represented? The disabled girl is represented as the laughing stock of the clip. It wouldn't be funny to viewers if she was as abled as the rest of the characters. When will realises that the person he has hit is intact a girl, he goes out of his way to make a personal over the top apology. 

Are we meant to laugh at the disabled person? It would be greatly frowned upon if we laughed at disabled people in a real-life situation but in the media, they are represented as the comedy in programmes and the joke. Therefore, people do laugh because that is why some dialled characters are placed into scenes like this. It is focused around the humour of hitting the disabled girl. 

Are they the 'butt' of the joke? The disabled girl is the butt of the joke as without her, the audience may not find it as amusing as they would have done if an abled person had been hit. However, the boys reactions to hitting the girl are part of the joke as they are unsure on how to react and consequently solve the situation they have got themselves into. 

How do you think disabled people respond to this? Most disabled people who watch this must know it is a joke and take it light-heartedly but a majority of the disabled viewers may also take it offensively as it looks like they are something funny and not tank seriously.

Are we as a society cultivated to think we should pity the disabled? As a society, we are cultivated to think we should pity the disabled as they aren't as independent as us and are we are told to care for them and help them if necessary.