The Sitcom

          The characteristic of having mini resolutions is fairly central to most sitcoms. They typically have some problem or flaw in character that they wind up learning about and say they'll work on fixing it. This idea really goes hand in hand with the idea of character growth which usually tries to show a character growing, maturing and learning from his or her respective mistakes.

          My example for each would have to be an episode of Full House i watched recently. Stephanie, the middle daughter, entered a spelling bee fully confident she would win because her dad taught her a trick to remember how to spell things easier. She got up on stage and and completely blanked on the first word. Afterwards, she was being a poor sport and ran off stage. Then they went home, where the winner of the bee showed up to give her her ribbon. They wound up having a mini spelling bee in which she misspelled the word sarsaparilla and ran out of the room again. Her dad walked in the room and told her he was disappointed and then explained why. There's your mini lesson. She then vowed to be a better loser and said she couldn't wait to lose to show her dad how good she was at it. And there's your character development.