Workaholics is about 3 college drop outs that found their way in to the telemarketing business, but these 3 employees are not the typical office workers. The premise of the show is the guys Adam, Anders, and Blake are all roommates/cubical mates every episode the guys are taking drugs, partying, and having the time of their lives while being a slave for TelAmeriCorp. During the show there isn't always a strong range of racial diversity but the show does portray some gender diversity. Having 3 white males play as the main characters makes the audience lose sight of some diversity, but I feel that this show does bring in characters that do give it a range of racial and gender diversity. This show doesn't highlight on racial or gender diversity but more so skims it.
The show does make several strong stereotypes more focusing on gender than racial but some racial stereotypes may be pointed out during the show. The show always has the character Adam(shown on the left of the picture) trying to become a professional body builder; Adam believes that he is huge and has to keep getting bigger to show his manliness during the show. This is a negative stereotype for men trying to show masculinity through size and muscles. While this is a negative stereotype the show also does give positive stereotypes; for instance, the guys boss Alice is a strong independent women who manages the company and she is typically the one who resorts order with her power. This is a positive stereotype for women giving her the management position and making her character succeed over the 3 male characters.
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