The Oprah Winfrey Show is a non-narrative program with a perfect emotional appeal to the audience. Winfrey’s dialogues with guests are personal and can easily create a family-like atmosphere. The theme chosen for the discussion is intriguing and important to the American viewers of the program. In addition, the multi-camera style allows the audience to capture the host and guests as well as the spectators in the studio. As a result, the viewer feels as if they are part of the show as opposed to an outsider. The episode titled “The best pizza in America” (January 10, 2008) is chosen for the analysis. Symbolism and Polysemy First, the topic is interesting and relevant. Pizza is one of the favorite foods in America, and all viewers, irrespective of age or social status, will find the discussion appealing. The star guest is Gayle King – a friend of Oprah Winfrey. Gayle traveled across the United States with the purpose of finding the best burgers and cakes. The show focuses on Gayle’s quest for the best burgers, pizza, and cakes. The show is presented as an investigative report. Moreover, Gayle King outlines seven secrets to find easy to cook, fast, and reasonably priced pizzas. The show is not only interesting, but it is also very informative and practical. Even though talk shows are categorized as non-narrative programs, there is an assigned topic in every episode of the Oprah Winfrey Show. In our chosen episode, the main idea is to inform the public where to find and how to make a tasty pizza. Despite its Italian origin, pizza is perhaps one of the most highly consumed types of food in the United States and is a symbol of America’s national culture. This every day, easily accessible food makes the topic seems relevant to anyone in the country. Because of that, a discussion on pizza is a guarantee for a high audience rating. From the perspective of polysemy, the pizza talk can apply to the country as a whole as it is a symbol of national identity but also regional. The first pizza store was opened in New York at the beginning of the 20 th century. Deep-dish pizza was created in Chicago. As pizza became vastly popular after World War II, Los Angles was the origin of many pizza chain stores. People in New York, Chicago, or Los Angles have a sense of pride and belonging with this food. All Americans consider pizza a national food (Stradley). Horace Newcomb argued that television is not always “warmly and naively welcomed into society and home. Many aspects of the medium were and are troublesome, threatening, oppressive, repressive, and obnoxious” (Newcomb 1). However, The Oprah Winfrey Show is different. The show has an informative, educating, and entertaining purpose without any troublesome aspects of television. Program Structure The structure of The Oprah Winfrey Show is thematic: information is presented from general overviews to specific topics. The easy-to-follow flow is maintained from the first minute of the show to the end. At the beginning of the show, Oprah presents the topic and states the purpose of the discussion. Next, the star guest (the main guest of the show; usually a famous person) is welcomed and introduced. This segment is interrupted three times for commercials but the interruptions do not affect the flow of discussion. The main points of the discussio