Final answer:
The type of satire used in the television show about a cowboy who finds a time machine and is transported to the year 3,000 is most accurately described as an incongruity. This approach creates humor through the absurd contrast between the Western and science fiction genres. Option B is the correct answer.
Step-by-step explanation:
The television show you're describing seems to employ incongruity as its primary type of satire. Incongruity involves presenting things that are absurd about their surroundings, creating a contrast between what is expected and what occurs.
This is evident when blending the Western genre, known for cowboys and frontiers, with science fiction, characterized by advanced technology and futuristic concepts. It strikes the viewer as humorous or satirical because of the time period and thematic mismatch— a cowboy, symbolic of the past, encountering advanced technology such as a time machine and being transported to the year 3,000, which creates an absurd, fish-out-of-water scenario that challenges our expectations of both genres.
Exaggeration involves overstating elements of a story to a ridiculous extent, parody imitates a specific style to comedic effect, and reversal inverts the normal order of things, none of which are as central to this particular scenario as incongruity. Thus, the most accurate type of satire used in the described situation is incongruity (option b).