Whenever I watch tv with other people now I like to point out class in the show. Most shows are petty-bourgeois where everyone is a small business owner, particularly american shows though.
Yeah, I remember looking at Gilmore Girls and thinking "the entire class divide here is upper middle/lower upper vs Upper Class, loosely elided by the main character slumming it as a maid for a year before her employer realised she was "one of them"
Frank Grimes episode already made fun of it in season 8 because it was dated by 1997.
A single worker's salary afforded him an apartment above a bowling alley and below another bowling alley. Homer could miraculously afford lobster for dinner, a stay at home wife, a 2.5 storey house, 2 cars, a cat, a dog and a drinking habit while being a college dropout.
But Homer got his safety inspector job he was unqualified in season 1 as a bribe from Mr Burns after he got fired from a more menial job at the plant and became an anti-nuclear activist.
He then finished his needed college courses in Season 5.
Not rumours so much as people just watching American movies where everyone is upper middle class. This is how most of the world imagines the US
Whenever I watch tv with other people now I like to point out class in the show. Most shows are petty-bourgeois where everyone is a small business owner, particularly american shows though.
Yeah, I remember looking at Gilmore Girls and thinking "the entire class divide here is upper middle/lower upper vs Upper Class, loosely elided by the main character slumming it as a maid for a year before her employer realised she was "one of them"
Yeah this is basically a summary of the living conditions of the Simpsons family
Which were lower middle class when it came out. Plenty of plot lines revolved around money being tight.
3 kids, 2 cars, a house, all on one salary these days? Unthinkable.
Frank Grimes episode already made fun of it in season 8 because it was dated by 1997.
A single worker's salary afforded him an apartment above a bowling alley and below another bowling alley. Homer could miraculously afford lobster for dinner, a stay at home wife, a 2.5 storey house, 2 cars, a cat, a dog and a drinking habit while being a college dropout.
As you say they lampshaded it already.
But Homer got his safety inspector job he was unqualified in season 1 as a bribe from Mr Burns after he got fired from a more menial job at the plant and became an anti-nuclear activist.
He then finished his needed college courses in Season 5.
Also he's a union man.