v based, never seen a family sitcom that actually depicts a fairly more realistic family instead of the picture perfect everything is always perfectly maintained nice household of every other similar show
Before Malcolm in the Middle came to my country as a kid I legit thought all Americans lived in mansions because that's what your tv shows implied.
Honestly exporting the idea of American excellence and it being a land of plenty and all that is probably intentional
nah it's just that the people who produce television programming are wealthy, or are enthralled in a culture of wealth worship
It felt that way, everything always was a little too perfect
change my mind
I would try but I don't want to lie to you
That is quite literally what it was, a counter-narrative to the war in Việt Nam. Also as mentioned in this article, a picture of Henry Kissinger and his kids with the cast of The Brady Bunch.
It was just much more common back then tho, my dad was the last of 9 kids. Lots of farm families, or second generation from farmers (ie. kids of farmers) tend to just have lots and lots of kids. It was a strategy to get more free labor in a lot of ways, plus their religion tells them to pop out as many as possible. I do think the american government made programs to encourage birth as a cold war preparation thing, but that wasn't where the idea of a huge family came from. It was simply protestant farmers that did that.
When I was little I was like "I hope I grow up to be like Francis" and now it's like "Ah fuck I'm Francis."
oh boy you're gonna go koo koo when you hear about "The Simpsons"
The show in Which a one working parent family can afford two cars and a big house
he's a nuclear safety inspector at a nuclear power plant. homer is PMC
the point of the professional managerial class as a category of analysis is that unlike, say, the petit bourgeoisie, they have a proletarian relationship to the means of production, but their education and status makes it harder for them to consciously align with the proletariat.
Married with children is the probably the only other sitcom, I can think off, that is like that.
I've heard people flag Roseanne as Real Working Class Shit, but it aired before my time.
Confusingly the show The Middle also exposes a similar issue, their house is large but delapidated, both parents work long hours and over time but they are always short on money, I think it actually works better than Malcolm as they are nicer people (while still being believible) so it makes the fact they work so much but have little to show for it more stark.
