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I've been on a Rugrats binge and I'm just wondering how the hell Tommy's parents own a house
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Rugrats did episodes on Jewish holidays.
That was rare for kids shows.
This was considered a middle class home in the 1990s
Lol my parents were middle class and my house looked absolutely nothing like this.
I actually never knew this or forgot. That explains why Stu is a tinkerer as well.
This was considered a middle class home in the 1990s
I've never lived in something that big in my life. What the hell.
This was considered a middle class home in the 1990s
I couldn't even imagine living a place a third that size. :/
No it wasn't, this was upper-middle to upper class depending on the location.This was considered a middle class home in the 1990s
This was considered a middle class home in the 1990s
No, no it wasn't.
This is similar to the McCallisters house in home alone which was considered the wealthiest house on a block of incredibly wealthy houses, where the parents can fly their entire family to Paris for Christmas and afford first class tickets.
I know. It was a big event back in the day in our Jewish community. I still remember my friend and I watching it when it first aired.
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So was Homer making $10 an hour?He makes $360ish a week
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Come to think what was the episode? Where the Germans buy the Power Plant. Marge mentions they never had a savings account.
Thinking about it out of all the 90s-early 00s Sitcoms theirs was the only one that down to earth and was more true to life then the others as they were on the verge of poverty etc.
Outside of the "it's just a show" answer, houses were cheaper back then so the grandparents of even the middle class could help with the down payment. Nowadays it's the parent's of rich kids who help out.
It was also on one chapter stated that his home sprouted from a seed when it got eaten by those worm like creatures. I made my cannon that his home was rather a natural creation than a building.
Howard also has a office job and I think Betty is a gym trainer? Maybe the gym rat aesthetic is making me misremember. I do know in one of the earlier episodes they mention that the twins do commercial work.
This was considered a middle class home in the 1990s
Cut out the additions on the left and right and I did have a friend two streets over from me that lived in a house like this.
Not to overexamine Spongebob, but he and Squidward live in trash from the surface. They may not have actually had to pay for their houses, just the furnishings.
The Belchers maybe? Crammed between a funeral home an an empty storefront in a one floor space that seemed to not have one degree of wasted area.
Exactly, boomers work 20 hours a week as a Pizza delivery guy in the 80s and buy houses comfortably =P
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Let's just go with that. Not so bad for someone who constantly leaves for other jobs.
This, dude was head of what was basically a Disney Imagineering project
Only someone with an Uncle at Nintendo would think this.This was considered a middle class home in the 1990s
It honestly was. We laughed at the episode in the 90's about not paying the electric bill, but it really hit close to home as time went on
In season 3 Larry and Balki get new jobs, Larry a reporter working in the basement of the newspaper and Balki in the mail room, and they get a BIGGER apartment. Plus their girlfriends are stewardesses and live in the same apartment as them. (the first one)MAN WORKS AT A THRIFT STORE
Not only that but Carl and Harriet Winslow originally moved into the same apartment building for two years then moved out into a fairly large house. Makes me wonder where all the kids were staying in that apartment before. Wait. How many kids do they have? Just the two? Still, four people in a small apartment. At least when they're living in the house they have like a billion people living there. Well at least three working adults. (I assume Mother Winslow is retired) Rachel has her own restaurant eventually. Carl is still a cop. And Harriet is apparently Chief of Security.
In season 7 Larry and his now wife Jennifer try to move out on their own, into a large victorian house, but realize they can't afford it so of course Balki and Mary Anne move in with them. Still not sure how they can afford it even then.
That's what I was making at my job that I just left. Can I have a house?He makes $360ish a week
It is a very John Hughes-looking house. A lot of his characters (with few exceptions) were rather wealthy and lived in that upper-middle to upper class range. Even the Griswolds were pretty well off.
This, dude was head of what was basically a Disney Imagineering project
As just one contract
Do any of these shows ever have multiple peeps living crammed in a tiny ass apartment? I feel like Hey Arnold got the closest with the boarding house and everyone having to fight over one bathroom, but even then Arnold had his own room complete with all sorts of fancy shit.
Like, even the Malcolm in the Middle home looks fancy as shit to me. They had both a front and back yard. Although I guess a tiny set wouldn't make for good TV.
Like, even the Malcolm in the Middle home looks fancy as shit to me. They had both a front and back yard. Although I guess a tiny set wouldn't make for good TV.
He makes $360ish a week
Simpsons was written by a lot of wealthy ivy league new grads back then, they if anything overcompensated. Even back in the early 1990s, someone as an entry level safety manager at a fission plant should be making 2.5x that.
Good Times had a whole family living In a tiny apartment. That show was way too real and deep.
Different country, but my folks had their house appreciated the other day and its worth almost three times what they bought it for 30 years ago (a price I can only dream of).
And while they're relatively close to a middle-sized city, they live in one of most remote regions of the country.
So yeah, the 80s/90s were very different...
And while they're relatively close to a middle-sized city, they live in one of most remote regions of the country.
So yeah, the 80s/90s were very different...
Arnold was the landlord, everyone else in the building was funding his lavish shit.
To be fair to the Simpsons
Lenny is college educated and seemingly higher up the ladder than Homer. Also has no kids or wife to pay for.
that shit was so real. "don't tell anyone how I live...."
Lmao my girlfriend and I recently rewatched Rugrats up to In Paris and had this same thought.
Also OG Rugrats was GOOD and it goes downhill soooo fast after the first 3-4 seasons ):
Also OG Rugrats was GOOD and it goes downhill soooo fast after the first 3-4 seasons ):
