Were things really that different during the 1980s? Nowadays owning a house and raising children would be with minimum wage is very unusual. However, I have a feeling that even that portrayal was not entirely realistic.
I seem to recall the home being mentioned as the historic Bundy "estate" and such. It seems like he couldn't afford a house, it was left to him.This actually interests me...
Did he literally work minimum wage? For the entire show? I feel like that's accurate, as he was a shoe salesman in a mall, but can't remember
Peggy didn't have a career, right? Pretty sure that was part of the joke...
Do we know how he acquired the home? They always lived in the same one. Maybe his parents died and left him the house or some money for a down payment?
This is kinda like the Homer Simpson and the Connors situation too
Time to go home to my mansion and eat my lobsterThis is kinda like the Homer Simpson and the Connors situation too
Thats probably even worse than minimum wage, with the amount of customers he drove away.I don't think Al made minimum wage. I believe he got commission from each pair of shoes he sold.
This is kinda like the Homer Simpson and the Connors situation too
This is kinda like the Homer Simpson and the Connors situation too
I don't think Al made minimum wage. I believe he got commission from each pair of shoes he sold.
Eh, Roseanne had a pretty justifiable setup. They lived in a low wage working city, had a moderate sized house with two working parents, and making ends meet because of money being tight was kind of the crux of the show (up until the last two seasons)This is kinda like the Homer Simpson and the Connors situation too
A Nuclear Safety Inspector is NOT a minimum wage job. Homer should've been making anywhere from 70k-100k depending on factors. Still probably not enough to afford a 4 bedroom house + expenses, but that's probably why they're always broke.
Was something my family and I always noticed as well. Even today there are shows where I'm like "who is working, and paying for all of this?"
Most recently watched Euphoria and it was taking me out of the show a bit because I kept thinking "who is paying for any of this and why do none of these 17-18 yo kids have job?" Like Cassie and Lexi live in an amazing home and their mom is seen at home at all hours of the day drinking wine non stop and their dad left them and is a drug addict that has to steal fine China from them to pay for his next high. So what gives? I eventually get over it, but I always feel like the odd person out for noticing it.
This is kinda like the Homer Simpson and the Connors situation too
A Nuclear Safety Inspector is NOT a minimum wage job. Homer should've been making anywhere from 70k-100k depending on factors. Still probably not enough to afford a 4 bedroom house + expenses, but that's probably why they're always broke.
Burns skimped everywhere though, and Homer only had a high school diploma. The safety inspector position was only created for Homer as a way for Burns to get him off his back when Homer became an activist after getting fired.A Nuclear Safety Inspector is NOT a minimum wage job. Homer should've been making anywhere from 70k-100k depending on factors. Still probably not enough to afford a 4 bedroom house + expenses, but that's probably why they're always broke.
This is kinda like the Homer Simpson and the Connors situation too
That should be enough, assuming Springfield ain't California.
I make the low end of that range and can afford a 5/3 for a family of six (paycheck to paycheck mind you)
This sideplot in this episode was like a dream scenario for me as a kid. You, by some technicality, are endowed with a giant piece of real estate that you and a friend can fuck around in.
Just did the math and before taxes, Homer makes $24,523.20 a year. It is literally impossible for him to afford a house + utilities + groceries + other expenses with that, but I guess we're not supposed to question it...
As a kid the weirdest one of these to me was Kramer. How the fuck was he able to afford an apartment in NY?
This sideplot in this episode was like a dream scenario for me as a kid. You, by some technicality, are endowed with a giant piece of real estate that you and a friend can fuck around in.
It's also an example of the layered joke-telling that made classic Simpsons so good. It doesn't matter that the factory is rundown and Bart acquired it for nothing and Frank Grimes doesn't knowit, it just adds to Grimes' disillusionment with the situation he's in
There's also the meta joke about Homer going to space that flirts with the idea that they've passed the point where they ran out of grounded stories to tell in the show