it’s such an old trope that we’ve had shows subverting it for like 40+ years now, stuff like the simpsons, married with children, malcolm in the middle
Add the “Home Alone” movies and popular sitcom “Friends” to the list, the latter was even featured or mentioned in a video I saw on YouTube once on this exact subject. I remember watching these shows and others mentioned in this topic when younger while being raised in a single-parent apartment with a barely functional beater car, wondering when our telephone or electric service would be cut off next from overdue bills, or when we’d have to call the local food bank for emergency supplies again.
And a lot of those shows subverting the trope have themselves ended up depicting an impossible standard of living for your average person in the US since they first aired, because of how much worse things have gotten.
it’s such an old trope that we’ve had shows subverting it for like 40+ years now, stuff like the simpsons, married with children, malcolm in the middle
Add the “Home Alone” movies and popular sitcom “Friends” to the list, the latter was even featured or mentioned in a video I saw on YouTube once on this exact subject. I remember watching these shows and others mentioned in this topic when younger while being raised in a single-parent apartment with a barely functional beater car, wondering when our telephone or electric service would be cut off next from overdue bills, or when we’d have to call the local food bank for emergency supplies again.
And a lot of those shows subverting the trope have themselves ended up depicting an impossible standard of living for your average person in the US since they first aired, because of how much worse things have gotten.
Grimes seeing Homer’s house