Comment on How Frasier Is So Rich As A Radio Therapist Finally Explained By Original Show Writer

Neato@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Idreamofcheesy@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Meanwhile, Always Sunny does it right by having people try to scam unemployment and accidentally getting addicted to crack in the process.

  Ok maybe not meanwhile, but man that show is great.

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  • spiritedpause@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The real reason for their struggles in always sunny is because “who are they going to vote for to fix things? The democrat who’s going to blast them in the ass? Or the republican who’s going to blast them in the ass? Either way, politics is all one big ass blasting.”

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  • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sunny has Frank as an explanation for why they can all afford apartments and crazy schemes, he’s worth at least 100 million or so and pays all their bills, they scam just for fun.

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  • Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sunny does the same as the rest, they’re poor when they need them to be and ríg when they need them to be. The bar is dead but supports 4 people’s entire lives? It wouldn’t even cover the gas for Dennis car.

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    • Idreamofcheesy@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ah the empty bar is a vessel for story telling. It’s also packed when they need it to be. We couldn’t hear them scheming if it was busy all the time.

      Plus they have all that dick-towel money.

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• kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I mean friends did a couple narratives about the Joey losing his insurance, and Joey, Rachel and Phoebe not being able to afford the nice things meals and other things their other friends enjoyed. But yeah, none were actually struggling to eat, none were under threat of being evicted from their nice apartments, and none were unable to wear nice clothes or get coffees at their Cafe regularly.

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  • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I remember they mention that Monica’s apartment is rent controlled and she got it from her grandma, so the rent was probably super low. Same with Joey and Chandler

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• at_an_angle@lemmy.one ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Roseanne.

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  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The video “Rosanne of the Conners” underlines how much of that show was radical working-class perspective on the sitcom formula.

    Then again it also highlights how Rosanne herself was kind of a nightmare to work for. That makes the heel-turn amidst the reboot less of a shock.

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• eutsgueden@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I wouldn’t say people don’t want to watch that, just that that’s not what these shows were about. Other successful shows deal with that very topic.

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• sploosh@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Roz borrowed money from Frasier when they were off the air and Bulldog was a pizza delivery guy after he got canned.

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  • crashoverride@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s all for storyline purposes though. Might make good tv, but they don’t really depict real struggles

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• mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  … and the niceness of television homes is more about ease of filming than plausibility. Seinfeld did a decent job compressing the soundstage so it looked cramped from most angles. Friends… not so much. Where the hell do you find a sunken living room in an apartment?

  Meanwhile the downstairs in Fresh Prince was probably no larger than the Central Perk set, but it’s given angled walls that imply enormous rooms centered on the cameras. And a fancy staircase leading offscreen. And giant windows onto a hand-waved lawn. Everything is wide and open in a way the camera shows, as opposed to TV apartments, which give actors room to move but look cluttered and tight.

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• mannycalavera@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Bottom

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• crashoverride@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, sitcom families seem to be upper middle class, lower upper class or just straight out rich. Never ever depicting a poor family or regular folk.

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  • chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Married With Children was pretty close to that, though they were able to own a house and the Dodge with two kids on a single mall employee income and the grandeur of four touchdowns in a single game.

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  • bill_buttlicker@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Malcolm in the middle family was pretty darn poor. But I still agree, that’s almost never the case.

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• chahk@beehaw.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Shameless

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