• bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    > live in a big house

    > three teenage boys crammed into one small bedroom

    Nah I think they were definitely struggling a bit.

    • BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee
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      6 months ago

      There’s a few episodes that actively showed gow much they struggle. Like one of their biggest vacations is going to a waterpark in a car that has the heater on full blast so it doesn’t cook the engine. They only eat super cheap food and mystery meat. They lived in a camper because they could barely afford to get termites removed. Hal has no money to go to a dentist. As soon as hal lost his job they are cooked. They lived paycheck to absolute paycheck. They never pay all their bills. I would say they struggled a lot. They struggled more than al bundy.

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    6 months ago

    A lot of those shows have aged pretty badly in terms of what “struggling” looks like. The idea of a boring office job being some awful fate is also kinda dated.

    At least shows like the Simpsons were self aware about this.

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      6 months ago

      A boring office job is an awful fate, we should bring that perception back!

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        6 months ago

        There’s a fair few people who would straight up murder someone for a boring, stable office job.

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        1 month ago

        For you. I miss it, it was calm, the schedule was never a surprise and I never had to do 4 other people’s jobs because half the building calls off every other day. There’s far worse than office jobs, and it’s called retail.

  • Delphia@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Anon is such a sperglord that they dont understand that all experiences are subjective. Also that its a prime time sitcom.

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      6 months ago

      Also that its a prime time sitcom

      you say that as if it were a good thing?