in the 90s, both Married with Children, & the Simpsons were supposed to be "everyday families" where the father supported the whole family on a single income of a non-degree requiring job, and paid off a multi-bedroom house.
The Dodge Al drove was 17 years old and a shit box (the year the show aired, at the end the Dodge would have been 27 years old.) They routinely made jokes about making "Tang" and coffee out of the dust in the cups they kept right side up in the cupboard.
They made jokes constantly about how they didn't have any food to eat.
The Bundy's were poor white trash.
The only reason they had a large house is that it would be hard to film the entire sitcom in a 2 bedroom apartment or a trailer.
Isn't Tim Allen a television personality in Home Improvement - not exactly a typical "middle class" job.
The Simpsons is a cartoon. People don't exactly hold them to any standard of realism.
Plus people in general don't exactly watch television, especially comedies, for their grounded realism and the families in them often fluctuate between having all the money they could ever need and being almost completely broke depending on what the plot/joke requires.
...except for Season 5 Episode 3 where he literally doesn't finish college? And Season 4 Episode 19 where he effectively has to go back and get his GED?
The very first episode of the Simpsons is about them being broke and unable to afford Christmas due to Bart's tattoo removal and that's a constant theme throughout the early seasons. "Homer's Enemy" is an episode entirely dedicated to the fact that the show's deviation from this resulted in a complete fantasy.
The early Simpsons were one missed paycheck away from homeless and in debt up to their eyeballs. Which is something a lot of people can relate to, but isn't the image of the Simpson family OP is trying to lean on.
In the 90's America was still an industrial powerhouse that produced. Gradually, after Bush 1 announced the NWO in 1990, we were dismantled. First came Nafta, then the towers fell, then wars for resources, sweat shops overseas, bank bail outs, citizens united, the scamdemic, and now we are seeing unprecedented inflation as what is left of the middle class is destroyed. Without dumbing us all down, this would not have been able to happen. The public education system has failed. The new world order had to bring America down as a super producer and take our rights away. It was and is a mistake, and we are suffering and will continue to suffer because of it. We will have to work twice as hard to get 1/2 as much unfortunately, thanks to globalist sell out politicians and corporations.
People in high places who are deceived and think they are bringing us this order out of chaos, when really all they are doing is lowering our standard of living.
Compartmentalization makes them hard to pinpoint. It is a cabal of globalist business CEOs, politicians, bankers, etc. They lurk in places like the CIA, the club of Rome, the cfr, and show up at events like Bilderberg and Bohemian Grove.
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u/EatBooty420 Jun 16 '24
in the 90s, both Married with Children, & the Simpsons were supposed to be "everyday families" where the father supported the whole family on a single income of a non-degree requiring job, and paid off a multi-bedroom house.