Post cartoons where characters have financial problems, even 1 episode counts. Spectacular Spiderman had a whole arc about this.
S1E35 MollyMcGee
I don't understand why drama writers don't do financial problems more often, that's how you do real drama. None of your "muuhhh boyyyfriend left me awwoo bohooo" financial problems are serious business and ripe for very easy to understand drama.
>Aang it's not the damn 1900s anymore when you could buy a whole turkey for just 1 dollar !!
The Bob's Burgers movie was a good instance of it. I went to watch it with a friend who was really gung ho about saying "they have insurance" when the riots went down, and seeing those characters go through real distress over basically their entire life getting uprooted if they couldn't pay the bank made her change her tune real quick.
Like a quarter of all episode plots in Bobs Burgers is Bob trying to pay the rent.
"They have insurance" is such a cop out; yes, because that totally negates the fact you have morons rioting
every third episode at least mentions they have tight finances, while multiple episodes were about their lack of funds
I thought bridgette was rich, or at least her family is LOADED
>I thought bridgette was rich
her parents are literally billionaires
but she was cut off on her 23rd birthday, forcing her to get a real job
later episodes imply she is a successful influencer though
rather than just coasting off of her parents money
Never understood how an influencer makes money other than through merch
sponsorships mostly
By becoming human toilets in Dubai.
>hey, check out this new product
>i will only point out that it's a paid sponsorship, by the bare minimum that the law legally requires
They come from money. Now prostrate and lick the feet of YOUR Royalty, peasant!
Heck, the intro sequence has them paying rent with coupons
Isn't their landlord like a semi-member of their friend group?
Probably why she's willing to accept coupons for rent
Boondocks in the latter seasons.
season 4, despite how vilified it is(and rightly so) had it's share of Good Times
Get ready to see these themes become more reocurring as times get worse and worse in the recession. And its going to be sugarcoated compared to what people will actually go through.
In hard financial times media tends to focus on better income lifestyles actually,people tend to turn more towards escapism.
This. My life is already full of financial struggles. Why do I want to see tv and movies touch on it? Everyone involved makes significantly more money than me.
Poor people don't deserve to have money. If they did, they wouldn't be poor.
Said the fat rich guy.
woah
her entire character is being a broke wagie
Sad. Hope she gets better.
Well she's a semi-successful business owner now, so yeah, probably better
yup
Too bad it was shit
I actually kinda liked season 4. It was fun to see the Boondocks move away from social commentary and more into pure humor.
>S1E35 MollyMcGee
What happened in it
The dad gets injured, forcing them to raise money to pay the hospital bill, but they then can't pay their mortgage and lose their house
>but they then can't pay their mortgage and lose their house
Did they play it off as a joke or seriously? I'll admit, that's definitely a little more sad than I would've imagined from TGAMM.
It was serious, the next episode they were basically homeless, trying to figure something out while scratch futilely tried to scare off any potential new owners but in the end all the townspeople Molly helped over the season pitch in to buy their house back
The ending of episode A was a discordant note, but episode B went half whimiscal, half dark with Molly trying to hide her being homeless from her friends with a song burst.
gumball. specifically the episode where they refuse to sell out to joyful burger until they're so broke their world literally falls apart
>those pictures of the spectacular aunt may getting an OF to pay her medical bills
THANK YOU OBAMA
Every other scene of the rugrats with the parents have them talking about being tight on money
They do live in California on an inventors salary and Stu isn't an Elon Musk. Maybe he can sell his soul to a tech company to save his family or keep letting DiDi keep covering the family with her teaching job?
>S1E35
Didn't know molly mcgee has been going on for this long.
>Car gets fricking destroyed in a hail storm
>Geico gave me a 50 minute "LOL sucks bro, here's 5000 bucks to SPECIFICALLY buy a new car"
I don't mind that, but I thought the point of insurance was to keep the car, y'know?
That's not how it works.
This is now a 'poverty-coded' characters thread, I'll start with the easy ones.
what's the deal with hospital bills? you go in there thinking you're going to die and when you get the bill you want to die?
depending on what the plot demands, the krusty krab is either one of the most popular restaurants in bikini bottom or barely scraping by
way more common in S1-2, before S3 kind of drilled it into your head that the krusty krab was mega-successful with the training video
but before you had gems like customers who havent eaten in 3 days turning down the krusty krab for lack of atmosphere
Quite a few episodes from Hungarian Folktales. The stories may be hundreds of years old, but this aspect is still mostly accurate to real life.
Holy shit, that's really brutal for any medium
I love Hunagrian Folk tales the narrator tells the crazies stuff with the same uninterested tone.Just whimsical enough to not sound completely disinterested.
That’s just a normal hospital bill*, aside from specifics. Hospitals will rake out over the coals if you let them.
*Applies to US residents only.
Episodes before the destruction of Gargantua-2 had Doc and the boys in a pretty bad financial state.