why is it impossible for a sitcom to portray every character in a realistic living situation?
why is it impossible for a sitcom to portray every character in a realistic living situation?
why is it impossible for a sitcom to portray every character in a realistic living situation?
Dude I make $88k in bumfrick nowhere as a Procurement Analyst. How the FRICK could someone only pull down $81k as a LAWYER in LA???
Shitty charts with zero effort put into it. Prices were completely different when Seinfeld started. They didn't even try to find out what NYC cops make, just made a lazy guess, $60,000 for a NYPD detective?
there's an episode in seinfeld where george is pretending to look for an apartment to show off to his new girlfriend and he tells her the price is something like $2400 (a month)
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there's no fricking way Phil only makes $50k a year selling giant McMansions in whatever part of California Modern Family takes place in
poor people don't exist in american media
even the house in shameless looks too expensive for the average amerimutt
If that is in a shitty midwest town, which it looks like, it's probably like $200k
am i going crazy? has anybody else realised this?
literally every single sitcom has multiple characters who live well beyond their means somehow
is this some sort of conspiracy to trick people into moving into cities???
more money=more potential scenarios
it isn't that hard to understand
then why don't they make every character rich instead of having two """""""""broke""""""""" girls living in a massive 100m2 apartment
"""""""""broke""""""""" people are more relatable to the working class, IE 80% of the people watching the show
then why are they living in a million dollar apartment?
I already told you
>more money=more potential scenarios
Also do you think people want to see the shitty crack den tier apartments people actually live in in NY?
the entire show is about them being """""""poor""""""" and working shitty jobs
how does a huge apartment change that?
>Also do you think people want to see the shitty crack den tier apartments people actually live in in NY?
now this is the true answer; americans refuse to see how they really live
>huge apartment
>more rooms
>more junk
>variety
simple, but yes the depressing reality also plays an important aspect. They want romanticism of the working class.
they want it to be 'relatable' without being depressing
What is this trying to convey? I'm having a stroke trying to decipher this chart. I see people making 6 figures that are "burdened" which is insane if you think 6 figures isn't living the easy life.
>I see people making 6 figures that are "burdened" which is insane if you think 6 figures isn't living the easy life.
it's not, if you make 6 figures you need to live inside your means for an easy life, get an home that a responsable person that makes 50k would get, don't get the home of one that makes 7 figures. Just a simple example, if you make 10k a month, get a rent of 3k, don't get a rent of 7k, since you are as poor as the dude that makes 6k a month but has a 3k rent.
A lot of people when they have more money, spend more of them in basic needs
We call those people morons.
Protip: thanks to the fed fund rate being set artificially low you actually should buy as much home as you can afford before selling it at the top of the market. Apartments sure but you should essentially treat your home equity as a savings account.
Using the average income for these fictional characters is moronic. So many of these professions vary wildly based on proficiency, reputation or location
To be fair George became assistant travel agent for the yankees.
>no faiser crane
ONE FRICKING JOB
Why is one lawyer making $350k while the other is only making $110k
see
he owns the studio it seems
There's an episode where Jerry does one gig which allows him to buy a fully loaded Cadillac for his dad. He's definitely on way more than 75k.
He played himself as a b-list celebrity comedian that almost got a tv show and made regular appearances on Letterman. I wonder who his irl equivalent from that time would be.
is there ONE (1) single sitcom where the characters work average jobs and all live in realistic homes?
king of queens,but they live in queens
Simpsons
A three bedroom house supported by a nuclear safety inspector
Roseanne would be the obvious one.
King of the Hill
I swear George was probably making way more than $30k, even in mid-90s money. He was probably making something comparable to Elaine
Wasn't he like the Talent scout for the Yankees?