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Posted: 3/19/2018 5:47:16 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Magnum was basically a freeloading ass-kisser working as the owner’s ‘security consultant’. He didn’t own anything. Which is why Higgins (the caretaker) hated him. |
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Posted: 3/19/2018 5:54:18 PM EST
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You see all those big law-firm lawyer TV shows, where at the end just before the credits roll they all leave the office and it's like 10pm at night?
Yeah, that's EXACTLY how it is. |
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Posted: 3/19/2018 6:04:10 PM EST
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Either Al Bundy lived way over their means or Marcy lives in a dump |
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Posted: 3/19/2018 6:06:27 PM EST
[#4]
Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
The three main characters never did anything useful, yet still had a house in Jersey. Additionally their neighbor, who only works 20 hours per week at a child's playland (IIRC), not only has a house, but a pool and a car, and has enough money to pay for alcohol, strip clubs, insurance, and even a laser home security system at one point. |
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Posted: 3/19/2018 6:31:33 PM EST
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The Adams Family. No one did shit. The Munsters. Creepy house but big as fuck Victorian worth a couple mil. Sonny Crockett live on govt seizures but Nash Bridges lived pretty good on a cops pay. Munsters came from old money. Didn't grandpa have money? |
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Posted: 3/19/2018 6:39:24 PM EST
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This. He lived in a big, two story house in a good neighborhood on a single income with two teenagers. No way. 
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Posted: 3/19/2018 7:01:14 PM EST
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force. The three main characters never did anything useful, yet still had a house in Jersey. Additionally their neighbor, who only works 20 hours per week at a child's playland (IIRC), not only has a house, but a pool and a car, and has enough money to pay for alcohol, strip clubs, insurance, and even a laser home security system at one point. |
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Posted: 3/19/2018 7:12:59 PM EST
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The Nanny. Broadway producer has a mansion in Manhattan, full time personal staff, 3 kids in private school.
Actual Broadway producers apartment 
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Posted: 3/19/2018 7:14:34 PM EST
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Can't believe no one said Family Matters yet. Chicago cop with a big ass house and all those kids.
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Posted: 3/19/2018 7:17:03 PM EST
[#10]
 Quote HistoryQuoted: The plot holes in aqua teen hunger force always pulled me out of it :/ |
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Posted: 3/19/2018 7:22:18 PM EST
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Jerry Seinfeld J- |
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Posted: 3/19/2018 7:55:48 PM EST
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Magnum PI. Tommy was private dick who had free run of an oceanside estate and a company car. I know he was kind of security and manservant for the owner but, those are some sharp digs for a man with that job title. |
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Posted: 3/19/2018 8:52:50 PM EST
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Ah damn I forgot about that one, too. And Rita's decent ranch house afforded on a hotel clerk's pay. LOL none of the Dexter houses were affordable. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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His sister had a house on the beach 100 yards from the ocean. And Rita's decent ranch house afforded on a hotel clerk's pay. LOL none of the Dexter houses were affordable. |
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Posted: 3/19/2018 8:54:21 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Still, a 2-story house. Supporting two children and an unemployed wife. All on a shoe salesman job. |
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Posted: 3/20/2018 8:19:53 AM EST
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Hogan's Heros.
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Posted: 3/20/2018 10:51:46 AM EST
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Gus Fring
You'd think someone who owned 14 restaurant locations and a big laundry facility would live in a nicer house and not drive a '98 Volvo. Sure he did it for anonymity, but a 10 year old Volvo!? 
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Posted: 3/20/2018 11:01:16 AM EST
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What? I thought it was a documentry! http://sadmoment.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Al-Bundy-Meme-Advice-On-Understanding-Women.jpg Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Al Bundy. http://sadmoment.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Al-Bundy-Meme-Advice-On-Understanding-Women.jpg |
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Posted: 3/20/2018 11:03:25 AM EST
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 The guy who employed a proper English butler worked as a sports reporter at the local newspaper. |
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Posted: 3/20/2018 11:03:43 AM EST
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Gus Fring You'd think someone who owned 14 restaurant locations and a big laundry facility would live in a nicer house and not drive a '98 Volvo. Sure he did it for anonymity, but a 10 year old Volvo!? |
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Posted: 3/20/2018 11:08:39 AM EST
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Gus Fring You'd think someone who owned 14 restaurant locations and a big laundry facility would live in a nicer house and not drive a '98 Volvo. Sure he did it for anonymity, but a 10 year old Volvo!? A man provides for his family. The car, like Gus, was very utilitarian and performed the needed task without extra flare. Makes perfect sense. He had a nice house though. |
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Posted: 3/20/2018 11:11:15 AM EST
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Firefly: A space captain makes a profit from shipping a small herd of cows between planets, in his privately owned spacecraft, while retaining a hired crew of freelancers (i.e. pirates) comprised largely of good looking women...  |
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Posted: 3/20/2018 11:27:49 AM EST
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The Adams Family. No one did shit. The Munsters. Creepy house but big as fuck Victorian worth a couple mil. Sonny Crockett live on govt seizures but Nash Bridges lived pretty good on a cops pay. |
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Posted: 3/20/2018 11:30:26 AM EST
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Gilligan's Island Why were the Howell's going on some three hour tour on a crappy little boat which attracts the likes of a college professor and a farm girl? They should have their own mega yacht that they could live on and sail around the world. One thing you have to learn early in life is to not worry about how people can afford the things you can't. You never know where people get their money. Lot's of people have family money or trust funds and never mention it. TV shows and movies always show people living way above what their jobs suggest they could afford. You just have to assume they have a trust fund and move on with it. I hated the show "Rosanne" - but I always respected that they had the most realistic house I've seen on a sitcom. The laundry stacked on the stairs is probably how most people live when company isn't coming over. |
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Posted: 3/20/2018 11:34:41 AM EST
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https://spontany.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/mr-belvedere-secrets-revealed-and-what-happened-to-cast_featured.jpg The guy who employed a proper English butler worked as a sports reporter at the local newspaper. |
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Posted: 3/20/2018 12:47:00 PM EST
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Magnum PI. Tommy was private dick who had free run of an oceanside estate and a company car. I know he was kind of security and manservant for the owner but, those are some sharp digs for a man with that job title. |
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Posted: 3/20/2018 12:50:42 PM EST
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Gus Fring You'd think someone who owned 14 restaurant locations and a big laundry facility would live in a nicer house and not drive a '98 Volvo. Sure he did it for anonymity, but a 10 year old Volvo!? |
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Posted: 3/20/2018 12:52:43 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Sister's house was the scene of a gruesome murder, actual found the place while investigating the murder. 
Still would be a 7 figure home |
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Posted: 3/20/2018 1:02:51 PM EST
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Roseanne was pretty legit almost to the point of overdoing it. Ever see the episode where the Connors were just scraping by and a minor crisis threatens to put them over the edge? Dan was what a dry waller, motorcycle shop owner, bus mechanic. Roseanne did a bunch of waitressing, plastic factory work or nothing until she opened up a diner.
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Posted: 3/20/2018 1:04:44 PM EST
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His house was pretty nice Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Gus Fring You'd think someone who owned 14 restaurant locations and a big laundry facility would live in a nicer house and not drive a '98 Volvo. Sure he did it for anonymity, but a 10 year old Volvo!? |
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Posted: 3/20/2018 1:04:46 PM EST
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Not a show... but the one that jumped out at me the most was that peloton commercial with the lady that lives in what looks like a $10m+ house in Cali and her ~30yo husband loafing around late in the morning.
Not really so much a discrepancy between career and lifestyle but of their potential target customers and and the lifestyle circumstances portrayed in the commercial.. I literally said "what the fuck does that guy do for work, and how do I get in to it?!?" the first time I saw it. |
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Posted: 3/20/2018 1:14:47 PM EST
[#31]
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Gilligan's Island Why were the Howell's going on some three hour tour on a crappy little boat which attracts the likes of a college professor and a farm girl? They should have their own mega yacht that they could live on and sail around the world. |
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Posted: 3/20/2018 1:18:42 PM EST
[#32]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Mike cashed in his life insurance policy on his first wife as did Carole on her first husband. The deaded them together to collect the life insurance money. |
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Posted: 3/20/2018 1:24:34 PM EST
[#33]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Still, a 2-story house. Supporting two children and an unemployed wife. All on a shoe salesman job. Nope, didn’t happen. |
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Posted: 3/20/2018 1:26:00 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: But California. And I'm sure a Cheesecake Factory waitress makes more than a physics nerd. |
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Posted: 3/20/2018 1:28:23 PM EST
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Carol's first husband wasn't murdered. He was a college professor that disappeared at sea on a 3 hour tour. Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted: Mike cashed in his life insurance policy on his first wife as did Carole on her first husband. The deaded them together to collect the life insurance money. 
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Posted: 3/20/2018 1:28:40 PM EST
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Probably bought it used and he seems handy enough to do his own maintenance. Plenty of older teens have used cars they've scraped up money to buy. At one point, I think when Peter crashed a helicopter in his backyard, Joe yelled out asking him how he affords these things. |
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Posted: 3/20/2018 1:29:59 PM EST
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Carol's first husband wasn't murdered. He was a college professor that disappeared at sea on a 3 hour tour. Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted: Mike cashed in his life insurance policy on his first wife as did Carole on her first husband. The deaded them together to collect the life insurance money. |
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Posted: 3/20/2018 1:31:56 PM EST
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I always thought the Brady Bunch kind of made sense. Mike was obviously higher up in the firm, always working on big projects, major contracts across the country, government work, not drafting three bedroom houses and working up additions. They drove sensible cars, the house was nice and big, but each kid din't have their own rooms, Greg had to fix up the attic to get his own. I don't really know how much Alice set them back, but she got room and board so maybe not a whole lot. An older spinster would probably be a bargain in fact. |
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Posted: 3/20/2018 1:35:14 PM EST
[#39]
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Any reality TV show. "Yeah, we work part-time in a tourist trap but live right on the beach and have plenty of fun money." “I’m a stay at home mom and my husband sells seashell art he makes on the beach. Our budget is $800,000.” Then they always buy the house that was over budget by $100,000. lol |
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Posted: 3/20/2018 1:37:03 PM EST
[#40]
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Full House |
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Posted: 3/20/2018 1:44:16 PM EST
[#41]
Petticoat Junction
A big Victorian hotel occupied by two old folks, one that spent his time rocked back in a chair on the porch, three old maids (.)(.), a dog, and an occasional customer. 
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Posted: 3/20/2018 1:45:14 PM EST
[#42]
Quote HistoryQuoted: The plot holes in aqua teen hunger force always pulled me out of it :/ It was a ridiculous show that was meant to be ridiculous. |
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Posted: 3/20/2018 1:57:15 PM EST
[#43]
Quote HistoryQuoted: It's been a while since I saw the series. I just remember thinking it was a little better than Walt's place and didn't have that awful wood paneling. IDK, I've worked around people that net $500k-$10 mil a year and they/their families don't drive 10+ year old vehicles. Just from a utilitarian standpoint, the safety updates alone make it worth it. Doesn't have to be extravagant either. I'm sure a 2008 Camry would be safer than most cars from the 90s. |
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Posted: 3/20/2018 2:14:38 PM EST
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Bosch
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Posted: 3/20/2018 2:32:40 PM EST
[#45]
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Bosch |
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Posted: 3/20/2018 2:37:01 PM EST
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Monica's apartment on Friends was her grandmother's, and was rent-controlled.
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Posted: 3/20/2018 3:02:13 PM EST
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Peg secretly sold Avon. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Al Bundy. All on a shoe salesman job. |
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Posted: 3/20/2018 3:06:52 PM EST
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Magnum, P.I. He had a mansion in Hawaii and a Ferrari, and an English butler. He just bee-bopped around town solving crimes as a PI. If Magnum was really super rich, why would he even need to work?
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Posted: 3/20/2018 3:09:59 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: House hunters. "I'm a stay at home mom and my husband sells seashell art he makes on the beach. Our budget is $800,000." Then they always buy the house that was over budget by $100,000. lol 
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Posted: 3/20/2018 3:12:28 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
Magnum, P.I. He had a mansion in Hawaii and a Ferrari, and an English butler. He just bee-bopped around town solving crimes as a PI. If Magnum was really super rich, why would he even need to work? 
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