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grounded for life (i loved this show)

― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 23:04 (seventeen years ago) link

there have been tons of US sitcoms about poor/non upperclass folks! Gimme a fucking break

and loads of brit ones about the upper middle class (Good life, EDC, Butteflies) and the wealthy (Yes Minister, To the manor born). this thread is ridiculous.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 01:02 (seventeen years ago) link

grounded for life was good (hot daughter;). i've only seen one episode of my name is earl but it was funny as fuck

― Q('.'Q) (eman), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 01:34 (seventeen years ago) link

there have been tons of US sitcoms about poor/non upperclass folks! Gimme a fucking break

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cb/Gimmeabreak.jpg

― Q('.'Q) (eman), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 01:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Dad, uncle and hot daughter saved Grounded For Life. Mom, Grandpa, other kids = zzzzzzzz

― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 01:36 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.tvoneonline.com/shows/images/main/hdr_227.jpg

― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 01:38 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.televisionhits.com/mamasfamily/pics/logocbs.jpg

― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 01:41 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.tvoneonline.com/shows/images/main/hdr_good_times.jpg

― Q('.'Q) (eman), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 01:47 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't remember a lot of rich people on Night Court either.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 06:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I only saw a handful of eps of Good Times but for some reason it as that family that I always thought of whenever I heard that Paul Young song 'Love of the Common People'.

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 06:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, i was gunna ask, where does Night Court or My Two Dads fit into all this?

― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 06:12 (seventeen years ago) link

btw, I was wrong about Earl using his lottery money, he's trying to right his wrong karma so that his money may come to him like it would have done had he not been such a bastard in his past. He's very much the lovable loser making the best of a bad situation.

Answer, btw, to "where does...fit into this?" is "it doesn't". Doglatin is pretty much talking pish from a fairly uninformed standpoint.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 06:23 (seventeen years ago) link

no, no, i'm pretty certain you can find a hell for certain seasons of Night Court

― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 06:29 (seventeen years ago) link

No, he does have the money. What happened was, he got the winning ticket, then he got hit by the car and lost the ticket. Then, while he was in hospital, he saw Carson Daly on the telly talking about karma, so he made his list, and when he fixed the very first thing on his list (I forget what it was), he found the ticket and collected the money. And now he's using the money to fix all the bad things he did because if he doesn't, karma will take the money away from him again.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 07:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, I was right the first time. Yay me (I wasn't really paying attention in the first episode). I sort of assumed he had the money and that's how him and Randy could afford to go and do all the other stuff from there on in, but it's not really been mentioned again that I've noticed.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 07:59 (seventeen years ago) link

It was mentioned a fair bit in the first few episodes, mainly because Joy (who is my favourite character in it) kept trying to figure out ways to get the money off him. But now even she's in on the karma thing.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 08:01 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't remember a lot of rich people on Night Court either.

also Cheers.

― Q('.'Q) (eman), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 11:20 (seventeen years ago) link

what about nigel colcord and all rebecca's other failed romances with yuppies; frasier & lilith; woody's girlfriend; diane and her family?

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 11:49 (seventeen years ago) link

i meant robin colcord of course

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 11:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Night Court were upper-middle class, weren't they? At least the two main lawyers (I think my first sexual feelings might have been Marky/ie/whatever Post-directed) and the judge had to be reasonably well-off.

― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Lawyers working in the district attorney's office and public defenders actually don't make a lot of money at all.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 18:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Also: Bull, Marsha Warfield's character and the other female bailiffs, Art the janitor(bruno kirby), John Astin as the judge's slighty cracked father

― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 18:43 (seventeen years ago) link

I know PDs and low-level DAs aren't raking it in, but I'm just thinking relative to Roseanne or Mama's Family or Good Times, the three big characters in Night Court were relatively high up the socioeconomic chain.

― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 18:46 (seventeen years ago) link

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