I feel this is is just too white. Too privileged. Watching this white patriarchy, every days life, living in privilege during the Regan 80s is just too much.
It’s flat out racist toward blacks and Asians. The show is just too republican despite being written by liberals.
can you elaborate?
It should have been a biracial family with a lesbian or gay thrown into the mix.
shareWell, it was about a white family.
The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air was about a black family.
Both were very popular shows, both ran for six or seven seasons, that’s pretty impressive for network sitcoms.
Not everything is about race, this race stuff is boring and most reasonable people know it’s all baloney ginned up to keep us all at each other’s throats for no well-intentioned reason.
Good post SoY.
shareTrue. And one was based in reality.
shareLook at his post history. It's bait.
shareHaving a white family is racist.
shareWTH? Who taught you to twist this to some kind of grievance?
This was a white middle class family in which the husband and wife displayed an equal partnership in their marriage. I believe they were self pronounced former hippies. The joke was their son was a Republican. What, the father worked for PBS? Their house wasn't too ostentatious, so a comfortable middle class.
Fresh Prince of Bel Air was more upper class due to obviously to where they lived.
And I think Cosby Show was upper middle, due to their professions, doctor and attorney, as well as the appearance of their residence.
Agreed. The OP has their liberal arts poli-sci degree on overdrive here. Working for PBS was not the path to being obscenely rich. I would bet that Elise's income helped place the Keaton's where they were economically.
sharebeing in a household where she was the breadwinner was probably what taught Alex to ultimately like strong women. This is 'normal' for him.
shareHard to say who the breadwinner actually was there but Steven's income by itself with three soon to be four kids probably would not allow for a middle class living. I'm thinking Steven made around 30,000 dollars per year and Elise very close to that. 60,000 dollars for the mid-1980's in a medium sized city such as Columbus, OH meant they could be comfortable and Mallory had a steady allowance for the mall.
shareProbably if there was ever a follow up to the series Elise most likely bypassed Steven in terms of income 10-20 years from the time of the last season.
shareDo you remember Elise's occupation?
shareArchitect. It's been forever since I have seen more than one episode at a time and maybe a half dozen episodes since the series ended but I think at the start she was a stay at home mom. Then her old firm contacted her about going back and that was coupled with Elise wanting a challenge in life versus wiping jennifer's nose every day. Somebody here will no doubt correct me if my memory is in error. Having Elise working just made sense as to affording their home and helped make FT more progressive for the wife versus The Brady Bunch and All In The Family. So many television households from a financial standpoint seemed like they needed magic to function.
shareUgh 🙄
sharePiss off, racist!
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