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I’m not sure basing an argument on houses in television shows is useful.

• pierat 3y ago
  It's not an argument on houses in TV - it's showing that it was normalized enough that popular culture considered this normal. But whatever. Shits fucked, and you're arguing over what I said was a depiction of the time? Of course it was a TV show. It was also believable in those days, even for lower class people. What's worse is now, we look at them and we can't even see us owning a house, like a lousy shoe salesman could. Seriously - can you imagine ANYONE surviving in a house or even an apartment on retail? That used to be true. No longer.
  • pandaman 3y ago
    A lot of sitcoms were shot in front of studio audience so they used sets that were much bigger than the dwellings appropriate to the characters level of income and location. It's been noticed as early as 1953 in Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. With time it became a trope and even the sitcoms w/o audience had these giant sets. Simpsons is heavily based off sitcoms.