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CHAPTERS
00:00 Unrealistic personal finance is everywhere on screen
00:41 Gigantic tv apartments
03:19 Fun but financially unrealistic lifestyles
05:21 Credit card culture (& character's magically disappearing debt...)
07:58 The surprising way bad on screen finance can affect us in real life
11:02 Continuing to enjoy the fantasy (without putting ourselves down)
CREDITS
Executive Producers: Debra Minoff & Susannah McCullough
Chief Creative Director: Susannah McCullough
Associate Producer: Jessica Babineaux
Writer: Cassondra Feltus
Narrator: Jessica Babineaux
Video Editor: Daniel Wolff
Views : 274,767
Genre: Entertainment
Date of upload: Jan 13, 2024 ^^
Rating : 4.915 (125/5,785 LTDR)
RYD date created : 2024-05-13T00:32:22.032278Z
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Also how the group of friends just conveniently have all the time to always meet up with each other and they all have the same work schedule apparently 😂
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Malcolm in the Middle showed a lower class family and their struggles. Mom and Dad had jobs they hate, but did it for the family.
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To me, the most egregious thing about Emily in Paris is her wardrobe. She's a marketing assistant from Chicago who arrives wearing a plaid button-down and then starts wearing Chanel. And not just handbags. She has about half a million dollars worth of Chanel clothes in Season one alone and never rewears any of her clothes.
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Friends also have this episode in which they discuss the friction between friends who have very different budgets and how hard it is to hang out together as they can afford very different experiences (The One with Five Steaks and an Eggplant)
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That's where I actually liked Devil Wears Prada. She has an excuse for the clothes, she's raiding her company closet, and she gets all the gifts for her friends because they're throwaways from the boss. I've worked under pretty wealthy bosses a couple of times and experienced something similar haha.
Not sure about her living situation, but it feeels feasible.
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The Gilmore Girls example can also be used to depict unrealistic eating habits in movies in TV. How many times can slender characters eat junk food without gaining weight?
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I also wondered how Penny from Big Bang Theory could afford her apartment on her own
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I feel like ‘Sex and the City’ was definitely like an 8 ball for shopaholics.
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There is a reason the show Roseanne was so popular back in the 90's ( interesting you didn't choose to discuss that) because they discussed real life struggle. Meals on a budge, do they pay the electricity bill or water. The kids wants something, but they can't afford it. Becky has no college fund. Dan attempted to start a business- failed. The first season is Roseanne working at a factory and eventually leaving after being harassed by her boss. There is SO MUCH more. I won't get into season 9 (the fever dream), but in general, Roseanne was a fairly accurate depiction of lower-middle class life.
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1. Romantic interests are always wealthy
2. They don’t mind spending a month’s worth of rent on riding taxi cabs all over New York
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I love Bob's Bugers because it's the only animated adult sitcom that actually talks about their financial issues.
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A bit harsh on HIMYM, when Lily got all that debt Marshall had to leave the job he wanted, being an environmental lawyer, and work at the evil corporation with Barney, which clearly depressed the hell out of him. He stays there for quite a while too, it isn't like they just forget that in a couple of episodes.
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Chandler has a successful high paying job. Monica inherited the whole thing. Phoebe lived in her granma flat. It's a mixture of luck and rich parents.
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Every woman you see on tv wants to break into fashion or acting or something and the jobs 99,9% of people in cities actually do are portrayed as a misery and looked down on as boring or giving up on your dreams. That always annoys me.
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Having lived in Paris as a student in 15m² I had a really good laugh when watching Emily in Paris - and not just for the financial part but also the overall glamour of the city (it barely exists), her means of transportation, the lack of strikes... BUT it's supposed to be a comical and feel good show, I don't expect to depict the real Paris - way too stressfull, depressing and hard to market.
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Let’s not forget how Gilmore Girls is a story of generational wealth. Lorelai doesn’t want to ask her wealthy parents for tuition but she is able to and does to send her daughter to private schools. Most people are not in a position to do that.
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2 Broke Girls is probably the closest to reality but even they had many moments where they just got lucky.
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I think one of the things missing in these shows is depicting characters applying for social services like food stamps, public housing, housing vouchers, Medicaid, or emergency rental assistance. Very often working young people are either on or trying to get on some form of welfare together by. I have needed these services when I was working, but didn’t have enough to survive. And because needing that kind of assistance is seen as shameful, no one ever talks about how horrible these programs are administered. They’re designed to keep poor people from getting help, and that too needs to change.
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The "how did Monica afford that apartment" questions bug me so much. They say in the pilot it's an illegal sublet. It's technically her grandmother's place
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Movies & TV shows also seem have a lot of weird ideas about a number of careers. Check out our video unpacking the most unrealistic things about portrayals of work on screen! Click to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pxt6byFciY
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