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Little House on the Prairie was a very unrealistic portrayal of 19th century homesteading. Everything looked way too clean, and they all had nice teeth.

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08-21-2016 , 10:04 PM

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sirswish6

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08-22-2016 , 09:11 AM

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TrollyWantACracker

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Ironically, I felt that the Jefferson's Apartment was a little unrealistic as well. I'm supposed to believe that their ship came in and they bought some one bedroom place in Yorkville? I mean, it was a fraction the size of Archie Bunkers house. Why didn't they move to Jamaica Estates or something? I feel like TV writers don't know anything about small business success stories.

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08-22-2016 , 01:28 PM

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Dominic

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No way those hillbillys didn't have help decorating that Beverly hills mansion.

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08-23-2016 , 05:02 AM

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Gaddy

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I nominate the New Girl pad. I know that apartment building in the arts district of DTLA, and there are no units with that amazing interior and those bathrooms.

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08-23-2016 , 11:08 AM

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MarsMuzak

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Originally Posted by TrollyWantACracker

Deluxe apartment in the sky tho.

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08-23-2016 , 11:11 AM

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MarsMuzak

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Originally Posted by nunnehi

Please tell us what shows, and what your capacity was. I think you know very well that I mean the creating type writers (the ones who actually define the direction of the show at inception), not the staff writers, and again, the key word is most of those. Was the head of the writing staff you were on struggling to make rent?

Have you seriously not read Dom's AMA about working in the porn business? I thought that was on the syllabus as a prerequisite to creating a 2+2 account.

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08-27-2016 , 04:14 AM

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markksman

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I wonder what is more expensive, land or building a second story on a house.

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08-27-2016 , 04:16 AM

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markksman

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Originally Posted by nunnehi

Neither of those are any of your business. lol@acting like a 2 story house wasn't a big deal (probably 85 percent of the houses where I grew up were 1 story). On Good Times, the parents both had minimum wage jobs, three kids, and they lived in a tiny two bedroom apartment in a terrible neighborhood....bum bum bum...in Chicago. I lived in my first house at age 31, and my house now is 3 stories!

I lived in Fort Worth, Texas, and was a teenager when Married...with Children started. It was by far the closest thing to reality I had ever experienced on my TV, and the house was laughable even then. You always have to suspend disbelief on TV, but your statement alone there shows how out of touch you are when it comes to money and what most people on their incomes would be able to afford. Again, it's a rich person's take on what poor people or working class people were like. They were not that and never were, so they had to make something up that "seemed" right to them. I'm sure there have been thousands of TV shows that have resonated with your nice existence you grew up in, since you think that having a 2 story house back then wasn't abnormal for people making small amounts of money.

A two story house in Fort Worth in the eighties in a working class neighborhood was not expensive, at all.

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08-29-2016 , 06:27 AM

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kioshk

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Keebler cookie elves, no ****ing way they're all living in that big shoe.

oh, I meant tree. They live in their factory in that hollow tree.

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08-29-2016 , 11:50 AM

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electricladylnd

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I wonder what is more expensive, land or building a second story on a house.

It depends on location, if you are in a nice area, you build the 2nd story, if you are in a cookie cutter housing area, you sell your house and buy a 2 story around the block.

No way Keebler Elves will find a hollow tree that is alive, there just aren't any, and they don't have the cash for one if they find it.