Rocko affords a two-story house working as a cashier at a comic book shop and he doesn't even have roommates or a spouse to split the mortgage with.
What are some other examples of comic & cartoon characters living unbelievable "ordinary lives." Not talking any superhero/supernatural stuff, just stuff like Rocko's life that is unbelievable. Realistically, Rocko should be living in a tiny apartment, living paycheck to paycheck.
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Stu, Didi, Tommy and Dil all live in a multi story McMansion out in suburban living off Drew's financial support, Didi's substitute teaching checks and whatever little money Stu gets from making extremely dangerous toys
He swipes Golden Age comics from the backroom and sells them to other comic shops.
Why, he was able to feed Heffer for a month on the cash he made from Action Comics #1!
Stu lives with his father, who's to say the house isn't his?
Lou's stories aren't exactly historically accurate
To be fair, Stu lives in a world where kids can get fully functioning time machines, I'm sure people love his dangerous toys.
In the 90s that wasn't as unrealistic as you'd think, houses were a lot cheaper even in relative terms and if you had decent savings and a good credit history banks would happily let you take a loan out to afford one. Nowadays houses are way more expensive and banks aren't so willing to give out loans for houses after that little subprime loan thing crashed the economy.
Rocko rents, my dude. At least one episode mentions his landlord.
I thought that was just filled with holograms? I only really remember that ep for the "Thorg hungry" line, so correct me if I'm wrong.
stu got multiple millionary deals through the series working for big companies like the reptar people.
give the man some credit, his problem is that he doesnt invest and money is not forever.
1. Rocko lives in the 90s, in a time of overly generous yet predatory home loans - the bank will happily give him a house he cant afford just to create the loan
2. Rocko can get away with owning a house like that, in a place like that, for only $1000 a month or less, so long as he afforded the down payment
People on the internet and especially Yea Forums like to presume home ownership is impossible for them, yet have never ever ever once looked into getting a house. Please do not be afraid to understand, you are a fully grown adult, and all of these services and option are available and made for you. Dont assume you cant get a job or a house just because you learned people were complaining about that back in 2006. It isnt true
This actually
Thorg got sent back to the Revolutionary War.
Rock was originally supposed to live with his sister and her kid (no dad) but the creator got rid of her so Rock could be more independent. I think she shows up for an episode, with this short term memory gimmick and then we never see her again.
Is this the teens and underacheiving young adults make bad guesses about investment opportunities they've never looked into thread?
oh yeah, you can get a home for
The actually unrealistic part of Rocko is that he emigrates from Australia to simply work as a cashier.
Did we ever get his motivation for leaving? He had family back there after all.
What makes you think so? There are jobs all over these areas, and if youre willing to commute a mere 45 minutes you have almost all the options in the world. I understand wariness but its really not all that pessimistic
He expatriated to escape his lifelong bully Dingo
>commute
Don't. Commuting is terrible.
Dont worry about me, I'm a homeowner who works and I'm doing great
Where did Rocko live?
O-Town, NT
Stu and Didi haved the most believable homes. You should be asking how Drew and Charlotte are able to afford their homes given that Drew bleeds so much money on insider trading.
>Charlotte
Wasn't that the whole point of her character as the bread winner? That she worked her ass off, meanwhile Jonathan took her shit and just waited until he could overthrow her from the company.
I thought it was Drew trying to pose as a high earner who got Charlotte fired. I kinda assumed that she would promote Johnathan under her own terms and retire, or work in another company.
Sometimes, I get the impression All Grown Up failed because it was too mature and adult for the audience.
This. When you realize your cool home costs two hours of total commute every day, so youre essentially putting over an extra shift of unpaid overtime on top of gas/mass transit costs.
Its a small house. Only 1 bed and bath.
They did an episode of Rocko trying to get to work on time without his car.
"Weve stopped the train due to police activity"
"Todays police activity is coloring easter eggs"
Thank God, imagine all the incest shipping there would have been otherwise.
Thought it was implied to be a weird(Bad) Neighborhood.
The Bigheads strike me as being middleclass, so I see their neighborhood as being middleclass suburbia
Being next to the Bigheads brought down the property value.
>promote Johnathan under her own terms and retire, or work in another company.
I'm sure that's what Jonathan thought too . Jonathan took a lot shit from Charlotte I don't blame him, then again might be better to forget All Grown up together.
This is canon now
Rocko pretty much always ended up living paycheck to paycheck. There were several episodes about him having to by with everything breaking all the time.
My total commute time is roughly an hour, or a hour and 20 minutes
Early Rugrats and All Grown Up are the kind of shows where you'd understand the jokes better as you get older.
Rocky is also canonically 20.
I’m 22 and can’t afford shit.
Rocko rents just like the the ATHF. Unlike Frylock, he doesn't have a shit roomate to drag him down financial.
SpongeBob can live comfortably in his own house and indulge in several hobbies with a fry cook's wage. That's not even considering just how little of a check he must get from someone like Krabs every week. Maybe he's a trust fund baby or just really good with money?
Bikini Bottom is a small underwater town full of bottom feeders. Mr. Krabs pays well, but Spongebob works overtime to make extra money.
Do The Simpsons count too?
>Mr. Krabs pays well
Even when it seems off-character, I always had this impression.
absolutely, and Grimey exposed Homer for being able to live very well above his means.
No, Homer works hard to afford the house and car.
Grimes is that one retard who thinks he should've be getting a full salary and pensions as soon as he enters work instead of earning it thru years.
I dunno, Homer seems to work some kind of management job at a nuclear plant which seems like it should require a degree of some kind. I think he'd be able to afford a middle class house. And the show at least used to constantly show the Simpsons having money issues.
in 90s Indiana that house would be $60,000
I think it has to do with Smithers never remember who Homer is allowing him to keep having his high paying job after endless screwups
Smithers knows his name. He is the one to always reminds Mr. Burns who he is.
I haven't watched the simpsons in so long that I forgot mr. burns' name and confused him with smithers. shame
I always wondered how the Fentons managed to stay in business considering that most people thought they were crazy and ghosts didn't exist, at least not when the show began
Probably built other tech and sold it.
This is an opposite case scenario where they should be able to afford WAY more than what is shown.
P sure Didi was a full-time teacher
Also there's Grandpa's retirement
Escape the bully Dingo there's an ep about this
Doesn't most of his place exist in a massive underground lab that spans continents. IIRC there's an Ep where Dib goes in a super-fast subway car and is still under his dads house
No numerous episodes show homers got 4 mortgages all the bills are past due, no legit banks will loan homer money and they are so poor one episode implies they have to buy frozen veggies on a installment plan because marge spend 3 minutes hiding the bill from homer a d the kids
Homers so far underwater hes in fucking china
How did Mandark's Family afford this when they were both hippies?
Homer's paycheck is like $36,000 a year. No way he could afford that, even in the more prosperous 90s.
Professor Membrane a does not need to compensate. Besides most the money is in anti-santa island
the average nuclear safety inspector in the us makes double this
>heffer and filburt spit roasting rocko's sister
He got a loan from NASA like Dexter.
Why the fuck do 98% of all cartoon characters live in the fucking suburbs?
Any show that relates to city slickers like me, except Hey Arnold?
Spongebob's house can be regrown from an actual living nonsense pineapple-house-growing plant. One of the neighboring houses is literally just a rock
The weird thing about Bikini Bottom is that it has an economy at all considering it's made of fish and garbage
Krabs pays well because he pays them under the table to avoid taxes which results in them getting higher than minimum wages, and neither squidward or SB have medical/dental/pensions etc. Squidward doesn't care because he thinks he'll die before he retires, spongebob doesn't understand long term consequences, and krabs gets to dodge a ton of taxes and fees so he's happy paying them.
>those cartoons where the characters live in the country
Mr. Krabs doesn't have a bank account or even health insurance himself. He's not really a corrupt businessman, just a greedy pirate running a burger joint.
>Watch Simpsons/Family Guy/American Dad/Cleveland Show/Whatever Ep
>Husband and Wife
>Either never divorced
>3 Kids
>Husband works, wife stays at home and cooks/cleans
>Live in a 2-floor 4-bedroom house
>Goes to church on sunday dressed up
>Husband goes to the same bar every night after work
>2 Cars
Who the FUCK still lives like this in the last 10-12 years?
Outdated as hell
Barring the part about going to the same bar every night, I know plenty of families that are still like this. They're not as common as they used to be but they still exist.
Stan works hard for his money as a CIA agent. I can only assume Bullock had dirt on Obama to keep funding going, and parties with Trump.
Lois came from a rich family and she asks her father for money while Peter works at the Brewery and makes extra income as a fisherman.
New AD actually has never even mentioned Trump. I think they're trying to be apolitical
The CIA doesn't need to work hard when Trump is doing their job for them.
There's a powerplant right there. He's making his own energy
yea, she's just on maternity leave
Homer got the house for free from Abe as a wedding gift.
In fairness, this was the 90's.
I hate when houses are shown at an angle and they're clearly tilted 2d drawings, I get its the style but damn.
Mission Hill was set in the city but I don't think you'll find it too relatable
It was the 90s, before we all realized how hard the boomers actually fucked us over on housing.
Why even bother working? It is not satisfying and in the end you will just feel used by someone else.
Better to just not work until you die. Wish it'd happen sooner anyway. Yes, I'm selfish; deal with it, society.
>>Husband works, wife stays at home and cooks/cleans
My friend lost his wife in 2015 because after 20 years she suddenly felt like not being a housewife and getting a job and this meant changing everything despite it not needing to change because they weren't struggling money wise and when he tried to reason that it'd be a huge change she out of nowhere got this feminist angle and assumed he was stuck in the 70s. She took the kids and most of the money because she got out of a prenup
Where would you live?
>nigga just pay 3x as much and walk everywhere and hope you don't get mugged lmao like wtf
I'm turning down an animation internship this summer to work a local PR job because I don't have the money to pay for fucking LA housing.
>Who the FUCK still lives like this in the last 10-12 years?
boomers who made it impossible for every subsequent generation.
Who still has underaged children after 20 years of marriage? This doesn't add up.
On the street probably. Hopefully not for long. Then again, starvation can take a while. Really would just hope to leech food until something else kills me faster instead.
They didn't get married immediately.
He's the Safety Inspector in Sector 7G. There's a whole episode about it, then it became canon.
Why does everyone forget that Abe sold his own home and basically financed the house on Evergreen Terrace?
what you get for getting married, married to a woman and having kids
dude took on the risks
Please refer to him by his new name, Foofy No-No
>Grimes is that one retard who thinks he should've be getting a full salary and pensions as soon as he enters work
Go to bed, Mr. Burns
because his hippie parents are a retcon
Maybe living 20 years cooped up in the house as a housewife wasn't fulfilling to her and she didn't want to spend the rest of her life doing the same shit. Especially since the kids aren't gonna need taking care of forever. What's she supposed to do with her life once they're gone?
Your friend sounds like a controlling asshole.
I forgot this is Yea Forums post 2011.
The primary issue is spinning it as a "women have come a long way since the 70s you sexist old fashioned..." when the concern was how much of a change it would be and how fast she did that and even split it up with him and took most of his life with her. She was fine as a housewife because every fucking day they went out and did things, from minor things to walking in the park, to doing grander things like fucking cruises. This wasn't some "you only leave the house when I tell you to" thing. Everything was fine until what seems like she got ahold of some feminist viewpoints and it soured her on everything she had been fine with before. She even said the cruises was his way of keeping her docile and fine with not having a job.
She was a cunt, hard to believe I know.
Yea Forums is 70% female these days, gotta remember that
You just reminded of a shitty fanfic I once read where they proved ghosts were real but people were too busy gawking over their otherworldly tech to give a fuck about the ghosts.
>Squidward doesn't care because he thinks he'll die before he retires
sounds about right
Showcase #4? There's me first down payment on me car! Captain America Comics #1? Why not fly back an' see the senpai first class?
All feminists should be violently exterminated. The sexual revolution was a disaster and Ted Kaczynski was right.
And this is why incels can't get laid
>Stu, Didi, Tommy and Dil all live in a multi story McMansion out in suburban living off Drew's financial support, Didi's substitute teaching checks and whatever little money Stu gets from making extremely dangerous toys
I believe they mentioned that Grandpa had sold his own house to help pay for the one they live in now, also while Stu only occasionally sells a toy, considering the sort of toys he often comes up with the ones that do sell probably bring in quite a bit of money
if Danny Phantom were to be rebooted it would make more sense to have them actually be semi-successful Ghost Hunters prior to Danny activating the Ghost Portal
anyone else really hate those kind of gags in animated sitcoms, it's almost never actually funny, just really depressing
like I would love at this point an animated sitcom centered around a family that is full blown rich
oh what planet is 45 fucking minutes "mere".
t. 10 to 15 minute commute
>using incel ever
My dad tells me I can't even support myself with my spending habits, which is just food for my meal plan "diet" and protein powder and a restaurant once a week just to get out of the house. If I moved out, I would have to give up the gym, my language classes (learning alone and online isn't my thing, ive tried it many times) and my diet and basically do nothing and drive only when I need to get groceries, pay bills, or go to work. He also says that even if I did stop that I still wouldn't be able to afford to live on my own even though rent or any loan or mortgage will easily take up more than 50% of my paycheck when 51% of my paycheck is already deductibles.
t. $10.25/hr warehouse worker, college dropout
i work odd hours and due to sleep schedule i cant really learn to do other things since nobody likes to teach or tutor on weekends or past 5pm
The PJs
>blows so much money in insider trading
Insider trading is when you use confidential business information to make investments rigged in your favor, its done for profit and unless Drew was getting caught and dealing with court fees he would be making a sizable profit. Anyways Charlotte was an exec
Why would you assume Obama needed blackmailing to keep the CIA funded?
Youre right the real CIA probably collects dirt on everyone, though
He had the house, a pet and hobbies before having a job along with paying for boat school
Cleveland's wife worked.
He got rid of her because nick was trying to push a positive female role in the show after an interview so he scrapped her character save for that one scene saying that's not the way to make characters
She appears in Wimp on the Barby as a cameo. Nick wanted her to be a Lisa Simpson after some female reporter asked him about positive female role models in the show, and Nick rejected the only episode he wrote with her in it.
>According to Murray, when he attended a press conference for networks to market new seasons of television shows to the press, a reporter asked him why the show did not have any "positive female role models". Murray said that he responded by stating that he had no positive role models, that people do not use cartoon characters as role models, and that television shows should not teach lessons. According to Murray, after the conference some Nickelodeon executives told the reporter that they had plans to place female role models in the television show and asked Murray to place Magdalane as a female role model. Murray said that he refused to use Magdalane like that and never used her in Rocko's Modern Life.
What language are you learning?
Canonically, they have a few patents on non-Ghost tech and make a decent middle class living off of the royalties.
pretty average house depending where you live desu. My older sister has a house just as big and she designs audiobook covers for a living.
[citation needed]
Love this story, makes me happy every time. Murray is a cool dude.
>Joe Murry will never be my dad
>Getting a house isn't as bad as you think
Depending on where you live, it can be complete ass. After the housing crash, they lowered interest rates, but banks only preferred people with a lot of cash. Consequently, house-flippers became a fucking plague.
Around my area, you have two options:
Snatch up a nice house by paying cash for it within a week of it going to market, or buy a house in a bad area where property values are expected to depreciate. Well-off flippers and slumlords have been driving up rent and property prices a whole lot faster than most people's incomes. That's the consequence of focusing the whole national bail-out around people who were already rich and needed the least health. Simultaneously, they ran a program to destroy used cars to rescue the auto industry, so it's also hard to find a cheap car. Throw medical costs on top of that as you enter your thirties and need to see the doctor a little more often, and even a middle-class income starts feeling pretty tight around the neck today.
It was the 90's. Back then, you could own a house working as a Walmart cashier.
How did they afford a house before Lynn Sr's restaurant took off? 11 kids and 4 housepets can't be that cheap.
I always thought the houses in Tom and Jerry looked comfy af.
Do a lot of shows do that? It's pretty damn lazy.
Part of me guesses that it's a nod to old low-budget westerns where the street would be a row of fake storefronts with no actual buildings, but I'm sure that's giving the artists way too much credit.
Membrane definitely seems like a no-frills guy. His work is what matters, he doesn't even have time for luxury.
Though now that I think about it, they could've gotten a lot more humor out of the way this rich guy makes his kids eat microwave beans for dinner. Or maybe something about how Membrane tries not to spoil his kids because Dib already spends so much on paranormal tech.
>shares 1 story house, or maybe w/ attic
>front and backyard
>plumbing, electricity
>able to attend school
>have jobs (F/PT?)
>What's she supposed to do with her life once they're gone?
Whatever she wants, i.e. same as now but without blaming her husband for her own lack of achievements (but still happily taking his money indefinitely).
the other half of the positive female character story lead to the creation of Dr Hutchinson. Some executive requested a professional woman with a good hook.
Joe took it literally and made a doctor with a hook for a hand.
To this day, I wish more artists took their executives literally like a twisted wish.
Government assistance programs.
Theyre teenagers who live with their parents. They also dont live in the same house, it usually takes place at Butthead's house with Beavis visiting.
You. You've been to space?
>Beavis and Butt-head
>Parents
Their moms are sluts.
Their dads are roadies.
They did not meet their dads until the movie and never once again.
>Feed Heffer
>A month
On a starvation diet
To this day I wish more artists did pretty and happy but kinda crazy cat doctors with hook hands
Place is pretty big for someone whose robots are generally laughed at
Very close to my next door neighbors.
Yes.
Boxman answers to a board of directors. Presumably they force him to at least be at least semi profitable
Ginger's house seems humble for someone with a Mom who is Registered nurse and a Stepdad who is a doctor
>Realistically, Rocko should be living in a tiny apartment, living paycheck to paycheck.
I fucking wish
dunno what the big deal is my parents bought the 4 bed house I grew up in for $34,000 in the mid 80s.
How does this work?
>1 Treehouse containing 5 living areas, a vehicle hangar, a war room, etc
>annexed with a 2-story suburban house
>treehouse likely uses up a lot of resources and energy, even with recycled/repurposed materials, and provides many perishable/dry goods.
>kids can charge for goods through accounts/tabs
>is one in many in the international organization, including one on the moon
>rural
>a negative
As long as you're paid enough to afford a vehicle to commute with, a rural home is a plus.
lol, maybe 70% gay more like.
In really shitty parts of the U.S., even poor people can get a two-story house.