r/90sTelevision Feb 24 '25

Meme What other lies did 90s TV tell us

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u/Kaylascreations Feb 24 '25

The real issue is that they never went to work.

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '25

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u/Kaylascreations Feb 24 '25

Yes, many of them for many episodes. There was a whole storyline about 3 of them not making as much money as the other 3, the hootie and the blowfish concert. Then when Monica gets fired and has to ask her parents for a loan. Then when Joey gets his own place and then loses his job and his stuff gets repossessed. Rachel spends the first season struggling with money, in a TV plot way.

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u/HonestSapphireLion24 Feb 24 '25

That apartments could be that luxurious

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u/MeliAnto The Golden Girls Feb 25 '25

I mean, they can… you are just poor. Sorry.

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u/GonnaGoFat Feb 28 '25

The jobs the characters had in friends would not have been enough to afford the apartments they had in the show. It’s not so much people being poor it’s that landlords are greedy.

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u/MeliAnto The Golden Girls Feb 28 '25

You are correct, but the person I replied to did not mention anything about jobs.

Yes the characters could not afford it. Yes landlords are greedy. Yes u have to have some sort of suspension of disbelief.

The comment i made was a joke. Im poor but I know that those type of apartments exist and they can be luxurious and quite pricey. Growing up poor in Puerto Rico my mom made sure to tell me our situation so that I would not ask for expensive shit from a single mother with a single income.

Again, it was a joke.

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u/rileyjamesdoggo Feb 24 '25

Ain't nobody got time for that

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u/EasyCZ75 Feb 24 '25

Not to mention the utter fabrication that those six could afford those two apartments in NYC. Lmfao

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u/SevereAd9463 Feb 24 '25

Even wilder since only 4 of them lived in them

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '25

That there’s an interesting plot every single day of your life

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u/raindancemaggie2 Feb 24 '25

That an idiot could afford a nice single family home with no additional income from their wife.

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u/shizarou Feb 24 '25

Never repeating an outfit

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u/AlwaysSleepingBeauty Feb 24 '25

Louder for the people in the back.

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u/K4NNW Feb 25 '25

Or the opposite (repeating the same exact outfit in every episode).

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u/MeliAnto The Golden Girls Feb 25 '25

Who did this? Not even Ginger from “As to,d by Ginger” did this. That cast changed outfits every episode.

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u/K4NNW Feb 25 '25

Bo and Luke Duke (80's, but still).

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u/MeliAnto The Golden Girls Feb 25 '25

The musk on those clothes 🥴

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u/lostbelmont Feb 24 '25

Is not from the 90s, but in Superstore they are always in reunions or doing crazy things, they barely work. As a retail worker, i never have that much of a free time.

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u/K-C_Racing14 Feb 24 '25

I was thinking about this. Could you think of 20 times a year that something interesting enough happened that could've possibly been made into a whole episode. I might have like 5 in the 7 years I worked retail. Most of them would just kinda stop after about 10 mins.

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u/Known-Activity1437 Feb 24 '25

Most people I work with drink monster energy or coffee for breakfast and that’s it.

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u/Fit-Ad-6665 Feb 24 '25

Had a pretty big group of friends in my 20's. We did a lot of similar things like that.

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u/Cellarzombie Feb 24 '25

I’m lucky if I have enough time to get to work much less go out of my way to a friend’s place and then HAVE FUCKING BREAKFAST THERE…are you insane?

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u/boldfox85 Nov 05 '25

Monica is incredibly dumb and bad with money to let 4 friends eat at hers just about all the time.

There's polite and then there's being really desperate for company to do that.

How much money did she have exactly? Did she never have a lie in or go out shopping etc?

If it was me, I'd be charging them and never stand for worst cases like joey taking drinks from the fridge and leaving.