banana stand, touching, touching, touching, touching, touching arrested, development began to make fun of the ridge. sort of, you know, expose them for everyone to see loose coat cost more than your house. oh, that s how we joke. she doesn t even have a house because a lot of really wealthy people have gotten in their positions by stepping on or class people. i m sorry. we can t afford to live lavishly anymore. thank you. milk schlumpy, chew it by the 21st century, america s shaky economy begins to shrink the middle class, and we see that represented in sitcoms like foxes. malcolm in the middle. we ve had to economize before. remember last year when we were saving up for disneyland. we re going to disneyland. no it s like that. except this time. we re just trying to keep the house welcome. the middle is a fascinating show in terms of class because it s about trying to give your kids a good life. even when you re not sure you
know why i m here. your old man can t be left alone for 10 minutes without falling on his assen phrase you got stuck with me. isn t that right? no, no, no. in the nineties. we saw a lot of sitcoms geared towards whole family viewing, and they shied away from the more political nature of the 19 seventies item here was carefully selected this lamp encore boo that chair by aims, but because social class is a part of someone s identity that everyone can relate to. it s one of the ways that sitcoms can reach the broadest audience. delivery from martin crane in here, the idea of class structure in fraser a minute about a father that have been alienated from his sons, because they were so unlike him tv it s in that credenza thing. there was a great sort of social commentary on class poking fun at all that pomposity and social class structure from the gourmet hill dumped my corners yard