how the fuck does homer afford a big house, 4 mouths to feed

It was set in the late 80's/early 90's before wealth inequality skyrocketed.

>>79176853
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1nD4o3zTfo

>>79176923
OK how do a museum tour guide, two office workers, a mostly unemployed actor and a chef afford two huge apartments in downtown New York?

>>79176853
Early 90s flyover state. Can't imagine it's terribly expensive to live there.

liberal screenwriters refusing to communicate with the realities of capitalism

>>79176853
When do they say how much he earns? He's a nuclear technician; I don't think they'd make $12/hr even in nineties dollars.

>>79176853
Boomer.

I think the down payment came from Grandpa selling his house that he won a crooked 50s game show

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>>79176853
love this episode desu

He invented the paper clip

>>79176853
How does he even keep his job at the end of every episode? He would be fired.

safety inspector nuclear powerplant $200,000 a year

>>79176853
Don't ask me how the economy works.

>>79176964
Ross was a scientist earned big bucks. Rachel was a buyer for Ralph Lauren earned big bucks. Monica was head chef at a hatted restaurant earned big bucks. Chandler did something and earned big bucks. Phoebe lived with her grandmother and didn't pay rent. Joey was a man whore on the side and earned big bucks

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>>79177009

>>79176964
rent control

I would think nuclear safety inspectors get more than $12/hr. Home prices are about location. I live in Ohio and you can get colonials for $60k or so in okay neighborhoods, 30k in the more ghetto areas.

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He gets paid pretty well.

>>79177161
That was when his check was wrong

>>79177199
They showed his pay stub, an anon posted it a few posts ago. He doesn't make anywhere near that, but then again, he didn't even have a high school diploma.

>>79176964
Monica's grandmother owned their apartment, Monica and Rachel were subletting.

Even in the early years Chandler was a higher up in his unnamed job so had the big money. It's probably not an equal split in the rent between him and Joey as Chandler says he could afford to live there alone if he wanted to.

>>79177257
I thought Bing was an accountant?

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>Homer will never be truly happy working at the bowling alley for a living

>>79176964
>museum tour guide
He wasn't a tour guide. There was an episode where Joey became a tour guide and Ross wouldn't talk to him at work because they didn't mix.

>>79177316
just wait they'll reuse that eventually

>>79177316
why is he even unhappy in working at the power plant
>does nothing all day
>required no education
>has most of his bros there

>>79177241
Everyone at the plant always gave him shit for being so dumb. He was also hired under operation 'Bootstrap'.

>>79177372
His boss can't remember his name even though he won him the baseball tournament.

in st.louis you can buy an ok house in an ok neighborhood for 50k today.

>>79177417
East St. Louis?

>>79177417
>st Louis
>Ok neighborhood

>>79177405
Simpson, eh?

>>79176853
pimps out bort's boipussy on the side

>>79176853
the simpsons are based in an economic state of america that no longer exists

the dream is dying

chanting to make it come back won't work

>>79176964
Monicas apartment was rent controlled in her aunts name
Chandler made decent money
Rent wasnt as insane in the 90s

>>79177597
>chanting to make it come back won't work
Well not if you vote for rich right wing assholes.

>>79176964
monica's apartment was through her nana, rent controlled

chandler & joeys was supposed to be a literal shithole

>>79177667
yeah that always works out doesn't

feel that piss trickle down your bosses leg right into that wage gap

Even though the show doesn't "canonically" take place in Oregon, that's where Groening is from and what Springfield is based on, and Oregon in the eighties and nineties was cheap to live in.

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so whats the deal with this guy?

>>79177431
Is there any other St Louis?

>>79176853
Springfield's properly values are probably as far into the shitter as they can possibly be
>nuclear radiation due to incompetently-run power plant
>choked with every kind of pollution known to man
>rampant crime thanks to incompetent police

>>79177926
but the criminals are incompetent as well

>>79177879
He played keyboards

>>79177957
how?

>>79176853
Homers dad bought their house.
Based on >>79177161 In 2017 dollars homers income would be about $19hr

>>79177957
"How long will it take to flood this city with booze?"

"Give me 5 minutes"

>>79177991
Sideshow Bob gets foiled by a ten year old boy every year.

>>79178052
I told you we should have bought more than three bullets

Even without mortgage payments, they would still have to pay property tax, insurance on two cars, insurance on the house, utilities, and food for a family of five plus two pets.

>>79177926
Lead by illiterate corrupt politician.

>>79176964
>>79177147
>>79177257
>>79177662
>>79177682


On later episodes, Chandler told Monica that everything he saved all his life was for buying a small house, and Monica wanted to blow it all in their wedding.
Can't recall what happened, but Chandler didn't have LOTS of money.

Only one that bugs me off is Rachel, wich is a major spender.

>>79178169
Wasn't it basically a running joke that Rachel never pays the rent anyway? I remember that from the embryos episode.

>>79178168
"Hey! I am no longer illiterate."

>>79178113
Undetected
Disposing dead bodies
Wheelchair navigation ramp system
Tobacco and alcohol trafficking

Detected
Rat milk ***
Gambling
Illegal Fireworks ***
Gluing cotton balls on ferrets and selling them to pet shops ***

>***
A snitch rat them out.

>>79178215
Rent maybe, but a major character trait of her is "She shops a lot"

>>79178169
I dunno, having $70k in your bank account (an amount that would cover an extravagant wedding) in the late 90's was pretty fucking good.

>>79176853
Grandpa Simpson won the house on a crooked game show and gave it to Homer. He couldn't even afford a stable for Lisa's pony and he had a second job at the time.

Homer was pretty broke all the time. Plus shit was a lot cheaper back then

He received bonuses for turning a blind eye to illegal dumping of nuclear waste, inadequate safety procedures and such.

>>79176853
>pools cost a lot of money

I grew up with a massive pool in the 1980s. Everyone did. It was larger than the one in that image.

>>79178548
He saved that ALL his life, if that is in fact the amount, can't recall.

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>>79176853
Well, they got the house for free and homer probably still gets residuals because of his B-Sharp and Astronaut days.

>>79178907
>implying skinner didn't shaft the others in to a bad deal

>>79178907
Don't forget his grunge band too

>>79176964
I like how in its always sunny charlie lives in section 8 housing.

>>79177084
Mr. Burns doesn't remember him so he forgets to fire him.

>>79179303
That's not canon.

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>>79177084
Because Mr Burns would have to then risk hiring a competent safety inspector. Also Homer inadvertently made him a $50mil profit when he sold the plant to the Germans and saved his life when he needed blood.

>>79179551
sadgasm is canon wtf

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epidermis

>>79178168
wasnt mayor Quimby a democrat?

>>79179821
Yes.

>>79179821
JFK parody so yes, Sideshow bobs runs against him as a republican.

>>79179732
Bart and lisa were born in the late 70's according to maggie makes 3 therefor that 90's show is non canon

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>>79179758
how can one episode be this comfy?

>>79179898
Bart was born in 2006 /7 get with the times grandpa. Also grandpa was in Vietnam and Skinner is a gulf war vet.

Marge is a prostitute but they don't show that on the show.

>>79179898
>Bart and lisa were born in the late 70's according to maggie makes 3
Yeah well that's not canon anymore.

>>79179983
>>79180003
>watching the show after season 10

>>79179983
dont you mean Tamzarian? oh wait thats not canon anymore riiight.

>>79180029
>posting on 4chan after 2011

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>>79180045
nam flashback skinner is best skinner

>>79180103
>they just can't get the spices right

>>79180103
Its a shame they had to make him a pussy whipping boy.

>>79179898
Lisa was born in 1983 according to Lisa's First Word. Not that it really matters anymore.

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>>79177199
He's a safety inspector in a plant that's unsafe throughout. Mr. Burns hired a completely lazy, incompetent guy to be in charge of safety just to get the government off his back.

He's paid a low wage because his job is to do nothing, and thus save Mr Burns from having to pay out the ass to keep the plant safe. This is seen in the episode where Mr Burns sells his plant to the Germans instead of fixing all the safety issues, and then Homer is fired for not doing his job.

>>79176853
Grandpa bought the house for Homer

>>79180103
old skinner is literally one of the best characters together with sea captain.

>>79180208
>sea captain.
He's a horrible meme character though.

>>79180235
nah thats doctor nick

>>79180235
still better than Disco Stu

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>>79180258
>not liking disco stu

>>79177488
Underrated

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>don't worry, they'll soon forget
>just like they forgot about me in that Tiger cage for 18 agonising months. Every night I wake up screaming

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>>79180314
>Johnny, Johnny! Johnnyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

>>79177341
This.

He was a research scientist and then became a tenured college professor.

>>79176985
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_control_in_New_York
http://gothamist.com/2012/03/18/is_this_55-a-month_soho_rent-contro.php

Rent control is pretty amazing and while liberalism has many faults this isn't one of them. One of the very, very few cases where the law sticks it to the millionaire greedy developers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d2jtlypuBY

>>79180410
i was talking about the simpsons tho

>>79178740
Do you know the difference between a 401k and savings?

>>79178169
Chandler paid joeys rent for most of the show
Chandler made the most money out of the group

>>79180167
1984

during Olympics

they shop at quickie mart

>>79180441
Ah, you're right. I guess she got pregnant in '83?

>>79180524
>Lisa would be 34 this year
Jesus

>>79176964
>OK how do a museum tour guide, two office workers, a mostly unemployed actor and a chef afford two huge apartments in downtown New York?
chef - monica
office worker no. 1 - chandler
mostly unemployed actor - Joey
office worker no. 2 - Rachel?
museum tour guide - ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

>>79180709
what else would you do with a phd in dinosuars

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>>79176853
He's a boomer piece of shit that's how

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>>79180866
worst fraction

fries in my poutine are old as shit
fucking A&W

>>79179758
Milpool
Deadpool
>Simpsons did it!

>>79176853
>a nuclear safety inspector makes 12 dollars an hour.


Think before you spout your retardedness

>>79180833
be a researcher

but ross lived in his own place

and phoebe was a masseuse

I currently earn 12/h but I live in Southern California

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>>79181008
>Think before you spout your retardedness
>retardedness

>>79176853
It was a different time, he was making good money. You could afford things back then.

>>79181097
opened the thread and cntrl+F'd "it was a diff" and you were the only one to not let me down

>>79177241
He did get his high school diploma. It's in the episode of how he first started working at the plant

>>79177372
Have you ever had a job where you do nothing all day, or next to nothing? It's mind numbing

>>79177116
Bullshit. Where?

>>79181055
>miss a letter in a typo
>makes it ok to have a premise misunderstood

What's your favourite capeshit, amigo?

>>79181242
he also spends every day terrified his bosses will realize he's not needed and/or has no idea what he's doing and will end up fired.

>>79176853
No 2000 dollar macbooks to buy for kids. No cellphones for the family. No 600 dollar video game console or 60 inch tv. No isp or cable service.

Life simply used to be cheaper. People expected less.

>>79181196
There's an episode where he an Marge go to their reunion, and they take away his trophies when they find out he never graduated. Oddly enough, I think it aired after "Homer Goes to College."

>>79181298
You didn't miss a letter, you used a nonexistent word. The term you needed was "retardation". And I wasn't even the one you were talking to in the first place.

>>79176853
uh look at the pay for a nucleor technition it taint no 12/h

>>79181325
...You do realize that TVs and consoles and video games were even more expensive back then?

>>79181325
Well they did spend 500 dollars on a shitty tv in one early episode

>>79181325
believe it or not. tv's, videorecorders and all that shit werent exactly cheap in the 90s

>>79181325
Yeah, life used to be cheaper.

Still doesn't change the fact that 80% of the stories in the early seasons revolve around beeing too poor for something, buying only the cheapest stuff and Homer losing his job again and again.

>>79177161

>knew upon reading the OP that someone would post this image

>actually run the numbers to amuse myself for 30 seconds

>tfw OP is within a penny, or otherwise things can be backwards attributed to rounding, so the exactly 12/hr wage statement is completely justified

Something so autistically satisfying about a straightforward piece of accounting.

>>79176853
"While you were out 'earning' that dollar, you missed forty dollars by not going into work today. The plant called and said if you don't come in tomorrow don't bother coming in monday"

>40 dollars
>40$
>40$ US a DAY
>how

>>79183089
3 day weekend!