How do the Simpsons and the Griffins have homes and stuff?

[Oeditpus Rex]

I mean, Homer and Peter are only the biggest LEWzarrrs on the planet. :shrug:

[northzax]

1. what do you mean?

homer has a good union job at the nuke plant.

[Oeditpus Rex]

2. Ah — union job

k

[northzax]

3. and Springfield doesn't exactly have a booming housing market

you may have noticed.

[Writer]

4. Homer bought his family home in 1987 for 65,000.

Wicked cheap, a'ight?

[hfojvt]

8. Sounds high end to me

I bought mine in 2001 for $35,000

Of course, I don't have a double garage.

[LeftyMom]

10. Oh, Kansas.

I was trying to figure out where a house was that cheap back then. Ours (single story 3/2 ranch, iffy neighborhood) was a bit over $100K that year, and is about 4x that now, but even if we're in the comparatively cheap part it's still California.

[hfojvt]

11. Yikes!

You mean you could sell and pocket $300,000 tax free. I'd be in retirement city in that case. $300,000 goes a long way in the midwest.

[LeftyMom]

12. I can't really picture anybody in my family moving out of California.

I have an aunt in Reno, but that's about it. Beyond that is a bit too "here there be dragons" for me. :scared:

Anyhow, why would anybody leave California if they didn't have to?

[Oeditpus Rex]

13. You have an aunt in Reno?

You're not gonna shoot her, are you? :scared:




Y'know, just to watch her die 'n' stuff...

[LeftyMom]

14. I already made a joke about that today, you know.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x6465880

[Oeditpus Rex]

15. I know

That's why I thought of it. :hi:

You, you... plant killer! :cry:

[LeftyMom]

16. The secret's out

I'm not vegan because I love animals. I'm vegan because I hate plants.

[Oeditpus Rex]

17. And I was gonna ask you a question

about planting peppers.

I think I'll ask someone else.

:P

[LeftyMom]

18. Only ask me if you want them to shrivel up and die.

I've already got two plants looking a bit dodgy, and I haven't even got them all in the ground yet.

[Oeditpus Rex]

19. I just wanna know what to plant these in

Like, what size pot. Or maybe just in the ground.

The seeds are embedded in an organic card I got from Santa Fe Natural Tobacco. It says to cover 'em (the whole card) in about 1/4" of loose soil, but it doesn't say where. :shrug:

[hfojvt]

21. I had the exact opposite outlook

Why would anybody move to California except to make enough money to move out?

I once turned down a job that threatened me with a move to California.

[VenusRising]

5. They both have TV shows.

Makes sense. I wonder when we are going to see "Cribs" a la FG and the Simpsons.

[Patsy Stone]

6. I always wondered that about the Bundy's. n.t.

[Oeditpus Rex]

7. Seriously!

Al always talked about how he made minimum wage. :wtf:

[Little Wing]

22. um. Have you seen the car he drives, the suits and shoes he has to wear?

Besides, since Peg never cooks there's apparently no food budget.

[Critters2]

9. They're in debt up to their eyeballs.

Why should they be any different?



Critters
with surprisingly little debt, really

[philosophie_en_rose]

20. Homer may be a loser, but he has a highly-paid position.

No telling with Mr. Burns, of course. However, nuclear safety technicians make a decent salary.

Plus, they save a lot of money by 'borrowing' stuff from Flanders and never buying new clothes.


No telling with Family Guy, though. That guy IS a loser.

[unpossibles]

23. because they're cartoons?

lol. Who knows.

[bleedingheart]

24. ah...but they are the kind of losers we all know that seem to come up winners in cash

you know....the lovable doofi that Aunt Sally leaves money too because she doesn't want the loser progeny to suffer...

the kind whose parents buy them a house and furnish it and they still can't pay the taxes so grandparents chip in (I know someone like this...)

[mikeytherat]

25. Homer Simpson's father, Abraham, gave Marge and Homer the money.

Homer and Marge could not afford the home they have (they had been looking in an area the real estate agent referred to as "the rat's nest"), so Homer's dad, Abe, sold his house and gave the money to Marge and Homer (Abe had won his home in a crooked '50s game show - he ratted out everyone and got off scot-free). As a gesture to his father's generosity, Homer offered to have Abe come and live with him and Marge - six weeks later he put Abe in a nursing home.

mikey_the_rat

[Deja Q]

26. Or families.

:rofl:

[SteppingRazor]

27. Homer Simpson? Loser? I think not!

Along with the trusty job at the power plant, Homer's been an actor on several occasions, an agent on several more, an astronaut, a CEO, chief of police, drug smuggler, corporate executive vice president, Inventor, Internet startup entrepreneur, mayor, mob boss, and owner of multiple corporations (ZiffCorp and CompuGlobalHyperMegaNet among them), to name just a few of the man's many high-paying positions!

Why, Homer's such a Renaissance Man, he makes Da Vinci look like a drooling idiot. :D

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Homer_Simpson%27s_jobs

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

28. And let's not forget Peter.

He's been a toy manufacturer, a fisherman, Emperor of Petoria, Death, producer of "The King and I," tobacco lobbyist, a police officer several times including Sheriff of Bumblescum, erotic novel author, Calving Klein underwear model, ghostbuster, Electric Company worker, George Harrison's security guard, and Uma Thurman's eye wrangler, among other jobs.

[SteppingRazor]

30. Homer's also been death, for that matter...

must have a lot of turnover in that job. I can't imagine morale's very good. And the health benefits probably suck.

[AngryAmish]

29. Take it easy, Grimey.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

31. Ralph Kramden & Ed Norton had good steady jobs so >

> how come they lived in a tenement?

[KamaAina]

32. Lois Griffin, nee Pewterschmidt, comes from money

you did see their fabulous summer cottage, complete with singing staff, right?

So Pee-tah can just mooch off her, I guess. :shrug:

[SoxFan]

33. It's Rhode Island!

Housing's pretty cheap in Cranston, so I imagine Quahog can't be too bad, either. Beats paying those Boston rents!