Al Bundy was considered poor and a loser because he was a shoes salesman.
A shoes sales man with a nice house, 2 cars, 2 kids and a wife that liked to spend money.
Fuck if that's what being a loser is, what the fuck even am I?
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crane operators used to be well paid
Idd.
And 12000 yaer later there was a dude called Al Bundy. He had a wife that liked to shop. 2 kids in school, a car and a own home. Paid it all with a shooselling wage...
He is also seen as the loser...
Who drove a rust-bucket car with an odometer that rolled over to zeroes.
The family was jokingly on the brink of starvation and would fight over a scrap of food.
They celebrated when they paid the water bill and had it turned back on.
It's well known Al only owns less than 5 pairs of socks and pairs of underwear with most of his clothes falling apart.
Despite owning a house it's been said over and over that it's an eyesore in disrepair from the outside.
The family routinely gets involved in scams and schemes to get money
He has a house. The way AirBnB, house flippers, and corporate rentals has priced many out of the market; that’s wild to call him a loser.
Do the Flintstones even have a mortgage?
yeah, every now and then i think about going out to the hills and building a stone and mud hut. slapping an A/C unit on the side with extension cords leading all the way down through a grassy field to the nearest airport or quarry. not a fire hazard at all.
And a car, and his house had an attached garage, and an oven big enough to fit a rack of brontosaurus ribs.
And his best friend lives next door.
Ok so one thing I've always wondered about the Flintstones. Did he just hollow out a big boulder? The house isn't made of piled up rocks, it appears to be one big single rock.
those are big dinosaur molars. dinosaurs with bad dental hygiene
Based on the show's content, they probably used Bronto-Jackhammers to split the rocks and finished it off with stone hand tools.
It's a living
I am sad that I have but one upvite to give
It was Buckminster Fuller cement home. I couldn’t find a link for them, but they were made from a mold and looked sort of like that.
I think in the movie they show houses being made with stacked layers of rock chiseled out like a 3d printer
Leviathan dinosaur egg.
It's obviously just a picture made up to fit the aesthetic without great thought to worldbuilding, but if you ignore the perspective it could be made of multiple vertical sheets of rock.
Yeah, if you're watching Hannah Barbera cartoons looking for detailed animation and well thought out worlds, you've gone to the wrong place lol
The roof and the garage seem to be other rocks. And the chimney too.
Fred Flintstone wasn't a loser, he was just an average guy.
Yeah. I grew up watching the Flintstones. He was never portrayed as a loser. He was just a regular blue collar guy. Like Dan on Roseanne. Not like Al from married with children. Someone who was broke all the time but still had a 2 story house and dog, wife, two kids, and a shitty car and vacation like every year even though he was a single income shoe salesman at a mall that was bad at his job.
Al wasn't bad at his job at all, he just cared little.
Tell your customers they're giant fatties tends to drive away business....
Who drove a rust-bucket car with an odometer that rolled over to zeroes.
The family was jokingly on the brink of starvation and would fight over a scrap of food.
They celebrated when they paid the water bill and had it turned back on.
It’s well known Al only owns less than 5 pairs of socks and pairs of underwear with most of his clothes falling apart.
Despite owning a house it’s been said over and over that it’s an eyesore in disrepair from the outside.
The family routinely gets involved in scams and schemes to get money.
But most important of all...it's a fictitious, satirical television show
You trying to make a point somewhere?
Who ever said Fred Flintstone was a loser?
The show did. Rather often. Hell it was even in the movie.
I watched a lot of Flintstones and I don't remember it that way.. A blue collar oaf maybe but respected.
Fred Flintstone was a loser
- /u/valar
There, you just did, through the magic of selective quoting:p
Letting the days go by
I loved the Flintstones, good parody
pretty sore feet though iirc