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Most sitcoms feature members of the family with very distinct jobs. It helps to set the comedic tone and develop the characters. How well do you remember the jobs of specific characters? We have a quiz that will test your knowledge. There are eight job titles below—can you match them to the sitcom character?
How did you do? If you got all of them right, then you’re a sitcom expert. Got some of them wrong? This is the perfect reason to head back to Netflix, HBO Max, and other streaming platforms to rewatch and remember what your favorite characters did!
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The Unique Jobs We Watched on TV
Thanks to TV shows, there were certain jobs that we wanted to do when we grew up, and they made some jobs look far more likely than we initially believed. They helped to give us ideas of something new and fun, especially if they ended up becoming wildly unique positions.
Look, who didn’t temporarily consider becoming a museum curator or paleontologist thanks to Ross Geller on Friends? While he wasn’t the most fun character (and he had some insufferable moments), his job looked wildly interesting.
The opening of The Simpsons put Homer Simpson’s job at the forefront of our minds. I still can’t believe someone like Homer could work in a nuclear power plant. It’s not just a case of pushing a button now and then. You have to have the brains to work in this environment. And yet, this show makes the job look weird and wonderful.
Home Improvement gave us something fun with a TV show within a TV show. Tim Allen’s Tim “The Tool Man” Taylor brought us a TV show lead character and his two co-stars, and we got to see some of what felt like a reality at the time. Just because someone is the host of a TV show doesn’t mean they know what they’re doing, and it made it feel like any of us could host a home improvement show. As long as we had the right supportive co-stars, of course!
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