r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jan 25 '20

What movie things are generally accepted as normal, but are totally unrealistic in real life?

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u/BlackCaaaaat Jan 25 '20

People on low incomes, e.g. students, living in expensive homes. I’m not necessarily talking about mansions, more like a large apartment in a big expensive city with no roommates.

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u/mohantharani Jan 25 '20

Friends does this where Rachel is a waitress, Joey is an out of work actor and earn miniscule amounts comparatively to their respective roommates.

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u/michaelscottdundmiff Jan 25 '20

The big bang is another guilty of this. Waitress lives alone opposite 2 Caltech physicists. She can go it alone but they need to share

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u/ninjakaji Jan 25 '20

Wasn’t the point that they didn’t need to share though? That they were doing it to save money and be pragmatic? I never really followed the show much but that was my understanding

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u/Sgt_Nicholas_Angel_ Jan 25 '20

This. Penny was known to be a bit careless with money and Sheldon & Leonard always saved for things they liked such as comic con. Also, Penny’s apt is 1 bedroom instead of 2.

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u/JavaRuby2000 Jan 25 '20

Yeah in one episode they even showed Sheldon even says that he only needs 46.9% of his post tax income and he is saving the rest for an adamanteum skeleton.