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But every time we watch it, I reach out to shake the blonde wife/daughter and say GET A JOB.

It's ridiculous. This really isn't how modern families work. She's university educated, her kids are all in school. What the hell does she do all day??

It's a shame in a show that's supposed to be about a modern family, and has all the other bells and whistles. Too much complication to bring two more careers into the picture? Fine, make her husband a stay-at-home or even a work-at-home, and retire the older-generation father and send the second wife out to work. Or even just one of them.

If that were the situation in the sit com -- the two wives worked and the two husbands didn't -- trust me, you'd notice. The fact that it's the stereotyped reverse just doesn't get noticed.

Also, I don't know whether anyone has noticed/mentioned, but that blonde wife/daughter is skeletally thin this year. I don't remember noticing that last year. It's just such a familiar path on TV -- Aniston did it in Friends (not that I watched that!), David Kelly's female leads were required to do it.

Now don't get me started on Parenthood and the whiny blonde non-employed wife/mother in that one, who's had to get some kind of fake job because she decided to have another kid for no good reason. Although, okay, there's a stay-at-home husband/father in that one. You just don't notice him so much because he isn't a whiny quacking pain in the ass. One watches some things just because it feels so good when it stops, right?