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[[File:girl_walking_in_dirty_house.jpg|frame|<small>Compare the elegant lady with the cobwebbed chairs.</small> ]]
[[File:girl walking in dirty house.jpg|frame|Compare the elegant lady with the cobwebbed chairs.]]




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Compare with [[Slobs Versus Snobs]].
Compare with [[Slobs Versus Snobs]].
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=== Related Tropes: ===
=== Related Tropes ===


Shiny:
Shiny:
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== Film ==
== Film ==


* The ''[[Star Wars]]'' [[Prequel|prequels]]
* The ''[[Star Wars]]'' [[prequel]]s
** The point of this being to show the "good old days" preceding the Dark Times of the Empire. This goes back to Star Wars' fantasy roots. Star Wars is, ultimately, Space Opera. The fantasy end of Science Fiction.
** The point of this being to show the "good old days" preceding the Dark Times of the Empire. This goes back to Star Wars' fantasy roots. Star Wars is, ultimately, Space Opera. The fantasy end of Science Fiction.
** Leia's ship that gets captured at the beginning of A New Hope is also a good example. While the hallway is very smooth and shiny, the utility corridor she hides in with R2 is much more gritty.
** Leia's ship that gets captured at the beginning of A New Hope is also a good example. While the hallway is very smooth and shiny, the utility corridor she hides in with R2 is much more gritty.
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* ''[[CSI: Miami]]''; in addition to the exotic, fashionable city its set in, the actors have said it takes place in "a comic book world."
* ''[[CSI: Miami]]''; in addition to the exotic, fashionable city its set in, the actors have said it takes place in "a comic book world."
* ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'', which takes place in a fifties [[Retro Universe]].
* ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'', which takes place in a fifties [[Retro Universe]].
* ''[[Mad Men]]'': The Sterling Cooper offices are elegant examples of the International Style, the brand-new SCDP offices--particularly Roger's office--are enthusiastically Mid-Century Modern (i.e. That Style You See And Immediately Think "Sixties" No Not Hippie Stuff The Other Thing, Yes, Like JFK Airport), the Draper house is well-furnished (though not expensively so), even Peggy's small Brooklyn apartment is well-kept (well-worn, but hardly "gritty"...unless you would describe a well-maintained kitchen as "gritty"...), and the hotels and restaurants we see are mostly top-hole. And let's not forget the [[Gorgeous Period Dress]]. Of course, the series follows ad executives in the early Sixties (i.e. the era of the Three Martini Lunch and other such examples of excess), and additionally borrows heavily from the "visual vocabulary" of the era, so it's hardly surprising that despite the lean towards cynicism, the show is pretty much on the shiny end. Mind you, the occasional bit of dirt shows up, but it's not terribly common.
* ''[[Mad Men]]'': The Sterling Cooper offices are elegant examples of the International Style, the brand-new SCDP offices—particularly Roger's office—are enthusiastically Mid-Century Modern (i.e. That Style You See And Immediately Think "Sixties" No Not Hippie Stuff The Other Thing, Yes, Like JFK Airport), the Draper house is well-furnished (though not expensively so), even Peggy's small Brooklyn apartment is well-kept (well-worn, but hardly "gritty"...unless you would describe a well-maintained kitchen as "gritty"...), and the hotels and restaurants we see are mostly top-hole. And let's not forget the [[Gorgeous Period Dress]]. Of course, the series follows ad executives in the early Sixties (i.e. the era of the Three Martini Lunch and other such examples of excess), and additionally borrows heavily from the "visual vocabulary" of the era, so it's hardly surprising that despite the lean towards cynicism, the show is pretty much on the shiny end. Mind you, the occasional bit of dirt shows up, but it's not terribly common.


== Toys ==
== Toys ==
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* Irish soaps (eg ''[[Fair City]], Ros na Run'')
* Irish soaps (eg ''[[Fair City]], Ros na Run'')
* British soaps are the absolute champions of gritty (e.g., ''[[Coronation Street]]'', ''[[Eastenders]]'', ''[[Emmerdale]]'', ''[[Shameless]]''.)
* British soaps are the absolute champions of gritty (e.g., ''[[Coronation Street]]'', ''[[Eastenders]]'', ''[[Emmerdale]]'', ''[[Shameless]]''.)
* ''[[The Wire]]'' was intentionally shot to maximize the run-down aspects of Baltimore. The studio executives were uncertain about this decision at first, but in the end went along with it -- to great effect.
* ''[[The Wire]]'' was intentionally shot to maximize the run-down aspects of Baltimore. The studio executives were uncertain about this decision at first, but in the end went along with it—to great effect.


== Video Games ==
== Video Games ==
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