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== Anime and Manga ==
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== Comic Books ==
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** Lord Snooty (and his family) versus the Gasworks Gang. Most of Lord Snooty's close friends were also commoners, though; in the first issue, he decides they're more fun than his posh friends.
* The old UK comic book ''Smash!'' had a series called "The Swots and The Blots" that was neat preppy kids verses the scruffy troublemakers.
* ''[[The Dandy (
* ''The Nutty'' had two families living next door to each other, actually called "The Snobs and the Slobs".
* ''Cor!!'' had "Ivor Lott and Tony Broke". Sister comic ''Jackpot'' had their [[Distaff Counterpart|Distaff Counterparts]] "Millie O'Naire and Penny Less". When both comics were merged with ''Buster'', the male and female versions teamed up.
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== Film ==
* ''[[Underworld (
* ''[[Meatballs]]'' has the slobs from Camp North Star versus the snobs from Camp Mohawk. Bill Murray gives an iconic speech just before the climactic showdown admiting that beating the snobs won't matter, since even in defeat they'd still be rich.
* ''[[Caddyshack]]'' has this as [http://www.insidesocal.com/tomhoffarth/caddyshack.jpg its tagline.]
* ''[[Inglourious Basterds]]'' cranks this trope to eleven. On one side, a team of [[Heroic Sociopath|Heroic Sociopaths]]. On the other, the most [[Wicked Cultured]] Nazis of all time.
* The [[Chez Restaurant|snazzy restaurant]] scene from ''[[Ferris Bueller's Day Off
* In ''O.C. and Stiggs'', it's the lower-middle-class title characters versus the ''nouveau riche'' Schwabs. (The rivalry turns up in the original story, but only in the film is it the central plot.)
* The title characters from ''[[The Blues Brothers]]'' find one of their old [[Putting the Band Back Together|band members]] working as maitre d' at a fancy restaurant. They act like total slobs and threaten to come back every day unless the guy comes with them.
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* ''[[Demolition Man]]'': The slobs (led by Edgar Friendly) vs. snobs (enslaved by Dr. Cocteau.) And while the titular Demolition Man identifies more with the slobs, he tells them "you are going to get a lot more clean" as opposed to telling the snobs "you're going to get a little dirty".
* In ''[[Out Cold]]'', a group of working class snowboarders attempt to save their beloved small town from a businessman who wants to turn it into a snooty resort town similar to Aspen, Colorado.
* Pretty much all of ''[[The Mighty Ducks (
* Inverted in ''[[Troop Beverly Hills]]'', in which the children of fantastically rich parents are the underdogs, while a militant troop of middle-class jerks are the villains.
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* ''[[Discworld]]'':
** In ''[[Discworld
** The wizards are generally the Snobs to the Slobs of the city watch, adventurers, or ordinary Morporkians. Due to the nature of the books' changing viewpoints, this is seen from both sides. In a wizard-centric book, the Wizards will be fat and goofy, but capable and wise, whereas the citizens and guards will be an ignorant rabble who doesn't know what they're messing with. In a commoner-centric book, the wizards will seem like a load of pompous, out-of-touch bureaucrats while the commoners are the ones holding everything together.
** ''[[Discworld
** ''[[Discworld
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* ''[[The Outsiders]]'': With upper-class Socs (Socials) vs. lower-class Greasers. Neither group is entirely unified.
* The family rivalry between the impoverished Weasleys and the high-society Malfoys in ''[[Harry Potter]]''.
** The Weasleys are also often compared to the Dursleys, which is perhaps a better example of this trope. The Weasleys are a scruffy bunch with a kooky house and an overgrown garden. The Dursleys live in an overly tidy normal house and are generally obsessed with appearances.
* In [[
* In ''[[Jumping the Broom]]'', the main conflict is between Jason's working-class mother, Pam, and his fiancee Sabrina's wealthy family. Sabrina's mother Claudine sees Pam as low-class, and Pam sees Claudine as uppity.
* [[
** A very mild version plays out between Peter Wingfield and Roger Trembling in ''Fred, Alice and Aunty Lou'' from the ''[[
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** In season 2, Mary Ann Forrester and her dirt-eating revelers are often positioned in direct contrast with the more "refined" vampires, particularly with Queen Sophie Ann.
** Season 3 appears to be going for the full-on war: {{spoiler|Sam's birth family are portrayed as "trashy", sitting around shirtless drinking beer in the middle of the day. Promos show the Were community as [[Badass Biker|Badass Bikers]], contrasted with the King of Mississippi's "equestrian toffs" aesthetic.}}
* In ''[[
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* Middle-class snob Thelma and working-class reverse-snob Terry in ''Whatever Happened To [[The Likely Lads]]?'', with poor, working-class-with-asperations Bob caught in the middle.
* ''[[Steptoe and Son]]'' pitted the unreconstructed slobbishness of Albert Steptoe against the aspirational snobbishness of his son Harold.
* In ''[[The Cape (TV series)|The Cape]]'' Scales, a lower-class British smuggler, gets into a feud with the villain Chess partially because he feels Chess and his business associates are looking down on him.
* ''[[Star Trek:
** Inverted throughout the series with Starfleet (Snobs) vs. Klingons (Slobs).
* In ''[[Babylon
* The short-lived ABC sitcom ''It's All Relative'' centered around the conflict between two sets of in-laws, one a blue-collar Irish Catholic couple and the other a pair of well-heeled gay professionals.
* ''[[Yes, Dear]]'' had a bit of this, with uptight yuppies Greg and Kim contrasted with the more laid-back and downscale Jimmy and Christina.
* ''[[Dharma and Greg]]'' had Dharma and her hippie parents frequently butting heads with Greg's rich WASP parents.
* Happens most of the time in soap operas especially in the Philippines and a few other countries. Expect a few disgruntled viewers who find it cliched and melodramatic, though, although the masses are pretty much used to it.
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== Video Game ==
* [[Wario Land
* The rivalry between ''[[Half Life]]''s Black Mesa Research Facility, who [[The Professor|generally behave like legitimate scientists]], and ''[[Portal (
** Though aesthetically Aperture's clean white Apple-esque everything look plays the snob while Black Mesa's actual science going on look plays the slob. In the older areas of Aperture seen in ''Portal2'', we see that they designed according to whatever looked "cool" for the given time period.
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== Western Animation ==
* [[
* In the ''[[
** "Gan Jing" is Mandarin for "clean" and "Zhang" is Mandarin for "dirty", which makes the names for the tribes...somewhat less than imaginative.
* The ''[[Simpsons]]'' episode "A Tale of Two Springfields" had Homer divide the town in such a feud...[[Disproportionate Retribution|because half the town's phone numbers had a new area code]]. (The "rich" part of town kept the old area code while the rest had to learn a new one.)
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** ''They Saved Lisa's Brain'' could also count, but that's more 'The smart people fo Springfield vs. the idiots of Springfield'.
* The entire premise of ''[[The Oblongs]]'' was this, with the dirty (and physically deformed) Valley at odds with the wealthy and immaculate Hills.
* ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'': The Kids Next Door are the heroic slobs; the Delightful Children from Down the Lane are the villainous snobs (raised by the even more snobbish Father and Grandfather).
* Applejack and Rarity had a feud like this that lasted [[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E8 Look Before You Sleep|a whole episode]] of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
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