Slobs Versus Snobs: Difference between revisions

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** ''[[Discworld/Unseen Academicals|Unseen Academicals]]'', which focused evenly on the wizards and their working-class servants, proved there's some truth to both viewpoints.

** ''[[Discworld/Hogfather|Hogfather]]'' featured an argument between the Senior Wrangler and the Dean, based on the fact that the Dean's family hung up pillowcases for the Hogfather, while the Wrangler's hung up very small socks. The Dean's family also bought their holly instead of collecting it themselves, and had "la-di-da posh dinner in the evening" and a big Hogswatch tree in the hall.

{{quote| "I can't help it if my family had money," the Dean said, and this might have defused the situation had he not added, "And standards."}}

{{quote|"I can't help it if my family had money," the Dean said, and this might have defused the situation had he not added, "And standards."}}

* ''[[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]]''.

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** 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 ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' we have Rimmer, who keeps his underpants on coathangers, and Lister, who, well...

{{quote| '''Lister''': No way are these ''my'' boxer shorts! These ''bend''?}}

{{quote|'''Lister''': No way are these ''my'' boxer shorts! These ''bend''?}}

* 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.