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* Tim Nice-But-Dim from the ''[[wikipedia:Harry Enfieldchr(27)Enfield's Television Programme|Harry Enfield's Television Programme]]''.

* London Tipton from ''[[The Suite Life of Zack and Cody]]'' is a good example of the heiress subtype (a hotel heiress named after a European capital... hmm). If she waswere bit crueler and considerably smarter then she might qualify as the [[Rich Bitch]], but her self absorption seems to stem more from being [[The Ditz|one of the stupidest characters on television]] than any intentional meanness.

** Well, [[Lonely Rich Kid|her father, Mr. Tipton]] is never shown on screen and will frequently be busy with business dealings instead of spending Christmas or other special occasions with herhis daughter. The fact that London also seems to have a [[Missing Mom]] does not help matters.

* Jefferson D'Arcy from ''[[Married... with Children]]'' believes that he should live in a one-income household because he's "too pretty to work", and he rebuffs any and all attempts by his wife Marcy to convince him to get a job. Marcy's ex-husband, Steve Rhoades, worked in the banking business along with her... until they divorced and he went crazy.

*** Interestingly enough, Will started out as being the streetwise guy who was totally unlike the rest of the family... but the show hinted in at least one episode that Will became more like the Banks'sBankses after living with them for a while. Will's reaction when this dawns on him can only be described as hilarious.

* In ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'', Dr. Julian Bashir starts as a bit of this. Class is downplayed in the Trekverse, but he is the {{spoiler|genetically enhanced}} son of a prominent family on Earth, which in ''Trek'' is the paradisiacally well-supplied and well-run centre of [[The Federation]]. He loves to expound on how he's excited to be doing "frontier medicine" with primitive equipment -- [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOWQnX6VOyo in front of people for whom the "frontier" is their homeworld[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOWQnX6VOyo .] Luckily, he undergoes [[Character Development]] -- but not until after an early episode gives him a perversely enjoyable [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]]. (This is an interesting case because Bashir is ''not'' [[The Ditz]], instead being an [[Insufferable Genius]], but still fits the character type well.)

* ''[[Nathan Barley|Nathan Barley's]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s eponymous protagonist. The character was created by Charlie Brooker and first appeared in his [[TV Go Home]] book, which revealed Barley lived off cheques from his parents and spent his days working out "which job to pretend to do next". In the series he spends his parents' money on an office full of video editing equipment and gives himself the job title "self-facilitating media node".

* In ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', itsit's revealed that before becoming a vampire, Spike was once known as William Pratt, a meek, effete young Victorian Gentlemen and [[Momma's Boy]]. His sobriquet of "William the Bloody" actually derives from the fact he wrote bloody awful poetry -- and that "Spike" derives from listeners saying they'd rather have a railroad spike driven through their heads.

* Rachel in ''[[Friends]]'' is presented this way in the beginning of the series. After running out of her own wedding that(which was most likely funded by her wealthy parents), Rachel moves into an apartment that her best friend, a working middle class woman, lives in. Rachel is shown to be completely clueless in the most basic tasks, such as taking out the garbage or knowing who ordered what in the coffee house. Rachel does get better over time and manages to shed most, if not, all, of her twit.