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* ''Film/TheHouseOfYes'': Four of the [[MinimalistCast five characters]] are members of an elitist, wealthy, well-educated family. The fifth is a ditzy girl who is trying to marry the main character and also happens to be middle class and uneducated. Despite this contrast, she is the most sympathetic and sane person in the film.

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* ''Film/TheHouseOfYes'': Four of the [[MinimalistCast five characters]] are members of an elitist, wealthy, well-educated family. The fifth is a ditzy girl who is trying to marry the main character and also happens to be middle class middle-class and uneducated. Despite this contrast, she is the most sympathetic and sane person in the film.



* ''Film/LaTerraTrema'': The villagers of Aci Trezza, a Sicilian fishing town where the fishermen are ruthlessly cheated and exploited by the fish wholesalers who collect their catch. The villagers accept their fate with ox-like stupidity, not even realizing that they are exploited by the merchants, and if they do, simply accepting it as their fate. They mock and ridicule Ntoni Valastro, the one young fisherman who had hoped to break the cycle of poverty by buying his own fishing boat and selling his own catch. After his boat is wrecked they are even worse, taking positive delight in the misfortunes of the Valastros. At the end, a bitter Ntoni talks about how everyone in the village abandoned him.

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* ''Film/LaTerraTrema'': The villagers of Aci Trezza, a Sicilian fishing town where the fishermen are ruthlessly cheated and exploited by the fish wholesalers who collect their catch. The villagers accept their fate with ox-like stupidity, not even realizing that they are exploited by the merchants, and if they do, simply accepting it as their fate. They mock and ridicule Ntoni Valastro, the one young fisherman who had hoped to break the cycle of poverty by buying his own fishing boat and selling his own catch. After his boat is wrecked they are even worse, taking positive delight in the misfortunes of the Valastros. At In the end, a bitter Ntoni talks about how everyone in the village abandoned him.



** Zigzagged with the Weasleys (in particular Percy and the twins), though they're arguable ImpoverishedPatrician[=s=] due to their pureblood status -- though if they do count as working-class, Ron is the least impressive of the bunch because he's overshadowed by all of his brothers but even he is [[SmartPeoplePlayChess a whiz at wizard chess]].
* In ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'', the filthy rich Cullens are treated as the epitome of class and intelligence, while almost all of the rest of Forks (working-class people) are portrayed as gossipy (Jessica and her mother), impractical (Mike's mother), overly superstitious (nearly every Quileute), stupid (most of the other students at Forks), or in awe of the endless wealth of the Cullens. Bella is working-class and [[InformedAbility supposedly]] very intelligent, but spends the entire series identifying with Edward and his family.

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** Zigzagged with the Weasleys (in particular Percy and the twins), though they're arguable ImpoverishedPatrician[=s=] arguably {{Impoverished Patrician}}s due to their pureblood status -- though if they do count as working-class, Ron is the least impressive of the bunch because he's overshadowed by all of his brothers but even he is [[SmartPeoplePlayChess a whiz at wizard chess]].
* In ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'', the filthy rich Cullens are treated as the epitome of class and intelligence, while almost all of the rest of Forks (working-class people) are portrayed as gossipy (Jessica and her mother), impractical (Mike's mother), overly superstitious (nearly every Quileute), stupid (most of the other students at Forks), or in awe of the endless wealth of the Cullens. Bella is working-class and [[InformedAbility supposedly]] very intelligent, intelligent but spends the entire series identifying with Edward and his family.



** [[JadedWashout Al]] [[StrawLoser Bundy]] is presented as a pathetic middle-aged loser trapped in PerpetualPoverty and a SoulSuckingRetailJob partly because of his poor judgement (thinking that SchoolIsForLosers and that he could coast through life on his football skills, before he broke his leg and lost his scholarship), stubbornness (he repeatedly tries to DoomItYourself and causes more problems than he already starts), SmallNameBigEgo persona (he brags about scoring four touchdowns in a high school championship football game despite being in his forties), and tendency towards {{GetRichQuickScheme}}s that inevitably fail.

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** [[JadedWashout Al]] [[StrawLoser Bundy]] is presented as a pathetic middle-aged loser trapped in PerpetualPoverty and a SoulSuckingRetailJob partly because of his poor judgement (thinking that SchoolIsForLosers and that he could coast through life on his football skills, skills before he broke his leg and lost his scholarship), stubbornness (he repeatedly tries to DoomItYourself and causes more problems than he already starts), SmallNameBigEgo persona (he brags about scoring four touchdowns in a high school championship football game despite being in his forties), and tendency towards {{GetRichQuickScheme}}s that inevitably fail.



* ''Series/{{Mash}}'': The blue blooded Charles Winchester quite enjoyed the view from the top of his nose of the company clerks, the farmboy Radar O'Reily and the Toldeo-born Max Klinger. If he was ever upset with them, his insults almost invariably conflated their lower class and their intelligence, with Klinger also getting a bonus jab for being Lebanese.

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* ''Series/{{Mash}}'': The blue blooded blue-blooded Charles Winchester quite enjoyed the view from the top of his nose of the company clerks, the farmboy Radar O'Reily O'Reilly and the Toldeo-born Max Klinger. If he was ever upset with them, his insults almost invariably conflated their lower class and their intelligence, with Klinger also getting a bonus jab for being Lebanese.



* ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob''— Bob runs a newsstand and is generally the most poorly educated member of the central cast (he's dating a college teacher, his adopted daughter is a genius, and Voluptua is a 300-year old member of space royalty), but he consistently displays more [[SimpleMindedWisdom common sense]] than those around him. Played with when Jean expresses surprise that he went to college. Bob: "I majored in [[ADegreeInUseless newsstand management]]! No way I could have kept it running through [[WeirdnessMagnet all this]] if I didn't have a degree in it!"

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* ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob''— Bob runs a newsstand and is generally the most poorly educated member of the central cast (he's dating a college teacher, his adopted daughter is a genius, and Voluptua is a 300-year old 300-year-old member of space royalty), but he consistently displays more [[SimpleMindedWisdom common sense]] than those around him. Played with when Jean expresses surprise that he went to college. Bob: "I majored in [[ADegreeInUseless newsstand management]]! No way I could have kept it running through [[WeirdnessMagnet all this]] if I didn't have a degree in it!"



* Played for laughs in a ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' sketch that placed ''Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse''[='=]s Teela and Evil-Lyn in a farm for a reality show called "Country Folk R Morons" (a play on The Simple Life, starring the ''RC'' sketch's main target or inspiration Creator/ParisHilton). A farmer tries to explain to them theoretical quantum chrono dynamics.

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* Played for laughs in a ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' sketch that placed ''Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse''[='=]s Teela and Evil-Lyn in on a farm for a reality show called "Country Folk R Morons" (a play on The ''The Simple Life, Life'', starring the ''RC'' sketch's main target or inspiration Creator/ParisHilton). A farmer tries to explain to them theoretical quantum chrono dynamics.

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