History PlayingWith / FriendsRentControl

** The landlord conducts interviews of potential tenets, and rejects ones without steady incomes.

** All the money goes toward rent and bills. Alice and Bob have little to nothing in savings, almost never go out because they can't afford it, and when an emergency comes up (like Bob getting a flat tire), they charge it on a credit card.

'''Basic Trope''': The cast lives in a fancy apartment despite not having steady jobs.

* '''Inverted''': Alice and Bob live on the streets despite having high-paying jobs.

* '''Implied''': Alice and Bob are [[NewJobAsThePlotDemands shown at various jobs for the saķe of gags]], implying that they have long peroids of unemployment.

** Alice and Bob are unable to work jobs due to how much time they spend fighting supernatural menaces. The landlord is either aware of this, or simply noticed that his tenents stopped mysteriously disapering when they moved in.
* '''Played For Drama''': Alice questions why Bob lets his parents make his decisions for him, and Bob is to embarrased to admitt that they pay for their rent.

* '''Zig Zagged''': At first Alice and Bob pay rent. Then a BrokeEpisode comes along and they get away without paying rent for a while. Then their landlord starts demanding payment. Then he eases up on them. Eventually he loses patience, however after Alice and Bob save his life and the life of his children he allows them to stay free permanently.

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* '''Reconstructed''': Fortunately, Alice did have a secret job and was keeping money stashed away from Bob. The haggles with the landlord to get their apartment back and succeeds.

* '''Defied''': Their landlord gives them a newspaper to look for jobs to pay the rent.

* '''Averted''': Alice and Bob have high-paying jobs.

* '''Straight''': Bob and Rob live in an apartment and they don't seem to have any jobs.
* '''Exaggerated''': Bob and Rob live in a glorious mansion and have never worked a day in their lives.
* '''Downplayed''': Bob and Rob both have jobs, but theirs seemed not to be enough to cover their rent.

* '''Inverted''': Bob and Rob live on the streets despite having high-paying jobs.

* '''Parodied''': Bob and Rob are handed the bill for the rent. They add a negative sign to it and the landlord grumbles and gives them money.
* '''Zig Zagged''': At first Bob and Rob pay rent. Then a BrokeEpisode comes along and they get away without paying rent for a while. Then their landlord starts demanding payment. Then he eases up on them. Eventually he loses patience, however after Bob and Rob save his life and the life of his children he allows them to stay free permanently.
* '''Averted''': Bob and Rob have high-paying jobs.

** Bob and Rob were originally going to be talented stock-traders who only needed to make trades once a day at most. However it wasn't considered marketable enough and they are then left as inexplicably wealthy singles.
** Bob and Rob live in a huge apartment because it makes it easier to film.
* '''Lampshaded''': The apartment's slogan is "You never have to worry about rent again."

* '''Exploited''': In the pilot episode, it's established that Rob and Bob are getting evicted for not paying their bills. However, one day they see their landlord in peril and rush in to save his life. When the landlord asks how he can thank the pair, the pair responds by asking for rent control.

* '''Conversed''': "How can Bob even afford this palace?"

** The landlord's decision to grant Rob and Bob rent control comes as part of a bigger storyline about how the landlord wants to fight poverty, believing that he has a moral obligation to ensure everyone has a house over their heads, even if it means he won't earn as much profit as he would have liked.
* '''Reconstructed''': Fortunately, Rob did have a secret job and was keeping money stashed away from Bob. The haggles with the landlord to get their apartment back and succeeds.

Hold it right there, Mr. Siht! If you wanna go back to FriendsRentControl, I'll need ya to pay up for the last three months- whadaya mean, what's that!?

* '''Justified''': * They had rent control.
* Someone else is covering their rent.
* The landlord owes them a favour.
* They won at a lottery.
* The house is located in a low-cost neighbourhood.

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* '''Justified''': They had rent control, someone else is covering their rent, the landlord owes them a favour, they won a million dollars at a lottery...

* '''Enforced''': Bob and Rob were originally going to be talented stock-traders who only needed to make trades once a day at most. However it wasn't considered marketable enough and they are then left as inexplicably wealthy singles.

* '''Discussed''': The landlord's decision to grant Rob and Bob rent control comes as part of a bigger storyline about how the landlord wants to fight poverty, believing that he has a moral obligation to ensure everyone has a house over their heads, even if it means he won't earn as much profit as he would have liked.

* '''Exploited''': ???

* '''Discussed''': ???

* '''Downplayed''': ???

* '''Averted''': Bob is a doctor, or another high-paying job.

* '''Parodied''': Bob and Rob are handed the bill for the rent. They add a negative sign to it and the landlord grumbles and gives them money.
* '''Deconstructed''':
** The landlord is keeping tabs on their lack of payment and when he had enough he evicts them.
** The effect that all of the free riders have on the market is made explicit. The result is not pretty.
* '''Reconstructed''': Fortunately, Rob did have a secret job and was keeping money stashed away from Bob. The haggles with the landlord to get their apartment back and succeeds.
* '''Zig Zagged''': At first Bob and Rob pay rent. Then a BrokeEpisode comes along and they get away without paying rent for a while. Then their landlord starts demanding payment. Then he eases up on them. Eventually he loses patience, however after Bob and Rob save his life and the life of his children he allows them to stay free permanently.

* '''Enforced''': Bob and Rob were originally going to be talented stock-traders who only needed to make trades once a day at most. However it wasn't considered marketable enough and they are then left as inexplicably wealthy singles.

** The work takes place in a LotusEaterMachine.

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* '''Deconstructed''': The landlord is keeping tabs on their lack of payment and when he had enough he evicts them.

* '''Invoked''': Their landlord allows them to stay.

* '''Justified''': They had rent control.
** Someone else is covering their rent.
** They won a million dollars at a lottery.

* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

* '''Reconstructed''': ???

* '''Conversed''': "How can you even afford this palace?"

* '''Conversed''': ???

* '''Parodied''': ???

* '''Enforced''': ???