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2 | ''Working Class'' is a 2011 Creator/{{CMT}} sitcom, the first scripted program for the network. |
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4 | Creator/MelissaPeterman (host of ''Series/TheSingingBee'' on the same network; best known as Barbara Jean on ''Series/{{Reba}}'') stars as Carli Mitchell, a twice-divorced mother of three trying to make ends meet between her kids and her idiot leech of a brother. She works at [[strike:Whole]] [[BlandNameProduct Parker Foods]] with her neighbor, Hank (Creator/EdAsner), and her boss, Rob (Creator/PatrickFabian), whom she has a crush on. |
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7 | !!The show provides examples of: |
8 | * AndStarring: Creator/EdAsner, of course, gets that coveted spot. |
9 | * BenevolentBoss: Rob Parker, even though Carli flirts with him heavily when they first meet. |
10 | ** Carli even conspires with Rob to inflict a punishment on Scott when he messes up the store after getting a job there. |
11 | *** Even when Carli delivers a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to two women who she later realized were his sister and her daughter, he sides with Carli. (The two in question were a RichBitch and an AlphaBitch.) |
12 | * BlandNameProduct: Parker Foods is a Whole Foods ripoff. |
13 | * IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine: In one memorable episode of ''Reba,'' Barbara Jean develops a crush on her preacher, who she nicknames "Reverend Yummypants." Now, the same actor plays Carli's boss, who Carli has a crush on. |
14 | ** And, of course, Reba herself. |
15 | * LargeHam: Melissa Peterman's stand-up comedy background means that Carli is going to naturally gravitate toward this, especially in a Jackie from ''Roseanne'' neurotic kind of way. |
16 | * OneHeadTaller: Inverted with one of Carli's dates, played by David Faustino. [[TinyGuyHugeGirl He's 5'3", she's 5'10"]]. Justified for him because he just got through a messy divorce with a woman who's shorter than he is. |
17 | * OutOfOrder: It would appear that way. In episode 7, Rob didn't recognize Scott, despite hiring him as a stockboy the week before. |
18 | ** Melissa Peterman's [[http://twitter.com/#!/followtheblonde Twitter]] intimates that they shot the episode featuring Reba last. It was the third aired episode. |
19 | * PerpetualPoverty: Bad enough for Carli to have to water down milk every so often, but not bad enough that they don't have an internet connection. |
20 | ** Although in the episode "Lunch Lady," it's implied that they moved to a better town so the kids could go to a better school, many of which do incorporate internet use (if nothing else, they might need to do online research.) Besides, internet access has gotten dirt cheap in recent years and a family of five would go through milk pretty fast. |
21 | * StatuesqueStunner: What Carli imagines herself to be: "All this is worth the climb!" |
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