I’ve heard people over and over talk about how Roseanne showed life like a real-life family, and that no one lived like the Cosby show. My family was decidedly more Cosby than Connor. We lived in big houses in nice neighborhoods. My father was an executive and my mother ran an antique shop, after teaching school for several years. There are five kids in my family, and we genarally got along quite well, although my brother did torment the twins. There was never any shouting in our family, and I rarely heard my parents disagree, let alone argue. We were taught that if you owed courtesy to anyone, it’s the people you live with.
Well, dad was pretty much Archie Bunker and mom was a pretty good Edith, so I will say I grew up All In The Family. I would have been Gloria and Mike’s liberal, queer son.
Cosby family. My parents are both college-educated professionals, though not near as high earning as the Cosbys. We lived in a middle-class neighborhood. My parents were really good at the teachable moment and getting a lesson out of difficult situations. (much better at this than I’m turning out to be, sigh).
There was little shouting until I got to be a teenager and then we had plenty of teenage girl dramatics (just like the Cosbys ) which my parents dealt with with love and wisdom.
Definately Roseanne-esque, but with an extra dose of Texas white trashiness. My older brother was holding a wrench since before he could walk, so we even had a car or two up on blocks in the yard throughout most of my childhood.
My Grandpa’s (Dad’s Dad) family was very much like the Waltons. A Christian family with lots of kids that lived on a farm that had to mainly rely on each other to get by.
A mix of George Lopez and the Cosbys. Working class hispanics in The Bronx and Brooklyn. Throw in a little Ugly Betty too, for the conflict between family obligations and independence.
I have to add that there was a lot of Rosanne. We fought and goofed on each other and hurt each other’s feelings and had money problems too.
Anyway, I’d say my family was mostly like Growing Pains. Which is a little alarming, I suppose. A family that mostly got on okay, but we each had or secrets that sometimes came to light and caused some amount of problems.
I guess we were a Cosby family - I mean, we had our fights and all, but all told we were never mean (well, I was, but teenagers are, right?) No siblings, though.
My parents divorced when I was five. I stayed with my mom most of the time. It was definitely like Roseanne. When I stayed with my dad, it was Home Improvement.
) which my parents dealt with with love and wisdom.