Heh, you just beat me to the Buffy leather inventory.
I see her as the kind of person who’d be very good at getting bargains in the sales. In any case, that lot wouldn’t add up to much money at all. I know loads of poor people who manage to dress well.
(Though TBH I don’t remember her having so much leather, I’ll take your word for it).
Sterling Archer, code name Duchess. So much so that he had to embezzle 50k from his employer, a spy agency, to finance his trips to Whore Island. He would’ve gone to jail, or more likely been scolded by his mother, if he hadn’t been able to pin it on the mole he thought he’d made up.
He did? I can’t remember any reference to Angel working or having an income at all. He was certainly free to go gallivanting around the sewers with Buffy enough.
They do a lot of credit card fraud. 
Actually, when you think about their situations, Dean would have zero debt and no expenses beyond food, gas, and ammo. Sam might have student loans, but I would guess he’s blowing them off. He also might have worked his way through college, back when he was legit.
Laurel Canyon? Really? The actual house is in Sherman Oaks, and I can’t recall any reference to Laurel Cyn. Plus the topography of the area surrounding the Brady house is absolutely not a canyon, not that that would prevent the show from saying that it was.
The actual Brady house is only a split-level, making it all the more confusing. 
Well, they also have to pay for all of those kooky motel rooms. And a million layers of flannel.
Sam had a full ride to college. I don’t think he would have many/any loans because if you don’t have a credit history (which most college-age people don’t) you need your parents to cosign your loans. And not only is there no way John would have cosigned, he probably would have made Sam’s application worse.
He lived above the Bronze - I certainly never got the impression that he owned it.
I thought Angel lived in an underground lair somewhere. (Until the third season, when he lived in that mansion place.) I never thought he lived above the Bronze - which looked like a warehouse, and not something that had a place for a second story.
The actual house in in Studio City, between Tujunga and Vineland just north of Ventura Blvd. (11222 Dilling St) In 1973 it was sold for 61,000 according to Zillow.com.
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This is correct. It was the underground lair deal where he and Buffy first had sex. I can’t remember where it is exactly, but Angel and Buffy are somehow able to get to it while fleeing from the Judge and Spike and Drusilla’s cronies through the sewers. Angel neither owned nor lived above the Bronze.
Conversely, TV doctors are always broke, always moaning about how much they pay in student loans, and the only one I’ve ever seen living in a house instead of an apartment is Lisa Cuddy from House, and even then she’s the head of the hospital. Everybody else lives in one bedroom shitholes except for the one season where House and Wilson were roommates, where they had a two bedroom shithole.
One point that hasn’t come up yet is the idea of inheritance. I think it’s quite possible many of these TV families just inherited a parent’s house and probably have lower expenses than people today, although it’s strangely convenient that the house has exactly the number of bedrooms to provide everybody with their own room. I think judging their expenses by the quality of their house is not the only way to measure if someone is living beyond their means. Also, in many places, cheap houses are available. It’s not surprising to find a 3-5 bedroom home for under 50k, for example.
I would nominate the A-Team. They use an amazing amount of ammunition, gasoline, tools, etc. and every week the amount of gold on Mr. T’s neck would increase. They also spend an amazing amount of money keeping Mr. T tranquilized. Logically, they would also need to feed 4 grown men. Having escaped from prison, they wouldn’t have access to any money they had saved previously. Also, in all the episodes I remember, they never collected the fee for helping out poor Farmer John.
Adrian Monk lives far beyond his probable income, especially since he has to pay for a full-time personal assistant.
The A-team saved money by having Murdock stay in a mental hospital.
Also in the last season they were subsidized by the goverment by working for Robert Vaughn.
Plus all that plastic sheeting.
I don’t remember explicit mention of Costello paying Sullivan as an adult, but it’s a given, IMO. Their first encounter involves Costello giving Sullivan grocery money as kid, for one thing. More importantly, why would Sullivan rat for free? I assumed he could afford the fancy apartment because he had illicit money coming to him.
Thanks Antinor01 - ignorance fought!
I always figured Sullivan’s loyalty to Costello came from the fact that Costello was a father figure to him and put him through school.
Come to think of it, if Sullivan was, in fact, receiving payment from Costello, why didn’t Madolyn (Sullivan’s girlfriend) ever question how they were able to afford such a nice place?