I read/watch a lot of old mysteries. Up until about 1980, it’s common for writers to put exact amounts of money in the dialogue. They stopped doing that because something that seemed like a lot of money would eventually seem cheap. For instance, Jim Rockford’s $200.00 a day plus expenses doesn’t seem like a lot of money when minimum wage is $120.00 a day. Or the famous $5.00 milkshake in ‘Pulp Fiction.’
TIL this quote was from this show. I always attributed to that time Michael Jackson was allowed to walk around in a closed grocery store for the “experience”.
Where tf do you live that a banana is $10?
They probably live in the Bananas Stand.
There’s always money in the Banana Stand.
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It’s a pretty famous joke from the old show ‘Arrested Development.’ A rich matron asks ‘how much can a banana cost? $10?’
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I read/watch a lot of old mysteries. Up until about 1980, it’s common for writers to put exact amounts of money in the dialogue. They stopped doing that because something that seemed like a lot of money would eventually seem cheap. For instance, Jim Rockford’s $200.00 a day plus expenses doesn’t seem like a lot of money when minimum wage is $120.00 a day. Or the famous $5.00 milkshake in ‘Pulp Fiction.’
In my own world.
It’s one banana, how much could it cost?
Whoosh?
I guess so lmao
Oh also: https://xkcd.com/2892/
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl_Qyk9DSUw
TIL this quote was from this show. I always attributed to that time Michael Jackson was allowed to walk around in a closed grocery store for the “experience”.
It’s a meme from the show Arrested Development
https://youtu.be/Nl_Qyk9DSUw?si=lKG8W33s6L_MYjKm