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an unusual youngest child, and a flurry of economic concerns. The pitfalls of being an average family with below-average means in a below-average economy are easy to empathize with, particularly because The Middle never makes fun of the Hecks' coupon clipping, broken appliances, or failures. It portrays them as totally typical, and even uses those missteps as a catalyst for family bonding—a notion that audiences can laugh with,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], not at.Blue-collar family life is portrayed with much more slapstick on the Fox comedy Raising Hope. The deranged Chance family revels and takes pride in their pseudo-trashiness but also betrays an underlying insecurity about not being fancy or respectable enough for their surprise baby, Hope. On the NBC parenting sitcom Up All Night, Christina Applegate and Will Arnett bumble through raising an infant. Unlike the protagonists of those groan-worthy '90s shows, they come off as real adults, who curse and have sex and are genuinely concerned about how clueless they are about child-rearing