While Kevin James' big screen career has focused on the fantastic yet impractical subjects 1 of mall copping, zookeeping and boom coming, his television credits contain some true insight into modern middle class struggles. A 2002 episode of The King of Queens offered an accurate, microcosmic and Nostradamic look at America's current debt ceiling/fiscal cliff/sequestration/Bill Maher fingerpointapalooza crisis. In said episode ( S'Poor House from season five), Doug and Carrie learn that their basement is riddled with mold. It will cost $12,000 to replace the dry rot; a sum that the cash-strapped, lower middle class Heffernans (Doug works as a driver for the privatized and profitable IPS delivery service while Carrie is a secretary) can't possibly afford 2 . At Carrie's insistance, Doug swallows his pride and petitions his father for a loan. Mr. Heffernan, financially sound in his old age, agrees, but on the one condition that Doug finall...
Over-caffeinated and underpaid. Go America. Go Dodgers.