> The Simpsons is about a man who can always support a family of five people and two pets on a blue-collar worker's income
He's a nuclear safety inspector; does that count as blue-collar? I don't really know much about the job frankly. I don't think it's implausible that it may be quite enough to support a family, especially in a small town.
Not to defend the realism of the Simpsons wrt his job, but I'm pretty sure the joke is that he manages to keep his well-paid, relatively important job.
The actual real-life job might not be blue-collar, but as portrayed in The Simpsons, he walks into an interview having graduated high school and gets the job, so is pretty solidly blue-collar.
He's a nuclear safety inspector; does that count as blue-collar? I don't really know much about the job frankly. I don't think it's implausible that it may be quite enough to support a family, especially in a small town.
Not to defend the realism of the Simpsons wrt his job, but I'm pretty sure the joke is that he manages to keep his well-paid, relatively important job.