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    Unspoken but obvious back stories

    1. Six friends live in New York. Two of them are unemployed, one works as a waitress in a coffee bar, one is a sous-chef in a pizza parlour, one is a junior employee at some kind of financial business, and one teaches paleontology of all things at a college. Yet they live in two huge three-bedroomed apartments in mid-town, with an estimated value of c.$800k.

    Yeah, we get it, at least three of them are high-rolling drugs dealers, and the "dinosaur" guy is probably leading the gang, getting his students to run the deals for him.

    2. An old hermit, living in the desert, upon befriending a young boy (and his two droids), takes him to the big city, and in particular takes him to a cantina he knows where, he says to the youngster, "we'll find what we're looking for".

    Yeah, we bet you will, grandpa. Not been there before, have you, eh?

    Any others?

    #2
    Unspoken but obvious back stories

    I think you'll find that girls' flat is owned by a family member.

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      #3
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      The Fonz is obviously a drug dealer. He hangs around with high school/college kids, wears a leather jacket, and refers to a toilet as his 'office'. And his catchphrase is 'Eeeeeee'.

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        #4
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        It's "back story" or "history" though, not "back history".

        The girls' flat in 'Friends' was rent-controlled, I think.

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          #5
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          pedant.

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            #6
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            wikipedia to the rescue:

            Monica's apartment was one of the main focal points of the series. Many critics of the show began to question how Monica could ever afford the apartment on a chef's salary, so the writers of Friends explained that she sublet the apartment from her grandmother, who had moved to Florida. In the series finale, Chandler remarks to one of his newborn twins, "Thanks to rent control, it was a friggin' steal."

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              #7
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              And they are only 2 bed flats too.

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                #8
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                ET is a little tyke.

                It'll be six with the plimsoll when they get him home, and off to bed with no tea.

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