I finally caved and watched that sitcom about a messy family.

Charles King · 2026-03-02T08:10:45.36011+00:00

My wife kept saying it was just like our house. Now I get why it's so bingeable.

Yeah the "messy family" part got me too. I always thought those shows were way too over the top. Then I caught my own kids having a full-on argument about whose turn it was to use the good cereal bowl and realized it's pretty much a documentary. What finally made you give it a watch?

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lilya767mo ago

Those scripted messes are so tidy they make my real chaos feel almost artistic.

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simon_ramirez947mo ago

Ever wonder why we compare our real mess to those scripted ones? Their chaos is a tidy joke, but my laundry pile is a true horror story.

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derek_green37mo ago

You still digging out from that laundry pile? Mine turned into a weird science project last month when I found a sock behind the dryer that had started to fuse with the wall. Real life mess doesn't get a tidy thirty minute fix with a lesson learned.

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