Shoe Shopping: As Seen on TV

The above clip is from "Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia"--Dee, is trying to live out a "Sex and the City" fantasy weekend. She blackmails some women (she only has male friends) into going out to a bar with her and she goes to an expensive shoe boutique in order to buy some extremely uncomfortable shoes that are way over priced, and of course her credit card gets rejected because $700 for a pair of shoes seems ridiculous to the credit card company considering her moderate spending prior to this fiscal suicide venture.

I'm posting it for a couple reasons: 1. its really funny, 2. its a comment on how ridiculous the as seen on tv single-woman behaves. Dee is a cocktail waitress trying to become an actor, incidentally, she doesn't have the cash for this Sex & the City crap--most women don't and even the women on SACT didn't (or at least, the main character Carrie Bradshaw would have made $70,000, yet lived a $380,000-$600,000 lifestyle according to some economists that have analyzed the show.

I love that in this clip, Dee can't even walk in the shoes, let alone escape the clerk when she tries to steal them.

Just to reiterate, the "as seen on tv" single gal is about as realistic as the average woman presented in Vogue or Elle--not representative in other words.