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They are not, however, quite ready for tonight's season-ending shocker: Peppermint Blunsten (Joe's daughter) has fallen in love with--you guessed it--the evil Tycoon...
...Blunsten! tradition, the audience groans in sympathy after, on top of all this, Joe gets rejected by an unemployment agency--again...
...show's appeal is undeniable. "It's about Joe Blunsten--a good, honest family man who has one fatal flaw: he can't hold onto a job," says Gailiunas. And, if you haven't guessed already, the show has a socialist bent. "There's always a strict dichotomy between the evil Tycoon and the working man," adds Aron...
...plot line follows a consistent structure, just like a regular sit-com. Every episode, Joe has a new job that seems guaranteed, but, within five minutes, he manages to lose it. Blunsten returns home where success surrounds him: his wife, Marcie, is a slick newscaster. His daughter, Peppermint, gets promoted every week in her job at Taco Parade: first to Golden Sombrero, then to Aztec Sun God and finally, to CEO. Even his pet, Yipper, wins fame and glory as a rescue dog in the Himalayas...
Despite its silliness, Get a New Job, Joe Blunsten's socialist theme is not entirely lost on the audience. "It exposes the American Capitalist myth for the bullshit it really is," says Josh S. Byard '93. "Joe Blunsten, by using the genre of the situation comedy, subverts the entire value system for which it stands." Or, as Gailiunas simply states, "The point is, a lot of money doesn't make you into a nice person...