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Stephen Robinson @SER1897
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Not to co-opt this thread, but I love the Ma and Pa Kent reference. It's important bc that *is* really how the average person views farmers. It's literally how they were depicted in the media.
By the late '70s, the Ma and Pa Kent trope was already outdated enough that Superboy comics made them small business owners of a general store in town. But I think the Rockwell depiction of them in SUPERMAN THE MOVIE stuck & that's how the Kents were depicted in movies/TV shows.
It was laughable whenever you'd see Jonathan Kent on SMALLVILLE fiddling with a tractor or something, which implied he managed to run a farm by himself (with some super aid from his alien son).
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