Theo's new rebuttal to Cliff's statement: Millionaires with no college!
We all know the classic series pilot in which Cliff told Theo the importance of doing well in school to enter college. Cliff then gave Theo an economic lesson using Monopoly money.
When Theo then suggested that he love him unconditionally because they are father and son, Cliff refuted that statement by stating that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard in my life.
The series started in 1984 when things appeared to be more traditional and getting a college degree was very important. But it looks like about a dozen years later, it looks like college appeared to be less and less important with notable exceptions left and right about very successful people without college degrees.
I wonder what Cliff would have responded if Theo gave this argument instead supposing that the series started 30 years later in 2014:
Dad....there are a lot of self-made millionaires and billionaires who do not have college degrees such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Ralph Lauren, Ted Turner, Michael Dell, and Larry Ellison. So I'm confident that I'll do just fine and be financially successful just like these college dropouts.