I thought it was a lottery thing, or his wife is working a high paying job. but they never explained how or why he is retired and I only ask cause all his friends are working still and he was wild about spending money in the first episode.
shareI'm wondering the same thing!
share*beep* so it's not an oblivious thing that I'm missing? I just thought I missed something. and this seems like something they would need to answer in the first episode and not a reveal down the line, so I'm really confused. Kevin James is only 51, that still tens plus years from the average age of retirement.
shareI agree and I'm surprised they haven't elaborated on it yet. It should have been made clear right from the start.
Either way, I'm really glad to see Kevin James back on TV. I wish the supporting cast was better though. The writing is good and Kevin still makes me laugh out loud, but the cast really needs huge improvement. I hope they make some changes and that this sitcom sticks around for a few years...
...I really miss having those types of shows on the air.
They can retire at 55. How hard is it to grasp? Playing 4 years older than you are isn't a stretch.
shareit's not just that he retired but how he's acting like he just won the lotto and spending money like crazy when he's living off a pension and got a good 30 years to look forward to, and two kids to still support.
shareWill you quit saying he was spending like he won the lotto? Not even close.
shareyou don't even think its weird how in his first day of retirement he is planning cross country road trips and spending money on so much *beep* that his wife has to say something about? I mean he bought muscle milk just cause he watched rocky. he bought and put together a go kart cause he was feeling old. I mean he's not facing ten years of retirement on a huge pension, he's still young and is living on a cop's pension with two young kids and one in college with a wife that's a school nurse. unless you won the lotto that just seems like excessive spending.
shareNone of his friends are working, what the hell have you been watching?
There are several threads here stating that NY cops can retire after 20 years service, so cops could conceivably retire in their 40s.
Copied this from another board answering a a question about NYPD retirement plane
if you look at the NYPD's recruiting website, it gives average pension payments after 22 years of service (meaning someone who joined the NYPD at 21 could retire at age 43) at various levels in the NYPD.
I never knew that, and will accept that as an answer but the show never shown or acted like that was obvious, but new York also has such one of the biggest budgets for the police when it be comes to budgets as it's the ninth biggest budget compare to militates in the world. but also again his buddy aren't retried and they as old as him or older.
shareDo you watch the show? Why do you keep saying his buddies aren't retired when they clearly are. We have never seen them work and in the pilot it was made abundantly clear they all retired together.
The only exception is his brother, played by Gary Valentine who is still 'active' in the FDNY, but in the pilot it was insinuated that he hasn't actually fought a fire in years and is essentially just the chef in the firehouse. But I don't really count him as a friend as he isn't always part of the group, he just pops up occasionally to be annoying.
okay my bad, I just remember his bro saying that he is still working, and his buddies are always busy. I thought his buddies are busy with work, cause Kevin says in the first episode that his retirement hasn't had that great of a start cause he can't do what he wants and all his buddies are never around. I gotta re-watch it but I assume it was do to work, they were properly busy with their families.
shareHe plays a retired Nassau County Cop living in Massapequa NY
shareCops can retire younger than most people.
shareI may be wrong but I thought that they did address that all of them retired because they had put in their 20 years. Remember episode one where before his retirement party, they were all planning their retirement activities. They had the pie chart there, if that helps you to recall it.
shareKevin James is 54 so it's plausible that he retired after 30 years service with full annual salary plus benefits.
sharestill a weird age to retire and spend money like crazy, like he did in the first episode. he acted like he hit the lotto. I mean I would understand it more so if he was 70 plus and he was spending like crazy, then that be him making up lost time/burning money while he can.
shareI hate to be rude, but I really have to question if you paid attention or not.
He hardly spent like he had won the lotto. Sure, he spent $90 on some muscle powder, which is excessive given he was unlikely to use it, but it's not like it's a huge amount. Winning the lotto would mean buying flash cars etc.
In the first episode he was talking about learning to use a crossbow which are about $66.99 then he talked about a cross country road trip on motorcycles which the bike is about 9k to 23k, and that's choosing a basic bike that's design for long distance travel. then he seems to wanna plan everyday drinking which is $60 to $100, depending on drinking out or in, and his plans for the week include thurday gokarts $9-$24 (but he ended up buying a kart $350-600), paintball fridays $25 per person(but yet again got a gun $100-500, and that's not including the balls or any gear besides the mask). and if you read his power point he wants to see the mets so I'm guessing season tickets in decent seats run you $100-$300. he also had pizza and beer for breakfast, so lets say three beers(bud six pack $10) and one medium pizza $15 so over a week will be $145. he also bought a fast pass for a water park $50.
that's a $11,946.99 in his first month but minus the gokart, crossbow, paintball gun, and season tickets but then adding paint balls(1000 $24.99) co2 tanks(24-oz $59.99) that's still a monthly expenses of $2514.98 just on entertainment and breakfast... not including his bills, mortgage, real food, and he has two young kids to deal with. so I don't know what you do for a living but this is a lot to most people. and I was doing the math of all the cheapest options, so if he ended up going all out on one or more things, then this number is only going up. also didn't count on how much his gas bill would be on the road trip/hotels/food. also not doing the math on all the go pros on his go kart.
look even his wife was saying he was spending so much and his wife(after re-watching the first episode) is only a school nurse. but Kevin behavior is that of a lotto winner and not a guy who just retired looking towards a good 30-40 years.
Yes but all of that was just talk and plans - he didn't actually go out and buy/do most of that.
"Two gin and Frescas"
"Shaken, not ridiculed"
cause at the end of the episode his retirement plan needed a renter for the garage but for his daughter's sake they let her and boyfriend live in there. also he had to start looking for a part time job. he also blames his friends wife/kids of getting in the way of the plans. but he still was acting very loose with his money, and that was my whole point.
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