This is not to say that there are no losers in American sit-coms: there are losers, but they tend to be a rather better class of loser; less irredeemably hopeless, squalid, grubby and unappealing than the English variety. One or two of the characters in Friends, for example, did not have successful careers, but neither did they ever have a hair out of place. The girls in 2 Broke Girls may be broke, and working as waitresses, but perfect features and permanently flawless make-up must be some consolation.
