One of my favorite scenes: I'll tell you what I'm doing. I want to buy eight hot dogs and eight hot dog buns to go with them. But no one sells eight hot dog buns. They only sell twelve hot dog buns. So I end up paying for four buns I don't need. So I am removing the superfluous buns. Yeah. And you want to know why? Because some big-shot over at the wiener company got together with some big-shot over at the bun company and decided to rip off the American public. Because they think the American public is a bunch of trusting nit-wits who will pay for everything they don't need rather than make a stink. Well they're not ripping of this nitwit anymore because I'm not paying for one more thing I don't need. George Banks is saying NO!
All that happened after this is bun bakeries reducing the package to 8 buns, thus cutting the amount by 33% and dropping the price by 10%.
I think the movie expressed something we all felt at one point. It might have been the catalyst for change.
This has been the case since the 1940s.