OPINION: SOCIAL CLASS

"Looking rich makes you nervous. This fine set of wheels intimidates your basic gross nature." (Bait)

Pure, wide speculation that Hutch comes from an upper class/well-educated background
• Hutch notes Coyle’s artwork, bending over to check the artist in the corner. (Iron Mike)
• He pronounces, “harass” in an overly cultured way. Starsky corners him on it. (Bust Amboy)
• Hutch knows his fine champagne. (Bust Amboy)
• Hutch considers himself the Bentley, Rolls, Cadillac, Corvette, Ferrari type of guy. (Golden Angel)
• Hutch knows his fine caviar and red salmon as opposed to black Russian sturgeon. (Bust Amboy)
• He asks Theresa to “check the wine cellar.” (Shootout)
• Hutch knows the phrase “vino de casa.” (Shootout)
• Hutch knows how to act at a jazz club and implies that Starsky is a rube. (Losing Streak)
• Hutch knows how to act in a restaurant and implies that Starsky is a rube. (Shootout)
• Hutch asks, “What’s money for if you can’t make somebody happy?” Nice thought but spoken like someone who has never had to worry about the rent and groceries. (Photo Finish)
• Hutch went to college. (Omaha Tiger)
• Looking rich doesn’t make Hutch nervous. (Bait)
• He taps Kate’s glass, knowing fine crystal makes a prolonged, clear ring. (Cover Girl)
• Hutch knows which wine glass is for red wine. (Cover Girl)
• Hutch appears to be quite comfortable at Monk’s fancy party. (Photo Finish)
• Hutch knows what a “chandler” is. (Terror on the Docks)
• Hutch knows his fancy cigars. (Dandruff)
• Starsky tells Hutch after Jack's "Prince and the Pauper" that he didn't know Hutch grew up poor. Hutch says he didn't, just not as rich as the Mitchells. (Las Vegas Strangler)
• Hutch automatically asks Kate for her car cover when he knows her fancy car can’t go in the garage. (Cover Girl)
• Hutch knows his way around a fancy breakfast, asking the butler for things, using a spoon with his oatmeal correctly. (Captain Dobey, You’re Dead)
• Hutch feels confidant in how the “rich are different.” He tells Starsky, “They pay less taxes.” (Photo Finish)
• Hutch asks for two napkins, putting one on Starsky’s leg. (Bust Amboy)
• Hutch knows you use “brava,” rather than “bravo” regarding a female at the ballet. (Body Worth Guarding)
• Hutch is aware of value of bracelet, commenting on its “22 karats.”
• He knows his caviar, Iranian and Beluga. (Ninety Pounds of Trouble)
• Hutch know how to answer a car phone. (Targets 3)
• Hutch knows the correct term for Anna’s ballet move, a “grand jete.” (Body Worth Guarding)
• Starsky’s possible fortune doesn’t seem to impress him all that much. (Golden Angel)
• He knows how to eat crab with a special little fork. (Ninety Pounds of Trouble)

Pure, wide speculation that Starsky comes from an upper class/well-educated background
• He is familiar with Huichol Indian art. (Rosey Malone)
• He seems to speak some French and has a passable accent. (Bust Amboy)
• Huggy flatters Starsky, hoping to make a sale, “I can see you’re a man of refinement and taste.” (Committee)
• Starsky knows what an igneous rock is. (Committee)
• The addresses he mentions hanging around at in New York are all in some of the nicest parts of town. (Starsky’s Brother, Targets 3)
• Starsky corrects FBI agent’s grammar, “Whom” not “Who.” (Targets 3)
• Starsky corrects Hutch’s grammar, “Whom” not “Who.” (Strange Justice)
• He makes Hutch remove his hat at permit desk. (Targets 3)
• Starsky knows fine wine. (Committee)
• Starsky appears to have had some formal dance lessons. (Discomania, Tap Dancing)
• Starsky tells Michelle, “I know what beach living is like.” (Class in Crime)
• Starsky recognizes Nick’s clothes as being fine and expensive. (Starsky’s Brother)
• Starsky harasses and is embarrassed at Hutch’s clumsy moves in Ruth’s fancy living room. (Murder on Stage 17)
• He corrects Hutch’s English, “Not who, whom.” (Strange Justice)

Pure, wide speculation that Hutch comes from a lower class/less-educated background
• He is frugal with food. (Foxy Lady)
• Hutch doesn’t take his hat off indoors or in presence of lady. (Targets 3)
• He is frugal with his transportation. (various)
• Jack said Hutch had to work to get through high school. (Las Vegas Strangler)
• Gage calls Hutch’s note on board, “gauche” and his use of underlines and punctuation “reflects a nouveau riche mentality.” Gage contends the author is obviously lower economic consciousness.” One has to keep in mind Gage’s bullshit, though. (Class in Crime)
• Starsky suggests Hutch, at the society function, would be, “…in over his head anyway…doesn’t know how to handle himself in style.” (Photo Finish)
• Hutch likes to reuse things. (Jojo)
• He is uncomfortable and clumsy in Ruth’s fancy living room. (Murder on Stage 17)
• He knows how to fix tractors with hands-on experience. (Trap)

Pure, wide speculation that Starsky comes from a lower class/less–educated background
• He drove a cab. (Tap Dancing)
• Starsky says it isn’t good for people to think you are “a stuck-up intellectual.” (Photo Finish)
• Looking rich makes Starsky nervous, Hutch comments. (Bait)
• Starsky calls Anna’s ballet move “a jump.” (Body Worth Guarding)
• Hutch tells Starsky, at Monk’s party, “Reel your tongue back into your mouth.” (Photo Finish)
• Starsky, agog at all the finery at Monk’s party, says, “The rich really are different.” (Photo Finish)
• Starsky’s chance at riches makes him get greedy and puts stars in his eyes. (Golden Angel)
• Starsky says of Monk’s party, “ I just don’t think I’ll fit in.” (Photo Finish)
• Starsky doesn’t know the drinks are complimentary at Monk’s party. (Photo Finish)
• Starsky would rather have pizza on the pier than go to Monk’s fancy party. (Photo Finish)
• Hutch says, “This fine set of wheels intimidates your basic gross nature.” (Bait)
• Starsky misinterprets Masha, thinking she is looking for a handshake, when she wants something more continental. (Body Worth Guarding)
• Hutch tells Starsky he would fit in a society function because he looks like a waiter. (Photo Finish)
• Starsky had relatives that lived over a restaurant. (Shootout)
• Starsky is comfortable in old clothes. (various)
• Joey Durniak paid for his father’s funeral. (Set-Up)
• Starsky initially uses “bravo” with female at ballet. He later picks up Hutch’s cue that “brava” is correct. He has apparently forgotten this lesson when he uses “bravo” again with K.C. (Body Worth Guarding, Quadromania)
• Hutch comments Starsky is not a Cadillac, Ferrari, Rolls, Bentley, Corvette type of guy. (Golden Angel)