Pleasant family

Pleasant family Name Pleasant family Number of generations 4 generations Family connections Burb family, Oldie family, Broke family, Dreamer family, Langerak family

Members Jeff Pleasant, Diane Pleasant, Daniel Pleasant, Jennifer Pleasant Other Information Game The Sims Playability Family Bin Neighborhood Neighborhood 1

Description 'On the surface, Daniel and Mary-Sue Pleasant seem to have the perfect life, but is their love a flimsy façade? And can Angela and Lilith make the right choices when it comes to love?' Members Daniel Pleasant, Mary-Sue Pleasant, Angela Pleasant, Lilith Pleasant Lot 215 Sim Lane Funds §2,250 Other Information Game The Sims 2 Playability Playable Neighborhood Pleasantview

Description 'Daniel and Mary Sue Pleasant are as pleasant as their name implies. After a beautiful whirlwind wedding, they've come to the island for a relaxing honeymoon. The world is their oyster and their marriage is sure to stay this blissful forever... right?' Members Daniel Pleasant, Mary-Sue Pleasant Lot 1 Ocean Overlook Funds §25,000 Difficulty level Other Information Game The Sims 3 Store Playability Playable Neighborhood Sunlit Tides

The Pleasant family has grown bigger in the years following The Sims. Jeff and Diane Pleasant are deceased, Jennifer Pleasant marries John Burb and has one child, Lucy. Daniel Pleasant marries Mary-Sue Oldie and they have twin girls, Angela and Lilith.

They appear to portray the stereotypical "perfect" upper middle class family, as they are Pleasantview's second richest family at the game's start, and seemingly try to behave as if they had no problems. However it is clear, given their relationships with each other, that the family is dysfunctional.

Daniel Pleasant is having an affair with their maid, but the player can decide what happens with that. Angela, who seems to be the "sweetheart" of the family, wants to have her first kiss with her boyfriend Dustin Broke. Lilith is something of a rebel, and has had a rough childhood. When first played, Mary-Sue will either be fired from her job or demoted unless the player decides to ignore the chance card she gets. Either way she is sent home early, which was likely planned by the game designers so that she can catch Daniel with Kaylynn (if the player chooses to have Kaylynn stay after work).

The family lives at 215 Sim Lane and has a net worth of §104,000, of which §2,250 is in funds. They will be able to pay their bills, but Mary-Sue's Fortune Sim wants for stuff will be hard to satisfy.

The Pleasants appear in a televised pizza commercial, and seem to appear in one of the programs on the "Sims Broadcasting Network" channel. A Sim who appears to be Angela slaps one who appears to be Lilith, then the Sim who appears to be Lilith complains about hunger.

In The Sims, it is mentioned that Jeff, Diane, and their family is new to the neighborhood. They do not appear in Sunset Valley or Riverview, even though Jeff and Diane would have been teens, or maybe even children, at that time.

The family reappears in Sunlit Tides, a neighborhood which can be downloaded from The Sims 3 Store. In this prequel to the Pleasantview chronology, Daniel and Mary-Sue are young adult newlyweds who are on their honeymoon on a tropical island.

Inside the photo album in The Sims 2, during the wedding, Daniel is seen to have a beard, but in Sunlit Tides, as they are on a honeymoon, takes place after the wedding, Daniel does not have one. This is strange that he does not have a beard in Sunlit Tides unless he shaved it away and letting it grow again in Pleasantview.

Onomatology

Pleasant -- "pleasing, agreeable, enjoyable"

Daniel Pleasant -- From a Hebrew name meaning "Judged by God" or "God is my judge"

Jennifer Burb -- (Daniel's sister) -- Popular name meaning "fair, white, smooth"

Mary-Sue Pleasant -- Mary Sue is a term for fictional characters that are portrayed in an overly idealized way, and lack noteworthy or realistic flaws. Also, one of the main characters of the film Pleasantville (as opposed to Pleasantview) became named Mary Sue when she entered the titular neighborhood.

For Mary-Sue's adoptive parents onomatology, see Oldie family.

Angela Pleasant -- The name derives from the heavenly angels.

Lilith Pleasant -- Meaning "of the night". This name was a demon in ancient Assyrian myths. In Jewish and Islamic tradition, she was Adam's first wife but was replaced by Eve. Offspring of Adam and Lilith were the evil spirits of the world.

Jeff Pleasant (Daniel's dad) -- Means either "territory peace", "stranger peace", "hostage peace" or "god's peace".

Diane Pleasant (Daniel's mom) -- Meaning "heavenly, divine"

Les Pleasant (Daniel's paternal grandfather) -- A pun so that the name says "Less Pleasant." The puns are quite hilarious, seeing as Les is a real name, short for Lester or Leslie.

Kynda Pleasant (Daniel's paternal grandmother) -- A pun so that the name says "Kind of Pleasant"

Danders: "loose scales formed on the skin and shed from the coat of feathers of various animals"

Marshall Danders Means "horse servant"

Melinda Danders Combination of "Mel" as in Melanie or Melissa and the popular suffix "inda". Means "honey" in Greek. Also means "sweet", "dark" and "serpent" in other languages. Might mean "horse" in Simlish.

Marsh -- "a tract of low wet land, often treeless, and periodically flooded".

William Marsh (John's maternal grandfather) -- Popular name meaning "will, desire" and "helmet, protection"

Anastasia Marsh (John's maternal grandmother) -- Means "resurrection".

No real relation there. All names seem to fit in quite nicely. The name Lilith seems to be very fitting to her character, but holds a really bad reputation. Angela's name is the most obvious, but fitting. Mary-Sue has the "wanting-to-be-perfect" role in the family. Daniel is "Judged by God" for cheating on his wife. Jennifer's name can describe her appearance.

Family tree

Members

• Angela Pleasant
• Lilith Pleasant
• Daniel Pleasant
• Mary-Sue Pleasant
• Jennifer Burb
• Lucy Burb
• Coral Oldie
• Herb Oldie
• John Burb
• Jeff Pleasant (Deceased)
• Diane Pleasant (Deceased)
• Kynda Pleasant (Deceased)
• Les Pleasant (Deceased)
• Suzanne Pleasant
• Marshall Danders (Deceased)
• Melinda Danders (Deceased)
• Irma Oldie (Deceased)
• Myron Oldie (Deceased)
• Mamie Ruggbyrne (Deceased)
• Bruno Ruggbyrne (Deceased)
• Brad Burb (Deceased)
• Tiffany Burb (Deceased)
• Benjamin Burb (Deceased)
• Susan Burb (Deceased)
• Anastasia Marsh (Deceased)
• William Marsh (Deceased)
• Tucker Burb (Deceased)

Gallery

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  Daniel and Mary-Sue's Wedding. Cassandra can be seen by Mary-Sue's side.

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  Angela and Lilith's Birth

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  Twin Birthday. Angela is the one blowing out the candles. The dimly-seen girl on the couch in the background is Lilith.

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  Lilith and Dirk slow dance.

Trivia

• A Suzanne Pleasant appears in SimCity 3000 as the representative of the Have a Nice Day Club, which is described as originally being for divorced women. While there is no reason to assume that she necessarily is a missing family member, as people do share surnames without being related (and since it's more than likely that the development team forgot all about her), there is certainly room for players to envision her as the ex-wife of one of the Pleasants.
• An episode of the British sitcom Outnumbered shows two characters playing a fictionalised version of a Sims-like computer game, with characters purportedly based on the show's central family. However, when the computer screen is shown, it is unmistakably the Pleasant Family of The Sims 2 being played, with Lilith as the active character.