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It would be pretty hard to think of ANY sit-com which could not be accused of seeming to trivialise the occupations of the main protagonists, since the whole premise of a sit-com is that comic events arise from the situations which the people's roles / occupations land them in.
"Gilligan's Island" trivialises charter boat operators
"Hogan's Heroes" trivialises PoWs
"The Hollowmen" trivialises politicians and political advisers (and Yes Minister / Yes Prime Minister / The Thick of It / etc - politics is fertile ground for comedians!)
"Modern Family" trivialises real estate agents (and stay-at-home Mums, gay couples, and multi-ethnic families)
"MASH" trivialises military medics
"Utopia" trivialises government bureaucrats
"Drop the Dead Donkey" trivialises journalists
"The Office" trivialises office workers
I suspect that we have all been "offended" at some time or other when our profession / hobby is the butt of a comedy show, but our discomfort is often because there is more than an element of truth behind the stereotypes, and if we're honest, we all know people just like the best comedy characters. (Just hope that you're cast as the "hero" rather than the "stooge"!)
(I have heard it said that back in the days of "The Hollowmen", the government was convinced the writers had a "mole" in Cabinet!)
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