When you watch sitcoms, do you try to do this:

Deja Q

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Tue Nov-22-05 02:32 PM
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Poll question: When you watch sitcoms, do you try to do this:

Match the interior of the house/apt with the outside that they show?

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Call Me Wesley

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Tue Nov-22-05 02:37 PM
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1. The flu

really sucks, doesn't it? :rofl:

:hi:

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Deja Q

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Tue Nov-22-05 02:38 PM
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2. Well, I've done that plenty of times when feelin' fully healthy...

And if the flu sucks, I wouldn't know a thing about it... :rofl:

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Call Me Wesley

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Tue Nov-22-05 02:39 PM
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3. LOL!

:toast:

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dajoki

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Tue Nov-22-05 02:41 PM
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4. no, but...

if they don't tell you or make it obvious i try to figure out the location of where it is taking place. like Green Acres, what state is it? my guess is Kansas.:shrug:

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Deja Q

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Tue Nov-22-05 02:47 PM
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5. Oops... I mean the layout of the house... does the frame match the innards

They almost always don't...

The Tripper/Wood/Snow apt didn't.

The Brady house didn't.

The Golden Girls' home certainly didn't!!

The Blackstock flat almost did... the kitchen didn't, and got rearranged twice...

The Banks' mansion originally didn't... and then they redesigned it and made it look like they tore out all the original walls in the process (it still didn't match in the end!)

Still trying to figure out Maxwell Smart's pad...

HypnoToad has no life... :D

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dajoki

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Tue Nov-22-05 02:50 PM
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7. neither do i...

yeah i do that a little, but where is Green Acres located?

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Oeditpus Rex

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Tue Nov-22-05 04:15 PM
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19. I always figured Green Acres was in Kollyforniya

Because there really is a town called Pixley in the Central Valley.

No Hooterville, though. And no Crabwell Corners. :shrug:

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LaraMN

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Tue Nov-22-05 02:49 PM
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6. No! Stop it! Toad-- get. out. of. your. house!!!

You need a good drunk night (preferably after the flu abates.)

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Deja Q

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Tue Nov-22-05 03:25 PM
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14. Every time I go get drunk, I get sick 2 days later!

I like your idea though! :)

But I probably won't get drunk again... :D

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ProfessorGAC

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Tue Nov-22-05 02:58 PM
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8. Only Once In A While

The biggest reason is usually space. The inside of the house often looks WAY too big for the outside of the house. They sometimes show an average sized house, and then one can land a plane in the living room. That bugs me.
The Professor

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redqueen

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Tue Nov-22-05 03:00 PM
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9. Yes!

Glad I'm not the only one. :D

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underpants

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Tue Nov-22-05 03:00 PM
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10. Compare the inside of the Bunkers, the Huxtables, and Raymond's house

See anything similiar?

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El Fuego

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Tue Nov-22-05 03:12 PM
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13. Don't forget the Bundy's house on "Married With Children"

It's the same damn house.

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underpants

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Tue Nov-22-05 03:50 PM
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17. Actually the Bundy's was exactly mirrored by

"Unhappily Ever After" a HORRIBLE (and yes even compared to "Married with Children") knock off on the WB ....the only reason for it was Nikki Cox.... anyway that was the same exact house staircase and all.

The Bunkers Huxtables and Raymond have the standard sitcom house.

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Deja Q

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Tue Nov-22-05 03:26 PM
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15. Raymond who?

You're right about the Bunkers' and Huxtables' though... though the latter's is larger...

:D

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El Fuego

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Tue Nov-22-05 03:02 PM
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11. What always amazes me

Is that in every single sitcom the kitchen is always entirely soundproof.

You know, they say "I need you help me in the kitchen," and then they have this loud private conversation, which in a normal house everyone would hear loud and clear from the living room. But not in a sitcom. The kitchen is a Cone of Silence.

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Deja Q

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Tue Nov-22-05 03:28 PM
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16. Not quite...

In a Cone of Silence, everybody outside can hear it or nobody can hear each other inside of it, or the words get garbled, or the Cone doesn't come down, or it won't go back up, or there's a fish swimming in it... (I watch way too much "Get Smart" too...)

When's the last time something like those things happened in your average sitcom? :D :D

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Arugula Latte

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Tue Nov-22-05 03:03 PM
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12. Am I strange because I find the interior of "Everyone Loves Raymond"'s

house to be oppressive? I want to strip the wallpaper, paint the walls, and de-clutter the living room.

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tjwmason

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Tue Nov-22-05 04:09 PM
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18. The disparity is a continuing and very disturbing issue.

I freely admit that it a freakish thing - but yes I do.

But I don't tend to watch sit-coms, or indeed much T.V. at all.

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Deja Q

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Tue Nov-22-05 04:24 PM
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20. I envy you. You've got people to play with.

I just have a tv set... :D

it's easier to understand fiction... no problems interacting at all... though it's not really interacting... :D

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tjwmason

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Tue Nov-22-05 04:37 PM
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21. The people I play with are mostly inside books

Real people are far too hideous, and far too difficult to get alongwith.

Robespierre and Danton can easily be played with when there inside a history of the French Revolution - I doubt that I'd have liked either in reality, or that either would have liked me.

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