View Full Version : Sitcom props/sets never used or explained


Jude The Obscure
02-23-2010, 10:29 PM
You know those things that bug you when you watch your favorite sitcom...such as the back door in the Evans' kitchen on Good Times, the doorbells on Friends, that indoor grill on The Brady Bunch......

catlover79
02-23-2010, 10:35 PM
How about the mysterious upstairs room on the Brady Bunch? :lol:

Jude The Obscure
02-23-2010, 11:30 PM
And wasn't that a second stove/range we saw in the Beverly Hillbillies kitchen, near the laundry room? Never saw that used (or the washer/dryer either LOL).

treky
02-24-2010, 04:38 AM
or that room beside the entrance hall, or any of the other rooms in that mansion, and any of the bedrooms-in fact none of the upstairs. I remember they showed one of the bedrooms in a color episode. And they also just showed one end of their pool. And they never showed any parts of the Commerce bank except for Mr. Drysdales and Miss Hathaways offices and the front entrance.

treky
02-24-2010, 05:19 AM
and on "MASH", they never showed the outside of the kitchen or showed where it was.
On "THE ODD COUPLE" they never showed the outside of their apt. building expept in the opening.
On "TWO AND A HALF MEN" they never show the outside of their house exept for the area in front of the front door. A couple times they showed the inside of the garage (just part of it though) and once they showed part of the driveway.

Jude The Obscure
02-24-2010, 06:19 PM
On the Lucy Show--during the first season, there was a like a separate little room between the living room and the kitchen, we only got glimpses of it, but were never told what is was or how it was used.

In the second season, before the new kitchen was added, the old kitchen was never shown (this is the start of the color era).

factsoflife
02-24-2010, 09:53 PM
On "Desinging Women" there was a mysterious door behind the kitchenett that at one time was said to be a storage room; but at other times was explained to house a bathroom and a hallway leading to Julia's dining room.

on "Friends" we never see the inside of Ross's bedroom, though we see his living room and kitchen frequently.

on "The Golden Girls" the kitchen undergoes a make-over in season two, replacing apart of the kitchen wall with a big shelf. The wall paper changes every season.

treky
02-25-2010, 04:16 AM
also on "THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES" we never saw what was behind that door in Mr. Drysdales office.

comedyfreak
02-25-2010, 05:18 AM
On Lost In Space on board the Jupiter 2 in the galley there were cakes on the wall that were not used strange for props.

ekkostar
02-25-2010, 02:14 PM
On 'Night Court' we got to see the roof top and the hallways on the floor that Harry's court room was on and the basement if the plot called for it, but we never saw the lobby of the building. We also got to see everyones' apartment at some point, except for Dan's infamous bedroom, which I recon probably looked like a sex shop.

Chocolate Moose
02-25-2010, 04:45 PM
good thread !!!

BensonFan
02-25-2010, 08:20 PM
On "The Honeymooners", why don't we ever get to see Ralph and Alice's bedroom? We even got to see the Nortons' in one episode. :confused:

Chocoholic
02-25-2010, 08:28 PM
We never saw inside Roy's office or Helen's kitchen on Wings.

NewsRadio had some radio control room in one of the early episodes that became the break room later on.

Jude The Obscure
02-25-2010, 11:01 PM
On The Brady Bunch, we saw a glimpse in the Brady master bedroom's bathroom--at least we saw a sink. And we all wonder, did Alice have a bathroom or did she just use the tub used to wash Tiger in the service porch? :brent

70s show watcher
02-26-2010, 12:19 AM
how about the sienfeld ep where kramer is riding around in a car with a giant stuffed tweety bird without any explianiton as to why it is there

Jude The Obscure
02-26-2010, 03:39 PM
On Bewitched, to suit the plot, it seems there was more than one guest bedroom. There was a shower in Darrin's den, that became a closet by the third season and then once again referred to as a bathroom in the Dick Sargent era.

Sheyen
02-28-2010, 12:41 AM
Let me think there are sooooo many!
The Family Ties....the little hallway that goes from living room to kitchen.....they quite often refer to a dining room between them. And its even seen in a couple of episodes.

Cosby Show....his office, was it in the basement or what? they simply went the opposite of the stairs, and voila!

Growing Pains (and other shows)....bedroom windows....you KNOW that their bedroom would be against an indoor wall, (Such as Carols) and yet, against the back wall would be a window! How is that possible?

Another one that drives me nuts, apartments inside of buildings, there is the hallway, you go into the apartment (picture The Jeffersons, Will and Grace) and to the wall that is sharing the hallway, is a door...to a bedroom/bathroom whatever! Or again, a window in an odd place.

Good example of what Im saying here......The Golden girls.......the door to the back (where apparently they keep the car/garage) is about the same spot of where one of the bedrooms should be, the hallway to the bedrooms apparently dead ends at the kitchen wall! and if the bedrooms went to the left (behind the living room) then there wouldnt be all the windows in the background of the living room!

factsoflife
02-28-2010, 12:42 AM
On Sabrina, The Teenage Witch; i don't believe we ever saw either Hilda or Zelda's bedrooms; only the living room, kitchen, linen closet and sabrina's room in the house. and later in the college years, i don't think we ever saw the upstairs of the house Sabrina shared w/Roxy and Morgan. I pretty sure we never saw Morgan's room did we?

factsoflife
02-28-2010, 12:45 AM
Let me think there are sooooo many!
.....The Golden girls.......the door to the back (where apparently they keep the car/garage) is about the same spot of where one of the bedrooms should be, the hallway to the bedrooms apparently dead ends at the kitchen wall! and if the bedrooms went to the left (behind the living room) then there wouldnt be all the windows in the background of the living room!

you are right. So often they would exit the living by going into the hallway and right; but we never saw what was behind that door; and it was never said to be a room or anything. I assume that the bathroom must be behind there as well right because as the set looks you would enter Rose's room to the left, Dorothy and Sophia's rooms to the right and Blanche's room down the hall so where would the bathroom be?

Sheyen
02-28-2010, 01:42 AM
speaking of Sabrina the Teenage Witch......in the house with her aunts.....you walk in the front door, there are stairs, turn to the right is the living room, turn to the left, is a door to the kitchen.......BUT if you walk down the hall past the stairs.....there is another entrance to the kitchen.....and it DOESNT have a door going to the living room! And the stairs going upstairs are angled really oddly.

megamanj2004
03-02-2010, 04:13 AM
I never saw the hallways of the Drummond house or even Mr. Drummond's own bderoom on Diff'rent Strokes.

I never saw the third floor of the larger Victorian House on Webster, but yet they've always used the main floors, the second floor, and even the basement in that large house.

Jude The Obscure
03-02-2010, 11:35 AM
Drummond's bedroom was shown once...when he and Maggie were about to be married, I believe.

OOliver
03-03-2010, 05:32 PM
On "Bewitched" there was the door at the end of the Hallway (I think it had a yellow curtain on it), but was never used. From some of the exterior shots of the house, the door isn't there (I don't recall).

I always wondered where the bathroom was in Mary Richards' first apartment.

treky
03-04-2010, 01:23 AM
On "Bewitched" there was the door at the end of the Hallway (I think it had a yellow curtain on it), but was never used. From some of the exterior shots of the house, the door isn't there (I don't recall).

I always wondered where the bathroom was in Mary Richards' first apartment.
yea, come to think of it, where was Mary Richards bathroom? I never thought about that.

Also, Oscar and Felixes bathroom on "THE ODD COUPLE".

Maybe Mary, Oscar, and Felix would just open the window and "do it" on whoever happened to be passing by!!!:lol: :lol: :lol:

TV_on_the_Porch
03-04-2010, 05:35 AM
Oscar and Felix probably each have a bathroom--adjacent to their bedrooms, which are down the hall. I can hardly imagine them sharing one! :D

Mary Richards' bathroom is at the back of her closet, isn't it?

Heidi Dawn
03-04-2010, 07:25 PM
I thought Oscar & Felix shared a bathroom, I'm pretty sure I saw it in season 1.

I'm positive that Mary Richards' bathroom in the first apartment was in that closet - a walk-in closet in a hallway leading to the bathroom. We did see the bathroom in the second apartment, it was off the bedroom (the episode where she was addicted to sleeping pills).

We never saw the bathroom on The Monkees, but in one episode, they mentioned it was off the living room.

MikeLutton
03-04-2010, 07:34 PM
on Happy days we never saw the kitchen in Arnolds and potsie or ralphs home think that only it on there