Did Fred and Lamont not lock their door?

[substantialkick]

In the episode "Have Gun, Will Sell", a robber just walks right in through the front door of place while Fred is asleep on the couch, and starts taking things. Didn't even have to climb in through a window or anything.

Considering that they lived in a rough part of L.A. (Watts if I'm not mistaken), it would have made obvious sense for them to keep their door locked at all times. And especially in this particular situation when Fred is home by himself and Lamont isn't there to have his back in case something goes down.

[TheLittleFaerie]

Originally Posted by substantialkick

In the episode "Have Gun, Will Sell", a robber just walks right in through the front door of place while Fred is asleep on the couch, and starts taking things. Didn't even have to climb in through a window or anything.

Considering that they lived in a rough part of L.A. (Watts if I'm not mistaken), it would have made obvious sense for them to keep their door locked at all times. And especially in this particular situation when Fred is home by himself and Lamont isn't there to have his back in case something goes down.

I guess the obvious answer is, the door was unlocked for plot purposes

But it seems like people on TV never lock their door... If I'm not mistaken, the Evan's family on Good Times didn't lock their door either, you'd think they would as rough as their neighborhood was. I think also back then people didn't lock their door as much, nowdays it's just kinda a given for me, as soon as I enter my apartment, I close the door and lock it, and my apartment complex is overall a safe place

[ThisLittlePiggy]

I recently saw a movie where they wanted to go into a man's house and somebody said they'd have to break in and the other character said, no he leaves it open and they just walked in. LOL

[ThisLittlePiggy]

I just saw another movie a few days ago and the woman was actually afraid of her new neighbor but she left her door unlocked so another neighbor could just walk in without knocking. This is so silly to me.

[TheLittleFaerie]

Originally Posted by ThisLittlePiggy

I just saw another movie a few days ago and the woman was actually afraid of her new neighbor but she left her door unlocked so another neighbor could just walk in without knocking. This is so silly to me.

I have a list here some place of silly things people do on TV... Like when in bed at night, they always have to turn the light on to talk to each other,

when 2 people want to talk in private and don't want a 3rd party to hear them, they simply move 3 or 4 feet away and continue speaking in NORMAL voices as if the 3rd person wouldn't be able to hear them lol,

generally people cannot hear from room to room in the same house, 2 people can be in the kitchen yelling and having a heated argument and the people in the living room have no idea,

someone can exit a room, the 3 seconds later someone else will enter through the same door and somehow NOT have bumped into the person who just existed,

characters on TV apparently cannot feel or notice if they're being pulled, tugged on or touched....think of all the times when someone slips a wallet or SOMETHING out of someone's back pocket and the person doesn't even notice lol

[ThisLittlePiggy]

^ Yep, those are some pretty silly things on T.V. shows.

[stevea]

Originally Posted by TheLittleFaerie

I have a list here some place of silly things people do on TV... Like when in bed at night, they always have to turn the light on to talk to each other,

when 2 people want to talk in private and don't want a 3rd party to hear them, they simply move 3 or 4 feet away and continue speaking in NORMAL voices as if the 3rd person wouldn't be able to hear them lol,

generally people cannot hear from room to room in the same house, 2 people can be in the kitchen yelling and having a heated argument and the people in the living room have no idea,

someone can exit a room, the 3 seconds later someone else will enter through the same door and somehow NOT have bumped into the person who just existed,

characters on TV apparently cannot feel or notice if they're being pulled, tugged on or touched....think of all the times when someone slips a wallet or SOMETHING out of someone's back pocket and the person doesn't even notice lol

Plus --

--Women in bed with all their makeup on.

--Visitors coming to the back door, if it works better in the scene.

--When people have the TV on, the dialog pauses on the TV while the cast comments on the proceedings.

--While dining, going out to the kitchen to get something that would take 15 seconds, but it takes two or three minutes to allow for dialog

--One side of a telephone conversation that doesn't allow nearly enough time for the unseen other person in the conversation to have commented

[ThisLittlePiggy]

^LOL

Like on Gilligan's Island, they always run to tell people what's on the radio and as soon as they switch it on, they say the news. By the time they got there, it'd be an ad or a different news story. LOL

[TheLittleFaerie]

Originally Posted by stevea

Plus --

--Women in bed with all their makeup on.

--Visitors coming to the back door, if it works better in the scene.

--When people have the TV on, the dialog pauses on the TV while the cast comments on the proceedings.

--While dining, going out to the kitchen to get something that would take 15 seconds, but it takes two or three minutes to allow for dialog

--One side of a telephone conversation that doesn't allow nearly enough time for the unseen other person in the conversation to have commented

Yes, and I meant to mention one of those, where people entering the house usually always enter through the door to the room where the action is going on. Mama's Family and Everybody Loves Raymond were huge on that, if Mama was in the kitchen Iola would always enter through the backdoor, same for Ray and Deb, Ray's parents would always enter through the back door if Ray and Deb were in the kitchen.

Also on the phone, people rarely ever say "bye" at the end of the conversation, they just hang up lol

[BestTVever]

Speaking of doors it always annoyed me in sitcoms when people would come into a house or apartment and they leave the door wide open. Threes Company was famous for that. I can hear my mother saying....."shut the door, you are going to let every fly in the neighborhood in"