Outdoor scenes in sitcoms

[ThisLittlePiggy]

On The Munsters, outdoor scenes occurred pretty often like when Herman played golf and baseball.

[stevea]

Originally Posted by opus

Another big Seinfeld outdoors is when they busted up Bette Midler at the softball game.

Kramer takes the reins for a horse and carriage ride. In another episode he repaints lines on a highway.

He also drives a mail truck to Saginaw and retrieves golf clubs that I think fell out of Jerry's stolen car that he spotted.

And chases a landing plane on foot.

Lotsa stuff...

[stevea]

Originally Posted by opus

Sometimes the fakeness is the best part

On Small Wonder (yeah, right) there was a fishing scene set that was SO bogus.

[opus]

Originally Posted by stevea

Kramer takes the reins for a horse and carriage ride. In another episode he repaints lines on a highway.

He also drives a mail truck to Saginaw and retrieves golf clubs that I think fell out of Jerry's stolen car that he spotted.

And chases a landing plane on foot.

Lotsa stuff...

Seinfeld definitely had “outdoor” money.

[opus]

Originally Posted by ThisLittlePiggy

On The Munsters, outdoor scenes occurred pretty often like when Herman played golf and baseball.

Leo Durocher reminds me of Mr. Ed sliding into home

[JamesG]

"Saved by the Bell" featured the gang taking on summer jobs at the Malibu Sands Beach Club.

[JamesG]

The Heck family from "The Middle" visited WDW.

[Bonniegirl]

Originally Posted by JamesG

"Saved by the Bell" featured the gang taking on summer jobs at the Malibu Sands Beach Club.

Leah Remini was so beautiful in that.

[icecream]

Everyone knows what Cheers is. Happy's Place is a current sitcom starring Reba McEntire that is also set at an inside bar. A flop sitcom that was set at an outside bar: Abby's which aired 10 episodes on NBC in 2019. Neil Flynn, after starring in two long running sitcoms Scrubs and The Middle, went to Abby's right after. But NBC just thought of it as schedule spackle, left for a midseason premiere the last week of March and not advertised at all. Abby's won't be known to most. But neither will the new sitcom NBC premiered fall 2018 called I Feel Bad, which had a bunch of obscure names in the cast. If Abby's had that slot with proper promotion, it might have been more successful.

[opus]

On Threes Company right now Jack is meeting an ex girlfriend in the park. It does NOT look real.

[JamesG]

Nickelodeon teen sitcom "Hey Dude" filmed entirely on location at the Tanque Verde Guest Ranch in Tucson, Arizona.

The sets built for the show, about a mile from the guest ranch, are still there today.

[JamesG]

"Boy Meets World" featured many scenes with Mr. Feeny interacting with the Matthews' family, mainly Cory, in their neighboring yards.

[um]

Interesting topic. Yes when a lot of sitcoms whose storylines take place indoors , or mostly take place indoors, then whenever there is a scene "Outdoors' it is obviously NOT outdoors literally.

A lot of "I Love Lucy," or "The Lucy Show," or "Here's Lucy" episodes, whenever an outdoor scene was depicted, was so apparently just an indoor studio with lots of foilage to appear like a park or golf course or other outdoor place (of course there was once a scene in which Lucy and Mr Mooney were stuck up in a tree house and it was obviously not a real outdoor scene, also that other well-known episode in which Vivian and Lucy stole a statue from atop an outdoor structure on college grounds) . A lot of Mr. Ed episodes were "outdoors" or in a barn.
If a street scene is depicted then it too is apparently an indoor studio made to appear like a street with buildings and their stair-cases to doorways (etc).
Yet those "staged outdoor scenes" have their ambiance if you stop to think about them. Of course many may disagree about that.
As a kid I used to wonder why the scenes are not actually filmed outdoors because the filming sets just don't convince you that the characters are genuinely in some outdoor area, but when I got much more mature, so to speak, I realize that the replicas of the outdoors, in whatever form, can really be charming, interesting, and done very nicely.

I recall one Honeymooners episode in which Ralph and Norton were on the street outside their building and the plot or sketch involved getting a car out of a nearby garage that was in some building (or so it seemed).
Also I have come to notice the "Scene" outside the Kramden's kitchen window. Ralph and Alice are supposed to be in an older tenament like apartment with a view of other windows on nearby buildings and they have a fire escape outsided their window. It is reminiscent of the building I grew up in.

[JamesG]

Home Improvement featured many scenes with Tim Taylor talking with his neighbor, Wilson, through their backyard fence.

[um]

I am not sure if anyone mentioned this already, but the outdoor scenes on The Brady Bunch were, more-often-than-not, in their own back yard which definitely looked like a studio set up to look like a fenced-in grassy back-yard area. When The Brady Bunch were on a camping trip, the scenes outdoor were apparently really in the outdoors, also when they went to Hawaii (at least I think I recall an episode in which they went to Hawaii).

Oh, and also when the Brady's were at an amusement park. It was genuinely an amusement park.
There was also an episode on The Partridge Family in which the Partridges were at an amusement park. It was actually shot on location. (I think there were other, older sitcoms in which the characters were filmed in actual amusement parks. I cannot think of any now, but that well-known Leave It To Beaver episode in which Beaver had to talk himself into going on a scary roller coaster at the dare of his friends, was not one of them).

However when it came to outdoor scenes, what went for the Bradys, went for the Partridge Family too.
There were outdoor scenes in the Partridge Family outside the Partridge's house that seemed to be really outdoors. The episode in which Shirley and Lori went on a camping trip together for a "Mother and daughter outing," and Keith and Danny and Mr. Kinkaid all tried to follow them thinking that the girls cannot manage on their own had scenes of the "outdoors" that were obviously just an indoor film set with lots of fake trees and grass, though what I recall of that episode, a group of Girl Scouts found the 3 guys (as the guys became lost and unable to fend for themselves outdoors trying to keep up with Lori and Shirley) and as the camera panned to the group of Girl Scouts it definitely seemed as if they were standing on a rock near some bushes and it was seemingly a genuine outdoor area.