The HUGE Problem I Have with "The Jeffersons"

[cleverfun3000]

How is it That Vistors and even unwanted Guests were constantly showing up at the Jeffersons' apartment door on a REGULAR BASIS for the entire 10 year run of the series??

[Big3sCompanyFan]

So? It's the doorman's job to screen them.

[TVFactFan]

Originally Posted by cleverfun3000

How is it That Vistors and even unwanted Guests were constantly showing up at the Jeffersons' apartment door on a REGULAR BASIS for the entire 10 year run of the series??

Yeah in reality George or Louise would have had to buzz someone in or go downstairs to let them in

[Big3sCompanyFan]

Originally Posted by TVFactFan

Yeah in reality George or Louise would have had to buzz someone in or go downstairs to let them in

Technically yes but you could still have guests come unannounced. That's why it's a sitcom!

[cleverfun3000]

Originally Posted by Big3sCompanyFan

Technically yes but you could still have guests come unannounced. That's why it's a sitcom!

You're gonna have to do a lot better than that if you are gonna honestly try to answer a thread. "That's why it's a sitcom" is the answer to ANY posed question, problem or situation for programs discussed on this forum since the name of the forum is sitcomsonline. We know it's a sitcom. Everyone knows it's a sitcom, but let's try to work with the frames of the created reality that's been produced as if it were meant to make some kind of sense. And a doorman that doesn't announce guests in a building as high class and as expensive as the ones the Jeffersons' "moved on up" to just shows an inconsistancy to the settings on which the show was based

[Big3sCompanyFan]

Originally Posted by cleverfun3000

You're gonna have to do a lot better than that if you are gonna honestly try to answer a thread. "That's why it's a sitcom" is the answer to ANY posed question, problem or situation for programs discussed on this forum since the name of the forum is sitcomsonline. We know it's a sitcom. Everyone knows it's a sitcom, but let's try to work with the frames of the created reality that's been produced as if it were meant to make some kind of sense. And a doorman that doesn't announce guests in a building as high class and as expensive as the ones the Jeffersons' "moved on up" to just shows an inconsistancy to the settings on which the show was based

Well a sitcom is the best answer you'll get in many cases!

You can also just say this building was an exception to the rule and you didn't have to buzz guests in like you would normally do.

[Janice]

You are right, the doorman of any elite building in an expensive part of New York would most definitely have to announce guests, or at the very least, make sure that the guests rang a bell. I guess we have to suspend disbelief. So many of the storylines depended on the Jeffersons not knowing who was on the other side of their door.

My husband's cousin is a defense attorney. He stopped watching legal dramas because all he did was roll his eyes. I know the good medical and legal dramas have consultants on staff; doctors, lawyers, etc. Still, those shows take so many liberties that it drives those who know the difference crazy.

[Janice]

Both of you stop it. Big3CompanyFan, I have never seen that word used on this site, and I've been here over 10 years. I would be very surprised if you don't get suspended. It ends here. Sammy Reed, just report a post that's in violation. You're not a moderator, so don't warn members.

[visaman666]

George Jefferson paid the doorman off so many times, that the doorman let people up, knowing that there would be a problem, and the doorman would come up to investigate, and get a payoff by George.