The Kitchen Set in Season 9 is stupid.

[geremi]

The kitchen set in season 9 makes no sense at all. How on earth do they
have a door that lead outside? From the previous seasons, usually that door
would lead out into the front part of the store either Edna's Edibles or Over Our Heads, but suddenly they now have an unknown stairs that goes upstairs and a
door that goes outside instead of directly to the front part of the store itself. I
think the set decorator must have thought he was working on Bewitched or The Twilight Zone. Totally Insane!

[RetroGuy2000]

Originally Posted by geremi

The kitchen set in season 9 makes no sense at all. How on earth do they
have a door that lead outside? From the previous seasons, usually that door
would lead out into the front part of the store either Edna's Edibles or Over Our Heads, but suddenly they now have an unknown stairs that goes upstairs and a
door that goes outside instead of directly to the front part of the store itself. I
think the set decorator must have thought he was working on Bewitched or The Twilight Zone. Totally Insane!

Hi Geremi!

I agree that the Season 9 remodel makes little sense. Not just the layout, which as you point out was completely preposterous based on what we had previously seen, but also the very fact that they were remodeling all of that expensive retail space into residential space. Why would anyone do that?

['80sSitcoms]

Not only that, there's a season 7 (I think) episode where Ryan Cassidy has "joined the cast , and they have a morning scene in the kitchen (the first kitchen, before it became the kitchen we saw when Pippa was there---you know, the one where Natalie first tells Jo and Beverly Ann that she "did it" ["it" being the biggest fact of life, haha] ).

And in that kitchen, Ryan comes down and looks out "the kitchen window" (maybe over the sink?), but that is an absolute impossibility, because the "window" they have him looking out of IS ACTUALLY THE SOLID NON-SEE-THROUGH LEFT-HAND INTERIOR WALL OF THE LIVING ROOM COAT CLOSET TO THE LEFT OF THE STAIRS.

#PEEKSKILLFACEPALM

['80sSitcoms]

Although, come to think of it, I think in a season 6 or 7 episode in the kitchen, someone comes from "around a corner" as if they came in from a door leading from the kitchen (or a kitchen space) directly outside? So it would be a door we can't see.

So if, in the season 6 and 7 kitchen scenes we are "facing the street outside Edna's Edibles", maybe in season 9 when we are in the kitchen, we are "facing the backyard area"; in other words, as if we haven't moved positions from the 4th wall when we're looking into the living room (just slide sideways into the shop, then slide forward until you pass through the wall, into the kitchen, if that makes sense, lol).

[Lorimar Television]

The house they live in as part of the EE set was very strange.

[RetroGuy2000]

Originally Posted by '80sSitcoms

And in that kitchen, Ryan comes down and looks out "the kitchen window" (maybe over the sink?), but that is an absolute impossibility, because the "window" they have him looking out of IS ACTUALLY THE SOLID NON-SEE-THROUGH LEFT-HAND INTERIOR WALL OF THE LIVING ROOM COAT CLOSET TO THE LEFT OF THE STAIRS.

I know, why would they do things like this?

[Christopher]

I don't like the kitchen set in season 9 for the reason that it replaced the store. Instead of them being in the store talking and working like the previous seasons, they moved them to the kitchen where they could eat and talk like they were The Golden Girls. Season 9 was an awful year for how out of place the characters and settings were.

[Lorimar Television]

Originally Posted by '80sSitcoms

Although, come to think of it, I think in a season 6 or 7 episode in the kitchen, someone comes from "around a corner" as if they came in from a door leading from the kitchen (or a kitchen space) directly outside? So it would be a door we can't see.

So if, in the season 6 and 7 kitchen scenes we are "facing the street outside Edna's Edibles", maybe in season 9 when we are in the kitchen, we are "facing the backyard area"; in other words, as if we haven't moved positions from the 4th wall when we're looking into the living room (just slide sideways into the shop, then slide forward until you pass through the wall, into the kitchen, if that makes sense, lol).

The kitchen at EE was lead to by the swinging door behind the counter. There seems to be another entrance to it from behind the staircase, this is seen in season 6 episode 2. This set has no windows or stairs, just all walls and a standard kitchen you'd see at a restaurant. I guess after the store burns down they had no use for a corporate kitchen so they make it a normal kitchen you find in a house.

[geremi]

Originally Posted by Lorimar Television

The kitchen at EE was lead to by the swinging door behind the counter. There seems to be another entrance to it from behind the staircase, this is seen in season 6 episode 2. This set has no windows or stairs, just all walls and a standard kitchen you'd see at a restaurant. I guess after the store burns down they had no use for a corporate kitchen so they make it a normal kitchen you find in a house.

I think the set decorators made a huge mistake in season 9. Explaining anything else would be grasping at straws. 30 years ago, they never thought that there would be a message board that would have topic discussion about "The Facts of Life" show and about this very subject. They only focused on the storylines and the characters, not the actual set to minute details. People on this board are making excuses saying frontyard and backyard, when in reality it was only a set and nothing else. Season 7 "3, 2, 1 " The camera man was trying to following the gangs into the kitchen from the front part of the store, but the cord was not long enough. Natalie had to describe for the audience, that Mrs Garrett was in the kitchen putting the cookies in the oven. It was already established that after the fire, they could still enter the kitchen through the front part of the store like they always did. In "The Agent " when Blair and Jo was baking and burning the cookies, again they were entering the kitchen through the same door from the front part of the store. Please stop making excuses. Some flaws could be overlooked, but some are just downright lazy on the creative part of the show's decorators.

[Lorimar Television]

Originally Posted by geremi

I think the set decorators made a huge mistake in season 9. Explaining anything else would be grasping at straws. 30 years ago, they never thought that there would be a message board that would have topic discussion about "The Facts of Life" show and about this very subject. They only focused on the storylines and the characters, not the actual set to minute details. People on this board are making excuses saying frontyard and backyard, when in reality it was only a set and nothing else. Season 7 "3, 2, 1 " The camera man was trying to following the gangs into the kitchen from the front part of the store, but the cord was not long enough. Natalie had to describe for the audience, that Mrs Garrett was in the kitchen putting the cookies in the oven. It was already established that after the fire, they could still enter the kitchen through the front part of the store like they always did. In "The Agent " when Blair and Jo was baking and burning the cookies, again they were entering the kitchen through the same door from the front part of the store. Please stop making excuses. Some flaws could be overlooked, but some are just downright lazy on the creative part of the show's decorators.

I never said it was a good excuse, I think it’s very odd that they did that personally and it makes zero logical sense if you think of the set as a real house.

['80sSitcoms]

Originally Posted by Lorimar Television

I never said it was a good excuse, I think it’s very odd that they did that personally and it makes zero logical sense if you think of the set as a real house.

I think that's what we all think. I was just pinpointing the positioning of the kitchen (which wall faces the back, which faces the street, which faces the audience, etc.) to further show the show's mistakes.

[Lorimar Television]

Originally Posted by '80sSitcoms

I think that's what we all think. I was just pinpointing the positioning of the kitchen (which wall faces the back, which faces the street, which faces the audience, etc.) to further show the show's mistakes.

Yeah, I didn’t realize I was making excuses for producers. They deserve NOTHING for what they did to Sue Ann!!!! #stillnotoverit

[RetroGuy2000]

It's sad, but at least she got a return. *soothes Lorimar*

And now we at last know what she'd look like, back in the opening credits of Season 8! <br>

[Lorimar Television]

Originally Posted by RetroGuy2000

It's sad, but at least she got a return. *soothes Lorimar*

And now we at last know what she'd look like, back in the opening credits of Season 8! <br>

And in the season 2 credits you made. *watches the lost girl openings to soothe myself*

[Schmoopie]

I found the kitchen weird too but even more so, when exactly did they close the store? I don't remember the episode but Beverly Ann suggested that they close it and Blair and Natalie and Tootie protested. Beverly Ann said shew as going to call Edna and that was the last I heard of it. I just thought that maybe the store was still there and they were just focusing on the kitchen for some reason. Now I feel lost and fortunately I've been able to watch every ep of Season 9 so far.