As Seen on TV

Scott Hardie | February 21, 2024
Not everyone wants to live inside a fictional TV home, as the under-performing sale of the "Brady Bunch House" implies. But surely any house has a potential market.

If you could own and live inside any home from a TV show, which would you choose?

Erik Bates | February 22, 2024
Clarissa always had a great huge bedroom from which she explained it all.

I actually liked the general layout of the houses on Roseanne/The Connors and Married with Children.

I don’t remember anything else about the show, but I want a house with hidden passages and doorways like Webster.

Samir Mehta | February 22, 2024
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Erik Bates | February 23, 2024
On that note, Samir, I'd like to add to my choice: Downton Abbey.

Steve West | February 23, 2024
Nothing ostentatious like the Beverly Hillbillies mansion but more ranch-like. Yellowstone is a bit too grand also but nice. Probably more like the Ponderosa with indoor plumbing.

Scott Hardie | February 25, 2024
Off of the top of my head, the most comfortable TV home that I can think of is probably the Enterprise-D in Star Trek: The Next Generation, and the least comfortable must be the tribe shelter in any season of Survivor. But I'm too tempted by the Scottish castle and its grounds in The Traitors to choose anything else. I know that the players don't really sleep in the castle while filming, but the show pretends that they do, which is good enough for me to count it.

Monica & Rachel's apartment from Friends comes to mind, partly because it's so spacious and well-decorated with a great view, but mostly because of warm nostalgic feelings from the show. In a similar way, I'm drawn to the apartment from Three's Company, which isn't very pretty -- it looked as if the decorator's pay would be reduced every time they used a color other than beige -- but thinking about it brings back the warm fuzzy feelings about being a young person in the world.