# Blueprints for TV apartments **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 7, 2013, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueprints-for-tv-apartments/652304 "2013-03-07T17:38:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2013, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueprints-for-tv-apartments/652304/21 "2013-03-09T20:41:32Z")
> [@Zjestika](#): > > I’m having trouble picturing any scenes in that weird tiny room with the TV behind the garage. During the credits sequence, Homer is pushed by the station wagon into a room behind the garage, which is immediately followed by the couch gag. So I think whoever made the drawing assumed that the Simpsons’ family room/TV room was behind the garage. I know that’s where it is in my parents’ house. > [@Don\_Draper](#): > > These are great, but I can’t help wondering what the exterior surfaces of the buildings must look like to accomodate these floor-plans. They must all be some seriously weird post-modernist buildings. I agree with this. Most houses and apartments are basically rectangles, with everything within one rectangle. Sometimes, there is an extension, so there are two joined rectangles, but still the perimeter is really much simpler than the ones shown. I wonder why TV producers don’t try to conform their sets to reality; they know that we’re going to do things like try to imagine what the houses and apartments must look like. ---
**Author:** ![FordTaurusSHO94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f07891/32.png) [@FordTaurusSHO94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordTaurusSHO94)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2013, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueprints-for-tv-apartments/652304/22 "2013-03-10T06:04:19Z")
I remember a Simpson’s Episode where Marge yelled for Homer to check on the kids in the tree house during a storm. Lightning flashed, he saw the tree house, and then yelled they were fine. Did that take place in the odd room? ---
**Author:** ![Sateryn76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Sateryn76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sateryn76)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2013, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueprints-for-tv-apartments/652304/23 "2013-03-10T06:48:06Z")
Has anyone ever seen a layout of the ER emergency room? I’ve seen every episode like five times, an I still cannot get my head around it. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2013, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueprints-for-tv-apartments/652304/24 "2013-03-10T20:02:34Z")
> [@FordTaurusSHO94](#): > > I remember a Simpson’s Episode where Marge yelled for Homer to check on the kids in the tree house during a storm. Lightning flashed, he saw the tree house, and then yelled they were fine. Did that take place in the odd room? Don’t think so. Homer was drinking beer in front of the TV, so I’d assume it was in the TV room. The episode was > **[Three Men and a Comic Book](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Men_and_a_Comic_Book)** > > "Three Men and a Comic Book" is the twenty-first and penultimate episode of the second season (and the de facto season finale) of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on Fox in the United States on May 9, 1991. In the episode, Bart finds the rare first issue of Radioactive Man for sale at a comic book convention. Unable to afford it, he convinces Martin and Milhouse to pool their money to buy the valuable comic, only to see it destroyed by their selfishness... ---
**Author:** ![emcee2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@emcee2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emcee2k)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2013, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueprints-for-tv-apartments/652304/25 "2013-03-10T21:24:26Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Don’t think so. Homer was drinking beer in front of the TV, so I’d assume it was in the TV room. > > The episode was > > [Three Men and a Comic Book - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Men_and_a_Comic_Book) Appears to be the rumpus room: [![](https://s22.postimg.cc/bn3q7oext/rumpusroom.jpg) ](https://s22.postimg.cc/bn3q7oext/rumpusroom.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueprints-for-tv-apartments/652304/26 "2013-03-11T11:58:02Z")
> [@emcee2k](#): > > Appears to be the rumpus room: > > [rumpusroom — Postimages](http://s22.postimage.org/bn3q7oext/rumpusroom.jpg) Yes, [here’s the scene on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OyEzrLzHQM). Although it’s a really crappy copy (video of a TV screen) you can see Homer’s in the rumpus room (for some reason)… ---
**Author:** ![Waenara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@Waenara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waenara)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueprints-for-tv-apartments/652304/27 "2013-03-11T17:28:00Z")
> [@Sateryn76](#): > > Has anyone ever seen a layout of the ER emergency room? I’ve seen every episode like five times, an I still cannot get my head around it. I googled a bit and I found [this article (pdf)](http://www.tcnj.edu/~magazine/04Spring/pdfs/%20TCNJ%20Mag%20Spring%20%2704d_ER.pdf) about ER - the third page has what looks like an official blueprint. I copied it and you can see it [here](http://i1311.photobucket.com/albums/s662/a_yakowich/ERset-floorplan_zpscfa7ff86.png) - it’s not a very high resolution picture. It’s difficult to read the names of some of the rooms - in the upper left corner of the blueprint, the three rooms (from left to right) are the Suture Room, Trauma 2, and Trauma 1. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2013, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueprints-for-tv-apartments/652304/28 "2013-03-14T02:23:57Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > I thought the Simpsons house looked too big, but it makes more sense from [this view](http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2012/247/5/7/simpson__s_house_cutaway_first_floor_by_ajdelong-d5di5hs.jpg). That’s a nicely done illustration (and pretty accurate!) Is there one for the second floor? I’ve always wondered what the small room over the garage is supposed to be. Maggie’s room maybe? ---
**Author:** ![Sateryn76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Sateryn76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sateryn76)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2013, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueprints-for-tv-apartments/652304/29 "2013-03-15T04:20:01Z")
> [@Waenara](#): > > I googled a bit and I found [this article (pdf)](http://www.tcnj.edu/~magazine/04Spring/pdfs/%20TCNJ%20Mag%20Spring%20%2704d_ER.pdf) about ER - the third page has what looks like an official blueprint. I copied it and you can see it [here](http://i1311.photobucket.com/albums/s662/a_yakowich/ERset-floorplan_zpscfa7ff86.png) - it’s not a very high resolution picture. It’s difficult to read the names of some of the rooms - in the upper left corner of the blueprint, the three rooms (from left to right) are the Suture Room, Trauma 2, and Trauma 1. Awesome - thank you so much! I couldn’t get my Google skills to work. I’d love to get my hands on the full piece she wrote. That layout is the “new layout” with the clear board and super secure entry. Assuming the ER remodel was based in any kind if reality, I can puzzle out how it used to be. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2013, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueprints-for-tv-apartments/652304/30 "2013-03-15T16:02:54Z")
Where are all the extra rooms in the Simpsons coming from? I’m no Simpsons scholar, but I’ve never seen some of them. ---
**Author:** ![FordTaurusSHO94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f07891/32.png) [@FordTaurusSHO94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordTaurusSHO94)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2013, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueprints-for-tv-apartments/652304/31 "2013-03-16T05:12:50Z")
Which rooms are extra? The only one that I can’t think of ever seeing is the bathroom between the kitchen and the rumpus room. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2013, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueprints-for-tv-apartments/652304/32 "2013-03-17T00:35:52Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > I thought the Simpsons house looked too big, but it makes more sense from [this view](http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2012/247/5/7/simpson__s_house_cutaway_first_floor_by_ajdelong-d5di5hs.jpg). I just noticed that this pic has the basement stairs at the end of a hallway past the garage/house door. They should be right below the main staircase with the entrance door in the kitchen (the foyer closet should be half as wide…) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueprints-for-tv-apartments/652304.md?page=1)