# Movie/TV characters' great apartments **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 14, 2016, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-characters-great-apartments/748941 "2016-03-14T02:46:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-characters-great-apartments/748941/21 "2016-03-14T21:33:34Z")
What’s the deal with the bathroom in the apartment on New Girl? It’s like a public bathroom, with stalls and I think even urinals. Weird, I’ve never been in a residence that had a bathroom like that. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-characters-great-apartments/748941/22 "2016-03-14T21:42:19Z")
Three Men and a Baby lived in a fantastic loft space. They were all rich though, which explained it. ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-characters-great-apartments/748941/23 "2016-03-14T21:50:09Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > Here is an overhead view of Frasiers apartment. > > [http://img04.deviantart.net/ac13/i/2013/039/7/d/frasier\_s\_apartment\_floorplan\_\_\_v2\_by\_nikneuk-d5ewtl2.jpg](http://img04.deviantart.net/ac13/i/2013/039/7/d/frasier_s_apartment_floorplan___v2_by_nikneuk-d5ewtl2.jpg) I’ve always wondered what the exterior of that building must look like. ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-characters-great-apartments/748941/24 "2016-03-14T22:07:24Z")
> [@Anamorphic](#): > > I know for sure in the books, they explain that he made a lot of money when (in extremely meta fashion) Hollywood bought the rights to the story of one of his cases and made it into a [movie starting Clint Eastwood](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0309377/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_4). He may have had the house before that though; I can’t recall for sure. > > EDIT: Wait, I may be wrong. That book is in fact by Michael Connelly, but it’s not a Bosch book. But I am positive it’s mentioned in the Bosch books that a movie about one of his cases was made starring Eastwood, and he made a lot of money from it. In the TV program Bosch mentions that he made a bunch of money from a movie of one of his cases. There is a movie poster on the wall that he points to. I think it was for Black Echo, which was the first Bosch book. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-characters-great-apartments/748941/25 "2016-03-16T06:43:21Z")
I’ve always been more partial to “lairs,” myself, but I’ll admit I’ve always had a fondness for V[icki Vale’s apartment from the 89 Batman.](http://xahlee.org/Periodic_dosage_dir/skina/batman/vicky_vale_apartment.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-characters-great-apartments/748941/26 "2016-03-16T07:17:28Z")
I always liked Mary Richards’ first apartment in Minneapolis. Never really warmed to the second one. Greg Brady’s swingin’ bachelor pad (he “occupied” his dad’s den) is, for a teenager, not bad. Jake and Elwood Blues’ flophouse apartment didn’t much rate, even before the explosion. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-characters-great-apartments/748941/27 "2016-03-16T07:24:57Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > Is there ANY apartment which wouldn’t be improved if it came with Audrey Hepburn wrapped in a towel? Anne Frank’s. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-characters-great-apartments/748941/28 "2016-03-16T07:40:45Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > Is there ANY apartment which wouldn’t be improved if it came with Audrey Hepburn wrapped in a towel? Truman Capote’s. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-characters-great-apartments/748941/29 "2016-03-16T10:45:29Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Anne Frank’s. You’re joking, but seeing as Hepburn served as a courier for the Dutch Resistance during the German occupation, she might actually have been able to help. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-characters-great-apartments/748941/30 "2016-03-16T11:01:21Z")
It’s been almost 40 years and the movie didn’t even get translated for the Spanish market, but I remember watching a Catalan piece where the protagonist had an “apartment” right on Plaça Catalunya, in what’s actually the [Telefónica building](http://www.labarcelonadeantes.com/telefonica.html). The little crib, being used by one person and almost completely devoid of furniture (apparently there wasn’t budget for that), was about 3-4 times the size of your standard full-family flat, with ceilings high enough to park a small plane in the living room. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-characters-great-apartments/748941/31 "2016-03-16T11:10:12Z")
It’s been true for a long, long time that characters in American TV shows (and, to a lesser extent, movies) often live in houses and apartments that in reality they couldn’t possibly afford: > **["Friends" Rent Control - TV Tropes](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FriendsRentControl)** > > Your cast of good-looking single hangarounds live in a fancy apartment in the middle of the town. None of them seems to work, or if they do, they're usually actors, columnists or whatever leaves them with a lot of leisure time to have drama in … ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-characters-great-apartments/748941/32 "2016-03-16T11:16:08Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > It’s been true for a long, long time that characters in American TV shows (and, to a lesser extent, movies) often live in houses and apartments that in reality they couldn’t possibly afford: > > ["Friends" Rent Control - TV Tropes](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FriendsRentControl) Neil Simon lampshaded this in one of his plays (_The Goodbye Girl_, I think) by having his character saying they had the apartment “on a sublet from Mary Todd Lincoln”. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-characters-great-apartments/748941/33 "2016-03-16T11:26:12Z")
_Mad Men’s_ Don Draper’s NYC apartment with his 2nd wife was pretty spiffy. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-characters-great-apartments/748941/34 "2016-03-16T11:34:32Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#): > > I’ve always been more partial to “lairs,” myself, but I’ll admit I’ve always had a fondness for V[icki Vale’s apartment from the 89 Batman.](http://xahlee.org/Periodic_dosage_dir/skina/batman/vicky_vale_apartment.jpg) Nice place. Lots of space. > [@John\_Mace](#): > > _Mad Men’s_ Don Draper’s NYC apartment with his 2nd wife was pretty spiffy. [Yep.](http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c630a53ef0167645f128c970b-pi) ---
**Author:** ![Scougs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scougs/32/3158_2.png) [@Scougs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scougs)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-characters-great-apartments/748941/35 "2016-03-16T12:44:46Z")
The definitive reference for TV apartments: [http://inakialistelizarralde.tumblr.com/](http://inakialistelizarralde.tumblr.com/) ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-characters-great-apartments/748941/36 "2016-03-16T13:28:42Z")
> [@Scougs](#): > > The definitive reference for TV apartments: [http://inakialistelizarralde.tumblr.com/](http://inakialistelizarralde.tumblr.com/) Holy crap–what a fabulous link. :eek: Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-characters-great-apartments/748941/37 "2016-03-16T15:34:57Z")
Michael Weston in **Burn Notice** lived in what looked like a [shipping container](http://blog.coldwellbanker.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/burn-notice-loft.jpg). Without air conditioning. In Miami. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![SaharaTea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SaharaTea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaharaTea)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-characters-great-apartments/748941/38 "2016-03-16T15:58:16Z")
I always wanted a [huge NYC loft](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CJfLUCJUkAAZedN.jpg) like the one Tom Hanks had in **Big.** With the trampoline and pinball machine of course. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-characters-great-apartments/748941/39 "2016-03-16T16:00:21Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > _Mad Men’s_ Don Draper’s NYC apartment with his 2nd wife was pretty spiffy. I loved the outside of Betty and Henry’s gothic castle of a mansion. The inside was fairly awesome, but the kitchen seemed to have all the original equipment. It should have come with a mob-capped cook and kitchen slavey so Betty would have never had to go in that appalling space. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-characters-great-apartments/748941/40 "2016-03-16T16:06:08Z")
There was a spectacular loft shown in ‘Year of the Dragon’ with Mickey Rourke, 1985. Looking right out at a NY bridge over the water! I think it was owned by the female lead, who was a reporter (?) Apparently she had a rich rich father to pay for that loft! It even had its own credit at the end of the movie (“Loft created by\_\_\_\_ North Carolina”) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-characters-great-apartments/748941.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-tv-characters-great-apartments/748941.md?page=3)