**MAD Magazine *** explained Elizabeth Taylor’s house in The Sandpiper by having her say that, as a Beatnik artist, she went around nude all the time and used the money she saved on clothes to buy it.
*The opening panel of the satire (titled The Sinpiper) showed a dilapidated shack perched on the edge of a cliff in the background, not a palacial glass home. 
Dexter’s apartment was pretty nice. The place Veronica Mars shared with her dad, The Sunset Cliffs Apartments, is a cool spot–actually better in real life than the show I think.
I did not know that. Ignorance Fought! Thank you.
The Bradys also lived in a 3BR house with 6 kids and a live-in maid. (and two ovens as well)
I remember thinking that “Alice” inhabited an awfully nice-looking apartment, considering that she was a widow with a teenage son who worked at a greasy spoon diner. Maybe her husband had plenty of life insurance, IDK.
If you’re making a TV show (especially with a live audience) you go with whatever looks best on stage, no matter how screwed up or downright impossible the floorplan would be in real life.
Remind me how, again, please?
I don’t think we’re ever shown it. These may be of interest, though:
Jerry had an end apartment, though, so it made sense to me. The apartment was a little bit L-shaped around the truncated hallway. I had an end apartment once that was a little odd like that. My bathroom was right next to my neighbors bathroom, and my kitchen was against the end of the hallway; I had 2 1/2 outside walls, so I got lots of windows, and heat was included, so I could crank it up in the winter.
BTW, I kinds like that on both Friends and TBBT, the illustrate a phenomenon that I saw in NYC all the time in older buildings-- the nice, spacious apartment with the view that probably cost $4000/month (in NY dollars), across the hall from the smaller apartment that overlooked the alley, and cost $1,400/month. Now, Monica had a rent controlled apartment, and may have been paying who knows-- $600 a month? and Penny’s one bedroom has an even smaller kitchen than Chandler and Joey’s apartment, and so maybe they guy’s pay $1,800, split two ways, and Penny pays $1,200. But that set up totally looks familiar. I was the person in the crappy apartment overlooking the alley a few times in Manhattan, but it meant I was in a decent building that attracted the tenants who could afford the nice place across the hall.
Gull Cottage in the movie The Ghost and Mrs. Muir was pretty spectacular.
Also Windward House in the 1944 version of The Uninvited, one of my absolute favorite movies.
They did, very briefly, in the episode where the easy chair came crashing to the ground. It was at street level.
It’d be interesting to view that scene again, just to see if we can make out any details. It happened so fast and was unexpected.
If I recall correctly, the elevator in TBBT is broken because Leonard and the guys are experimenting with rocket fuel, in the kitchen. Some key measurement is off, and the resulting explosion would have destroyed the apartment. Sheldon is planning to take the container outside before it explodes, but they run out of time. So he ditches the canister in the elevator, hits the button to the close the door, and BOOM.
Building management never fixes it.
Leonard was trying to take it out, but Sheldon stopped him and ditched the canister as you describe. So Sheldon actually saved his life, one of the reasons he’s stayed his roommate for so long. He does so out of gratitude, both for saving his life and not ratting him out to the owners of the building, or to the authorities.
Speaking of lampshading: In Daredevil, Matt Murdock’s swank corner apartment also comes with a garish electronic billboard next door, which makes the unit uninhabitable to anyone but a blind person (Matt), who thus pays significantly lower rent for it.
Actually, to any blind person (except, arguably, Daredevil), the fact that it’s a corner apartment probably wouldn’t have any more of a draw than a non-corner apartment. Unless he really likes getting cross-drafts.
Well, in that particular case the amount of potential exits is a selling point 
I missed that one. My thanks to you both.
Oh! And, while it’s a bit of a “cheat” (there might not be enough examples for their own thead), but Adam Jensen’s apartment from Deux Ex: Human Revolution.*
And, of course, it’s immediate ancestor, Deckard’s apartment from Blade Runner. The latter, however, while great and appropriate, I find just a tad too cluttered for my (personal) tastes—I guess I prefer just the right combination of “airy” and “spooky.”
*It lacks the requisite giant, uncovered, slow-moving backlit fan, true, but it does have a prominent mirror smashed in anguish.
It’s one that takes place mostly in Penny’s apartment after Leonard and Sheldon have an argument. He tells her in a series of flashbacks how they wound up as roommates, and why he continues to live that way.
I always like Mork & Mindy’s apartment. Mork had his own loft in the attic. (Of course, he’d have to go downstairs to go to the bathroom, but maybe Orkans dont’ have to do that…)
That’s one thing I hated about growing up in Orange County: no attics and no basements. :mad:
Harry Bosch’s house was destroyed in the Northridge Earthquake, but he rebuilt on the same spot. I’m not sure if the second one looked like the original.
Hmm, I don’t know. She’s been dead a while.
I’ve mentioned this one before, but Mad About You had a huge apartment (though it did have that weird sloping floor). When they decide to have a baby, they say, and we can convert the storage area to a nursery. Yeah, in NYC they’re paying for a bedroom and using a second bedroom as a random junk/storage room. Right.