I was watching Fresh Prince of Bel Air and started wondering about how many sets they have and how the filming is done in practice.
You have the main set that is the house, and then you have quite a number of other locations, some that are used more often than others. Are all of these sets kept up all the time? Does the audience move between them, or are they right next to eachother?
How do they do the taping if an episode moves between the house and the school a number of times? Is it done chronologically, so that the audience can follow the storyline?
One thing that is often done is that scenes filmed on a location or a remote set will be shown on a monitor to the studio audience to record their response. I guess this could be slotted in between studio scenes to give the live audience a sense of continuity.
Here’s a model of the set for the sitcom which pioneered the studio audience:
Just the club set and audience, for perspective:
When I attended a taping of a late-season episode of Boy Meets World, the audience sat in front of what I assume is considered the “main” set room, something that looked like a dorm common room or something. While other room sets were also visible, the particular episode was shot in hallway sets and other auxiliary parts of the studio, leading the audience to mostly watch on monitors.