# Who's TV Apartment Would You Like To Live In **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 4, 2009, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-tv-apartment-would-you-like-to-live-in/501877 "2009-07-04T05:52:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2009, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-tv-apartment-would-you-like-to-live-in/501877/41 "2009-07-05T02:23:04Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > Well, if the apartments are “furnished”, I get Laura Petrie. > > And have the better of the bargain. Zyada says “If you get Laura Petrie, you also get to sleep in a twin bed.” I don’t much care about the apartment, nice though it is, but I’d certainly take it if Emma Peel is part of the deal. Failing that arrangement, both Frasier and Niles Crane have great places, but I think I’d go for the (never-admitted) Vancouver location of MacGuyver’s place. ---
**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:** [July 5, 2009, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-tv-apartment-would-you-like-to-live-in/501877/42 "2009-07-05T02:39:56Z")
Well, personally, I’m in the market for a TV apartment that has a balcony view of a massive mad laboratory complex. Can someone hook me up? ---
**Author:** ![Mrs.Cake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2acd7d/32.png) [@Mrs.Cake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs.Cake)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2009, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-tv-apartment-would-you-like-to-live-in/501877/43 "2009-07-05T03:06:18Z")
I’ll take the spiffy art deco flat owned (?) by Bertie Wooster in the Frye/Laurie _Jeeves and Wooster_ series. Or Hercules Poirot flat/office in the David Suchet _Poirot_ series. ---
**Author:** ![Hentzau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Hentzau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentzau)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2009, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-tv-apartment-would-you-like-to-live-in/501877/44 "2009-07-05T03:14:16Z")
I’ve always had a weakness for gigantic single-room loft apartments converted from the top floor of some old office building downtown. Brick walls and ancient plank floors, so the place Jim Ellison had in The Sentinel would suit very well. ---
**Author:** ![Soul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2009, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-tv-apartment-would-you-like-to-live-in/501877/45 "2009-07-05T03:21:10Z")
Didn’t Niles’s apartment in _Frasier_ have a secret passageway through a bookshelf? I always wanted one of those. ---
**Author:** ![wunderkammer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ed8c4c/32.png) [@wunderkammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wunderkammer)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2009, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-tv-apartment-would-you-like-to-live-in/501877/46 "2009-07-05T05:10:26Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#): > > Well, personally, I’m in the market for a TV apartment that has a balcony view of a massive mad laboratory complex. Can someone hook me up? [Venture compound?](http://jacksonpublick.livejournal.com/18339.html) No, wait, I already called Dr. Orpheus’s apartment. (Dr. Venture rents a room to Dr. O, who is a necromancer. While the rest of Venture Industries is a mix of the atomic age and the worst of the seventies, Orpheus’s apartment is exactly what a necromancer gentleman would have. Lots of hardwood and finely crafted details. Fireplaces. A portal to hell in the bedroom closet. Floor-to-ceiling bookcases!) ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2009, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-tv-apartment-would-you-like-to-live-in/501877/47 "2009-07-05T08:06:43Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > “ **Whose** ”, not “Who’s” > > I liked Robinson Crusoe’s place in the recent show _Crusoe_. Not that anybody will know what I’m talking about as they never watched it. I prefer “Who’s” as in "Dr Who’s"as in the interior of the Tardis is pretty cool looking. Robinson Crusoe or any other bamboo-punk Swiss Family deserted island treehouse would be cool too. With the green lamp from Giles’ apartment. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2009, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-tv-apartment-would-you-like-to-live-in/501877/48 "2009-07-05T09:45:00Z")
Guy’s Big Bite. From the food network. Only except I’m not a big race car fan so I’d change the race car colors to all black or a metallic blue. [pic](http://blog.foodnetwork.com/fn-dish/files/2009/04/guysbigbite.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2009, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-tv-apartment-would-you-like-to-live-in/501877/49 "2009-07-05T11:11:46Z")
Speaking of Sunnydale, I remember being in envy of Xander’s improbably swank apartment. I remember it having a big, curving wall with a view, possibly some glass blocks, sort of art deco, and large. Reminded me a lot of places in the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles. ---
**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:** [July 5, 2009, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-tv-apartment-would-you-like-to-live-in/501877/50 "2009-07-05T14:01:00Z")
> [@wunderkammer](#): > > [Venture compound?](http://jacksonpublick.livejournal.com/18339.html) > > No, wait, I already called Dr. Orpheus’s apartment. (Dr. Venture rents a room to Dr. O, who is a necromancer. While the rest of Venture Industries is a mix of the atomic age and the worst of the seventies, Orpheus’s apartment is exactly what a necromancer gentleman would have. Lots of hardwood and finely crafted details. Fireplaces. A portal to hell in the bedroom closet. Floor-to-ceiling bookcases!) Hmmm…well, it’s got a nice “homey” feel to it, but I’m really looking for something with an [_enclosed_ lab complex](http://www.furuanimepanikku.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/img200005pc.jpg), so I don’t have to see sunlight as often. (It burns us.) Is Hank Scorpio’s base still on the market? ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2009, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-tv-apartment-would-you-like-to-live-in/501877/51 "2009-07-05T15:49:56Z")
> [@Mr.Excellent](#): > > Kara Thrace’s place in Caprica City seemed decent, for a basement apartment. Admittedly, Thrace wasn’t too thrilled with it - she claimed that neither the heat, air conditioning, or toilet functioned properly. And “the rent’s a crime.” But this is Kara Thrace - she’s never happy. > > Also, I’d rather hope that Thrace’s apartment would come complete _with_ a naked Kara Thrace. Which would improve it substantially. To be fair, depending on the peacetime deployment rotation for Colonial Viper pilots, she probably didn’t spend a lot of time in that apartment anyways. Maybe she’d offer you a sublease with a sweetheart deal if you get the Hummer detailed for her. Mind you, around the time that Lt. Thrace was renting there, Caprica City seemed to have an unacceptably high risk level for my tastes. I always thought Harmon Rabb’s place on JAG looked pretty nice. I don’t recall where it is located, but I think he mentioned he got a deal on it in return for agreeing to fix it up. Also, Admiral Kirk had a pretty sweet place in San Fransisco, with a view of the Golden Gate Bridge even. Downside is you’d have to deal with all the weird folks who live in San Fransisco. Can you imagine 23rd century hippies?😃 ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2009, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-tv-apartment-would-you-like-to-live-in/501877/52 "2009-07-05T16:12:20Z")
Another thought: the apartment over the bowling alley in Constantine seemed strangely charming to me. Dunno why. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2009, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-tv-apartment-would-you-like-to-live-in/501877/53 "2009-07-05T17:22:46Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > The Odd Couple’s apt–spacious and well laid out, Which one the first season, or the years after? ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2009, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-tv-apartment-would-you-like-to-live-in/501877/54 "2009-07-05T18:33:26Z")
I always liked the loft in _My Two Dads_. Staying in NYC, Seinfield’s apartment would suit me well if the front door was double dead bolted. Mindy’s apartment in _Mork and Mindy_ was cool except that it would have to be somewhere other than Boulder. Same with Mary’s Minneapolis home (the one in the upstairs of the old Victorian) from _Mary Tyler Moore_. Too bloody cold in either city. There are probably others, but those stick out as most favorable. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2009, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-tv-apartment-would-you-like-to-live-in/501877/55 "2009-07-05T20:33:45Z")
If we’re going to add homes to the mix, I’ll take Gull Cottage from _The Ghost and Mrs. Muir_. I can’t really imagine living in an apartment. That’s too close to other people. But if I had to, I guess I’d take Rick Castle’s place. StG ---
**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:** [July 5, 2009, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-tv-apartment-would-you-like-to-live-in/501877/56 "2009-07-05T20:53:26Z")
I like Adrian Monk’s apartment, partly because it’s in San Francisco, and partly because I like his furniture. (Although I doubt that I could keep up his standards of cleanliness.) ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2009, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-tv-apartment-would-you-like-to-live-in/501877/57 "2009-07-05T22:29:08Z")
As a second choice–the Fortress of Solitude. ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2009, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-tv-apartment-would-you-like-to-live-in/501877/58 "2009-07-06T03:19:58Z")
I liked Dharma and Greg’s apartment. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2009, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-tv-apartment-would-you-like-to-live-in/501877/59 "2009-07-06T03:46:55Z")
> [@Hentzau](#): > > I’ve always had a weakness for gigantic single-room loft apartments converted from the top floor of some old office building downtown. Brick walls and ancient plank floors, so the place Jim Ellison had in The Sentinel would suit very well. The Year of the Dragon (1985 movie, Mickey Rourke) - the love interest had just such a place in NYC - there was a hot tub right smack in the middle of the loft! And a glass wall with a killer view of, what, the George Washington Bridge! GOD, I SWOON every time I see it. Don’t know if it was a real loft, but it did have its own credit in the closing credits… ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-tv-apartment-would-you-like-to-live-in/501877/60 "2009-07-10T17:41:20Z")
> [@BiblioCat](#): > > Frasier Crane’s apartment is pretty nice. Too rushed to look it up, but someone did architectural floor plans of famous TV pads, from Frasier’s to Fred’s. And sells them framed. Fred Flintstone, of course. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-tv-apartment-would-you-like-to-live-in/501877.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-tv-apartment-would-you-like-to-live-in/501877.md?page=4)