Tuesdays are Top 10 Tuesdays where I count down a topic in the TV realm. This week is Top 10 TV Apartments!
Close Calls
Alex Levy's Apartment - The Morning Show
Rhoda and Joe Gerard's Apartment - Rhoda
Bob and Emily's First Apartment - The Bob Newhart Show
A really stunning apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, the apartment where Midge, her kids and her parents live would sell for millions of dollars today. I love how sprawling it is and the show makes expert use of the characters moving throughout the apartment. It's also so brightly colored with a great 50s style, especially in the kitchen.
9. Joey Tribbiani's Apartment - Friends
One of the two major apartments on the series (the other one is still to come on this list), Joey's apartment is the ultimate guys apartment in the early years. Compared to Monica's beautifully decorated apartment, Joey and Chandler ornamented things with a pool table, recliners and (for a time) a canoe. Even when Rachel moved in, it still had Joey's handprints (likely messy from food) all over it.
8. Paul and Jamie Buchman's Apartment - Mad About You
A great 90s apartment complete with Paul the videographer's now very dated technology in one section of the apartment. Just like Friends, it's awfully hard to imagine people with the type of income Paul and Jamie have being able to afford such a spacious apartment but that's the beauty of filming on a Hollywood sound stage. The open concept living/dining room provided lots of opportunity for a multi-cam sitcom.
7. The Loft - New Girl
So much of the joys of New Girl took place in the Loft with the crazy roommates who made up the main cast of the series. The show was very fitting for a bunch of millennials in a show that I think will probably start to look dated sooner than any of us millennials want it to. And of course it's the birthplace of the great game "True American."
6. Maxwell Smart's Apartment - Get Smart
This isn't the best decorated or swankiest or coziest apartment. But it made the list because of the gadgets and gizmos that are part of it. It's almost always booby-trapped in one way or another and one of the more consistent sets for action throughout the series' five year run. It benefits even more when 99 and Max marry and it becomes a domestic setting amidst the spy silliness.
After his divorce from Betty, Don Draper moves into a beautiful 60s-era apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The apartment is, shall I say, groovy and has such a retro feel to it. It has a stunning open living room that really adds a lot when it is the setting during the latter half of the series. It really takes Don's life in a different direction compared to the house he shared with Betty.
4. Frasier Crane's Apartment - Frasier
Frasier's stunning Seattle apartment is perhaps one of the ones I'm most envious on this list. It's impeccably decorated to fit Frasier's fancy taste yet it has to have Martin's old chair which is a bit of an eyesore but also gives the apartment a cozier feel. And that beautiful skyline! I would love to spend a few days in that apartment.
3. Lucy & Ricky Ricardo's Second Apartment - I Love Lucy
There's something so simple and sweet about the Ricardo apartment at 623 E. 68th Street. I picked the second apartment for this list because I liked the one that has the extra space for Little Ricky and the window in the living room. Lucy spent time in a lot of places: California, Europe, Florida, Connecticut and more. But the one setting I think of most when I think of I Love Lucy is their cozy and tasteful apartment.
2. Monica Geller's Apartment - Friends
Ignore the fact that the apartment could never be affordable in Greenwich Village, Monica's apartment is an iconic TV setting. First with Rachel as a roommate and then with Chandler as live-in boyfriend turned husband (and with a few other dwellers along the way), Monica's apartment was a bit of everything. It had lots of personality with its bohemian-flavored decor but it also was the best place to get all the Friends together, even better than Central Perk.
Mary's first apartment has been one of my favorite TV settings for as long as I can remember. It's not huge (the living room is also the bedroom) but it's very unique and very charming. It has a beautiful and often snowy view of Minneapolis outside the window and inside it has a lot of character from a tiny kitchen to the wooden M that hangs on the wall. I understand why the series moved her after Rhoda and Phyllis left the show but it never felt the same in her second, much more bland apartment.
Tomorrow: A look at 2000s flop Jack & Bobby!
Next Tuesday: Top 10 TV Houses!
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