TV sitcoms have been a source of laughter in many homes throughout the world, and a lot of fans swear that they know everything there is to know about their favorite sitcoms like “The Big Bang Theory,” “Friends,” and “The Conners.” But most people wouldn’t be able to identify the most popular sitcoms just by looking an empty set. Can you? Take this quiz and prove it!
TV sitcoms have been a source of laughter in many homes throughout the world, and a lot of fans swear that they know everything there is to know about their favorite sitcoms like “The Big Bang Theory,” “Friends,” and “The Conners.” But most people wouldn’t be able to identify the most popular sitcoms just by looking an empty set. Can you? Take this quiz and prove it!
The main apartment is located in the Upper West Side of New York City, at least as far as the show is concerned. But in real-life, it’s nothing more than a set at Soundstage Studio 22 in Los Angeles, California.
The popular sitcom was originally shot at Warner Bros. Stage 5, but eventually moved to Stage 24, which was larger. Oddly enough, both stages were in Burbank, California, but the show took place in New York.
The entire set of "Black-ish" is a studio and is not based on an actual home. The show’s creators wanted to make this home appear to be idyllic for a middle-class American family, so most of the décor consists of items that can be easily found at many stores.
The interior of a lot of the homes on the long running sitcom had some fancy decorations which were indicative of just how financially affluent families like the Dunphys and the Pritchetts were.
"Roseanne’s" TV family, the Conners, spent a lot of time in this living room and the real irony is that it was based on an actual home in Evansville. However, the show’s setting took place in a fictional town called Lanford.
Unlike other shows of its era, “I Love Lucy” used three cameras instead of one. It also used a live audience, which was sometimes a problem because the microphones would often pick up chatter from the audience.
This was the interior used on the hit sitcom "Seinfeld" starring Jerry Seinfeld. Ironically, it’s not an actual apartment but a studio set where many of the hilarious characters sat on the couch or hung out between takes.
Although the show’s fictional characters were in Boston, the set was located inside a Paramount Studios lot in Hollywood, California. However, there is an actual Cheers bar in Boston, but it doesn’t look anything like the one from the show.
Beloved characters like Archie and Edith Bunker once called this set home. Ironically, the show was filmed first and then played back to an audience, whose reactions were recorded and then added in the background to make the audience reactions heard on the show more believable than a basic laugh track.
If there’s one thing fans learned from this popular sitcom it's that Sheldon, Leonard, Raj and Howard could talk about scientific stuff all day, and yet somehow, they managed to have some pretty awesome love lives, too.
When Mike married Carol, they also became stepparents to each other’s kids. Mike had three boys and Carol had three girls, and together they became The Brady Bunch.
The series starred up and coming actors like Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher among others and it took place during the 1970s. The hilarious premise of the show allowed viewers to watch as a group of friends slowly embraced adulthood.
In the series premiere, Grace leaves her fiancé at the altar and ends up moving in with her openly gay best friend, Will in his New York City Apartment. The sitcom had audiences in stitches for 8 seasons. Then the show returned as a revival for three more seasons.
In this popular sitcom, two girls needed a third roommate, so they offered the spot to a guy they discovered passed out in a bathtub. He accepted and moved into their Santa Monica apartment.
When Danny’s wife passed away from a tragic accident, his best friend Joey and his brother-in-law Jesse moved in to help him raise his three girls, D.J., Stephanie and Michelle.
Based off of a U.K. series, this sitcom had characters working together at an office selling paper. Now that might not sound very interesting, but the crazy things they did to sell their products had people glued to their television sets.
Tony Danza played Tony Micelli, a single dad who leaves Brooklyn with his daughter and moves to Connecticut to work for a single mom named Angela Bower. Although she’s reluctant about hiring a male housekeeper, he soon becomes a very important part of her life.
In this show, a divorced contractor named Frank Lambert and a widowed beautician named Carol Foster move in under the same roof. But there are lots of ups and downs along the way as the kids from each parent try to adjust to being in each other’s lives.
Officer Carl Winslow and his family lived in this house, but their neighbor Steve Urkel was constantly dropping by. And while he didn’t mean to, he often tried Carl's patience, especially when Urkel tried hitting on his daughter, Laura.
A psychiatrist named Jason Seaver decided to put his wife first when he moved his practice into his home so he could continue treating his patients while his better half continued her career.
Will Smith starred in this popular sitcom as a young man who moved in with his auntie and uncle in Bel-Air after landing into trouble. The troubled character’s coming-of-age antics made for a highly entertaining series.
The sitcom was a spin-off of “Cheers” and had the popular character Frasier move to Seattle to start a new life. Over the course of the series, Frasier offers words of advice on his radio show.
Pady’s Pub is an Irish Bar owned by Mac, Dee and Dennis. Unfortunately, this team of co-owners are always at each other’s throats and try plotting against one another constantly.
The character Ted was a frequent patron of MacLaren’s before he eventually settled down and started a family. Unfortunately, he spent several seasons dragging his kids along with stories that eventually led to how he met their mother.
For 32 seasons, Homer Simpson and his family, along with the residents of Springfield, have provided plenty of hilarious situations that have left fans coming back to watch year after year.
Although they didn’t all share the same apartment, Chandler, Joey, Monica, Ross, Phoebe and Rachel sure loved spending a lot of time in this living room talking about life, relationship woes, and other issues.
This half-hour comedy follows detective Jake Peralta and the officers of the city’s 99th precinct as they get into one jam after another while trying to keep the criminal elements of the city at bay.
This sitcom has a member of the family discuss what it was like growing up with family in the 1980s. The series has recreated the era so precisely that it makes anyone who grew up in that time feel totally nostalgic.
Over the years, viewers got to see Cory Matthews grow up in this home. And then, audiences got a second chance to watch him and his wife Topanga raise their daughter in the spin-off series “Girl Meets World.”
For seven seasons, Dorothy, Rose, Blanche and Sophia called this set home. And viewers got to watch as this elderly group of female friends laughed, cried and supported one another in this hilarious sitcom.
Cliff Huxtable and his wife Claire raised their daughters Sondra, Vanessa, Denise and Rudy, as well as their son Theo. While the sitcom offered plenty of laughter, it also gave viewers an insight into this upper-middle-class family.
Leonard and Penny’s kitchen was once Leonard and Sheldon’s kitchen before she moved in. And the set is decorated with items that symbolize the characters’ love for science fiction.
Although Dr. Frasier lives here, he sometimes uses this space to help his patients out when they need someone to talk to. Besides patients, this living space is frequented by Frasier’s father and brother.
The location of this home is 251 North Bristol Avenue in Brentwood, California, which is ironic since the series takes place in Bel-Air. Another interesting tidbit is that the interior shots were filmed at the Columbia/Sunset Gower Studios.
That’s right! This is Will’s apartment, but of course, Grace has been his on-again/off-again platonic roommate. And while she’s straight and he’s not, these two friends are each other’s soul mates.
The home’s exterior was located in 12334 Cantura Street, Toluca Lake, California. The studio rented the home on a daily basis to film the sitcom. Unfortunately, the property was rebuilt over the years so it doesn’t look anything like the way it did on the show.
This was the home of Darrin and Samantha Stephens. Of course, fans of the late 1960s and early 1970s series will recall that Samantha was a witch married to a mortal. And many of her family members popped in to cause problems for the couple throughout the series.
A grown-up Kevin provided commentary as viewers got to relive his young teenage counterpart’s past. Although the exterior of the home came from a California neighborhood, the interior shots seen on the series were filmed on a studio set.
If the set doesn’t give it away, then perhaps the logo on the window will. This is the set of the show’s café called Central Perk. It was featured heavily throughout the series.
The set was beautifully decorated and, of course, Seinfeld and the rest of his friends spent a great deal of time here, but there wasn’t a whole lot that went on in this particular set.
This was the interior set of Jeannie’s bottle. Of course, Jeannie was a magical creature that could smoke her way in and out of the bottle by blinking. But if someone closed the bottle with a cork, she was trapped until someone released her. And anyone who opened the bottle became her master.
The animated characters live on Spooner Street in a fictional town in Rhode Island. According to the show’s myth, the town was initially thought to be founded by Miles Musket and a magical mollusk, but it was later discovered that a British national was the original founder.
This kitchen was where Roseanne, her husband Dan, and their kids would sit down for a meal to talk about their day. The kitchen was eventually recreated during the show’s revival which later turned into the spin-off “The Conners.”
The exterior of the home was located at 641 Castlewood Lane in Deerfield, Illinois, but the film set was changed three times. The series first shot at the ABC Television Center before moving to Columbia Studios and eventually to Sony Pictures.
The sitcom featured Dick, Harry, Sally and Tommy, four aliens who took human form and lived in this house while learning all there was to know about humanity before ultimately returning home.
The exterior of this home was in Greenwich Village in Manhattan. But most of the show about the African-American family known as the Huxtables was shot in Queens at the Kaufman Astoria Studios.
The CBS sitcom featured Bonnie and Kristie as a mother and daughter who are trying to get their lives together after struggling with alcohol and other controlled substances. Other characters on the show also have some form of addiction which allows them to relate to the main characters.
This property was on 1 Lucille Lane and it had tons of flaws that made some characters wonder how long the house would remain intact. And while the house was in a subdivision, there weren’t a lot of neighbors.
While Al Bundy was often seen with his hands down his pants trying to watch a football game or an episode of “Psycho Dad,” his wife Peg sat on this couch eating chocolate and watching Oprah.
The exterior of this house was the home of four older women who shared a place in Miami, Florida as well as a powerful friendship. Ironically, the exterior had nothing to do with the interior viewers saw, which was actually just a studio set.