"Don Draper's apartment, which he moved into after **him and Betty split up**, is at 104 Waverly Place."   Is this a joke?  I mean, i know gothamist doesn't have editors who passed the 8th grade (clearly), but really?  cmon. ** = your 3rd grade teacher just killed herself because the shame was too great. Him and Betty?  I live in China and I don't usually have to put up with butchery this brutal.

Multi camera sitcoms are apartment studio sets with room for an audience. Those cannot resemble an actual apartment in any city. Anything else is much more realistic.

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What a hoot to see how they think real New Yorkers live.Apartments in New York are in general just cooler!

What about "The Cosby Show" with their large Brooklyn brownstone? It looked more like a suburban house to me.

If TV shows accurately portrayed apartment in New York City, nobody would care anymore...which might be a good thing?

Regardless, the Arts of New York City are alive.

The apartments on Felicity never made sense to me. A lot of the plot throughout the four seasons revolves around how everyone is broke (working at Dean and Deluca, cut off financially from wealthy parents, footing an NYU tuition on your own, being a continually unsuccessful "entrepreneur"). Yet they all still manage to live in enormous dorm rooms and apartments in prime locations. The occasional "yeah, we really lucked out on this apartment" line that the writers threw in just didn't seem to cut it in terms of an explanation.

A lot of Felicity didn't make sense to me. Like how was Felicity able to apply and get accepted to UNY in June for the September semester? 

In defense of FRIENDS Moncia did say she was subletting that apartment from her grandmom =) So she could get away with it.

They don't just imply the Friends apartment is an illegal sublet, they flat out say it. There's a whole episode where they piss off the super and he threatens to get them thrown out because they're not legal tenants.

It's still a ridiculous apartment though.

What, no Odd Couple? Oh boy, what a gyp!

True, but which apartment? The movie/season 1 apartment or the season 2-5 apartment?

Definitely the 2-5 season apartment - ghosts in the air conditioner, rent strikes, parking situation = real New York.

Yeah, that was a much better set than the first one. Classic show, too. Pity they didn't shoot it in NYC except for a few establishing shots.

What about Will & Grace?

Also while we're on the subject of blueprints; can there be a separate post for a blueprint of the Golden Girls house? I would love to know what the designer was smoking when s/he came up with that layout.

Both Will and Grace were pretty successful. Will was a lawyer and Grace owned her own design company, so I think their apartment makes sense- especially during the time that they lived together. 

I know!! The Golden Girls house was so mindboggling

I was always pretty amazed at the enormous apartment Ted and Marshall inhabit in How I Met Your Mother.

As unrealistic as Monica and Rachel's apartment was, one part seems true to form (according to the blueprint) — not enough closet space!

Maybe if television programs showed how NYers actually live there wouldn't be so many 20 year olds moving here looking to live out their Carrie Bradshaw fantasy.