They were not supposed to show entire bathrooms in the 1960s. With the The Brady Bunch, that house and back yard both have many problems. The back yard is obviously fake, but at the same time I prefer Astro Turf. It still seems very small. Not sure where they could have parked their cars. Where the bathrooms were really located is only a few of the problems. But there are many of them. It is just that the toilets had to be out of sight. When Greg moved to the attic, it showed that he had his own ... Sink.
It wasn't until other programmes such as All In The Family and The Carol Burnett Show / Eunice / Mama's Family that had a stories about bathrooms, especially with The Harper Family Curse being that several of them died in a bathroom. I don't think toilets were shown in any of these examples either. But occasionally a toilet flush can be heard. More on Mama's Family later.
Perhaps They showed the toilets of The Brady Bunch House in one of the subsequent movies.
About Home Improvement:
Wilson is nothing more than a comedic lampoon of the next door neighbour, a passing acquaintance, where they only talk in the back yard, and behind a wood fence. It is good enough to talk to each other. It is also good enough to see each other, but certainly not clearly.
About The Cosby Show:
The pilot episode could have had a better script. I remember Sondra already moved out of the house which means that they could have meant the four children still at home.
There are only a few episodes of The Cosby Show I watch now, preferring the One Foot In The Grave adaptation: COSBY that aired after this one did. One episode is the episode where Sondra runs off with $79,647.22 U.S.D. (which is around 179,169.79 U.S.D. in 2019) ... The other episode I like is when Vanessa gets chewed out for going to a concert unprepared, loses everything, and on top of that she is not supposed to wear makeup. The Cosby Show seemed to go off in Fairy Tale Land way too much. The specific episodes I mentioned are more Down To Earth.
Additionally, I did not like The Disappearing V.C.R. in The Cosby Show.
I did not like Heathclifford Huxtable. Is it supposed to be Heathcliff Huxtable, or Clifford Huxtable?!
I did not like the set change some time after the first season. There is an extra window under the stairs or a hall or something? It can be accessed in the living room.
Where did they park all their dozens of cars??
The interior of the house is not narrow. ... and I do remember seeing a toilet for upstairs. I have no idea where they would have a toilet for downstairs.
Claire gets her own office. An addition to the house. Where could it have gone? If it is in the back yard, it would block off the garage! And even worse it is not seen again.
The almost most alarming thing on The Cosby Show is how they kept trying to write off Denise.
The most alarming thing on The Cosby Show is the way they introduced Olivia Kendall. They just HAVE to have a young child for every episode, but the way they wrote her in to the show: Denise marries a military man and he has a daughter. The mother is portrayed as being willfully neglectful and abandoned Olivia when she "had to get out of too many responsibilities". However, Olivia is raised by Heathclifford as Martin and Denise get deployed. That makes me sympathize with Olivia's Mother instead.
The set changes again in the last season. The usual inexplicable remodeling of a house at the last minute.
Old Roseanne:
They had stairs to the basement on the "fourth wall", seen in the opening credits. It was seen probably only one time when D.J. snuck a dog inside. It is at the beginning of the episode. Roseanne surprisingly does not have a dog. (Neither does The Cosby Show and neither does COSBY.) But anyways that is the only time they used these stairs. The rest of the time they access the basement from outside. I can understand if the inside stairs are very narrow and perhaps the outdoor entrance is easier. But this is set in Illinois. It would be much warmer to stay inside.
Roseanne's Mother and Roseanne's Grandmother are seen very often. As for Dan, he has a Stepmother. Dan's Biological Mother is seen in one episode perfectly fine. Her next episode she becomes an unseen character. They only talk about her and send her away to be institutionalized. All of this happens off screen. She presumably is locked away for the rest of the show, and is now rewritten as having a lifelong insanity. In the last season she gets out, but is difficult to know what really happened to anybody. Perhaps the reason for these character rewrites is based on Roseanne Barr's real world experiences with mental health facilities, checking herself into one years earlier. But it is still an unexpected rewrite. Ann Wedgeworth, the original actress, did not portray her as unstable. A new career and a new fiance also.
Now ... as for Mrs. Healey. ... The lady that called them "Conner Trash" and "Whores". ... would not surprise me at all if she went dangerously unstable.
Mama's Family:
A common problem in situation comedies: The house interior is one long house with one big overlapping room. The living room, the dining room, the kitchen, and perhaps a small laundry room.
In the original broadcast of Mama's Family, she lives in a huge house. There are rooms on the other side of The Fourth Wall.
And then there is a cast change. Of course this is not that big of a deal be cause she patched things up with those relatives such as Eunice and Ellen.
Also Thelma now lives in a smaller house, but it still has a room on the other side of The Fourth Wall.
I have to assume the other, larger house burned down or some thing.
