She Was the Sitcom

Some seventies sitcoms were funny because of the way they reflected all the bullshit thinking and prejudice back at America.

MAUDE was one that scored ocassional touchdowns in this area.

And I love the seventies decor here! Many of the weirdest elements of seventies design are present in this set. That's half the reason I liked Running with Scissors so much...the horrible, fascinating seventies design.

I bought an odd book yesterday--it is a book filled with blueprints for the imaginary houses and apartments where celebrated sitcoms took place. For instance, the apartment of Oscar and Felix on The Odd Couple, the houses in the suburbs occupied by The Brady Bunch and the Cunningham family on Happy Days, etc.

These are realistically laid out blueprints for houses and apartments which never existed, or which existed only as fragmented sets.

I think it's one of the strangest ideas for a book I have ever seen.