The apartment is one of the mostimportant settings in sitcoms, and forseries that center on characters who live together, it's wherethe majority of the action happens. It's the characters' home, after all, and because of the amount of time the audience spends with the characters, it becomes a sort offigurative home for them, too.
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Sitcom characters often have extraordinarily large and desirable apartments, despite working as bartenders (Nick from New Girl), waitresses (2 Broke Girls), or struggling actors,such as Joey from Friends.While this maygive viewers unrealisticexpectations of what is affordable and achievable -- not to mentioncreate apartment envy-- it's nevertheless fun to imagine living above MacLaren's bar in New York or even in a pineapple under the sea.
Max & Caroline's Apartment (2 Broke Girls)
Max and Caroline's funky and craftyhome in 2 Broke Girls is located in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn. One of the most gentrified and desirable areas of New York, it is unlikely that the two 'broke' waitresses would be able to afford this spacious, open-plan apartment, which has a garden and exposed wooden beams.
Still, the girls' pad, which is located near the dinerwhere they work, is the setting for many of the show'sfunniestepisodes, such aswhen they rent the place out on Airbnb to a group of supermodels,or when Caroline slips in the garden and gets covered in horse excrement.
Leonard & Sheldon's Apartment (The Big Bang Theory)
This Pasadena-located crib is home to The Big Bang Theory roommates Leonard and Sheldon for the majority of the series. For this group of introverts, their apartment is a surprisingly sociable place. The living room is full of comfy seats, which hosttheir friends for dinner every night and many of the show's most memorable scenes -- such as when Sheldon and Amy build a fort, and whenSheldon tries to teach Penny physics.
The apartment is also packed with cool science accouterments and collectibles, including a Rubik's cube, hundreds of books, a DNA Double Helix Molecular model, and a telescope.
Dev'sApartment (Master Of None)
Although it doesn't feature in the most recent season of the show -- Dev himself barely does -- Dev's Lower East Side New Yorkabode is a fixture in Master of None's first two seasons and aptly mirrors Dev's personality.
The apartment has a generously sizedkitchen for making homemade pasta, acozy living room for watching old black-and-white movies while it's snowing outside, and a hipster retro industrial vibe throughout, with exposed brick walls, cool lamps, and a sizeable record collection. According to Apartment Therapy,Aziz Ansari even helped design it based on his own interior design tastes.
Spongebob's Pineapple House (SpongeBob SquarePants)
While not strictly an apartment, the eponymous protagonist of SpongeBob SquarePants definitely has one of the coolest living situations on TV. Spongebob's three-story house is complete with a home library, workout room, garage, and backyard. He lives with his pet snail Garyat 124 Conch Street, and next door to his Krusty Krab colleague, Squidward.
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The house does have its drawbacks, though. For one, it's located at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. It also gets completely destroyed on numerous occasions, once by a self-destructing Krabby Patty messaging devicesent by Mr. Krabs, andanothertime when it gets eaten bybothersomelittle nematodes. Still, a foghorn alarm clock is pretty cool.
Ted's Apartment (How I Met Your Mother)
This two-bed Manhattan pad situated above MacLaren's bar is home to Ted, Marshall, and Lily for most of How I Met Your Motheruntil the latter two move to a house in the suburbs. Similar to the setup in Friends,it's complete with a roof, perfect for parties and interventions, and is the center of the show's universe.
Every square inch of this Upper West Sidelocationis packed full of books, video games, and other cool and unusual items acquired byTed and Marshall over the years, including a red phone booth and a pair of swords. It alsofeaturesa piano, Ted's work desk by the window, and many othericonicand important objects.
Troy & Abed'sApartment (Community)
This is the only apartment to make the list thatcontainsa Dreamatorium. Troy and Abed from Community converted their second bedroom into a play areain whichto engage in any type of adventure or fantasy that their heart desires. The wallsare black with yellow squares andthe room is empty other than the Dreamatorium's "engine," whichis kept in a closet. Unfortunately, they dismantled the Dreamatorium in "Introduction to Finality."
However, theirapartment is very mucha place of fun and games, whetherit's Yahtzee, constructing a scale model of the boulder scene from Indiana Jones, building a blanket fort, or putting on a show for Annie using cardboard cutout characters.
Spencer& Carly's Apartment (iCarly)
This three-floored apartment is home to Carly's brother Spencer in the iCarly reboot, but it was also home to Carly during the original series run. Located in Seattle's Bushwell Plaza, this fun and colorfulloft has been converted from business use to residential.This means it has a private cargo elevator (for transporting ostriches), high ceilings, andspace forSpencer's weird and wonderfulsculptures -- such as the robot made of soda bottles ('Bottle Bot'), Yippee-Yi Yo-Yo, and a bar made out of the back of a pickup truck.
The apartment's third floor is where Carly, Freddie, and Sam shoot the web show in the original series. There is alargewindow with colored glass panes on the back wall, beanbags, rugs, tons of props, and even the hood of a car embellishedwith orange flames. Any apartment with its own studio is pretty special.
Frasier's Apartment (Frasier)
Frasier Crane's upscale,sophisticatedproperty in Elliot Bay Towers has sweeping views of the Seattle skyline and Space Needle. It's decorated in line with his fussy but eclectic taste and includes a grand piano, African statues and paintings, and high-end furniture. It's also perfect for hosting fancy dinner parties, with its dining room area and large living room.
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Frasier lives in this three-bedroom pad with his elderly father and his father's caregiver, and later Frasier's love interest, Daphne.When his father first moves in, he insists on bringing his old recliner chair, which looks veryout-of-place among Frasier'sswanky artifacts. Fraiser initially tries to get rid of it, but eventually warms to it, and even asks the removal men to be careful with it when his father moves out.
TheNew Girl Loft (New Girl)
Ever sinceinner-city lofts have been convertedfrom industrial to residential use, they have beenhome to waves of different groups. At one point, it was musicians whoused them for studiosor intimate showcases. Then came the artists, who took advantage of the cheap rent and huge windows. Then came the young professionals, such as Jess, Nick, and the rest of the gang from New Girl.
Their Los Angeles loft is a highly desirable space, with high ceilings, huge rooms, industrial metal doors, and a large roof area. They even have a communal, locker-room-style bathroom. New Girlmight set unrealistic expectations of what a houseshare with strangers is like, but despite this, it's a great space and thesetting forplenty of sweet scenes about friendship.
Monica's Apartment (Friends)
No sitcom apartment is more iconic than Monica's purple-walled home on Friends, which she shared with numerous other members of the group over the show's 10 seasons.The West Village apartment is the most essential setting of the series next to Central Perk. Fans all remember the gold frame around the door's peephole, the "Aux Buttes Chaumont" poster, and the countless key moments from the series that take placehere.
This is where Ross dresses as a giant armadillo to teach Ben about Hannukah, where Chandler stays in a box for six hours to win back Joey's trust, the setting for the apartment-switch quiz, and for the fateful final scene in which the gang all place their keys on the kitchen counteron the way out the door. It unequivocallydeserves the top spot as the coolest apartment in sitcom history.
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