Will and Grace at least had a successful lawyer and a successful interior decorator footing the bill (and the unemployed one was sugar-mommaed by the rich divorcee.)

But the Friends and Carrie Bradshaw... how much does a columnist make? Not very much, in my experience. And the Friends were often unemployed, or working in low-paying gigs. I thusly always thought they were fantasy shows, not comedy.

One of the best touches in Swingers was Jon Favreau's realistic apartment.

If it makes you feel any better I've actually stood in that "apartment" and it looked like crap.

That is very cool, TLMt. The only tv thing I've seen IRL is Howdy Doody at the Smithsonian and, as agèd as I am, Howdy Doody is (slightly) before my time.

Isn't that kind of true of a lot of sets up close though?

Sets are all about the duct tape. Although, come to think of it, so is my apartment.