QuoVadisHomines

They genuinely believe liberal is an insult rather than an ideology that they disagree with which is kind of weird.

None of this reflects my experience here. Are they visiting lemmy?

Again their living room had to fit six or more. There are episodes where they have six people in Lucy’s house but rarely is it more than four or five.

Seinfeld had 4 main cast and they rarely had anyone else in their places other than the main 4. No one needed to fit a dozen people in a room.

Were you renting living space in NYC in 1994? I was.

Do you know anyone with a ridiculous place because of rent control policies? I know several. Everything about the show makes sense within the context of the time once you realize that eight or so people need to fit on the stage in many scenes

Thank you for that.

As a kid I asked a friend's dad who was a chemist if magic was real and he replied "Do you think anyone would go into years of schooling for engineering if a shortcut existed?"

It is a wholly constructed faith based partly on fragments of things that existed previously but with no input from those cultures so there's no "authentic" Wiccan beliefs other than those from the 1950s.

you think you know better than someone who worked on tv in NYC at that time?

Mary Tyler Moore's show never had the expectation of holding six or more people in the same room like friends.

All in the family took place in a house. Im not sure how you miss this. It's in the credits.

Lucy and her Husband never had more than a handful of people on screen at once. They dont need the space Friends does.

Friends needs a space for the main cast plus partners and that requires a larger space plus the ability to fit crew which requires large places. The bit about rent control makes perfect sense if you have experience with NYC real-estate.

OP said it was their “default response” which suggests this happens often which seems weird.

NP,I was told the same thing by a camera guy back in the late 1990s about this exact show.

Because the kind of guy that asks random people to prove their fandom probably does not have many close friends.