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[sitcoms] Why are all these apartments laid out so strangely?

Every apartment has these weird floor plans with strange closets and hallways that seem to lead nowhere. What is going on with these apartments?
gpt
Have you ever wondered why the rooms in sitcoms or usually so brightly lit, even when most of the lights appear to be off?  
Or how a bunch of twenty-thirty year olds with odd jobs that give them so much free time can afford spacious, multi bedroom apartments in Manhattan?  
All of their apartments are so messed up that no one else will pay anything for them, driving the price down.   
You already touched on some of the reasons. Clearly they were all made by some drunk architect too secretly obsessed with his Canadian ex-girlfriend or green lighted by an unlucky schmuck who has better luck pretending to be a marine biologist than an architect. Maybe even by poor sap who lost both eyes and one hand after being patched up at a MASH unit in the 10th year of the Korean War?  
There's no shortage of crappy housing in the world of sitcoms.