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So Where DID Frank and Phyllis Live?

posted 4 years ago by [email protected] (5519)
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Just one of those little details that changes with the script...I just watched the season three episode when baby Tabitha develops "wishcraft" powers. Darrin is understandably nervous because his folks are coming to visit.

When they arrive, Phyllis says that they ate on the plane. In their first appearance on the show, they also fly in. But while still in the black and white episodes, they appear to have moved nearby. In the episode when Phyllis is upset with Endora's flirtation with Frank, their house is shown. Endora stops by to tell her that she has no interest in Frank.

Now, in season three, they have moved again? But in other episodes, Phyllis "drops in" unexpectedly several times, like the time she and Frank had a fight and she left him. Later, he drives over to take her home.

It's such a small detail. But couldn't there have been some consistency in the writing? Sometimes they flew in for a visit. Other times they seemed to live only driving distance away.

[–] April-151-CT (10210) 4 years ago

Timesharing perhaps?? I like to come up with my own reasons to cover inconsistencies. There was the one really, REALLY bad, extremely low budget, homemade movie I once watched where the daughter was 16 years old but her parents were ancient. Literally old enough to be her great grandparents. I asked the "star" of the movie about it and he said it was a stupid move by the stupid movie maker. They were close friends of his and he put them in the movie. I came up with my own scenario and just chalked it up to them adopting her as a baby. Even though it was never mentioned in it.

[–] [email protected] (1732) 4 years ago

In their second appearance, they move close to the city. This is the same in every ep that follows, except "It's
Wishcraft." But they could've been flying in from a trip from Europe, rather than stopping home first. Pretty
simple to me.

[–] April-151-CT (10210) 4 years ago

Is this reply for me or the OP?

[–] [email protected] (1732) 4 years ago

To the OP, or anyone.

What I think is weird is the way viewers will say such and such didn't happen because we didn't SEE it. Well,
we're to assume the characters did things we didn't see. You know, like having sex, or going to the bathroom.

Years ago, a viewer complained that Phyllis mentions how odd Uncle Arthur is in season five's "Mrs. Stephens,
Where are You?" He said it was a "blooper" because the two characters hadn't met. No, they hadn't
met in an episode, but how do we know they never met outside of one??

[–] April-151-CT (10210) 4 years ago

Exactly. We're both on the same track about such things. And we both thought of vacation. Only difference is you set theirs in England whereas I set it here in the US.

[–] [email protected] (5519) 4 years ago

Who flies in from a trip to Europe and visits relatives without going home FIRST, at least to change clothes and water their houseplants. LOL

Oh well, it's possible I guess... I just think it's a case of having many script writers who don't know what has been previously established for the characters.

[–] April-151-CT (10210) 4 years ago

The Stevens' house may have been something they might have had to pass nearer to on the way to their house so they stopped in there first. Not saying it's not about a case of different writers. But it can still be easily enough explained without having to suspend disbelief.

[–] [email protected] (1732) 4 years ago

Sigh...It doesn't matter WHY Frank and Phyllis suddenly fly in...it's merely us viewers coming up with a
plausible (if unlikely) scenario, PJ.

[–] April-151-CT (10210) 4 years ago

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