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Bob talks us on a private tour of the set of the television series "Grace Under Fire" and meets some interesting characters along the way.
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" OK so this is really crowded again this it's a huge building but we've really got it stopped -- This is where you'd have a live audience -- about 250 guests. This is the camera I'll so in and it hit typical situation they rehearse here all week and then when they have the actual show taping. You have a live audience up here and that is not canned laughter -- it's real it really adds some performance of the actors and actress sure. And then these are all the sets that were used to seeing it is they're actually an exterior over here S degree in NAFTA exterior that we saw earlier we just walk around the -- Oh wait a minute you mean this match is one of the actual real houses that we just earlier. Yeah you know I think I remember the color that the kind of blue gray trim and in the -- field. If you come over here you can see -- We we decorate the exterior with greens because that's her nursery green of plants so actually many of the plants are real plants in containers. That have -- short lives in here no doubt but then the the the backdrops. Are Armenian populated and if you look around looking good yeah good -- when you work. You can see that the structure of the building as well but the lighting grid is what's essential because. -- all of this is -- lighting right everything's in the yet what do we have to knock -- and we don't know I think we go. This it's the you know if you watch these shows and you walk into the -- like as if you're walking into real house. It's amazing because you really do feel like you're walking in somebody's living room yes. They're making is realistic are they do an amazing job and it's just. How shall I put it I mean this characters are struggling mom. And this looks like the house that belongs to a struggling mine -- Italy and then what yes it's it's that the of the war and you know the rug is Warren. And if we're the audience out on the other side of the line here. There's even the TV set that you know everybody's watching TV. Look at that the yes. I mean the whole paneled wall here which looks straight out of a nineteen. Teens or twenty's house -- was that the crazed paint. Room hasn't been. We decorated and maybe twenty or thirty years track and and like you work hard to make it look to improve that looking within make it hard to make it look just say I got to -- that a little shabby a little weather so this is the stair hall. Edge it's and you notice the stairs where they go. That's right they don't go anywhere just another illusion and just another place to hang lights. But still the could be the whole area is is jam packed with. Things it would be real family things kids' toys -- and you know speaker systems and Tyco toys and everything else right where you'd expect to find him. And then this is this graces Dan yeah. In the sewing machine and -- like you said the set decoration really just make it come alive yeah. What do they get on this stuff I guess that they keep it over the years they ran it. And they bite if they're going to keep it for long periods of time he had an area they must of the flea markets Daschle. A look at that the cars out -- on the back to this is the backyard. Amazing is that. Rusted out Pinto or looks like a silica silica. 76. And this of course is the ongoing project visit her -- the neighbors think the neighbors Casey -- working on the car. All right you know the backdrop against -- during the outside of the house sure we'll be outside and this is where the lighting guys really make a difference where they hang. Artificial tree limbs and things up. Up in the air so that you get that dappled light into the room so at all times and so this would be the back door right after the religious right. It's not easy to put together something that looks like it really. Could exist somewhere he had nothing matches the that the plaid carpet which is really worn and the green. Covering the plumbing and now does the plumbing work yeah it can become practical we'll put a tanker to collect the water. So that's the term practical practical and something is made to work can work right now is of course not connected not connected and look at the they make it look as real as they sure do they sure let's go right here that is the stove war costs of can be practical. We'll have a special effects guy that would. That would be in charge of that."

" And a mockery of Britain it's everywhere now it looks like somebody needs to come in here and had to repair job might came by people in trailers don't get cable. I -- I have kept trim."

" You aren't -- I help us them -- they -- that we won't bet poverty."

" Hey is it really pleasure to meet you how come we after that we can't go that route yeah."

" Yeah."

" And -- had been I'm just kidding thanks so I think it Martha Stewart and that. --"

" Well you know I really feel bad about having busted this thing. All we get them in my gentlemen -- is way better known as Casey Sanders actor who paid. This and I just had a little accident here and she told accused roasting out. Mark onto -- after back again at the end -- him yes he's an intricate right. Sees -- the heck of a place to maintain or -- it. Yes it is we use a lot of used appliances here in fact this is a pretty special appliance over here you ought to check this one now. This baby used to be turquoise and then she painted it white and I bled through a little. How to handle works and that's where peasant -- stud that he trusted -- had here is like to feel that I. It's foam rubber and other -- Hollywood --"

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