....who was responsible for that assortment of Goodwill rejects on the 1977 set? Ugly brown carpeting, the brown/yellow plaid guest chair, and the "wooden" furniture that looked like cardboard with plastic woodlike veneers. It looked horrible.
I'm not crying, you fool, I'm laughing!
Hewwo.
It was the times. Earth tones were big in the 70s and avocado green (I have a blender that color because of it) for the kitchen was the trend.
Someday we're going to look back with disdain at our trends in style today. Like the stainless steel look already seems strange.
And what is up with all those non-colored brown buildings on the set of Jimmy Fallon? How lame is that?
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Anything that makes people loose their head for a time will look bad in retrospective. And the stainless steel appliance fad is THE example of our times in decor. People trashing a working appliance because it has a finished look is absurd as any shag rug or overuse of the colors green, brown and orange. In the '80's, it was the clothes. In the 90's, it was the music. In the 00's, it was the HGTV house renovations and decor (monster kitchens, man caves, wood floors, shabby sheik decor.) Today, it's the Internet shorthand lingo. In the 70's, it was all of this!
shareOn the set of Conehead O Braindead, didn't he have a weird looking wall of carpet or something? And then they had a strange looking big moon in the background. And that wasn't all that long ago.
shareI don't remember a "wall of carpet" on O'Brien's set, at least not anywhere they showed regularly. There was some kind of blue wall with some texture and designs that existed (behind the curtain), but that was it. Isn't the big moon only on his TBS show? If there was a moon it was much more subtle (like Leno's various moons that showed up in his backdrops).
Personally, O'Brien's set seemed a lot larger and more grand than any of the sets I can remember of the show post-Carson.
I don't remember Leno's early set decoration when he first started, but the set all the way up to his first retirement is decidedly dated. It's too bright, too colorful - too many purple and pink shades. It really feels like it's from the 90s. I never watched Leno's return, but the photos I've seen of his set were a marked improvement. But still too heavy on the purple/magenta Aurora Borealis.
I've only seen Fallon's show(s) when the girlfriend would force me to watch it. Fallon's set is pretty awful - it feels barely larger than O'Brien's and even Fallon's Late Night set. Just big enough for him to play his stupid variety games with guests instead of interviewing them.
No, not the mind probe!