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It doesn't matter which room of a house the character(s) currently occupy; when they move to another room, the lights are already on. And when they leave a room, the lights stay on. Sometimes, characters will even arrive home after a night out, and the lights in the house are already on. The only time the lights go out is when everyone goes to bed, or when darkness is essential to the scene (for instance, an [[Hilarity Ensues|allegedly amusing]] "fumbling about in the dark" sequence, or to facilitate [[The Reveal]]). Or, if a character does turn out the lights upon leaving a room, it's usually symbolic.
Most common in [[
Furthermore, these sets will typically feature numerous practical lights (table/floor lamps, sconces, etc). No matter how many such lamps are present, every last one will be burning, day or night. This could be seen as perhaps an attempt to justify the amount of illumination the studio lights are pumping out.
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** Possibly justified by the Atlantis team bringing Naquadah reactors with them, and eventually having intergalactic starships, so they could just be flying in more Naquadah from home.
* Lampshaded in an episode of ''[[Friends]]'', after Joey sees how big the electric is, he quickly turns off the lights.
* Lampshaded in [[Married...
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Lampshaded in some of the audio commentaries of ''[[
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