Dear Josh - please stop perpetuating the misguided notion that the budgets were smaller at Yahoo. Season 6ad more money to blow Than Ever. The "pinched" look you refer to comes from lack of timely scripts.

The sets are not built from scratch each season. The first 3 seasons they were left standing in place. For four through six they were catalogued, dismantled and taken to a Sony storage facility at the end of the season. At the beginning of the next they are brought back and reassembled. 1through5 were shot at…