The question was in the form of a survey: "Which TV workplace would you most want to work at?"

When job seekers who use SnagAJob.com logged on to the site, they had a choice of the diner in "Seinfeld," the ER in "Gray's Anatomy," the warehouse in "The Office," the coffeehouse in "Friends" or the sheriff's office in "Reno 911!"

A third of the 6,700 people taking the survey voted for Central Perk, the coffeehouse with the big couch that was the hangout in "Friends." The emergency room came in second.

But why limit the questioning to those places when there are so many cool places to work on TV?

What about the junk yard in "Sanford & Son" or the garage in "Taxi"? What's wrong with the Kwik-E-Mart where Apu Nahasapeemapetilon works on "The Simpsons" or Spacely Space Sprockets, makers of the sprockets that are easy on your pockets? And there is maybe the most clever workplace of all, the office for the writers of "The Alan Brady Show" on "The Dick Van Dyke Show."

"If we had more drop downs, we'd have a lot more options," said Heather Moose, a spokeswoman for SnagAJob.com.

Mrs. Moose said since SnagAJob is purely for hourly workers, the staff there limited the choices to jobs where hourly workers would be found, such as hospital orderlies, coffee shop waiters, packers and dispatchers.

"We thought it was just a fun poll to do," she said.

But what if the choices were open-ended.

We posed the question to Rob Owen, the Post-Gazette's TV editor, who is paid to watch what others watch for free.

"I have zero interest in fashion, but Mode Magazine on 'Ugly Betty' would be a fun place to work to overhear the snarky scheming of assistants Amanda and Marc. I'm sure I'd be fired for lack of fashion sense," he said.

"The Sterling-Cooper ad agency on 'Mad Men' would certainly be a creative environment, but I could never deal with all the cigarette smoke. A better bet would be to go back in time to the 1940s to work at radio stations in the earliest days of the medium, either WREQ, 'voice of greater River Run,' on 'Homefront,' or at WENN, the Pittsburgh-based radio station on 'Remember WENN.' "

Overwhelmed, we then turned to people who don't watch so much TV and thus had fewer choices.

Pittsburgh's Assistant Police Chief Maurita Bryant, who oversees the investigations division, used to be a plain clothes detective with Detective Chris Williams out of the East Liberty Station, where they were collectively referred to as Cagney and Lacey; but still, she said, she would rather work in the detective division in "Law & Order." Dun, dun.

Mrs. Moose said she would choose the Emergency Room on "Gray's Anatomy" because of Dr. McDreamy. "I don't know if I would want to work for Gunther [the boss at Central Perk on 'Friends']. If you're into the creepy boss thing, he'd be good."

Thompson Kehrl a resident at the University of Pittsburgh in Emergency Medicine chose "Scrubs" instead.

Kevin Evanto, the Allegheny County spokesman, went immediately for the bullpen, where most of the policy wonks worked, in "The West Wing."

If Rob Lowe had been a janitor on "The West Wing," maybe it would have been listed on the drop down at SnagAJob.