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DontMockMySmock posted:I've never watched Friends; what's wrong with it? It's not funny.
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christmas boots posted:Yeah, but the break thing was bullshit. It's seriously the one thing Ross is right about in the entire series. Well, that and the time he and his son tricked Rachel into thinking he feel to his death.
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Sep 25, 2019 18:23
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Carol and Susan were criminally underused but almost all their appearances were dunking on Ross, they deserved more screen time
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Sep 25, 2019 18:42
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DontMockMySmock posted:I've never watched Friends; what's wrong with it? It had several badly integrated animal mascot characters, including a monkey and a duck.
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Sep 25, 2019 18:46
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There’s a lot of gay panic humor, especially in regards to chandler
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Sep 25, 2019 18:54
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sweet geek swag posted:Some of the gay jokes on Whose line haven't aged exceptionally well, but they also basically never did gay panic jokes. If another man tried to kiss you on Whose line you let him, and you joined in enthusiastically, dammit. Not entirely surprising. Tony Slattery has been openly gay since the height of the AIDS panic in the 1980s.
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Sep 25, 2019 18:56
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Friends greatest crime is being intensely, painfully unfunny. I like Kudrow and Aniston a lot in other things but Friends is a void from which no laughter escapes.
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Sep 25, 2019 19:14
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Actually the worst thing is that it reminds me I have no friends
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oldpainless posted:Actually the worst thing is that it reminds me I have no friends 
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Sep 25, 2019 19:33
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exquisite tea posted:It's not funny.  I once tried watching an episode and it was so hackneyed I couldn't last over five minutes.
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Sep 25, 2019 19:48
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It is tolerable from like season 2-4
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Sep 25, 2019 20:04
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Does friends have a laugh track?
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Sep 25, 2019 20:13
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Volcott posted:Does friends have a laugh track? Yeah. Another reason it's insufferable
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Sep 25, 2019 20:19
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Volcott posted:Does friends have a laugh track? It sure as gently caress does.
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Sep 25, 2019 20:19
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Volcott posted:Does friends have a laugh track? No https://youtu.be/4BFSZ8XzWOM
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Sep 25, 2019 20:20
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I love these.
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Sep 25, 2019 21:04
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Somewhere at WB there is a whiteboard with the words "FRIEND$ REVIVAL PLAN$" on it.
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Sep 25, 2019 21:10
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F*R*I*E*N*D*S is probably popular with Gen Z because it depicts people living in gigantic, gorgeous apartments in the beating heart of New York with simple, low demand jobs that give them tons of free time and who have absolutely no issues building social relationships and having fulfilling lives. The only way to make it more fantasy is to involve like, orcs.
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Sep 25, 2019 22:18
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Calaveron posted:F*R*I*E*N*D*S is probably popular with Gen Z because it depicts people living in gigantic, gorgeous apartments in the beating heart of New York with simple, low demand jobs that give them tons of free time and who have absolutely no issues building social relationships and having fulfilling lives. 
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Sep 25, 2019 22:22
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Someone should edit in orcs into episodes now.
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Sep 25, 2019 22:34
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Related to that friends being an almost ideallic life now: American Beauty is almost a comedy now in some ways; You have a stable job, a big house, can feed your kid and have luxeries. What exactly is the conflict again?
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Detective No. 27 posted:Someone should edit in orcs into episodes now. I feel like orcs would be less jarring for friends fans than if you edited in a realistic amount of people of color
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Sep 25, 2019 22:46
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Zedd posted:Related to that friends being an almost ideallic life now: Extremely repressed desperation coming to the surface for all the characters involved at once? The movie hasn’t aged well in a lot of ways but people self destructing their supposedly perfect lives because of unresolved interpersonal issues is pretty common in any era
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Sep 25, 2019 22:49
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AceOfFlames posted:I once tried watching an episode and it was so hackneyed I couldn't last over five minutes. Same here. There are no likable characters. I felt the same about Seinfeld. I never cared for Seinfeld's standup work. Richards was fine as a one-note character on Fridays. Dreyfuss was funny enough on SNL, but not here. I find Alexander to be 100% intolerable on anything. I have been told that the characters on Seinfeld being unlikable is why I should like them. I can handle one, maybe two unlikable characters on a show with enough good ones, but not the reverse.
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Sep 25, 2019 22:50
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I concur. It’s why IASIP is unwatchable.
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Zedd posted:Related to that friends being an almost ideallic life now: if we were talking about married with children sure, poverty was a big wedge there despite the mid-1980s bundys seeming middle class 35 years later, but the conflict in american beauty explicitly comes from the personalities of all the characters, the dyfunctionality of the family and everyone's repressed self-loathing being projected at one another, they made a point of establishing that spacey was set for cash and didn't have to worry about money for a few years and he takes advantage of the situation to act out his manchild fantasies
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Sep 25, 2019 23:27
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Mister Kingdom posted:Same here. There are no likable characters. Some shows with unlikable characters work better than others. Everyone on Silicon Valley is terrible in their own way, but you still root for them because they have redeeming qualities. (Well, up until Season 5 when Richard is just 100% a dick.)
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Sep 25, 2019 23:43
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hyperhazard posted:
Monica did nothing wrong how dare you.
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Sep 25, 2019 23:45
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friends is alright. it has some Representation problems and imo the first few seasons are the worst because they havent grown into the characters yet and they're trying to do stupid wacky stuff like the monkey. but otherwise its perfectly fine for a sitcom and the trend of making GBS threads on it for being unfunny/Problematic while upholding seinfeld or IASIP or some other poo poo just seems like backlash to popularity, that's my hot take
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Sep 25, 2019 23:51
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hyperhazard posted:It's hard to care about the characters in Seinfeld, but the fun comes from watching them get what's coming to them. You know their hubris/ego/selfishness is going to gently caress a good thing up, the only question is how. Maybe, but I don't want to slog through 22 minutes every week just to see that.
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hyperhazard posted:It's hard to care about the characters in Seinfeld, but the fun comes from watching them get what's coming to them. You know their hubris/ego/selfishness is going to gently caress a good thing up, the only question is how. The characters in seinfeld are also way more self aware than the friends, and the plots got super convoluted and rube goldbergian. Half the fun was seeing how their various independent schemes would crash into each other by the end.
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Pastry of the Year posted:I'm not claiming a win until the entire Duggar family conclusively perishes in a gigantic loving explosion Seems apropros since giant explosions is how they came into this world in the first place Calaveron posted:F*R*I*E*N*D*S is probably popular with Gen Z because it depicts people living in gigantic, gorgeous apartments in the beating heart of New York with simple, low demand jobs that give them tons of free time and who have absolutely no issues building social relationships and having fulfilling lives. Shotuout to John Rogers
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hyperhazard posted:It's hard to care about the characters in Seinfeld, but the fun comes from watching them get what's coming to them. You know their hubris/ego/selfishness is going to gently caress a good thing up, the only question is how.  Watching unlikeable characters succeed is uncomfortable but watching them fail is hilarious. (And also uncomfortable, granted. I have a hard time binging Seinfeld/Always Sunny/Curb Your Enthusiasm. In small doses it's great, though.)
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Seinfeld got a reputation for being a show with characters who live in the "real" world and tell it how it is but they are explicitly bad people who give into their darker instincts and constantly get poo poo on for it. The show also doesn't trot out a will they/won't they plotline, which still makes it pretty unique.
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Toshimo posted:Monica did nothing wrong how dare you. No one ever died from secondhand heroin 
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Sep 26, 2019 00:41
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The cast of Friends is only marginally less monstrous than the early seasons of it's always sunny, but for some reason your supposed to root for them to succeed rather than laugh when they fail. Like Ross is Dennis doing a better job of hiding he's a psychopath sex pest. American Beauty didn't not age well it was always a steaming pile of poo poo.
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Sep 26, 2019 02:02
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Seinfeld, four!
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Mister Kingdom posted:Maybe, but I don't want to slog through 22 minutes every week just to see that.
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Sep 26, 2019 03:04
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Friends is popular because it’s a funny well written show. Ross sucked, but everyone hating Ross was part of the fun. Goons are so weird. Seinfeld though. That show was awful.
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