what, no FRIENDS thread?

I am now very angry 0

please stop making your characters find "closure" in their lives by having babies, and please stop making characters find "closure" in their lives by chasing their exes to paris (can you at least change the city? venice is romantic too, you know, if perhaps also a bit cliche).

But but but when you have babies you're supposed to stop living, start raising, and then eventually die!

Eh?
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Mind if I borrow this for my Mother's Day card, Ned?

In the stereotypical mass media construct vision of the world, good sir.

Mind if I borrow this for my Mother's Day card, Ned?

Clearly I can't stop you.

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I think it would have been great had they cut the laugh track (including the rarely used mass whoop of joy!). It's quite remarkable to see a sitcom without the track, like the very special Family Ties European vacation. Literally and figuratively chuckle free.

And, boy, was Courtney Cox preggers! How strange to see her needing a surrogate mother when she's clearly 7+ months pregnant and wearing maternity mumus.

Marketers worldwide are already gearing up to sell you copies of Mike and the Mechanics' "The Living Years" as a Very Special Moment Memorial to you, and at no extra cost...

(Alex, I trust you realize I don't think this is actually the case!)

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we watched the friend shit lke half-assedly, i haven't seen frinds in years and was confused by it to be honest...i was kind of hoping that ourtney cox weight gain was normal too to be honest.

"Embryonic Journey" was ridiculously well-placed though, what a wonderful piece of music that is.

i thought i was up on my celebritism. clearly i was mistaken.

I was terrified that they used an Emerson Lake and Palmer song to open the clip show.

please stop making your characters find "closure" in their lives by having babies, and please stop making characters find "closure" in their lives by chasing their exes to paris (can you at least change the city? venice is romantic too, you know, if perhaps also a bit cliche).

So OTM.

Did she plug her next movie or something?

They really should've called it How YOU Doin'?

Except with Joey actually exploding after hitting a hidden landmine while on a motorcycle.

Please, God.

The whole series is on Netflix, and we've been watching the first season episodes (most of which I've never actually seen), and I was kinda surprised that they are actually quite good and funny! Some of the obvious criticisms still apply (the New York they live in is so very white, the apartments are ludicrously big considering their income, etc), but the characters feels surprisingly fresh, because their flaws and quirks haven't yet been exaggerated to death: Joey is kinda dumb but not yet an imbecile, Ross is kinda sad but not totally pathetic, Phoebe has some hippie qualities but she's not yet a caricature new age woman, etc. And the writing and comic timing are often quite perfect, so I'm really enjoying the show.

But the thing is, I don't really want to (re)watch all the 10 seasons, so I was kinda wondering, when should we quit? When did Friends jump the shark? When it originally aired, I remember getting bored by the endless episodes that tried to milk drama from Chandler and Monica's upcoming wedding, so I stopped watching it and didn't return until the last season. But I can't remember whether the whole wedding thing was the jump-sharking point, or did it already happen sometime earlier?

Is there a film coming out? I saw a trailer but it looked like some Onion/Funny or Die shit, tragic.

it was a horribly formed "hoax"

The show is good! I wrote it off for a long time but after my ex made me watch it all with her, I realized it's actually damn funny sometimes. Seasons 2-4 were the peak IMO, but there's at least a few great episodes in each season. I recall there being a long stretch of shitty episodes at the start of season 6 (due to a different wedding); that's as good a time as any to bail.

When did Friends jump the shark?

It never really did imo. The only stretch of the show I've never found great is the Ross/Emily relationship + wedding in England, but even that served the purpose of getting Monica and Chandler together, so it wasn't entirely useless. Friends really never jumped any sharks, though.

Don't bail early on season 6 - it gets great later on.

The only stretch of the show I've never found great is the Ross/Emily relationship + wedding in England

Just got past this part during weekend marathonning, and now I've found out that the marriage to Emily was originally intended to be a permanent development. Helen Baxendale got pregnant and didn't want to go through her pregnancy in the States, though, so she was written out. That's probably why it always seemed really awkward and ill planned to me.

watching friends on netflix the other day i realized, like, when i watched it as a kid i always assumed that's what adult life would be like. a small, gender-balanced group of friends who all live in nice cosy apartments in such proximity to afford near constant access to each other, regular hang-out spots you'd always run into each other in, good careers but plenty of free time. kind of a bummer the way things actually turn out, right?

A lot of my twenties was exactly like that, so *shrug*.

Well, except for the "good careers" part. Most of us were in food service.

maybe i just need to make a concerted effort to friends-ify my life