The way Ross says, “Oh my gawwwwd…” when he’s really touched by something is so annoying. My roommate can immitate it perfectly, so it’s a running joke in the apartment. Joey has started saying it a little bit too.
Ross. Essentially everything about him, including the fact Schwimmer seems to actually be that big a terd in real life as well. Quit watching years ago because he was like a finger down your throat.
The fact that it’s impossible to watch anything with David Schwimmer in it without associating him with Ross.
The almost total lack of people of any color whatsoever. Even the people sitting in Central Perk or walking down the street are all super white. This is supposed to be New York, what in the hell happened to the Indians, Hispanics, Asians and the Middle Easterners-- not to mention blacks.
That’s why they brought the token in, biggirl.
And I forgot to mention the couch in the bar- how do they manage to always snag the couch? Don’t the other customers get annoyed at never getting the good seats?
Yes. If you’ve gone through ten sexual relationships in ten years, you clearly have poor taste in picking relationships. Maybe people like that shouldn’t be so hasty about jumping into bed with someone.:rolleyes:
What? Who isn’t all over all-sex relationships? God knows I am.
Friends.
On the assumption that none of the female stars of the show would have been sacked instantly had they gained as much weight as the guy who plays Chandler did, nothing particularly bothers me about Friends.
But you know what they say about assumptions.
originally posted by Charger
Not all – some are Seinfeld references.
Am I the only one that doesnt have a problem with the cast of friends?! OK yea, there characters have changed, ut people change in real life to soo what do you expect? I think if they were still all exactly the same as they were ten years ago the show would be far worse.
What did bug me though was the Rachel and Joey thing, yea ok great they got together in the end but at the start it was too like the Ross and Rachel thing. He liked her, she didnt know, he got over her, she found out, she started to like him, and he didnt know.
About Monica and Chandler, I really like them together as a couple, Ive always thought they suited one another.
And in the current series of Friends, Phoebe works at that up market masseuse place, because they pay good money, so maybe thats how she affords that apartment.
Things that bug me:
-6 friends manage to spend most of their 20s and early 30s living in a 1 block radius of Manhattan. I’m that age. I live in Manhattan. All my friggen friends don’t live in my building!!
-They never go out! The show could take place in Wisconsin if you are never going to leave the appartment!
-Kantalooppi - Totally agree with you. Just caught Schwimmers appearance in “Flight of the Intruder”. Wassup Lt Ross? How about Capt Ross from “Band of Brothers”? Same goes for Joey, Chandler, Pheobe and Rachel.
-We don’t need to pair them all up by the finalle.
-How does a TV star, a paleantologist, a nebish, a street performer/massouse, a spoiled princess and an anal retentive chef manage to all stay friends for years and years?
-How does Rachel go from 26yr old waitress to Ralph Lauren executive?
“If you’ve gone through ten sexual relationships in ten years, you clearly have poor taste in picking relationships. Maybe people like that shouldn’t be so hasty about jumping into bed with someone.”
Maybe some people don’t want to be stuck with one vagina/cock for their entire life.
No bookshelves.
I have never, ever EVER liked Monica. Chandler and Ross are both big asses now, and Pheobe never gained any depth. In ten years. I mean, even Joeys grown up a little. In fact, I think they’ve made her stupider.
Also, and call me oldfashioned, but for godsake can Ross and Rachel JUST GET MARRIED!! she had his kid for christsake! And we all know it would work just fine. They never brake up over anything important. They just need to give it a friggin chance!
Ross’s whining.
The fact that Monica has been living in an enormous, illegally subleased, rent controlled apartment in the Village for 10+ years while rent increases forced me out of the borough of Manhattan.
I disagree, re Lisa Kudrow. I think she’s a fine actress and when I watched her in The Opposite of Sex, just to pick an example, I was able to totally forget about her Phoebe character on Friends. I also really liked Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion.
But I’m with you on the other cast members.
What bugs me about Friends these days is the lack of comedy. Too many serious situations, too much soap opera style drama. The local Fox affiliate plays early-season reruns every afternoon, and sometimes when watching those, I laugh out loud at jokes. That never happens with the new episodes.
And I have always hated the character of Ross with a flaming passion. He’s whiny, annoying, passive-aggressive, and lies to get his own way. Why does he have friends, again?
Yet another Ross-hater here. The schtick stopped being funny a very long time ago. I agree with whoever it was above who said they dislike comedy-by-embarrassment; I think it’s a lazy way of doing things, although Frasier is an example of where it’s used quite well on occasion (although even that series does it too much). I’m supposed to be laughing, not cringing.
It just seems to me that the characters stopped being actual characters in series 2 or 3, and the actors just started inhabiting the annoying tics and habits that they’d made famous. Pretty much the only exception to this is Joey, whom I find to be the most consistently funny character in the series these days. This is possibly because he’s also the only character not to be monumentally annoying, but I think Matt LeBlanc is very successful at giving him a bit more depth than the dumb-but-gorgeous stereotype he started out as. Who’d have thunk it, eh?
Ya know? I don’t think any of them are particularly good actors with the possible exception of Lisa Kudrow. Schwimmer is always the passive-agressive whiner, Aniston is always the pretty “girl next door” former cheerleader with a heart, Cox is always shrill, Perry is always the bumbling neurotic and what else has LaBlanc ever been in? I don’t think any of these characters are a stretch for any of them.
I guess the same thing bugs me about friends as bugs me about Sex in the City (or most sitcoms for that matter). At some point it’s tiresome to listen to a bunch of adults (who are now appraoching their mid-thirties) complain about their relationships while simultaneously acting in a manner that will ensure they die alone and possibly homeless.
I’m not a huge fan of hers (though I don’t dislike her), but if you haven’t yet, check out The Good Girl. She really can act.
Other than that, msmith537, I totally agree with you-- especially about how all six have remained friends despite having almost no common ground, and manage to live in the same area. That’s bugged me from day one.