# Anybody else out there that never watched Friends? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 17, 2005, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-out-there-that-never-watched-friends/308635 "2005-06-17T01:55:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Gene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@Soylent\_Gene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Gene)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-out-there-that-never-watched-friends/308635/1 "2005-06-17T01:55:13Z")
There were so many things about that show that just repulsed me. I think the opening theme song (pseudo Monkees/Neil Diamond) music killed it for me right off the bat. I was never able to watch for more than 5 minutes anyways. Then there were the sickening promo-commercials…“will Ross and whats-her-face finally have 69 action in front of her bosses parents and will whats-his-name and Joey gang-stang Courtney Aniston?” …stay tuned!!! ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-out-there-that-never-watched-friends/308635/2 "2005-06-17T02:06:13Z")
Yes – I never could stand to watch more than a minutes of it. Oddly enough, I do like most of the cast individually. There is some talent, even though the show was so terrible. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-out-there-that-never-watched-friends/308635/3 "2005-06-17T02:09:18Z")
[Raises hand.] I can’t say “never”, because I remember seeing it a couple of times when my daughter-in-law visited, over the holidays. Was it on after football, on Thanksgiving? That’s what I remember. But if I’d seen that promo, I might have made a point to watch. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-out-there-that-never-watched-friends/308635/4 "2005-06-17T02:09:51Z")
I’ve never seen it. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-out-there-that-never-watched-friends/308635/5 "2005-06-17T02:16:14Z")
Me neither. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-out-there-that-never-watched-friends/308635/6 "2005-06-17T02:44:02Z")
It sucks, I’ve seen it once or twice in brief glimpses, and have never deliberately watched it in my life. Horrible, horrible, horrible. ---
**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-out-there-that-never-watched-friends/308635/7 "2005-06-17T02:55:44Z")
I’ve never watched an entire episode. I do remember seeing bits and pieces of at least 2 or 3 episodes, though I have no idea where or why. I thought it was just awful, but I think most sitcoms are. ---
**Author:** ![Selkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@Selkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Selkie)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-out-there-that-never-watched-friends/308635/8 "2005-06-17T03:15:23Z")
\ I’ve caught a few minutes here and there entirely by accident, and couldn’t flip the channel fast enough. I did watch the last 15 minutes or so of the very last episode, to verify it really was going away. ---
**Author:** ![sishoch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3e96dc/32.png) [@sishoch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sishoch)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-out-there-that-never-watched-friends/308635/9 "2005-06-17T03:20:58Z")
Never watched it. Just didn’t interest me and I don’t watch much TV anyway. My antenna’s been down for 2 months and I never seem to get around to putting it back up. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-out-there-that-never-watched-friends/308635/10 "2005-06-17T03:22:14Z")
Me. Just never round to watching it. I also missed Seinfeld. ---
**Author:** ![Liz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/liz/32/17737_2.png) [@Liz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liz)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-out-there-that-never-watched-friends/308635/11 "2005-06-17T03:38:22Z")
Never seen it. I’m not a big fan of sitcoms or network TV in general. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-out-there-that-never-watched-friends/308635/12 "2005-06-17T03:38:42Z")
I think I’ve seen a few seconds of a couple episodes, and I think I listened to an episode or two because I was working on the computer and forgot to change the channel after seinfeld, but no, I’ve never watched much. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-out-there-that-never-watched-friends/308635/13 "2005-06-17T03:44:30Z")
I cannot, cannot, cannot, _cannot_ watch anything with a laugh track. I hate laugh tracks. I don’t need to be told when to laugh. If you need to give me a signal to laugh, it means your jokes aren’t funny. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-out-there-that-never-watched-friends/308635/14 "2005-06-17T03:44:38Z")
Is that the one with the big coffee cups? Never seen it. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-out-there-that-never-watched-friends/308635/15 "2005-06-17T03:48:43Z")
> [@Johnny L.A.](#): > > Me. Just never round to watching it. > > I also missed Seinfeld. Same here. ---
**Author:** ![Waterman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b2d939/32.png) [@Waterman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waterman)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-out-there-that-never-watched-friends/308635/16 "2005-06-17T03:54:09Z")
> [@chatelaine](#): > > Never seen it. I’m not a big fan of sitcoms or network TV in general. I’ll second that sentiment. Network TV (well OK - TV in general) is a vast wasteland that I have thankfully learned to live without. My problem was the fact that I used to sit in front of the TV and watch shows without thinking until I realized that I could spend that time doing something useful - like lurking on the Straight Dope!!! ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-out-there-that-never-watched-friends/308635/17 "2005-06-17T04:06:00Z")
I never watched it. It started while I was in college, and had no cable and lousy reception on the non-cable channels. Never watched it afterwards, either. I should also mention: the two times I watched _Survivor_, once I was motivated to go and do my taxes instead of watching, the other time I was motivated to do a take-home exam I’d been putting off. It might have been good for me to watch it regularly, come to think of it… ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-out-there-that-never-watched-friends/308635/18 "2005-06-17T04:11:41Z")
I miss _Max Headroom_. What? Oh, that _Friends_ show…nah, I can’t really get into sitcoms since _I Dream of Jeannie_ (and that only because of the delictable Barbara Eden). Not fond of game shows, too, and I can give reality TV a complete miss. I tried _The Sopranos_, _Dead Like Me_, and _Sex In The City_ once each while visiting one place or another, but found them more effective than Nytol. News magazines just irritate me, and there hasn’t been a cool cop or PI on television since Jim Rockford. _Law & Order_ used to be pretty good until the “franchised” it out, but now that Orbach is definitely gone, I can’t find it in myself to really care one way or the other. Never mind all the _Star Trek_ shows and knock-offs; the Sci-Fi channel has sucked whatever little remaining enthusiasm I might have retained for that genre in the broadcast venue, and _The X-Files_ was pure pseudoscientific schlock. And morning “news” shows–to the plank with all of them, starting with that abominable Katie Couric, the colonoscopy-promoting wench. I miss _Max Headroom_. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Liz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/liz/32/17737_2.png) [@Liz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liz)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-out-there-that-never-watched-friends/308635/19 "2005-06-17T04:16:51Z")
Agreed. L&O was good when I came across it, but I drifted away after Orbach died. He made that show. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-out-there-that-never-watched-friends/308635/20 "2005-06-17T04:19:10Z")
I’ve never watched a whole episode. On one or two occasions I’ve watched for a few minutes but those episodes must have been busted because there wasn’t any funny in them. I never saw enough to figure out who any of the characters were or what the premise of the show was. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-out-there-that-never-watched-friends/308635.md?page=2)