Or when Jerry steals the marble rye from the older lady, pretty much mugging her in the process.
I thought Friends was OK. I’m older than the target audience, but it was good for a few laughs. I don’t expect much from network TV, and it was one of the better shows you could find there. If I want something deep (for TV), I’ll watch HBO or PBS.
Ross is my least favorite too. But isn’t it like that in our own tight circle of friends, always an odd one out you’re slapping your head over? I agree most of the hate for Friends usually seems to be because it’s become cool to hate it, from what I can tell.
I can’t say I hate it, or think about it much one way or the other. I watched it when it was on. The early years had some laughs and actually some clever writing every once in a while, but it was just a dumb sitcom.
This morning on the local morning radio show, they were taking callers to answer a question to win a prize. The caller had to answer three questions in five seconds. One caller’s question was name three characters on Friends.
Actuall, the first year, the one with the monkey- was crap. It didn’t hit its stride until 2nd season or so, and then somewhere, around “we were on a break”, it jumped the shark.
It had its moments. My only complaint was that in the end I didn’t want Ross and Rachel to be together anymore, they both would be better off just moving on with their lives!
However, it hasn’t aged very well. Not sure if its the clothing, the humor, or the laugh track (or all three) but it screams “THIS IS THE 90’s” when I see it now.
My son (now 21 years old) was born around the time that I saw this episode. He had a red, black, and white clown mobile for his crib when he was an infant, and the clowns looked somewhat creepy to me.* My wife and I used to therefore call it his “scary-ass clown mobile.” This term came directly from that episode, which I got to explain to my son years later when he he was a teenager.
*Note that there was nothing actually particularly creepy about the clowns in his mobile, other than the fact that all clowns are creepy.
I’m watching Friends right now! It’s the one where Joey is trying to persuade Chandler to cast him for the commercial that Chandler’s agency has landed. And Ross is up for a $25,000 Dewer Grant, but his girlfriend’s ex-boyfriend is the one who decides who wins it, the ex-boyfriend played by Greg Kinnear. And Monica and Rachel try to get out of being gifted Phoebe’s bizarre doll.
This was my favorite line of the entire series.
This term came directly from that episode, which I got to explain to my son years later when he he was a teenager.