Friends: Is the format getting tiresome?

So? They’re still nice to look at.

And I’m pretty sure that her nipples are real.

:slight_smile:

Yes, only one more season to go. Besides, if Aniston and Cox keep losing weight at the rate they’ve been going for the last few years, there’ll be nothing left but split ends and clavicles.

There’s no way I can prove this, of course, but I’m 100% sure hers are real. I’m a boob expert and can spot falsies jiggling unnaturally from a mile away.

Besides - her nipples are real.

Okay, the nipples might be real, but Jennifer Anniston and Courtney Cox are both way too skinny to have such large, round and perky boobs. I say boob job for both of them, especially Cox. She looks like a skeleton, but has those grapefruit-sized orbs sitting jauntily on her chest. :rolleyes:

Boob size is directly related to body size. Boobs are pretty much nothing but fatty tissue. Ask any woman who has lost weight…where did she lose it from first?
Considering how scrawny both of them have become in recent years, their boobs should be non-existant.

I’ve never understood why people say disparagingly, “They’re fake.” I repeat: who cares? If they look nice, they look nice.

And it is possible to have a slim body with naturally large breasts. Of course, it’s a little rarer for women in their 30’s as opposed to teenaged girls, but it’s still possible.

Kinsey, I certainly do not think Jennifer Aniston’s boobs are fake. I don’t think they’re are all that big anyway.

I defer you to her picture in an older issue of Rolling Stone, where she was naked from the waist up, holding her hands in front of her nipples. I’m sure a cursory search of the photos section of any Jennifer Aniston fansite would turn up this picture, as it is quite spectacular. Eh…what the hell - I’ll do the dirty work and get back to you with a link. :slight_smile:

I’ve always enjoyed the show, but I thought this season’s ender was a bad idea and kind of irritating.

I’m back! That was a rough job, lemme tell ya. :slight_smile:

Check out [url=“http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Boulevard/6030/Jennifer_Aniston/Picture_Gallery/pic014.jpg”]this[/url picture, and tell me those are fake.

Let’s try that again.

Sorry about the horizontal scrollbar.

Okay, maybe not hers, but Courtney Cox’s have to be.

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And on second viewing, I’m not convinced about Anniston, either. Hers are just a little too perfect.
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I’m not asking for tokens, I’m asking for anything – atmosphere players, even. But the Friends friends manage to somehow drink coffee in the only shop in NYC which never has a minority customer. They walk down streets in New York City in a neighborhood in which minorities apparently fear to tread. They have one or two minority co-workers in restaurants, offices, universities, the entertainment and retail/fashion industries in New York City. One or two.

They have their children in hospitals where the nurses, orderlies, patients, visitors and babies in the nursery is white. And it doesn’t change when they go away – they gambled for two or three episodes in an all white Las Vegas casino. And Chandler and Monica had an entirely lily white wedding. They have absolutely no minority friends who were invited to share in their day. None.

This is New York City in the new millenium? I live here. Trust me, it’s not.

Now, I stopped watching regularly, but if I turn on the TV and it’s the only thing that is appealing, I’ll watch. I noticed that this season, the doctor who diagnosed Rachel’s Braxton-Hicks contractions was African-American. I think he may be the fourth person of color to ever speak on screen on the show in 7 years. It’s completely unrealistic.

People of all races and colors showed up on the Cosby show regularly, though. Extras, atmosphere players, and there were a plethora of guest stars who weren’t black. The Huxtables didn’t live in a one-race world, but the Friends seem to. If it isn’t, it’s damned close.

Ditto. This has been my problem with all three of the holy NYC sitcoms (Friends, Seinfeld and Mad About You) and I don’t think I’ll stop feeling this way.

The format wasn’t too tiresome for me (having been a fan since year one), but adding babies to the show is just a bad, bad idea. Did the writers have to add a baby just so the show could go off the air? Did they not realize that a show can end WITHOUT the life-stealing addition of children?

It’s not NYC.
It’s Woody-Allen-Land.
Only not quite so Jewish…

I understand they’ve pretty much run through all the permutations on the guys having sex with the gals. Have they started the girl-on-girl action yet? I always figured that’d be the next step up, with lipstick lesbianism being more acceptable to larger viewing audiences then the guys.

Perhaps they’ll take the aging sitcom route and add a smart-alecky black kid, perhaps the long lost child of Ross and some woman he married and divorced during a summer hiatus.

No! Did I miss the Chandler and Phoebe episode? What happened?

People I know down here in Australia used to have “Friends” get together nights on the night the show screens on TV.

You’d hear all these women in the office organising their evening getting all excited - who was gonna bring what food - who was gonna have a stay over. They’d bring their partners, and literally, they would live out their fantasy of being “just as true close friends as on the TV show” by religiously showing up each week.

I’ve personally never liked any of the Holy Trinity New York shows - Seinfeld, Mad About You, and in particular “Friends” primarily because they engendered such lame displays of contrived adulation amongst it’s audience - at least down here in Australia at any rate.

Over time, as the novelty of “Friends” wore off and it became obvious that it was quite formulaic - even to the aforementioned women in the office - said women merely transferred allegiances to shows such as “Big Brother” and “Survivor” etc.

Ultimately, the people who make such programs are innately aware of the cynical manipulative nature of their porgrams - it’s all about ratings and advertising and capturing and ‘keeping’ a viewing audience.

Me personally? I’d much rather listen to, and make, music. I refuse point blank to let the memorable highlights of my time here on earth be punctuated by the milestones of a television sitcom.

No offence to fans of the show of course. Interestingly, my girlfriend and I were channel surfing on TV the other night and we briefly saw Joey - to which my girlfriend offered “That man takes a lot of drugs - you can see it in the dark circles under his eyes…”

Actually, I was implying that her nipples were fake, I believe her boobs to be real.