# Musings on Watching the Whole "Friends" Series

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 20, 2012, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musings-on-watching-the-whole-friends-series/635235 "2012-09-20T03:39:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musings-on-watching-the-whole-friends-series/635235/141 "2012-10-01T20:25:09Z")

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> [@MostlyClueless](#):
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> Phoebe and Chandler are my favourites.
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> Also, rewatching this stuff on youtube, I was amazed at how progressive most of it was. Gay relationships and gender issues are sometimes used as a punchline, but as far as I can tell never derisively.

I don’t know about that… I think the stuff with Chandler’s drag queen father was a little throw-back.

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**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musings-on-watching-the-whole-friends-series/635235/142 "2012-10-01T20:35:46Z")

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> [@Push\_You\_Down](#):
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> I don’t know about that… I think the stuff with Chandler’s drag queen father was a little throw-back.

It was handled matter of factly the way a jokester son typically would - he wasn’t so much embarrased by it (that he was a drag queen) as he was by how ‘she’ acted in general.

or atleast thats the way I took it.

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**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2012, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musings-on-watching-the-whole-friends-series/635235/143 "2012-10-02T15:15:41Z")

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Rachel is a horrible, horrible person - Hugh Laurie said it, I believe it, that settles it. 😃

Jennifer Aniston and Hugh Laurie in the plane is one of the best scenes in the series - brilliant frigging casting! And Hugh Laurie looks like he’s about 30 - so young!

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**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2012, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musings-on-watching-the-whole-friends-series/635235/144 "2012-10-02T16:55:28Z")

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Hey, [T.J. Thyne (Dr. Jack Hodgins from “Bones”)](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0862328/) was the young doctor that Phoebe made cry when she was giving birth to the triplets!

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