Aw, the cast still gets together now and then - does my heart good!: Matthew Perry makes a rare cameo on Courteney Cox’s Instagram: ‘Real friends’ [Video]
I burst out laughing when I saw the one with all six of them had 15 million likes - that is insane. It is sort of nice to hear about a cast that didn’t all hate each other off-screen.
I just reviewed a high school mock-trial hypothetical problem, and the mom of a kid injured in a food fight was listed as Monica Bing. No other Friends references that I noticed, though.
A recent interview with David Schwimmer: MSN
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Reunion special set for HBO Max - unclear if the actors will be in character or just taking a walk down memory lane together (with plentiful clips, I assume): 'Friends' reunion special set for HBO Max | CNN Business
I assume it’s going to be the latter; the cast and perhaps the writers on stage talking about the show.
Here’s David Schwimmer on a possible reunion show: 'Friends' reunion could start filming next month, David Schwimmer says | CNN
I rewatched it all near the beginning of the pandemic over the course of 2 weeks.
I think I liked it better over the second run. Either that, or the “binge” format kept me engaged better. I missed several episodes on the first run and didn’t consider it “must see TV”.
I find it genuinely funnier than a lot of the sitcoms today. The writers were very clever.
"PIVOT"
(not a complete sentence)
Bumped.
An interesting article on NYC apartments in the Friends era:
I’m gonna say it
Janice >> Phoebe
(runs away)
(but is found)
(and tied up)
(and forced to listen to a looped video of Janice laaaaaaaughing…)
.
Omigosh, there is one!
Aiyeeeee!
Annoying that they completely get the reason why Monica’s apartment is cheap wrong. She didn’t inherit it, it’s still in her Grandma’s name. It comes up multiple times that if they get found out they’ll get kicked out.
As annoying as her laugh was, it was her bad feature. THe showrunners decided that “bad laugh” meant “bad person”. Ok, she wasn’t Malala or RBG, but even as badly written, the character and the actress, were 20 times better than Phoebe.
Phoebe was always, for me, a secondary character.
Joey’s IQ changed every episode, from “kinda slow” to “needs a tag with his name an address”.
Hey, I remember this one: nothing is better than Phoebe; and, well, a ham sandwich is better than nothing; so — no, wait; that’s not quite it…
Heck, I’ll play. Phoebe was the Swiss Army knife of characters. Need a ditz? There’s Phoebe. Need a schemer? Phoebe’s the one. Need someone who can come up with a deep insight? Phoebe can do that, too. Phoebe and Joey were also necessary to counteract some of that insufferable future upper-middle class vibe the other four gave off.
Janice was pretty good as the character everyone hates, but she wasn’t nearly as good at it as Eddie Haskell from Leave It to Beaver. From a plot standpoint, I wouldn’t have objected if Chandler ended up married to her, but I couldn’t stand her in every episode.