I just learned from an online trivia game that the six dots in the series logo match the colors of the six umbrellas in the opening credits. Never made that connection before!
apparently it doesn’t take much to get star now–really, Cox? Even Vanna White gets star just for showing up in gown with no talent
Thanks for sharing. The place for folks that don’t like Friends is literally any other thread on this board.
Friends doughnuts, anyone? Off to the UK or Ireland!
The easiest requirement to getting a star is $. You pay, you get a star. So there have been 20 year old pop singers getting a star after a single album that does well.
But they still give out stars to actually deserving people like James Hong.
Whodathunkit?
Schwimmer (handing Stewart divorce papers): Tonight’s the Night.
Stewart: The First Cut is the Deepest.
Schwimmer (shrugging): Some Guys Have All the Luck.
Stewart: I Don’t Want to Talk About It.
Was he called “4B” then?
Pivot! PIVOT!
No way, no how:
What would the apartment with the slanty windows cost nowadays?
$20 million each for annual residuals! Could they BE any richer…?
I’ll be there for them…
I remember there was a time where Seinfeld and Larry David were getting $100s of millions for Seinfeld. Big money in a hot sitcom with legs.
True, but what about after their big hit comedy? Who here thinks Jim Parsons’ career is on the downslope from here on out? I can’t see him ever landing such an iconic role. Everything else he does will pale by comparison to Sheldon Cooper. Sadly, this kind of fate seems to have followed most of the former Friends cast.
I guess they’re probably crying all the way to the bank.
Meanwhile, Ted Danson’s on what, his fourth hit sitcom?
If any of the stars of the big hit comedies like Friends or TBBT want to really act, either for personal fulfillment or to hone their craft or for whatever reason, I’m sure they would have no problem getting at least a few roles, in independent films or on stage, at least until they prove beyond a doubt that they really stink at acting. I guess Julia Louie-Dreyfuss is a pretty good example of someone who has gone on to do other interesting and successful work. And Seinfeld himself as someone who, well, hasn’t much (not really fair, he wasn’t acting in the first place).
Jerry Seinfeld’s inability to act was compounded by his inability to stop snickering at his own lines. He was the same way in the movie Unfrosted – he just didn’t care. But the Seinfeld series was saved by brilliant writing, to which Seinfeld contributed, and great performances by the rest of the cast. The whole thing came together perfectly and was truly a work of genius, if sometimes a little bit overly self-indulgent. I’ve always thought Friends was rather a poor man’s copycat version of Seinfeld without the wit and originality.
In addition to his sitcoms he also spent 4 seasons on the original CSI. I stopped watching when Laurence Fishburne was added to the cast, so I never saw the Danson years.
Likewise, but I caught some of his years in syndication. He’s not bad, but I call him capt moonbeam (maybe someone in an episode did, and it fits). I like Fishburn and it really isn’t his fault that his seasons were bad, but it was his character that ruined them. What were the writers thinking?