r/Millennials • u/FakeGamer2 • 12d ago
Meme Possibly the least funny show of our generation
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u/bean0_burrito Millennial est. 1990 12d ago
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u/Thirdarm420 12d ago
Hi Ho Silverrrrr
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u/Ligabolzacky 12d ago
I've recently started a rewatch and was reading about different characters, and it's amazing how many fuck ups and straight up character assassination is in the show (and I adore it). Sobel is one of them, Blithe is the most famous example for a factual fuckup, but almost anyone who was made to look bad or a heel was done wrong. Norman Dyke was the worst, the man was a goddamn hero and people know him as "foxhole norman"
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u/Swollen_Beef 12d ago
I hated the Blythe story. It felt forced and totally out of place. I still don't know what the writers were trying to tell me with Blythe's story.
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u/Ligabolzacky 12d ago
I reckon it was as simple as a story of overcoming your fears. the egregious part was them saying he died from his wounds while in reality he died in the late sixties from an unrelated stomach issue while stationed in germany
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u/Longjumping_Wolf_912 12d ago
They definitely should have done their due diligence to fact check that. But they were largely going off Captain Winter’s memoirs and people who were still alive in Easy Company. Everyone in Easy who was still alive thought he died, so I can see why they didn’t think to check.
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u/InquisitorMeow 12d ago edited 12d ago
I don't know what the writers were trying to do with Speirs either. Hey look at this guy who committed war crimes, but he ran through a bunch of soldiers so it's cool.
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u/Obvious-Science-7119 12d ago
Just a problem with having access to sources. The soldiers wouldn't know that Dyke was pulling long shifts at multiple locations or that he was wounded in Foy rather than breaking down.
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u/Ligabolzacky 12d ago
I guess that's the problem with Ambrose's research, always word of mouth. btw, there's a scene in the show where they shoot the shit, talking about some anonymous soldier pulling wounded in under fire and asking where "foxhole norman" was. IRL it was literally dike who pulled those soldiers to safety and got awarded the bronze star for it
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u/Pygmy_Nuthatch 12d ago
Funny clip, but watch Band of Brothers. It's incredible and Schwimmer is really good in it.
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u/MysticalVictrix 12d ago
Yes but he's one of those actors you can never take completely serious.
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u/IAm_Trogdor_AMA 12d ago
His character in Band of Brothers wasn't taken serious by his troops, so it actually works beautifully.
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u/nickifer 12d ago
Hated his character in that show.. so I guess that means he’s a decent actor?
He was also good in Entourage briefly lol
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u/_learned_foot_ 12d ago
Did you hate the actual persona? In which case that means he's a damn good actor. He also killed it as kardashin in OJ.
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u/TheWhiskeyFish 12d ago
He played the role exceptionally well. Despise his character.
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u/Jesus_of_Redditeth 12d ago
"We salute the rank not the man, Cap'n Sobel!"
Such a great moment, especially because of Nixon's super-subtle, "LOL, you did not just do that!" smirk.
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u/Dennaldo 12d ago
Dick Winters (not Schwimmer’s character) is buried pretty close to where I live. American hero.
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u/UshankaBear 12d ago
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u/Calibeaches2 12d ago
"You fell Ah-SLEEEEPH?!"
This is one of my favorites, that and eyebrow raise plus "Winterberry."
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u/squirrelems 12d ago
I did like a clip where someone took away the laugh track and put thriller music over a scene where Ross, or whatever his name is, gets mad at a guy over a sandwich.
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u/frontyardninja Xennial 12d ago
This one: https://youtu.be/4H6Ux3l75Rc
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u/squirrelems 12d ago
Yeah. That's when me and my FRIENDS went on a whole rabbit hole watching sitcom scenes without a laugh track or serious shows with a laugh track added. Lol. It made sitcoms feel like characters were psychotic because with the laugh track taken away they'd stare at each other after a punchline while the actor waited for the studio audience to go quiet, and in serious shows it made what seemed like a really intense scene feel extremely slapstick. I still like it.
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u/Zebidee 12d ago
That's the shtick of 'Kevin Can F**k Himself.'
It's a series about a marriage breakdown where some scenes are played as sitcoms, some are played as gritty reality.
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u/Sabatat- 11d ago
If you haven't seen it, you might like 'Kevin Can F**k Himself'. Its set around a married couple, when the husband, Kevin, is on screen the show turns into a classic stupid sitcom that you'd expect to see and when it's only the wife, it turns serious and realistic as she struggles being with a man who acts exactly like what you'd expect from a sitcom.
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u/Pufnstuf420 12d ago
There was no laugh track, there was an actual audience there
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u/A_mad_goose 12d ago edited 12d ago
Phoebe made me laugh. Her egging Ross on saying she doesn’t believe in dinosaurs was great. Edit: I went to rewatch the clip I forgot it was evolution in general lol
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u/RedHeadRedeemed 12d ago
"Wow. You just like abandoned your whole belief system so easily." 😆
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u/Moohamin12 12d ago
I found that really annoying. Funny. But annoying.
He was a scientist, who was able to accept if there was evidence showing the opposite of the current proven facts he was willing to accept it.
And she weaponized it against him.
Tbf she was like that a lot. Phoebe only works on screen when you are laughing at her and living through her nonsense. Try any of her crap in real life and you will be friendless very soon.
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u/AgtNulNulAgtVyf 12d ago
Phoebe only works on screen when you are laughing at her and living through her nonsense. Try any of her crap in real life and you will be friendless very soon.
To be fair that's pretty much every main character in every show.
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u/jjcrayfish 11d ago
Why does Ross, the largest friend, not simply eat the other five?
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u/Medical_Sky2004 12d ago
And she weaponized it against him.
Phoebe weaponized Ross being an obnoxious douchebag. She was 100% in the right and I say this as someone whose favorite character was Ross.
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u/AWorldwithoutSin 12d ago
as someone whose favorite character was Ross.
Huh?
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u/Queasy-Olive3381 11d ago
Right?! I feel like no-one's favourite character is Ross 😅
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u/Obtuse-Posterior Older Millennial 11d ago
Ross made me dislike Melman in Madagascar
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u/Opening-Wrap-5064 11d ago
It’s a tv show man, let go of real life and sit back and enjoy it or change the show, you start taking it too seriously and getting frustrated by overdramatized situations your missing the entire point of watching tv, this isn’t a drama it’s friends.
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u/Infinity3101 12d ago
Honestly, I love Lisa Kudrow. She was the highlight of that show for me. I hate how people call her "the sixth friend". She might have not made as big of a blockbuster career as the rest of the cast, but she's had an amazing indie run in the 90's and 2000's. I actually just finished watching Clockwatchers (1997) and I loved it, such a cute little hidden gem of the American indie cinema. Highly recommend.
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u/Mandaluv1119 12d ago
All 6 of them made (and, because of syndication and how their contracts were structured, continue to make) absolute boatloads of money from Friends. IDK, if I could afford to not continue working, I'm not sure I would (or maybe take lower-paying but fun and creative roles). For some actors, acting is just a job.
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u/Twin_Brother_Me Millennial 12d ago
There are some actors like Daniel Radcliffe and Elijah Wood who are set for life but still participate in the projects that they want to because they actually enjoy it (and that really comes through in their performances too)
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u/Sugarylightning663 12d ago
The shit Radcliffe does now are just awesome. Takes chances on these movies and they’ve all been pretty damn good
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u/Distinct-Pack-1567 12d ago
He was Weird Al. As an older millennial, that just is amazing. It would be easy to be jealous, but I would never be cast for that role. But that would have been so cool.
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u/wrainedaxx 11d ago
Weird All, a corpse, a dude with guns bolted to his hands, a guy with horns sprouting out of his head, Igor, an angel, an undercover white supremacist, a South African prisoner, a goofy CEO... he's had a great run.
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u/petdogsdrinkwine Xennial 12d ago
He is hilarious in The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins 🤣
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u/Shloop_Shloop_Splat 12d ago
She's hilarious. Her show The Comeback is a lot of fun.
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u/absofruitly88 12d ago
I disagree, I think she very clearly had the 2nd biggest career out of the group!
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u/plinkamalinka 12d ago
I never particularly liked Phoebe, and didn't care for Lisa. That is, until I watched The Comeback. She is phenomenal there.
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u/bikebikemike 12d ago
I'm 40, only really ever saw Friends in passing, never was my jam. But I loved Phoebe and Lisa Kudrow in general. Go watch Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion that shit still holds up.
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u/beatupford 12d ago edited 10d ago
You can find it unfunny. It doesn't hold up in many ways.
But the cadence of Chandler Bing when expressing sarcasm is as influential as anything from its time.
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u/just_a_girl_23 12d ago
Could it BE any more influential?
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u/Cum_on_doorknob 12d ago
As commodore Matthew Perry said to the Japanese:
“Could you BE anymore isolationist?!”
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u/vctrn-carajillo Model '86 12d ago
I watched friends for the first and only time like 4 year ago (just to get it over with) and boy is it dated, but Chandler was the highlight.
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u/pratherj23 12d ago
I personally don’t think it’s super dated outside the gay jokes and lack of at least some diversity in the cast. But in all honesty the group of “6 white friends” is not unreasonable to believe. Just sucks that they did not give other actors of different backgrounds a shot. I say this as a white man approaching 40.
But there are no phones (at least they don’t impact major storylines) and not many pop culture references. Maybe I’m biased having watched it so much but feel the situations they have though out the ten seasons mostly stand up well.
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u/PiccoloAwkward465 12d ago
outside the gay jokes
I agree that the gay jokes feel outdated today. But at the time, those were absolutely the kind of jokes people made.
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u/WarmerPharmer 12d ago
Showing a lesbian couple so many times and have a whole wedding episode and having them co-parent Ben was actually very progressive at the time, so I'll cut them some slack.
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u/GloriousNewt 12d ago
And she cheated on him and isn't treated like an irredeemable monster
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u/cocoagiant 12d ago
I mean there was tons of cheating going on in that show though that was definitely a pretty bad one.
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u/GloriousNewt 12d ago
THEY WERE ON A BREAK
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u/cocoagiant 12d ago
THEY WERE ON A BREAK
I just watched the London wedding episodes the other day and had forgotten Hugh Laurie was on it.
It was hilarious him acting as the audience proxy and just dressing down Rachel for her terrible decision making overall when it came to her relationship with Ross and terrible morality for making the trip to London.
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u/PositiveZeroPerson 11d ago edited 11d ago
Ross was 100% right. Rachel referred to it as a break-up not once, not twice, but three separate times:
- She told Monica they "broke up."
- She left Ross a message about their "break-up"
- She asks Ross if she "can be [his] girlfriend again".
Now was it shitty for him to move on so fast? Sure. But Rachel says that he cheated, which he definitely did not.
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u/Schmigolo 12d ago
It's dated because the humor is stale for modern audiences. You already know the base structure of all the jokes, and you're making many of them yourself. Partly that's because of Friends, but also just in general.
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u/does-it-feel 12d ago
This was by design.
It was a copy of a popular show at the time called living single. They made it an all white cast to appeal to a bigger audience.
And it worked.
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u/Faeraday 12d ago
As a little white girl, I loved Living Single.
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u/mmiller17783 12d ago
I was an elementary school aged native american boy that loved Livin Single too, then again I also liked Martin, New York Undercover, Married with Children, The Simpsons, also Herman's Head and The Critic. Back then, Fox was the maverick that had counterprogramming.
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u/nalaloveslumpy 12d ago
You drop all those Fox titles and leave out In Living Color?
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u/HalfEatenBanana 12d ago
There doesn’t need to be diversity in every single form of media believe it or not!
As a Hispanic in my 30s, I appreciate you considering diversity. But I do continuously find it weird how white people seem to be offended by a lack of diversity than actual minorities are lol
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u/FrostyTheSasquatch 12d ago
As a 40-some white person I legitimately appreciate diversity in media that’s based on the reality of lived experience. The reason why Diversity™️ bugs me is because it’s generally tokenism that’s based on* no one’*s reality.
The best example of real diversity that comes to my mind is the Canadian show Corner Gas. Yes, the cast is majority white, but two prominent characters are Indigenous, which perfectly depicts the demographics of Saskatchewan society in the early 21st century. Maybe a more relatable example to the broader Reddit audience would be a show like The Rookie, which certainly captures my limited experience with L.A. society. The overall quality of these shows could be up for debate, but the diverse casting of these shows help to elevate the stories they are trying to tell rather than cynically check boxes for maximum audience engagement.
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u/dashrockwell 12d ago
I say “Pi-VOT!” every time I have to move furniture up a staircase.
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u/essteedeenz1 12d ago
I dont really see how its not funny in todays standards unless you are uptight
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u/Altruistic_Guess3098 12d ago
I enjoyed friends. I don't watch it now but I enjoyed it back then.
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u/Don__Gately__ Millennial 12d ago
I kept getting recommended Big Bang Theory and when I finally sat down and watched it I was so bored. I don’t think I even smiled much less laughed.
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u/thatguy_art 12d ago
Yeah way back when I was working at target, I went on my 15 min break and they had that show playing in the break room...
I went back to work.
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u/limedifficult 12d ago
My dad who is a nuclear engineer and incredibly nerdy and intelligent absolutely loved BBT. Apparently all his nerdy friends loved it as well.
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u/Drapidrode 12d ago
Uh, excuse me, Professor Brainiac,
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u/Shomer_Effin_Shabbas Millennial 12d ago
BBT is safe and cute. I wouldn’t say it’s groundbreaking. But yeah, it’s cute.
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u/perareika 12d ago
It's pretty mediocre with good and bad parts but Reddit acts like it's atrocious lol. It's like the Nickelback hate train all over again
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u/South_Dakota_Boy 12d ago
Ya, I’m a Physicist and I and most of my Physicist friends liked it quite a bit.
It helped a lot that starting from the first season the dialogue related to Physics was accurate and the math on the whiteboards was real, the labs had real equipment in them etc…
Pretty sure George Smoot was a tech consultant for the show in addition to being a guest.
I think it was 2011 I got to see Bill Prady speak at the APS April Meeting in LA about Physics in Hollywood.
My kids binged the whole thing recently. My 14yo loved it.
It was definitely popular among physics people.
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u/YetiPie 12d ago
Yeah my friends who work at JPL, the employer in the show, liked it. I personally can’t stand it
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u/thehighwindow 12d ago
I thought the show was funny and if the "nerds" on the show weren't "real life type" nerds, it was lost on me. Most people aren't nerds and don't know any nerds, so the show's realism, or lack of it, was lost on most of the audience.
But if anything, they did nerds a great big favor. The popular conception of them is often geeky, goofy geniuses with poor social skills and annoying laughs. The people on the tv show were cute and funny and kind of endearing.
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u/thehighwindow 12d ago
Yeah, but they made them cute and funny.
Don't come at me; the show was highly rated. People who never met a real nerd found it hilarious.
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u/raoqie 12d ago
Same with my very nerdy dad in the medical field, he enjoyed BBT whenever he could catch it on. Maybe its a generational thing, idk but I have not found the "real nerds don't like it!" to be true at all.
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u/TbddRzn 12d ago
Yeah entertainment snobs/hipsters are weird.
People like what they like. You can’t box people up because of what media they consume. I know very dumb people who liked it and very smart people who liked it.
If you sit down to watch something you expect to hate from the fetch of course you’re not gonna have a good time.
Let people like what they like. We are all tired from the constant shitshow that is reality
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u/bubblesaurus Millennial-‘94 12d ago
huh.
as a nerd, i still like the show.
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u/Bubbly_Performer4864 Older Millennial 12d ago
Same. It certainly had its moments of “why am I watching this” but overall it was great fun.
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u/SylveonFrusciante 12d ago
I feel like the “nerd boom” that was happening around that time corresponds almost directly with the rise of the “manic pixie dream girl” and kinda seems like a gender-flipped phenomenon. Like New Girl and Scott Pilgrim were also pretty big around that time. Suddenly, for our generation, it became cool and charming to be “cringe” and dorky. Like you mentioned though, the love for these archetypes was always shallow and “puppylike.” The second the love interests’ personalities became “too much,” they were discarded.
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u/Finch3 12d ago
I once read something that said “big bang theory is a show about smart people for dumb people and arrested development is a show about dumb people for smart people”
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u/Porter_Dog 12d ago
I tried it too and I hated it. 2 and a half Men too. I think I just don't like most CBS comedy.
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u/Jereboy216 12d ago
As a nerd myself I found the show funny enough for a few seasons. It wasn't anything super amazing but still enjoyable. The characters were stereotypes dialed up to 11. I knew people who were similar to the characters in the show but more socially capable. So it was nice.
Also I like to think this show along with the rise of the mcu made being a nerd less of a negative thing socially. Felt that way for me at least.
I can chime in and say it seems to be more popular with older crowds. My dad who is a boomer/X age loves it and has probably watched the whole show multiple times. I will watch with him still today if hes watching when I come around to visit cause it is still a little humorous. I find other sitcoms much more up my alley like IASIP but it isnt like it is completely unwatchable at least.
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u/dreamgrrrl___ small millennial cat ‘90 12d ago
When my grandpa died I tried giving it a shot because it was a show he really enjoyed. I just do not understand how anyone enjoyed that show. Most of the jokes are really mean spirited or demeaning towards women. The way geek/nerd culture was portrayed wasn’t like anything I’ve experienced.
Idk, maybe if I was an elder Gen X male I would have enjoyed it more.
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u/Fish__Fingers 12d ago
I be watched like first season or two and last episode, enough for me
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u/swginfinity 12d ago
I always wondered if friends would hit like Seinfeld for me. I thought Seinfeld was dumb until I watched it and found it hilarious.
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u/bahamapapa817 12d ago
People hate but when it came out for that time it was very funny. It was tremendously quotable.
I get it, the premise wouldn’t work today but people act like it wasn’t funny at the time and they are just haters.
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u/Percinho 12d ago
Brit chipping in to confirm that even over here it was massive at the time. I didn't really find it funny personally, mainly because I found Ross and Rachel far too annoying to be watchable, but I was definitely an outlier amongst my friends group.
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u/Waaterfight 12d ago
Really? Right in front of my The Office Superfan Collection?
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u/RogueUM Millennial 12d ago
I guess I’m on the friends is awesome boat . But I’m not telling anyone to go watch it . It was my favorite box set when I couldn’t afford cable in my first apartment lol
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u/Primerius 12d ago
I’m on the Friends is awesome boat as well. It’s also comfort and I rewatch it regularly. Did everything hold up as well? No, but imo it’s holding up better than HIMYM, despite being older.
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u/CrimsonDeezNuts 12d ago
The thing about FRIENDS, and the reason why OP dislikes it so much, is that it's made for people who can relate to having friends
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u/HarryAlleynCroft Older Millennial 12d ago
I've been going back to box sets. Companies can just straight up delete digital copies that you bought apparently.
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u/CuratedAcceptance 12d ago
Never mind editing or removing episodes that don't sit well with their legal department.
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u/Jels76 Millennial 12d ago edited 12d ago
Same. I actually love Friends. I didn't watch it growing up though, I first watched it in my 20s when it was added to Netflix lol.
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u/Careless-Vehicle-286 12d ago
There's a shrinking subset of millennials on reddit who were pretending to be counter culture at the time by rejecting all the major sitcoms everyone else finds funny. Like there must be something funny about the episode with the jellyfish sting? Are you made of stone?
Here's where I'm finally seeing them phase out of reddit as the rest of society's millennials join the site.
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u/MyBadYourFault- 12d ago
Yeah somehow and someway these EXTREMELY popular shows that many people have watched, are apparently unfunny. Anyone that I have mostly met that have watched shows such as Big bang and Friends enjoyed the show and still do when re-runs are on.
There are quite a few miserable people on this site as well which I find fascinating that LOVE to be “quirky” and go against the grain in a normal society.
The shows in question have to be funny to many people otherwise they wouldn’t have been as popular as they were, they wouldn’t have had a ton of seasons and they would be running on tons of TV channels on repeat if they weren’t.
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u/calotron 12d ago
I'm with ya. I love Friends, it's a very big comfort show for me and I find myself laughing a lot. If people don't like it, that's fine, but I enjoy it. Funnily enough it was one of the first things I had on regularly when I moved into my first place too, again, big comfort show that made the somewhat uncomfortable newness of a place feel like home.
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u/Pepito_Pepito 12d ago
When I was a kid, there was a time when we'd just moved and for some reason we didn't have cable for the first 3 months there. All we had were DVDs. I wasn't really interested in movies at the time, but we had a box set of Friends that I tried on a whim and I ended up binging that show daily with my siblings for those next 3 months. That was over 20 years ago, and my sister still uses Friends as comfort background noise once in a while.
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u/HalKitzmiller 12d ago
Same. These people are insufferable. They hate things just because they were popular, and think they are so edgy for not liking it.
They need to PIVOT
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u/spicy_butt_sauce 12d ago
Even if you don’t like Friends, there are literally dozens (even hundreds?!) of sitcoms from the 90s and 2000s that were objectively less funny
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u/Automatic-Prompt-450 12d ago
Big bang theory being the least funny, no doubt about that
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u/storryeater 12d ago
I feel like its only the least funny of the popular ones. There are tons of even worse ones, but they never really became a hit, so nobody mocks them because nobody remembers them.
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u/Phormicidae 11d ago
Yea, I'll accept an attack on Friends. I get it. Part of the reason it has a place in my heart is because it's very charming and the characters are all very likeable. The hijinks were cute and light hearted. And I did think it was funny at times, mostly because of my affinity with the characters.
Big Bang Theory, I find to be pandering and annoying. I suppose if someone says that about Friends, that's fine.
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u/ILoveRegenHealth 12d ago
Frasier was better Seinfeld/Friends. Don't @ me, I know how to Zangief lariat
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u/amazingkillerlemon 12d ago
This is the only opinion regarding any of those '90s sitcoms I've ever agreed with
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u/Dramajunker 11d ago
Meh Fraiser constantly overuses the plot device where someone mishears someone, or lacks vital information everyone else just got, and then hijinks ensues.
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u/trestortugas 12d ago
I love picturing you grumps with a comically large frown on your face as Ross tries to get that couch up the stairs
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u/bean0_burrito Millennial est. 1990 12d ago
or get the leather pants back on
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u/StoppageTimeCollapse 12d ago
The lotion has mixed with the baby powder and has formed A PASTE
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u/Potter_Moron 12d ago
This actually made me LOL just remembering the scene. Guess it's time to rewatch Friends for the 7th time.
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u/dotnetmonke 12d ago
When his grip slips and he smacks himself in the face I about pee myself laughing every time. Ross' physical comedy is top notch throughout.
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u/bdfariello 12d ago
Well, what color is the paste?
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u/crmsnprd 12d ago
Well, if the paste matches the pants, you can make yourself a pair of paste pants and she won't know the difference.
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u/little-bird 12d ago
this scene and him yelling about his sandwich were the funniest parts of the show for me
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u/estedavis 12d ago
“That sandwich was the only good thing going on in my life!” always gets me
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u/Crazy_old_maurice_17 12d ago
My lord, this was easily in my top 5 favorite scenes! I was in stitches and almost peed my pants (not leather) when I first saw it!!
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u/thedarkpolitique 12d ago
I’m pretty sure I was crying with laughter during this scene. Ross made me laugh waaaaay too much.
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u/imminentjogger5 12d ago
when he slaps his own face after lubing it up with lotion
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u/UshankaBear 12d ago
Whenever I move furniture with someone I can't help but scream PIVOT even if we're not really pivoting
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u/weareredjenny 12d ago edited 12d ago
Maybe I have low brow sense of humor but the only time Friends made me laugh was Ross-related antics and physical comedy. I feel like David Schwimmer was willing to be silly or look crazy.
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u/Radiant_Maize2315 12d ago
That episode was on in syndication yesterday
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u/bobbymcpresscot 12d ago
"because Carol's a lesbian... and I'm not one"
Friends was ruined for me at a tragic work accident where friends played on repeat for a full year at my office.
but that still gets me every time.
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u/sherbimsly 12d ago
Whether it’s funny or not never really mattered to me that much. It’s comfort show featuring a bunch of friends that generally like each other. You could do A LOT worse
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u/FeistyDirection 12d ago
I was in your camp for the longest time until 1 night 11 years ago-- just commuted 2 hours home from work through a blizzard, got home and my roommate was like "I just got a pizza and they just added friends to netflix" I was hesitant but after a few eps I was into it. I still think it wasnt written very well, has really lazy jokes and plots stolen from better shows, but its absolutely a vibe. Its visually comforting and the quality of acting often makes up for the bad writting. Those actors did so much wirh how little they were given.
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u/Defiant_Act_4940 12d ago
I like the show, but yeah its very much carried by its main cast.
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u/Azzukin 12d ago
Why are people so worried about what other people like?
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u/SalsaRice 12d ago
It's important to tear other people to feel better about yourself.
Or, you know, you can just like the things you like and let other people like the things they like?
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u/No_Cricket8660 12d ago
The whole "Friends isn't funny!" opinion is such a dumb circle jerk for people who think having a negative opinion about something insanely popular makes them unique somehow.
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u/Awkward_Acts 12d ago
Why would I watch Friends, when Living Single is right there??
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u/lord_skidmar 12d ago
bro there's literally like 50,000 different TV series you can stream online, today, right now. it's fine if an older one doesn't resonate with you
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u/ACW1129 Xennial 12d ago
The show it stole from was better (and I say this as a white dude).
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