Geez, I loathe Friends

I'm stuck watching it tonight so that I don't miss the beginning of South Park, which I do almost every night because I forget about it until it's about 15 minutes in.

I'm not even paying attention to it, since I'm writing a paper, and it's annoying the shit out of me.

is that it shows the no-black-people-anywhere-in-sight side of NYC that is sooooo realistic.

now that's realistic! :sarcasm:

I was going to jump right in and agree.

I despise that show, and I don't think any of them can act worth a crap.

This ridiculous push to make Jennifer Aniston into a movie star is the only thing about the entire "Friends" "experience" that I find laughable. (And no, I haven't seen The Good Girl--LOL, I get that recommended to me every time I unleash the Aniston rage, LOL!!)

It was especially bad with that shitbag Tom Selleck, who I've hated (as an 'actor') with a passion since long before he came out as a rightwing fucknut.

I saw it with my wife. I really didn't see anything special about it. Shit, I can talk like Tanya Tucker too, but that doesn't mean that I'm a great actor. Don't believe the hype.

face of the earth who never watched that show! (I read an interview with her once where she said she had never watched it.)

Anyway, the whole premise seemed so stupid to me. Mr. SG liked it for the first 5-6 years, and then he started finding it tiresome. I would usually go downstairs and watch something on the other teevee, but once in awhile, I'd venture upstairs, and hear the girls on the show laughing and talking in high squeeky voices. They always sounded like squirrels to me!

"Friends" and "Seinfeld." I could never figure the big deal about either. :shrug:

How could people watch that shit?

I have never gotten it. I think it's just a show for people who don't really have friends to watch so they can imagine that if they DID have friends, they'd be like that. Or something.

comment. I have lots of friends, and I never believed that show was realistic. But I still laughed out loud at many episodes.

I'm an intelligent person generally considered by most people who know me to have good taste and an excellent sense of humor. I watch tons of arthouse flicks and highbrow comedies and enjoy them all. I also happen to enjoy Friends and think there were a number of comic talents on the show. Lisa Kudrow is fabulous and I will watch her in anything. Jennifer Aniston happens to be one who really grew in her comic timing and acting abilities. And yes, The Good Girl was an excellent example of her abilities.

You're free to disagree, but please give me a break and stop implying that because I like the show I must be a loser with no real friends. Good grief.

That is just my opinion. And this is the Lounge. I was pretty much just joking.

I got a chuckle out of your Republican apology too. "I'm sorry you took it so personally." ;)

They're never sorry for insulting someone, they're just sorry the person has a problem with it.

Honest to Maud, I actually thought you were kidding again.

Not "I'm sorry I offended" but "I'm sorry you took it as offensive".

:-)

I think I'm going to go to bed.

But, you have to admit, it was an interesting turn of phrase you used.

:-)

Seriously. I thought you were kidding.

Go ahead. Insult U2. I dare you. They'll be on you like a pack of wolverines.

Although I'm not going to imply that U2 fans are losers. I just don't happen to like their music.

The scene was that Joey guy coming home flustered because he thought that a tailor was coming on to him because his hands were getting too close to his business--the guy was measuring this idiot's in-seam.

:sarcasm: ON ha ha funny oh god help me i'm dying IT'S MUST-SEE TV :sarcasm: OFF

After that, I totally ignored it.

I always marvelled at its success.

:D

Either that, or you don't get the WB. Or UPN. Hell, or ABC. Wait a minute, what station is "Yes, Dear" on?

Friends wasn't to everyone's taste, of course (personally, I think it was mediocre), but are there more than three current sitcoms that are better than Friends?

Just by your name, I was curious.

no, I was just eating an orange when I signed up. :P Also, I am from Florida, so it seem appropriate.

Who/What are the Young Ones?

Vivian!!!!!!!

The jokes were so obvious and nobody really lives like that! How dare you laugh at slapstick, unrealistic humor!

Just kidding. I LOVE the Young Ones.

"Neil, Neil, orange peel..."

"I hate sarcasm"

"Oh, really...how very interesting"

That might be worth having!

Every stoopid episode. Brilliant!

and wrote a really stupid poem with "orangepeel" in it. Hilarious!

I love Arrested Development more but still laugh at many of the episodes.

One of the most creative shows ever, and unique. Nothing like it!

PURE genius. One of the best reasons to own a television.

burn and then stuff the ashes into a lead canister to be thrown itothe sea for all eternity.

The character was a fucking dumbfuck character, singlehandedly ruining the show (though he enedfde up with some help anyway), but also Schwimmer himself is a floating refuse sprayer of no-talent vapid excrement.

I posted my reply to the OP without even reading this gem!

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Next, you're going to slam my slamming of Woody Allen *does the David Copperfield finger-waggle at my monitor*

you're posting here, you lying fuck.

I'll bet you love friends, too. In fact, I'll bet you have a door-sized Ross poster on your front door, just to let everyone know that if they step foot in your home they'd better love Friends too.

Woody Allen agrees,
Friends, it's the new Christianity.

It makes me smile.

Hi Will! :hi:

Good to see you in the Lounge!

I have no intention of killing myself. ;)

I thought you were a grizzled prospector.

I just write papers, but now I get paid for them, instead of me paying to write them.

:-)

You know...in the opening credits. There they all are, the whole unlikely bunch of them, frolicking (in? around? whatever) a fountain. In my experience, groups of friends usually don't travel around en masse, and certainly never fountain-frolic. I agree that it seems this show is for people with friend-envy. (Look at...all those...FRIENDS!!) I've never seen a full episode. I imagine I never will.

*rimshot*

*rimshot*

I LOVED Friends. I don't know if it is b/c I was in high school when it came out or what, but I loved it. I watched it faithfully. And I am a huge Jennifer Aniston fan, so there. I also LOVE Will and Grace! So, sue me!!



:P

that occupies so many of us.

You're just too damn friendly...:loveya:

You never know when it will hit!! :P

or watch another channel with a show that ends when SP begins.
Also, I am guessing that it hasn't been your day, your week, or even your year, but I'll be here for you.

"I am guessing that it hasn't been your day, your week, or even your year"

Priceless!

Actually, as much as I bitch and rant here, I am lucky in that most of my days are filled with extraordinary wonder at the universe and goodness. Mostly I rant because I want others to throw off the shackles that they willingly have put on, so that they can experience the same (mostly) unending bliss that I do.

Jonathan Livingston Seagull?
Have you been listening to Pacific Garden Mission again? (or whatever the fundy church is that sponsors the radio show 'unshackled')

But the part I don't understand is why anyone would watch South Park. Wouldn't a frontal lobotomy be just as enjoyable?

:shrug:

damned funny!! And it is never PC, and that is enjoyable sometimes. :)

about something or other, but then make up, and then Joey says something stupid and they all laugh at him. Oh, and there's a joke about how they thought Chandler was gay. That one was a classic.

Now that little phenomenon I have never understood. Just not my cup of tea.

myself included.

that NEVER missed the show, even the reruns (which means that she watched at least 4 eps daily at that time, and i had to sit through all of them...)

ironically, the moment she finds someone new, she renounces the show and hasn't watched it since

She must have loved to torture you!! Although I wouldn't consider it torture!! :P

I watched one episode when it first came out, was underwhelmed, and never watched it again until several years later, when I was at Thanksgiving dinner at a home where the hostess just HAD TO watch it, no matter that she had six guests in the house.

It hadn't improved since the first season.

I think it was the constant hype that made it a "hit."

As far as Seinfeld is concerned, it appeals to the type of New Yorker or New Yorker-wannabe who thinks endlessly that obsessing over trivia (especially trivia about one's self) is an endearing trait rather than a trait that gives New Yorkers a bad name. (I'm speaking as one who lived within commuting distance of New York for nine years, and while I loved many aspects of it, the self-absorbed types who insist on regaling you at length with the details of how they couldn't choose which of two pairs of shoes to buy were one of the features of the area that I'm just as glad to be without, thank you.)