Posted on 01/15/2018 4:30:05 PM PST by EdnaMode
Ahh, Friends. The US sitcom that took over the world.
Millennials may look back fondly to the heady days of the ultimate 20-something Manhattan lifestyle enjoyed by our favourite flatmates - Monica, Ross, Chandler, Joey, Rachel and Phoebe.
But nearly a quarter of a century - yikes! - since the show began, a new generation of fans are discovering the hit show for the first time on Netflix. And some of them are clearly finding it a bit uncomfortable.
christina @cxorlando There is nothing I hate more than Ross in the male nanny episode of Friends. He is SO SEXIST AND HOMOPHOBIC and I just want to jump into the tv and strangle him 4:30 PM - Jan 8, 2018
Another found herself not enjoying the show as much second time around.
Christine Carr @ChristineCarr Replying to @thepooluk and 2 others I was a uni student in the 90s so looked forward to rewatching Friends on Netflix over New Year. But I agree - the ‘fat Monica’ and ‘gay Chandler’ ‘jokes’ feel very out of place now. And was Joey *always* that bit creepy? Disappointing. 3:20 AM - Jan 4, 2018
Freelance writer James Baldock, who wrote about the Friends issue in Metro, told BBC News the backlash against Friends "was inevitable". "People my age tend to think of Friends as 'current', but it's as steeped in nostalgia as, say, Miami Vice was 10 or 15 years ago."
Writer Rebecca Reid told BBC Radio 5 live she "couldn't believe how badly it has aged".
"The homophobia is staggering - the punchline of every joke about Ross is that his ex-wife is a lesbian, as if that's some failing of his and that it's hilarious that she's a lesbian.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Bingo. Of course, at my age, it’s taken for granted!
Where’s the diversity? You can bet if Friends were made today, it would be 2 white people, max.
We’d have to get the cardiac paddles for them
if they watched “I Dream of Jeannie”!!
“...They’d probably have a stroke watching “Three’s Company”....”
Yep. IF we’re sure it would outright kill a whole bunch of em, we need to get it back on the air ASAP.....LOL
**Married with Children**!!
Ah-hahaha!!!!!
Already writ large and long - see Stalin:
Yezhov. Trotsky. Kamenev.
Cultural Communism: They can always be trusted not to be trusted; the more pure will always eat the less pure.
Lock them all in a room with their eyelids pried open, a la A Clockwork Orange, and make them watch marathon sessions of the Dean Martin Roasts.
#friendstoo
I am binge watching the BBC show called EPISODES which has Joey as the star. It’s pretty hilarious about a writing team taking their British hit tv show to America and then having it all changed to accommodate the network. It’s also an inside look into the television network industry.
Those would cause these people to have a stroke.
Especially the one with the late Don Rickles.
"I'm Jewish; Dean, you're Italian; Sammy [Davis, Jr.], you're black . . . I'm sorry!"
imagine Soap... 
Strangers with Candy. Co-Written by Stephen Colbert. Still hilarious to this day.
i've not seen that, will have to look into it
I’m feeling old.
I think it’s the pilot where Hawkeyes calls Spearchucker Spearchucker. My jaw dropped, though I’m sure I saw it decades ago.
OH yeah.
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