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Listen Up...American Sitcom 'Friends' Is Objectively Terrible
Far Out Magazine ^ | FRI 6TH MAY 2022 | Mick McStarkey

Posted on 05/06/2022 2:40:25 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 05/06/2022 2:40:25 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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You cannot deny that Friends is perhaps the most iconic TV show of all time. ...
Why not, Mick? I can and I do.
2 posted on 05/06/2022 2:43:25 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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I never really got into Friends. I think I enjoy Friends memes than I do the original show.


3 posted on 05/06/2022 2:43:50 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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The best part about friends was Courtney Cox. Other than that and the song smelly cat, I didn’t really care for it. My other family members liked it, so I’d end up watching it.


4 posted on 05/06/2022 2:47:36 PM PDT by jacknhoo ( Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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“Friends—“ the most iconic television show of all time? Not Milton Berle, “I Love Lucy,” “Get Smart,” “ Star Trek,” “Gunsmoke,” SNL, The Tonight Show, “MASH,” “Cheers,” or a host of others? A very limited, millennial perspective.


5 posted on 05/06/2022 2:48:20 PM PDT by I-ambush (We watched the moment of defeat, played back over on the video screen. )
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I was just going to say, “Smelly Cat” is the only thing I remember from that show.


6 posted on 05/06/2022 2:48:56 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Unwatchable drek about the type of people I’ve made it my life’s mission to avoid.


7 posted on 05/06/2022 2:50:29 PM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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Of course it sucked. It was bland comfort TV designed to go down easy and not cause a commotion. Goodness or badness don't really come into it.

Let me put in a good word, though, for Mad About You, another Seinfeld era NYC sitcom that I sort of liked back in the day.

8 posted on 05/06/2022 2:50:49 PM PDT by x
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Never seen it, never will.


9 posted on 05/06/2022 2:52:04 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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IIRC, Seinfeld anchored the Thursday night line up. Everyone watched Seinfeld, by far more iconic than Friends, and kept the TV on to watch the rest. I forget if Friends was before or after Seinfeld.


10 posted on 05/06/2022 2:52:13 PM PDT by GreatRoad ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act' )
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I was briefly attracted to the show for the same reason as most other males: Jennifer Aniston was hot. I was repulsed from the show for the same reason as most other males: Jennifer Aniston was a knucklehead.

Some things never change...


11 posted on 05/06/2022 2:52:59 PM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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Oh for Pete’s sake. Friends is now going to be analyzed by an intellectually superior critic? Friends was funny, sometimes hilarious. It wasn’t the best evahh, but it was perfect for the time. I didn’t love it, but I liked it. I don’t care much for retrospective critics.


12 posted on 05/06/2022 2:54:18 PM PDT by SE Mom (Screaming Eagle Mom)
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I bet this guy is fun at parties.


13 posted on 05/06/2022 2:55:29 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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Seinfeld was better and most consider it better.


14 posted on 05/06/2022 2:56:13 PM PDT by EEGator
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I Love Lucy will always be the greatest TV Sitcom ever.


15 posted on 05/06/2022 2:57:54 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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I’m pleased to say that I never watched a single episode of Friends. Sitcoms as a genre are not my thing, but Friends seemed pointless to me. Shrug.


16 posted on 05/06/2022 2:58:10 PM PDT by Avalon Memories (Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats. -- P.J. O’Rourke)
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I guess my life has been meaningless, since I never bothered to watch it.


17 posted on 05/06/2022 2:58:25 PM PDT by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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Mick sounds like he’s about 20 years behind......he need to ketchup....


18 posted on 05/06/2022 2:59:10 PM PDT by Gaffer
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Believe it or not - I never watched it.
I was extremely busy that decade.
19 posted on 05/06/2022 3:00:11 PM PDT by GaltAdonis ( )
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Frasier was better. Cheers was better. Everybody loves Raymond was better


20 posted on 05/06/2022 3:00:26 PM PDT by Fai Mao (I think we need more telephone poles!)
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