Posted on 05/06/2022 2:40:25 PM PDT by nickcarraway
“I’d also point out that Pheobe is a rip-off of Woody from Cheers and/or Rose from Golden Girls”
Saw an interview where Jon Lovitz, who was a lifelong friend of Lisa Kudrow’s older brother, said Kudrow’s character Phoebe was a total copy of Kudrow’s older sister.
He said he told Kudrow during the first season of Friends that he could tell she was imitating her older sister, and she begged him not to tell anyone.
Never watched a whole episode. Saved myself 236 episodes worth of time.
I may have watched parts of two or three episodes, but there must have something better elsewhere to look at. Usually it was a magazine.
Note that the reviewer was a foreigner, without the breadth of better US shows to watch.
Never saw it. From the commercials it looked idiotic. I never missed an episode of Seinfeld though. Now that show was iconic and hilarious. They may all be lefties but they knew how to do comedy.
Show was targeted to those born after 1980 or so. Same formula, different era. Other ensemble shows targeting demographic categories....dick van dyke, Mary Tyler Moore, Seinfeld, I love Lucy, 90210, etc...etc..
Most iconic for it’s fans...which is , um, like, expected. Basically, a successful(?)derivative show....WRGAS? In 20 years when the fans are dealing with disease, job shrinkage, family issues, the show will be barely remembered. The stars memories will be on click bait sites, asking whatever happened to David Schwimmer?
“Friends” accelerated the cultural rot.
Stopped watching most TV then.
“helped by what Francis Fukuyama famously hailed as ‘The End of History’, where Western-style liberal democracy had triumphed over its great enemy, the Communist Soviet Union, and asserted hegemony over the world.”
I thought the same back then. Yes, we got rid of the Communist Soviet Union, but we sure as hell didn’t get rid of communism - it’s resurfaced with a vengeance here in the US.
Sorry, I never could get into Mad About You.
“Cheers”, “Seinfeld”, “Catch 22” - those were great, smart comedies.
“Friends” was trash.
67 posts before someone mentioned Bob Newhart’s comedy shows. Better than Friends.
“Unwatchable drek about the type of people I’ve made it my life’s mission to avoid.”
👍👍 - couldn’t agree more.
Mash was better.
Never watched a single episode. That was the decade I was routinely working 72 hour weeks, so a lot of pop culture from that period is a blur.
CC
Frasier was great. I loved Niles.
You cannot deny that Friends is perhaps the most iconic TV show of all time. The NBC sitcom ran for ten seasons between 1994 and 2004, and over its decade-long run, it had many of us rapt.
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It’s reran here several times a day and I have never watched a single episode. (original nor rerun)
And even funnier than “Everybody Loves Raymond”is the out-takes from that show. Go on youtube sometime. It will make your guts hurt .
CC
“Show was targeted to those born after 1980 or so!”
Our off spring, nieces, nephews, younger cousins born before the 1980’s had and still have great work standards and values. They didn’t care for the show then, nor now. Ironically, many of the guys were and still are Bart Simpson fans.
My wife and I have watched and re watched most of the Brit’s murder mystery show series. We still watch reruns, that we could probably write or recall a lot of the talking lines.
Recently, we started watching Rockford Files, re runs, which I liked and my wife didn’t. She enjoys them now. The reverse with old Perry Mason shows. I like them now.
The beauty of streaming is getting to watch shows when we want to not at some specific time on a specific week day.
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