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I watched it during the early years (94-97 or so)- it was fading way back when I stopped watching.

I mean, the whole concept was "the years between when you leave college and enter the real world". Sadly, what was funny when the characters were supposed to be in the early to mid 20's became less funny when they all neared forty.

That's the message of the show, so far as I can tell: settle down when you're forty.

I did end up catching last week's epsisode when it re-aired last night (through no fault of my own- we were waiting to watch Angel) and just... yuck.

There's a moment in that episode where Monica cries out, "Grandma liked it rough!" which just made me want to puke.

Mostly because, if you go back to the original episodes of Friends from 1994, the decline in American values is evident- even from the low state they were at that time. Yuck.

IMHO, the best shows on TV would be: Angel (sadly leaving but, in its own way, the most pessimisticaly conservative show on TV), Scrubs, Arrested Development (the funniest new show in years- the "Fire Sale" scene in the second episode was the funniest thing I've seen on TV in, well...), and perhaps the Gilmore Girls.