I was watching the episode with Rachel and Joshua at Joshua's house yesterday. The one with John Bennett Perry.
I wasn't watching it closely but when Matthew's dad came in to the room and said "I like her, she seems smart" I could have sworn it was Matthew Perry. It was something I never noticed before and it was kinda nice.
Sure, Monica wasn't technically doing anything wrong since they weren't a couple yet, but in reality, could anyone really get over that so fast? How would you have dealt with finding that out?
I’ve aged into a Ross fan and have come to love his character, but this scene obviously gives me the total icks. Which I know is not a hot take! Is there anything else even in the same league as icky as this as this in the series? Nothing else is standing out in my current rewatch
Edit: just to clarify — I wouldn’t even necessarily change the bit because it’s funny. All I’m saying is that it is also icky. If you disagree with that, alrighty.
I’m 34 years old and I just started rewatching Friends from season 1 for the millionth time. The second that opening guitar riff hits I’m immediately transported back to being 15 years old, staying up way too late, laughing with my siblings.
Everything about it feels like comfort food. The ugly sweaters, the giant phones, the Central Perk couch, Monica’s insanely clean apartment, the way they all just… hung out with each other constantly with zero plans.
It’s wild how a show from the late 90s/early 2000s still hits this hard. No phones, no social media, just six friends living their messy lives in New York. I miss that simpler vibe so much.
What’s your most nostalgic Friends moment? For me it’s the opening credits in season 1-2 with the fountain, or literally any Thanksgiving episode.
Who else is guilty of rewatching this show every year like clockwork?
Who did Chandler’s coworker want to set him up with when she thought he was gay?
Who does she say is out of Chandler’s league?
Bonus Question: What did Ross and Monica’s Nana used to steal from restaurants and their home?
Watching again after many years, and the change after Monica and chandler get together is insane. In part they both get quite shrill, but Monica is unbearable. Why did they divert her into a bossy, sharp screeching neurotic fun sucker? She was so comfy and personable before.
I just don’t get it.
Not big emotional scenes or famous moments.
I mean those tiny throwaway jokes.
Mine is Joey saying “Ross bruises like a peach, he bruises like a peach.” Still stupidly funny 😂
What random line gets you every time?
I remember thinking it was no biggie but my sister disagreed and Ross was embarrassed when Gunther told him he wasn't invited. Which was hilarious "Then... we'll see you the day after the wedding" LMAO David Schwimmer is so good with combining awkward as hell with comedy. So funny. But how do you feel about this?
I’ve heard talk that the original plan for the season 5 finale was for Chandler to cheat on Monica, but Matthew Perry refused to do it because he believed that the audience would never forgive Chandler for doing that. If he had actually done it, and even if he did put the work in to get back together with her, would you guy have forgiven him, or would the betrayal forever change who he is in your eyes?
I have noticed that all 6 friends are more mature during the first 2 seasons. The characters felt like real, struggling twenty-somethings in New York. By the later seasons, they often felt like cartoonish versions of themselves. Don't get me wrong, I do like the show, apart from the last season, and I do appreciate the comical aspect, but I cannot stop wandering what the show would feel like if this "cartoonization" of the characters had not happened. The first 2-3 seasons are my favorites, not only because of the way the cinematography looks (the filters they use on the film give such a retro-comfort vibe), but also because of this sophistication I mentioned.
Take for example Joey: he is cute and sweet during the fist seasons, but he is not clueless and dumb. On the contrary, he has some very good sarcastic lines. Monica: she starts as organized, determined and driven, but ends up as deranged and so competitive that ridicules herself. Phoebe starts as a cute, quirky character and ends up as mean-spirited some times. Ross starts as a mature, a bit geeky, down to earth person and he ends up as an immature, neurotic person.
Have you noticed this, or am I the only one who feels this way?
Just got to know Rachel popularised this statement. What are other such phrases by this show, as a few days ago I made the post about how Grey's Anatomy has given "pick me" and "you are my person"
What’s your Ultimate Favorite Sentence/Quote/Line Ever From Friends. Whoever said it or from whomever it comes… ✌🏼☺️
I’ve talked about this before, but there’s a whole archive out there of behind-the-scenes stuff from 90s TV shows. Specifically the friends cast. It was kind of the first time in TV history that this stuff became readily available. A lot of stuff is hidden actually, maybe because cast members have very aggressive PR teams. So it’s very cool to uncover some of this stuff
I decided to create my very own tv show experience.. I may have gotten a little bit carried away.
I'm curious to hear all your opinions!
Overall for the final season of the show, what is your overall take on season 10?
I'm not entirely sure what's the right trope for this so I've listed a few different related tropes: Watsonian vs Doylist explanations, The Anthropic Principle, Theory of Narrative Causality, Law of Conservation of Detail. All of these tropes deal with explanations for why things happen in stories.
While all stories are affected by these, I was wondering what the most blatant examples in the Friends storyline are. I've seen some recurring threads on topics that seem to circle around this motivation.
The biggest one is probably the "Will They Or Won't They" relationship between Ross and Rachel. The storyline has them behave in some toxic, frustrating, and illogical ways. In the years since, people have become more critical of the relationship and what it represents.
I suppose the in-universe reason for such a long storyline is that Ross and Rachel were both immature, prideful, and constantly had bad timing.
But at the end of the day, the Out-Of-Universe explanation from the writers seemed to be a matter of "Settling down is boring, it's more interesting and fun if there's conflict." So the writers tried to keep Ross and Rachel apart because they felt the chemistry was better.
If I recall, some of the writers even had a planned plotline where Chandler would cheat on Monica but it was shut down because Matthew Perry thought the audience wouldn't forgive Chandler. Ultimately, the Chandler and Monica relationship became a more stable foil to the Ross-and-Rachel dynamic. It had arguably become more well-liked as the years have gone on.
Overall, I can see how the writers had the motivation of inserting conflict to make things more interesting, but it also had the effect of audiences judging the characters and their flaws as individuals.
What are some examples you can think of?
Which episodes are your favourite? I like seeing which ones people pick! If it’s a good one, I’ll stick it on 😛
She always revealed something extremely personal that someone has shared with her making sure that she doesn’t tell that to anybody and right when the entire Gang is there, She lets that information slip and then like acts all guilty like she mistakenly did that, but every single time it was well planned and well thought because she knew that that would cause chaos and that’s the most F up part.
And I feel like Monica faced most of this with Richard’s name or her bachelorette party having wanting to have sex with Joey,Instead of Chandler. I feel she deliberately wanted to sabotage Monica and Chandler‘s relationship multiple times.
If you can think of more examples please add on:
I can say with absolute certainty I love all 6 of the main characters, and seeing post after post trashing them (Usually Ross and Phoebe) gets so old. Please tell me other people like all 6 of them. I think they're all great even if there are times I don't like their actions.
