Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

Friends comeback ?

Options
«13

Comments

  • Options
    #2
    skimpydoo
    Registered Users Posts: 4,872 ✭✭✭skimpydoo


    SureYWouldntYa wrote: »
    http://www.starmedia.us/entertainment/nbc-confirms-friends-new-comeback-season-reunion.html

    If this is true it will only ruin the legacy of one of the best shows of all time

    Sorry to burst your bubble but it's not in a million years one of the best shows ever.


  • Options
    #3
    tim3000
    Registered Users Posts: 555 ✭✭✭tim3000


    SureYWouldntYa wrote: »
    http://www.starmedia.us/entertainment/nbc-confirms-friends-new-comeback-season-reunion.html

    If this is true it will only ruin the legacy of one of the best shows of all time

    As far as I know its not true I could be wrong but apparently that is the only site running that story. I hope its not true.


  • Options
    #4
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,773 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    SureYWouldntYa wrote: »
    http://www.starmedia.us/entertainment/nbc-confirms-friends-new-comeback-season-reunion.html

    If this is true it will only ruin the legacy of one of the best shows of all time


    Don't hold your breath a rumour like this surfaces every couple of months, it's not going to happen.


  • Options
    #5
    kneemos
    Registered Users Posts: 20,414 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    The only reason I looked at it was for Jennifer Anistons boobs,I would still watch it.


  • Options
    #6
    squonk
    Registered Users Posts: 8,719 ✭✭✭squonk


    Early on I think it was funny but that didn't last long and it seriously outstayed its welcome. It was largely a crappy enough show and I was delighted to see the back of it. Don't want to see a comeback. In any case, most of them have moved on to bigger, better things so might not want to look back!


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #7
    blatantrereg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,743 ✭✭✭blatantrereg


    kneemos wrote: »
    The only reason I looked at it was for Jennifer Anistons boobs,I would still watch it.
    I think she was the reason most guys watched it! She still looks good, and the others' self-valuations must have deflated by now [their huge fee demands were what led to the show being cancelled before] - so why not have another season.


  • Options
    #8
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,773 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    squonk wrote: »
    Early on I think it was funny but that didn't last long and it seriously outstayed its welcome. It was largely a crappy enough show and I was delighted to see the back of it. Don't want to see a comeback. In any case, most of them have moved on to bigger, better things so might not want to look back!


    To be fair none of them hit the heights of fame they were hoping to hit after Friends ended and seeing how towards the end of the last series they were being paid a million an episode each you could see why they would go back.

    But they won't go back, the show is best left where it is.


  • Options
    #9
    FloatingVoter
    Registered Users Posts: 6,133 ✭✭✭FloatingVoter


    I could only see a one-off if it were to happen (probably minus Aniston and Cox). Perhaps the property bubble bursts and they're all living in a tenement surviving on cold soup and beans. Phoebe has gone on to be a multizillion selling megastar but still supports Ross's crack habit. The balloon crash that killed Rachel and Monica still haunts Joey (as he was the one that escaped with his life although he lost any feeling below the waist).


  • Options
    #10
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    lockie1983 wrote: »
    To be fair none of them hit the heights of fame they were hoping to hit after Friends ended and seeing how towards the end of the last series they were being paid a million an episode each you could see why they would go back.

    But they won't go back, the show is best left where it is.

    To be fair, I think Matthew Perry, David Schwimmer, and Courtney Cox have moved on to do things they enjoy more -
    Perry has gotten to show his actin ability in shows like West Wing, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, and Go On.
    David Scwimmer got to direct Run Fatboy Run, which was surprisingly good, and even show he can act pretty well in Band of Brothers.
    And Cox eventually moved into another successful TV show.

    Granted none of them are as famous as they used to be, but I much prefer the way they are now.


  • Options
    #11
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,773 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    NBC and Friends creators have released a statement confirming there will be NO comeback for Friends.

    And with that this Thread can R.I.P. until the next rumour due in a few months :)


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #12
    kneemos
    Registered Users Posts: 20,414 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    lockie1983 wrote: »
    NBC and Friends creators have released a statement confirming there will be NO comeback for Friends.

    And with that this Thread can R.I.P. until the next rumour due in a few months :)

    The facts will never stop a good rumour.


  • Options
    #13
    Technocentral
    Registered Users Posts: 6,101 ✭✭✭Technocentral


    Ronan Leonard wrote: »
    Sorry to burst your bubble but it's not in a million years one of the best shows ever.

    Too true, its contemporaries like Seinfeld and Frasier wiped the floor with it.


  • Options
    #14
    colly_06
    Registered Users Posts: 757 ✭✭✭colly_06


    Ronan Leonard wrote: »
    Sorry to burst your bubble but it's not in a million years one of the best shows ever.

    50314_288865372137_2985807_n.jpg


  • Options
    #15
    Also Starring LeVar Burton
    Registered Users Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    Courtney Cox has Cougar Town
    Matthew Perry has Go On
    David Schwimmer has his behind the camera stuff
    Lisa Kudrow and Matt Le Blanc both had cable shows (not sure if they still do, but 'twas recently enough)
    Jennifer Aniston is doing pretty good in the Hollywood roles
    and all of the cast and creators have openly said in interviews that the show ended how they wanted to, so there was no reason for a reunion...
    not to mention given the current state of NBC, they would not be able to pay any of them...

    Its not gonna happen anytime soon...


  • Options
    #16
    Richard Dower
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    Reunion rumours have now been nixed, thread closed: http://www.eonline.com/news/408841/friends-reunion-will-never-ever-happen-says-co-creator-marta-kauffman


  • Options
    #17
    Go Harvey Go
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,038 ✭✭✭Go Harvey Go


    SureYWouldntYa wrote: »
    http://www.starmedia.us/entertainment/nbc-confirms-friends-new-comeback-season-reunion.html

    If this is true it will only ruin the legacy of one of the best shows of all time

    Where does Frasier come, then? ;)

    Richard Dower wrote: »
    Reunion rumours have now been nixed, thread closed: http://www.eonline.com/news/408841/friends-reunion-will-never-ever-happen-says-co-creator-marta-kauffman

    Then how come I'm able to make this post? :confused::D


  • Options
    #18
    SuperInfinity
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,449 ✭✭✭SuperInfinity


    I've always felt Friends was a bit lame at times, certainly not one of the best shows of all time for me. Barely worth watching a lot of the time tbh. There are so many better comedies than it, I could never work out people's love of it, it was never that funny for me. If anything the characters were what made it watchable.


  • Options
    #19
    kneemos
    Registered Users Posts: 20,414 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    SuperInfinity wrote: »
    I've always felt Friends was a bit lame at times, certainly not one of the best shows of all time for me. Barely worth watching a lot of the time tbh. There are so many better comedies than it, I could never work out people's love of it, it was never that funny for me. If anything the characters were what made it watchable.

    Joey added a lot to it.


  • Options
    #20
    IvySlayer
    Registered Users Posts: 17,187 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    I'm not saying is the best show written ever, but I think it's funny. Doesn't stop people trying to be cool and saying they don't like it.


  • Options
    #21
    SuperInfinity
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,449 ✭✭✭SuperInfinity


    IvySlayer wrote: »
    I'm not saying is the best show written ever, but I think it's funny. Doesn't stop people trying to be cool and saying they don't like it.

    Or maybe they just... yeknow... don't like it that much and didn't from when they were 12.
    kneemos wrote: »
    Joey added a lot to it.

    yeah I think all the main characters were good, though Rachel was always a bit weak for me and I don't like the actress (though I know others do).


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #22
    walshb
    Registered Users Posts: 54,944 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    I won't tune in. The show died the minute Chandler and Monica go together. Chandler's character was no longer the same. He was pretty much the only real comedy actor. Superb. The others paled in comparison. Rachel and Phoebe being extras. I could watch every scene with Chandler in the first 4 seasons. He was just so brilliant.


  • Options
    #23
    aSligoDub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 95 ✭✭aSligoDub


    squonk wrote: »
    Early on I think it was funny but that didn't last long and it seriously outstayed its welcome. It was largely a crappy enough show and I was delighted to see the back of it. Don't want to see a comeback. In any case, most of them have moved on to bigger, better things so might not want to look back!

    It jumped the shark when joey and boob girl got together.


  • Options
    #24
    phasers
    Registered Users Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    you guys are all crazy, Ross Geller was one of the greatest comedy characters of all time.

    official friends power rankings:

    Ross
    Chandler
    Monica
    Joey
    Rachel
    Phoebe


  • Options
    #25
    FloatingVoter
    Registered Users Posts: 6,133 ✭✭✭FloatingVoter


    Smelly Cat, Smelly Cat,
    What are they feeding you?
    Smelly Cat, Smelly Cat
    It's not your fault

    (C) Phoebe

    eat your heart out, Lennon and McCartney


  • Options
    #26
    Richard Dower
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    aSligoDub wrote: »
    It jumped the shark when joey and boob girl got together.


    :confused: - pics or GTFO!


  • Options
    #27
    Richard Dower
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    FloatingVoter wrote: »
    Smelly Cat, Smelly Cat,
    What are they feeding you?
    Smelly Cat, Smelly Cat
    It's not your fault

    (C) Phoebe

    eat your heart out, Lennon and McCartney

    Yes, yes....shirley a modern day classic

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7jlGRq8xZ4


  • Options
    #28
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    aSligoDub wrote: »
    It jumped the shark when joey and boob girl got together.

    Boob girl?


  • Options
    #29
    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Boob girl?

    th?id=H.5064342899328552&pid=15.1


  • Options
    #30
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Ohh.. thought it was that Elle Macpherson person.


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #31
    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    To be fair to Friends, it only struggled in the last couple of seasons due to fatigue. The limit of the characters' personalities had basically been explored and exploited, and coupled with constant reruns of the older series, they were more of the same and not particularly funny.

    If you watch the last 2/3 series in isolation now, they're easily as good as the earlier stuff. The first series actually looks really poor and dated now - cheap jokes and bizarre storylines with no character progression - but that's typically the case with most sitcoms when they get the green light to do more than ten episodes.

    The series will be ten years finished next year. At best they may go for a one-off hour-long special, but I think that's unlikely. It would be seen for what it is - a lazy attempt to rake in some easy cash - and would probably ruin the legacy of what many people consider to be the best sitcom of the 90s.


Advertisement