Joey falling in love with Rachel was absolute nonsense!

IvySlayer

I never liked Mike...much prefer David and Phoebe, Mike was a bit...bland for me!

bodhrandude

Another episode that sticks out for me is when they all go on holiday I think, Rachel's sister is in this one and to get back at Ross she suggests to her sister to become a skinhead. The Joey silly walk scene and Chandler exclaiming 'Are you actually saying these words.' Chandler locked in the atm with the hot girl and eating someone else's old chewing gum and choking.

iguana

Tell me how wrote: »

It's not cerebral, at all,

Not cerebral? Did you see the last episode? :eek:

Tell me how

iguana wrote: »

Not cerebral? Did you see the last episode? :eek:

Goddam it. Yes. That was completely off radar but if people watch that and then watch any other episode, looking for the same, it won't make sense.

That was one episode out of 144 which really only made sense if you had watched the previous 143.

LorelliPop!

The Ugly Naked Guy thing kind of reminds of a situation with a poster on here! No offense Chore Sex Guy!!

Franz Von Peppercorn

iguana wrote: »

Not cerebral? Did you see the last episode? :eek:

Do you mean schmaltz? I mean t last episode of IASIP was the most schmaltzy episode of any comedy I remember. Probably they have enough cynicism banked to get away with but I have just watched a few recent seasons so it didn’t work for me.

Tell me how

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

Do you mean schmaltz? I mean t last episode of IASIP was the most schmaltzy episode of any comedy I remember. Probably they have enough cynicism banked to get away with but I have just watched a few recent seasons so it didn’t work for me.

Can't agree with that. It was totally a different take to all the rest of them but it was pulled off with a high level of quality. Plus, it tied in what was pretty much a 10 year + storyline.

iguana

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

Do you mean schmaltz? I mean t last episode of IASIP was the most schmaltzy episode of any comedy I remember. Probably they have enough cynicism banked to get away with but I have just watched a few recent seasons so it didn’t work for me.

There was no schmaltz. There was a character who takes himself insanely seriously while also dealing with insane levels of denial about himself, his emotionally abusive father and his religion and has been the continuous butt of the joke because of this. Deciding to express himself through an incredibly artistic form of dance in a highly inappropriate location. And the audience was left waiting for a devastating joke that never came. It was possibly the most cerebral episode of anything ever.

Tell me how

iguana wrote: »

There was no schmaltz. There was a character who takes himself insanely seriously while also dealing with insane levels of denial about himself, his emotionally abusive father and his religion and has been the continuous butt of the joke because of this. Deciding to express himself through a incredibly artistic form of dance in an highly inappropriate location. And the audience was left waiting for a devastating joke that never came. It was possibly the most cerebral episode of anything ever.

Plus the fact that Rob McElhenney trained specifically to perform the final scene himself with no stand in or green screen or whatever. I thought that was class dedication to the character.

Franz Von Peppercorn

iguana wrote: »

There was no schmaltz. There was a character who takes himself insanely seriously while also dealing with insane levels of denial about himself, his emotionally abusive father and his religion and has been the continuous butt of the joke because of this. Deciding to express himself through an incredibly artistic form of dance in a highly inappropriate location. And the audience was left waiting for a devastating joke that never came. It was possibly the most cerebral episode of anything ever.

Riiiight. Jesus you may want to watch a documentary or two.

iguana

Tell me how wrote: »

Plus the fact that Rob McElhenney trained specifically to perform the final scene himself with no stand in or green screen or whatever. I thought that was class dedication to the character.

The same guy who piled on about 4 stone for the fat Mac jokes in season 7. He has an insane level of dedication to the show. I do understand why people didn't like the last episode though. I've never laughed so hard at any show that I have at Sunny. When it's on fire there have been times I've genuinely come close to throwing up from laughing so hard. And then it closes off it's 13th season with 5 minutes of straight up interpretive dance and no punchline. That takes a bizarre level of balls and not everyone will appreciate it.

goose2005

Woke Hogan wrote: »

Nobody can ever name a single moment they actually laughed out loud at Friends.

hatrickpatrick

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

A very simple line that always gets me: Chandler saying to Pete the Millionaire as he’s leaving “You’re OUR age”.

And from the same episode: “Either that or else Gloria Estefan was right. Eventually the rhythm IS going to get you.”

The Pete storyline was hilarious and often overlooked in my experience. The exchange with him and Ross when he sees his first UFC challenger, this absolutely massive 300lbs tank of a lad:

Pete: Oh don't worry, Coach taught me how to use an opponent's strength and weight against him.
Ross: Wow, well then that guy is in some serious, serious trouble

eyerer

bodhrandude wrote: »

Another episode that sticks out for me is when they all go on holiday I think, Rachel's sister is in this one and to get back at Ross she suggests to her sister to become a skinhead.

That was Rachel's sister? :O

Tell me how

eyerer wrote: »

That was Rachel's sister? :O

No. That was Ross' ex.
Rachel's sister was the one who got their child's ears pierced.

Just to make people feel old. The girl who played their daughter is gonna be 18 next year.

The Rape of Lucretia

"Now imagine your vagina is opening like a flower."

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Scene that was cut shorty after the 9/11 attacks would heve been interesting had they aired it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p5i7lu2pGQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p5i7lu2pGQ

The Rape of Lucretia

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/friends-episodes-best-worst-ranked-all-the-one-where-a8802291.html

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

The Pete storyline was hilarious and often overlooked in my experience. The exchange with him and Ross when he sees his first UFC challenger, this absolutely massive 300lbs tank of a lad:

Pete: Oh don't worry, Coach taught me how to use an opponent's strength and weight against him.
Ross: Wow, well then that guy is in some serious, serious trouble

And when the other fighter picks Pete up and he just goes “Uh oh.”.

LorelliPop!

Hand twins

DEFTLEFTHAND

The 1990s were probably the last of the great liberal times. You could laugh and joke about everybody and everything without the fear of shunment and scorn.

It was a great time to be alive. No thought crime penalties.


The culture is so different today, so conservative and stuffy. All the weirdies have taken over.


We truly are living in the era of the Nerd's Revenge.

ceadaoin.

goose2005 wrote: »

Doing lunges reminds me of this scene. is that weird?

DeanAustin

LorelliPop! wrote: »

Hand twins

Thought that along with speaking French and shark porn were some of the absolute lowlights of the series. Garbage.

The first few seasons were outstanding, the rest very watchable. Chandler was brilliant until they paired him up with Monica. Ross really took over after that as the funniest character.

Love Seinfeld and Frasier too as well as Cheers. All great, great comedies in different ways. The writing in Seinfeld in particular is out of the world.

Abel Ruiz

Eddie "See ya pals"

Church on Tuesday

I've never watched a full episode of Friends.

jpm4

That episode where Joey's character in Days of our Lives gets a brain transplant from another character.

"Don't you recognise your own.... MOTHER?"

Always cracks me up!

punisher5112

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

I've never watched a full episode of Friends.

That's easy to say as you never watched the clip after the credits....

Gimme A Pound

Woke Hogan wrote: »

I’m not trying to “hold power” over anyone, you can pretend to find Friends as funny as you like.

I don’t even think it’s such a bad programme, my wife used to watch it when it was first on. But it’s not a funny programme and never laugh out loud funny.

You didn't find it funny, you never laughed out loud. This does not mean everyone else's experience was the exact same as yours.

Lone Stone wrote: »

Rachel was a whore !!!

Joey was a whore !!!

applehunter wrote: »

Friends was was liberal propaganda with a laugh track.

Lol, not far back people said it was racist, sexist and homophobic.

Making it neither assessment. And it certainly wasn't politically correct.

McDermotX

Teen Joey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w75MAwDO5M

Outlaw Pete

Plenty of laugh out loud moments in Friends.

Hard to believe it's been almost 25 years since it first aired.

I'd say Joey was my favourite character.

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