Joey falling in love with Rachel was absolute nonsense!

Achasanai · 26-04-2019 07:57AM

First few seasons were great: genuinely laugh-at-loud (in places) and realistic (for a light-hearted comedy) characters.

Went to pot around season 4, possibly around the Ross saying Rachel's name at his wedding or whenever the characters started becoming caricatures of themselves. In fairness, though, very few shows can last beyond 3 or 4 seasons.

Necro · 26-04-2019 08:02AM

Woke Hogan wrote:

Iâ€™m not trying to â€œhold powerâ€ over anyone, you can pretend to find Friends as funny as you like.

Sorry muh liege I must submit to your laws on humour. No subjective opinions permitted here, no sirree!

KungPao · 26-04-2019 08:06AM

WHIP IT! wrote: »

Probably because, Costanza and Kramer aside, Seinfeld was pretty sh*t??

No soup for you.

Necro · 26-04-2019 08:08AM

I'd agree overall that Ross was probably the best character, but for the series best run it was actually the double act of Joey and Chandler.

Ross was a depressing wimp until they decided to embrace that part of his character and put him in situations that allowed him to shine.

Joey and Chandler were fantastic and got ruined by Monica (ironically this also tied in with the 'I take thee Rachel' incident).

Rachel was the funniest of the three women, although the competition wasnt very close.

Monica was a shrill, pain in the ass while Phoebe was the annoying type of weird and got worse as the show progressed. Never found either of them funny, but I hated Monica more if possible as I cant forgive her for ruining Chandler.

EagererBeaver · 26-04-2019 08:13AM

A simple test to figure out whether you need to end your friendship with someone is whether or not they find "the one where Joey speaks French" in any way amusing.

If they do, ditch them immediately and burn their memory with fire.

If YOU find it funny, you are an absolute moron.

petes · 26-04-2019 08:18AM

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Anniston had top class norks at the time - can't blame a horndog like Joey getting a belter of a stiffy checking her out.

Thanked for the usage of the word 'norks'

Blazer · 26-04-2019 08:19AM

Anyone that didn't find early seasons of Friends funny are either too young to remember it or are the most boring dry people alive.
I loved Friends..hell I only rewatched it lately on netflix.
I detest 3 and a half men or that Blart show someone mentioned. To even mention friends in the same sentence should be a death penalty.

EagererBeaver · 26-04-2019 08:20AM

Deja Boo wrote: »

Ah c'mon, the French blubbering scene was so much better than Ross'es monkey love scene with the sappy music!

And Smelly Cat, sheesh, my ears could do without Phoebes terrible tunes!

There was nothing funny about the "French" scenes. Mindless ****e (not the only bit in the show obviously, by a long shot) for mindless idiots. As was the "drinking a gallon of milk" follow on piece.

Nikki Sixx · 26-04-2019 08:21AM

Necro wrote: »

I'd agree overall that Ross was probably the best character, but for the series best run it was actually the double act of Joey and Chandler.

Ross was a depressing wimp until they decided to embrace that part of his character and put him in situations that allowed him to shine.

Joey and Chandler were fantastic and got ruined by Monica (ironically this also tied in with the 'I take thee Rachel' incident).

Rachel was the funniest of the three women, although the competition wasnt very close.

Monica was a shrill, pain in the ass while Phoebe was the annoying type of weird and got worse as the show progressed. Never found either of them funny, but I hated Monica more if possible as I cant forgive her for ruining Chandler.

Monica was an awful Character when she was in a relationship with Chandler.

md23040 · 26-04-2019 08:24AM

Danny Devito aka Officer Goodbody strip dancing to Soft Cell's Tainted Love then Sylvester's You make me Feel, was pure comedy gold IMO...

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

Ann22 · 26-04-2019 08:39AM

I rewatch it often as my two sons love it. We never watch an episode without at least one of us laughing at some point. The most recent was Chandler thinking out loud on the date with the woman with the big head..lol!
Most laughs, over all, are from Ross, he has perfect comic timing and is a great physical performer with laugh out loud mannerisms.
Jennifer Aniston is a top class comedy actress also with perfect timing. A joy to watch.
Monica, too shrill and over acts in efforts to be funny. I only laugh at her when she's fat Monica dancing..love those bits.
Don't like Pheoe's character.. not a nice person so never find her funny.
Joey has some good moments too. Loved the bit where he copped on Monica and Chandler were lying about where they were and realised something was going on. The French bit was daft. His stupidity levels fluctuate as sometimes he can be shown to be quite clued in.
Chandler was great until he got together with Monica.

Chancer3001 · 26-04-2019 08:42AM

3 pages and mobody has mentuoned crazy eddie yet.

That lunatic who moved in with Chandler for a few episodes. Funniest thing on the show by a mile

Necro · 26-04-2019 08:44AM

Deja Boo wrote:

Ah no, Turkey head was worst than Joeys milk drinking cv skill... Joey and Chandler were good at physical comedy.

They robbed Turkey head off Mr. Bean

super_furry · 26-04-2019 08:45AM

Why did none of them ever go for Phoebe? Best looking and you just know she'd be animal in the sack.

Ann22 · 26-04-2019 08:50AM

md23040 wrote:

Danny Devito aka Officer Goodbody strip dancing to Soft Cell's Tainted Love then Sylvester's You make me Feel, was pure comedy gold IMO...

Have to love Devito. He has no inhibitions at all...eg as Frank Reynolds greased up inside the sofa in Always Sunny..hahaha!!

elefant · 26-04-2019 09:04AM

ligerdub wrote: »

Off the top of my head the Bruce Willis "Love Machine huuuuuuuuuh" bit, Ross Leather Pants, Russ, Ross bad chat up of the pizza delivery chick, Chandlers OTT boss, chichen pox scratching scene, Rachels sister chastising Ross after turning her down. All crackers. I'm sure there were others.

I can barely watch the chicken pox scratching; it makes my skin crawl

The characters in Friends got so Flanderised in the later seasons that they out-Flanderised Ned Flanders. Joey's levels of stupidity and Monica's levels of obsessiveness in particular just got plain weird.

I still find the later seasons amusing, but all the characters start to seem like more and more awful/disturbed people as the show progresses. Also, Joey and Chandler's insane fixation on porn always strikes me as odd too.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 26-04-2019 09:16AM

Woke Hogan wrote: »

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

What? I can. When Joey came into the apartment wearing all of Chandler’s clothes. Or pretty much any scene with Eddie. And that’s just off the top of my head. I’ve frequently said to hubs “I laughed so hard when I first saw that scene.”.

Nikki Sixx · 26-04-2019 09:17AM

Ann22 wrote: »

Have to love Devito. He has no inhibitions at all...eg as Frank Reynolds greased up inside the sofa in Always Sunny..hahaha!!

For some reason I never realized just how small he was till I saw the friends clip.

Franz Von Peppercorn · 26-04-2019 09:24AM

There’s a young Indian woman in my office, 24 or so, who is watching friends on Netflix and loves it.
She’s seeing it for the first time too.

Netflix is paying that 100M for a reason.

It’s another one of those shows where the haters have a lot of information about a show they hate.

derfderf · 26-04-2019 09:31AM

Phoebe is one of the worst characters ever created, and Chandler should have smacked her for the crap she said about him. Particularly in the last few seasons.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 26-04-2019 09:37AM

Necro wrote: »

Nonsense.

'My Sandwich!'

'Pivot!'

Chandler in the box.

Joey getting locked in the TV unit.

Joey and Chandler sailing through the door of Monica's apartment on the dog statue.

Joey's 'French' audition.

As someone else said, the leather pants, and Hugh Laurie calling Rachel out on the 'break' stuff.

It was funny in the beginning. It did get sh1t at the end.
But it seems to be 'cool' to call 90s stuff awful nowadays for some bizarre reason.

Well no, the French audition was painfully unfunny. But I think that was the last series.

One of the best lines was “Bend over?” from Chandler re: Joey getting locked in the cupboard. There were SO many laugh-out-loud bits. Dunno what that poster is talking about! :pac:

derfderf wrote: »

Phoebe is one of the worst characters ever created, and Chandler should have smacked her for the crap she said about him. Particularly in the last few seasons.

She was good pre-triplets birth. After that she was an unfunny, egotistical bitch.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 26-04-2019 09:59AM

ligerdub wrote: »

Bodhrandude mentions what is almost certainly the funniest moment of this whole show, the Joey choreographer piece*, specifically where he runs out of the room is comedic genius, hall of fame stuff. Say what you want about the undoubted schmaltzy nature of the show, especially towards the end, but there were some absolutely laugh out loud points in this show, no doubt about it.

Off the top of my head the Bruce Willis "Love Machine huuuuuuuuuh" bit, Ross Leather Pants, Russ, Ross bad chat up of the pizza delivery chick, Chandlers OTT boss, chichen pox scratching scene, Rachels sister chastising Ross after turning her down. All crackers. I'm sure there were others.

They weren't all funny though, Ross was almost certainly the funniest character, Phoebe the weakest (just awful). The Rachel Joey story was pure nonsense. There was zero chemistry between them for years, and all of a sudden they couple up out of nowhere, only to knock it on the head and not risk their deep friendship, bollocks.

I felt the worst example of this show was how Rachel got a job in Paris and she decided to take the job and take her child with her without consultation with the father of her child, who also happened to be a friend. Nobody seemed to have any moral quandary with this. Big happy ending when she changed her mind purely because she wanted to get back with Ross, a very selfish determinant factor.

*I'm pretty sure that my Dad happened to catch that scene for some reason, and I dare say he didn't even know what the show was, he was in bits laughing at it.

Ah... well, to be honest, there were lots of moral quandaries on the show if you think about it (one example - Chandler dating a colleague he was supposed to have fired and telling the higher ups that she had mental problems when they asked why she was still there and continuing to date her after that). But it’s best not to bother and just suspend your disbelief. All the characters were pretty selfish at times.

sbsquarepants · 26-04-2019 10:01AM

Friends when it was good, was absolutely hilarious. Haven't watched an episode in years but i'm sure I'd still get a laugh from it. They were all funny enough in places, of them all though I never really took to Monica.

And as for Joey falling in love with Rachel - it's inconceivable that any straight man wouldn't fall in love with her. She must be 50 now and she's still a shockingly beautiful woman, back then she was as close to perfection as I've ever seen!

patmahe · 26-04-2019 10:01AM

Friends was harmless bubble gum for the brain and it was entertaining, hence its popularity. Will it be studied as one of the finest comedies of all time, probably not, but as a money making machine for those behind it I doubt its been beaten.

It did turn to sh!t in the end though.

Deebles McBeebles · 26-04-2019 10:04AM

sbsquarepants wrote: »

And as for Joey falling in love with Rachel - it's inconceivable that any straight man wouldn't fall in love with her. She must be 50 now and she's still a shockingly beautiful woman, back then she was as close to perfection as I've ever seen!

They must have filmed in the Arctic because every time Rachel was on screen she could cut diamonds with them.

As a young man, I very much appreciated it

borderlinemeath · 26-04-2019 10:16AM

Chandler was the best, he got some great lines, he did get more serious after he got together with Monica but even still he was funny.

Ross was funny, and I loved the Bruce Willis scene with him. And the tan. And the teeth.

Monica could be very shrill and annoying, but one of my favourite episodes is the quiz where she gambled the apartment and lost it.

Rachel could have good comedic timing, but she used to really annoy me.

Joeys thickness was overplayed but he was funny most of the time. He had some great moments with Chandler.

Phoebe, ugh.

Best extra character by a mile was Janice. The on again/off again with Chandler, the way she pops up everywhere with that voice. Loved her.

The Rape of Lucretia · 26-04-2019 10:16AM

Is there a hopping bonus?

The Rape of Lucretia · 26-04-2019 10:17AM

Checkin' out the Chan-chan man!

Tell me how · 26-04-2019 10:18AM

Necro wrote: »

But it seems to be 'cool' to call 90s stuff awful nowadays for some bizarre reason.

Not just 90's. Anything some people don't like, they seem to feel the need to tell everyone it is rubbish.
Note comments on GOT as it reaches a finale.

Such people have always existed. I remember people ringing Gerry Ryan in the summer of 1994 asking what was this 'World Cup' everyone was talking about as they could see all the common people getting excited about it all of a sudden and it seemed ridiculous.
Newsflash. Just because you don't like something doesn't automatically mean it is crap.

Charles Ingles · 26-04-2019 10:18AM

Couldn't agree more terrible writing, as if it could happen no way Joseph would have acted like that under those circumstances

Joey falling in love with Rachel was absolute nonsense!

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