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Which obnoxious Friends character are you?

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  • 19-09-2019 12:25am
    #1
    [Deleted User]
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    Let's face it. They're all horrible people.

    Self-involved, sexist, downright rude.

    I don't want to identify with any of them.

    Monica is the worst. I've been doing some homework, I've been taking notes. After having been laid up with the flu over the past few days, I've been carefully studying back episodes of Friends on Netflix.

    She threw a plate at her friends during a simple boardgame. She's bossy, she's rude, and I bet nobody would be her friend if it weren't for the fact that they like her brother (let's not get started on him).

    My questions are three-fold.

    Why was this TV show ever popular?
    Who was the most awful character?
    And which of these horrible, horrible people do you identify with?


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    #2
    artanevilla
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 10,260 Mod ✭✭✭✭artanevilla


    I'd be Randle I'd say.


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    #3
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,277 ✭✭✭Your Face


    F--k Ray D'Arcy.


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    #4
    Ulysses Gaze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    Fun Bobby without the alcohol.


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    #5
    KungPao
    Registered Users Posts: 4,781 ✭✭✭KungPao


    I’m more of a George Costanza.
    Friends is ****e.


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    Raconteuse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    It's become very trendy to complain about Friends. I thought it was hilarious back then. When I see snippets of it now, I still do.


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    #7
    [Deleted User]
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    Raconteuse wrote: »
    It's become very trendy to complain about Friends. I thought it was hilarious back then. When I see snippets of it now, I still do.

    If I could give you my Flu and my Netflix login, I would.

    You might change your mind.


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    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,277 ✭✭✭Your Face


    Raconteuse wrote: »
    It's become very trendy to complain about Friends. I thought it was hilarious back then. When I see snippets of it now, I still do.


    A lot of people didn't like it then and therefore probably still don't like it.


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    Filmer Paradise
    Registered Users Posts: 1,339 ✭✭✭Filmer Paradise


    You having 'Man Flu' again Tyrant?

    Anyway, I'd be Joey. No real complications. Just basic aims in life.


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    Raconteuse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    Your Face wrote: »
    A lot of people didn't like it then and therefore probably still don't like it.
    Yeah I don't mean those folk. Just the onslaught in recent times that's kinda sneery (belittling the tastes of people who like(d) it) and looks bandwagonish. And the delayed offence taking. Like the Apu case, why offence all of a sudden? Why not earlier in the intervening 20 odd years?


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    #11
    [Deleted User]
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    Filmer Paradise wrote: »
    You having 'Man Flu' again Tyrant?

    Anyway, I'd be Joey. No real complications. Just basic aims in life.

    Hanging. I'm writing my will on a sweet-wrapper as I type. This is worse than a man flu.

    We digress. Joey Tribiani should have been on a sex offenders' list, you know.


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    #12
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,277 ✭✭✭Your Face


    Raconteuse wrote: »
    Yeah I don't mean those folk. Just the onslaught in recent times that's kinda sneery (belittling the tastes of people who like(d) it) and looks bandwagonish. And the delayed offence taking. Like the Apu case, why offence all of a sudden? Why not earlier in the intervening 20 odd years?


    F--k Ray D'Arcy


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    #13
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    *Yawn*

    I don't identity with the premise of your thread.


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    #14
    ZeroThreat
    Registered Users Posts: 2,180 ✭✭✭ZeroThreat


    lol, was trying to understand the first post on this thread, then I realised the title didn't actually read 'Which obnoxious French character are you?' as I thought.

    oops :D


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    Hoboo
    Registered Users Posts: 3,517 ✭✭✭Hoboo


    ZeroThreat wrote: »
    lol, was trying to understand the first post on this thread, then I realised the title didn't actually read 'Which obnoxious French character are you?' as I thought.

    oops :D

    Va te faire enculer!


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    yerwanthere123
    Registered Users, Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,283 Mod ✭✭✭✭yerwanthere123


    Ur so kool, OP! Stick it to the man!!1!

    Friends was, and still is, a great show. I've seen most of the episodes several times and they still make me laugh years later. There's a reason why it's so enduringly popular, it's a fantastic sitcom.


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    Necro
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 51,012 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote:
    Why was this TV show ever popular?
    Who was the most awful character? And which of these horrible, horrible people do you identify with?

    They struck gold with the setting and the characters. Sitcoms aren't made like seasons 1-4 of Friends anymore everything is rushed through for fear of cancellation. It's a decent show up until Chandler and Monica move in together then the best partnership (Joey and Chandler) dissolves.

    Phoebe is the worst, without a doubt. Annoying, unfunny and a horrific singer to boot. I do rewatch and wonder what exactly her purpose is in the show. Friends with who exactly? Monica? Cos they lived together briefly? Yes I might hate Phoebe.

    What do you mean identify with, as in most similar too? Would be a combination of all three guys depending on what mood I'm in.

    Ross for the rage and awkward situations he gets into.

    Joey for being very very stupid at least 50% of the day

    Chandler cos I work as a transponster :P


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    #18
    Arghus
    Registered Users Posts: 14,339 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    I hate the whole fucking lot of them.


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    #19
    Hoboo
    Registered Users Posts: 3,517 ✭✭✭Hoboo


    Arghus wrote: »
    I hate the whole fucking lot of them.

    Yeah, I hate Jennifer Aniston too. Especially on a cold day.


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    #20
    SeanW
    Registered Users Posts: 8,740 ✭✭✭SeanW


    Friends is not popular among 21st century wokescolds.


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    #21
    Wayne Jarvis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,076 ✭✭✭Wayne Jarvis


    I have the self absorption of Rachel combined with the self absorption of all the other characters. Thank you Tyrant for starting a thread about how brilliant I am.


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    #22
    Wayne Jarvis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,076 ✭✭✭Wayne Jarvis


    SeanW wrote: »
    Friends is not popular among 21st century wokescolds.

    Almost nothing is, they are amongst the most miserable people to have ever existed.


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    FluffyTowel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 406 ✭✭FluffyTowel


    Rachel was pretty cool in fairness, and Jennifer Aniston is also cool. Brad Pitt lost out on that one.

    Good show! For the first few seasons anyway.


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    #24
    Woke Hogan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,630 ✭✭✭Woke Hogan


    I’m not a huge fan of Friends. It was watchable back when it was first on but I think only nostalgic dullards enjoy it these days, both pining back to simpler times and throwing away the time they have now instead of reading, or running or watching something more substantive.

    My daughter loves it, though, and she told me I was like the character Hugh Laurie plays. I don’t remember seeing him in it.


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    #25
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users Posts: 8,907 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    Like most sitcoms, it was popular because the situations were funny. I guess the clue is in the name of the genre. Most sitcoms I can think of don’t have likeable characters in the sense that you’d actually want to hang out with them. Rachel was the most likeable and realistic of them all - probably because she was played by the best actor of the lot. Yer one who played Phoebe was like something out of a school play.


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    flower tattoo
    Registered Users Posts: 553 ✭✭✭flower tattoo


    Woke Hogan wrote: »
    I’m not a huge fan of Friends. It was watchable back when it was first on but I think only nostalgic dullards enjoy it these days, both pining back to simpler times and throwing away the time they have now instead of reading, or running or watching something more substantive.

    My daughter loves it, though, and she told me I was like the character Hugh Laurie plays. I don’t remember seeing him in it.

    He was in the London episodes as Emily's dad


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    facehugger99
    Registered Users Posts: 7,215 ✭✭✭facehugger99


    FluffyTowel wrote: »
    Rachel was pretty cool in fairness, and Jennifer Aniston is also cool. Brad Pitt lost out on that one.

    He probably cries himself to sleep on a large pile of money and several Victoria Secret Models every night.


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    FluffyTowel
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    facehugger99 wrote: »
    He probably cries himself to sleep on a large pile of money and several Victoria Secret Models every night.

    Sounds uncomfortable.


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    #29
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users Posts: 10,526 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    flower tattoo wrote: »
    He was in the London episodes as Emily's dad

    He wasn’t Emily’s dad, he was just on the airplane.

    The tide is turning…



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    #30
    Wayne Jarvis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,076 ✭✭✭Wayne Jarvis


    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    He wasn’t Emily’s dad, he was just on the airplane.
    The airplane was Emily's dad.


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    #31
    Wayne Jarvis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,076 ✭✭✭Wayne Jarvis


    Woke Hogan wrote: »
    My daughter loves it, though, and she told me I was like the character Hugh Laurie plays.
    Story checks out.


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