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Which obnoxious Friends character are you?

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  • Registered Users Posts: 14,715 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    It was a vacuous bubble gum sitcom with 6 self absorbed fragile all somewhat pathetic and needy characters living in a nice safe bubble and remarkably without any ethnic minorities.

    Two of the main characters are Jewish.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,433 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Earthhorse wrote: »
    Two of the main characters are Jewish.

    Half Jewish. “Looked” into earlier. Only the dad, played by the wonderful Elliot Gould, is Jewish.

    The tide is turning…



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,630 ✭✭✭Woke Hogan


    randd1 wrote: »
    Tried to bang another black woman too (as did Joey, a good episode actually. "MONKEY LOVER!!"). He was with a Chinese chick as well.

    Jesus Christ!


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,204 ✭✭✭partyguinness


    Earthhorse wrote: »
    Two of the main characters are Jewish.


    That does not make them an ethnic minority.

    Most US sitcoms are like that anyway e.g. Fraser, Will and Grace


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,076 ✭✭✭Wayne Jarvis


    Woke Hogan wrote: »
    Jesus Christ!
    In what episode did Ross bang Jesus Christ?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,586 ✭✭✭victor8600


    Phoebe was an absolute dose of a character. Annoying, needy, the sort who would describe herself as ‘kooky’, ‘left field’, ‘a beautiful freak’ etc.

    Besides Charlie, Phoebe is the only character in Friends that I could actually like.
    Ross was by far the best. That neurotic NY Jew character is always a good one.

    He is a very bad caricature of a scientist and an awful character overall.
    Earthhorse wrote: »
    Two of the main characters are Jewish.

    Oi, don't make me choke on my pastrami, next you'll be calling Joey a minority.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,462 ✭✭✭Bob Harris


    I've had better fun painting ceilings than watching Friends.

    I remember in secondary school people would talk about the previous night's episode the morning after.
    I had never seen it and when I did all I could wonder was why people found it funny and would quote lines from it all day long.

    The only thing remotely funny I ever saw in it was when Ross caught Bruce Willis posing and telling himself he was a neat guy. Beyond that it's drivel.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,076 ✭✭✭Wayne Jarvis


    I think David Schwimmer can do physical comedy well. Him hiding from his girlfriend's da never fails to make me laugh.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 8,204 ✭✭✭partyguinness


    I could not abide Rachel or Monica as my sister is a hybrid of both of them.

    Phoebe was just an idiot.

    I was not so hateful of the guys.

    Gun to the head, I think Joey was the least insufferable.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,433 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    That does not make them an ethnic minority.

    Most US sitcoms are like that anyway e.g. Fraser, Will and Grace

    I don’t think Fraser was Jewish.

    The tide is turning…



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  • Registered Users Posts: 8,204 ✭✭✭partyguinness


    I don’t think Fraser was Jewish.


    What I meant was most US sitcoms from the mid 90s were predominantly white with very few ethnic minorities. Friends has not the only culprit.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,453 ✭✭✭valoren


    In fairness, the writers self acknowledged these were all flawed characters midway through the first season with the episode featuring the unapologetic psychologist who dated Pheobe and points out how messed up the group dynamic is. I don't get the backlash as the characters are not presented as flawless bastions of moralistic integrity.


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,708 ✭✭✭lertsnim


    Seinfeld is where it's at. Now they were arseholes but entertaining arseholes.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,714 ✭✭✭Greyfox


    victor8600 wrote: »
    He is a very bad caricature of a scientist and an awful character overall.

    Ross was a magnificent character, some of his moments like the leather trousers, "my sandwich" and the spray tan are absolutely hillarious. Also once people seen what happened in the prom video everyone wanted him to get with Rachael.


  • Registered Users Posts: 491 ✭✭B_ecke_r


    Greyfox wrote: »
    Ross was a magnificent character, some of his moments like the leather trousers, "my sandwich" and the spray tan are absolutely hillarious. Also once people seen what happened in the prom video everyone wanted him to get with Rachael.

    HE'S HER LOBSTER


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,204 ✭✭✭partyguinness


    Greyfox wrote: »
    Ross was a magnificent character, some of his moments like the leather trousers, "my sandwich" and the spray tan are absolutely hillarious. Also once people seen what happened in the prom video everyone wanted him to get with Rachael.


    Okay. Obviously you are a big fan. I am not as easily amused. I watched it all and can appreciate it for what it was- a warm comfort blanket of escapism for young women.

    Personally I found it a little too annoying at times and a bit whiny/insecure teenageresque.

    'Look at me. I am so pathetic and needy. Somebody save me from my vacuous self'

    Fraser was more my cup of tea but that went a bit pear shaped too.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,388 ✭✭✭Airyfairy12


    I watched a load of episodes a while back and noticed how Chandler's a bit rapey, he preys on women, tries to trick them into sleeping with him, gets them drunk so he can take advantage, he makes remarks about trying to have sex with women that are passed out.
    He'd be on the sex offenders list.


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,131 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    Friends was class.


    I'd be Mr. Heckles, I'm getting old and grumpy and I like wearing dressing gowns.

    Fcuk Putin. Glory to Ukraine!



  • Registered Users Posts: 3,714 ✭✭✭Greyfox


    valoren wrote: »
    In fairness, the writers self acknowledged these were all flawed characters midway through the first season with the episode featuring the unapologetic psychologist who dated Pheobe and points out how messed up the group dynamic is. I don't get the backlash as the characters are not presented as flawless bastions of moralistic integrity.

    True, the characters are supposed to be flawed. As an example Homer Simpsons's flaws make him a better character
    Okay. Obviously you are a big fan. I am not as easily amused. I watched it all and can appreciate it for what it was- a warm comfort blanket of escapism for young women.

    I'm not easily amused either. I appreciate comedy is subjective but its popularity tells you most people found it very funny
    I watched a load of episodes a while back and noticed how Chandler's a bit rapey, he preys on women, tries to trick them into sleeping with him, gets them drunk so he can take advantage, he makes remarks about trying to have sex with women that are passed out.
    He'd be on the sex offenders list.

    True but back then it didn't seem a bit rapey, he just seemed like a man rubbish with women. Also Chandler was also a character that wouldn't be capable of rape


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,845 ✭✭✭Antares35


    I'd like to know why if it was so unpopular and terrible, you have spent two whole days watching it and taking notes, while you had a wealth of other stuff to watch at your fingertips! :D

    I thought friends was good for it's time. They often ad libbed and some of the one liners were brilliant. Anyone with a brain cell who watched it also realised that it was not a true depiction of late twenty/ early thirty year olds living in New Work at that time.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 14,715 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    Half Jewish. “Looked” into earlier. Only the dad, played by the wonderful Elliot Gould, is Jewish.

    In that case they may not even be Jewish at all as it passes through the maternal side.


  • Registered Users Posts: 491 ✭✭B_ecke_r


    Earthhorse wrote: »
    In that case they may not even be Jewish at all as it passes through the maternal side.

    he celebrates Hannukah


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,433 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Earthhorse wrote: »
    In that case they may not even be Jewish at all as it passes through the maternal side.

    If you’ve been mitzvah’d and gotten the “snip” are you not automatically enrolled?

    The tide is turning…



  • Registered Users Posts: 14,715 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    B_ecke_r wrote: »
    he celebrates Hannukah

    He also dresses up as the Holiday Armadillo.

    He's a deeply disturbed man.


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,131 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    Earthhorse wrote: »
    He also dresses up as the Holiday Armadillo.

    He's a deeply disturbed man.

    The worst thing he did was wear those skinny leather pants lol

    Fcuk Putin. Glory to Ukraine!



  • Registered Users Posts: 14,715 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    If you’ve been mitzvah’d and gotten the “snip” are you not automatically enrolled?

    You should consider donating to Wikipeadia, Emmet, it's an invaluable resource.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_is_a_Jew%3F


  • Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Why does Ross, the largest friend, not simply eat the other 5?


  • Registered Users Posts: 16,183 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    Omackeral wrote: »
    Why does Ross, the largest friend, not simply eat the other 5?

    Wouldn't be kosher.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,942 ✭✭✭topper75


    It was a thing of the time, a shift away from traditional el bueno y el malo duality. Two other contemporary shows, Seinfeld and the Sopranas could also be described that way: hugely popular but no upstanding likeable character in the whole show. Each of the Soprano characters were particularly cnutish but it made good TV.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,262 ✭✭✭Baron Kurtz


    Reg Rogers: The Director.

    "I'm hurt!!!"

    "Stuff your talentless faces with my mother's crabcakes!"

    Gas man altogether.


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