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Multi-racial, urban, quirky and somewhat predictable. That's an instant recipe for success and why it's received the ratings and accolades over the years. |
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This has been WAY more fun than talking about the ****ing Patriots.
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In my haste to make my clarification, I missed the tail end of your post.
Wonder what you think about the present day critiques of homophobia in Friends. First the whole 'is Chandler gay' thing, then the stuff with his dad the trans lounge singer. I've noticed a lot of millennials getting snarky, but then that's the age we're in. |
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I've noticed that "Millennials" haven't realized that society existed long before they were born into this world, and has evolved, thus I couldn't care less about their complaints.
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Never really cared for Friends. Part of that was because I was like 8 when it began and never got into it.
Seinfeld had some great moments, but even though I laughed there was always something that bothered me about the fact that I was laughing. Frasier, on the other hand, that was a great NBC sitcom. |
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What is great, though, is to go on youtube and find out who all the celebs were who called into his show. See how many you can guess without peeking Of course, you know that Lisa Kudrow was the original Roz, right up to the first day of taping. |
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Today, I'd prefer that an actual trans actor play Chandler's father. But the inclusion of a trans character at all was fairly forward thinking. Also, Friends is so damned white-washed. Living in the Village in the 90s/00s you'd think they'd encounter some greater ethnicity. Again, not flawless. |
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I just think that was a quirk of the show in that it relied heavily on the same tropes of Frasier and Niles being up-their-own-ass intellectuals whose nature conflicted with Martin / Daphne / Ros' grounded and sensible personalities such that every episode had a same-y feel to it but it didn't detract from the quality.
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