Donnacha
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« Reply #30 on: September 22, 2008, 08:24:57 PM » |
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I remember few character names...
Rudd and Pheobe weren't yet going out, they were going on one of their first dates. Ross made a crack to Pheobe about how she'd never been in a real relationship, which turned out to appall Pheobe, and she was worried Rudd wouldn't take her seriously as a result. So, Ross took it upon himself to visit Rudd and, in a spectacucrap bit of sitcommery, embarrassed himself into making up a relationship that Pheobe had so that Rudd wouldn't feel like he was dating someone emotionally immature. (Fake guy even has a 'funny' name, "Vicrum") Pheobe, for no apparent reason, goes along with this until Rudd tells her he doesn't care.
Now, then Rudd kisses Kudrow and she says "You kissed me..." in a sweet Peobe way, and it KILLED me. I promptly forgave all the rottenness that had preceded it, and just enjoyed the way Kudrow and Rudd acted together. They sold their stuff.
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the k man
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« Reply #31 on: September 22, 2008, 09:01:17 PM » |
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I do have a bias to the show...my wife and I own the complete series, and more importantly, we got engaged at a taping of an episode.
With that being said, the show had its ups and downs...not every episode was perfect. But those episodes that did deliver...were great and still hold up. "The One With the Embryos" is probably one of my favorite episodes of any sitcom ever. They also handled the Ross/Rachel relationship in a fun and unique way.
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Keith
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« Reply #32 on: September 22, 2008, 10:40:13 PM » |
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You know which other show I never tire of in syndication? RAYMOND. I don't think that show gets nearly enough credit for how great it is. Almost every episode is a mini-masterpiece. I really like the episode where Ray's wife yells at him. /Strang's going to kill me for this |
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chrisb
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« Reply #33 on: September 23, 2008, 10:47:22 AM » |
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No love or mention of Ross' turn to Crazy Ross in Season 5?
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Wolfe
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« Reply #34 on: December 10, 2011, 12:35:59 AM » |
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Being confined to the couch for a week with a sinus infection, I discovered that cable reruns FRIENDS a million times every night. Which was interesting since I truly thought it wasn't rerun at all anymore. I haven't revisited or even much thought about the show since it went off the air, but rewatching it now, it was pretty great. Better than it gets credit for, legacy-wise. It's not SEINFELD, but it's genuinely funny and ridiculously likable. It really had those characters down pat. In the later ones, for example, there's a running gag about how often Ross gets divorced, and it's a well they go to all the time, and I swear it works every time.
Anyway, FRIENDS is great. Don't let anyone tell you different.
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Dalton
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« Reply #35 on: December 10, 2011, 01:27:36 AM » |
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I've never seen an episode of FRIENDS.
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BrianLynch
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« Reply #36 on: December 10, 2011, 08:30:25 AM » |
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FRIENDS is great. They really cast it well, there's not a weak member.
And as we've been driving west to east and then back again, all across America, let me just say, it's always on SOME channel at any given time.
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Dobbin
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« Reply #37 on: December 10, 2011, 09:49:24 AM » |
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It was the anchor Thursday night show that you could feel was going to be safely always-funny. Not always SUPER funny, but sometimes, and always at least a solid 7. It got kind of last-year-of-MASH bad in its last year, but so did MASH. By definition.
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Wolfe
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« Reply #38 on: December 10, 2011, 10:06:16 AM » |
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And as we've been driving west to east and then back again, all across America, let me just say, it's always on SOME channel at any given time.
I really thought it had disappeared because all I ever see in the weeknight syndication repeats anymore are the Chaim Levine shows, THE OFFICE and FAMILY GUY. SEINFELD is the only '90s sitcom that seems to have staked its claim to the 6-8PM rerun real estate. Come to find out that FRIENDS just got relegated to the midnight-2AM slots on Nickelodeon. |
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Taitdog
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« Reply #39 on: December 10, 2011, 12:13:21 PM » |
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TBS ran huge blocks of FRIENDS over Thanksgiving weekend. It's a show I've watched more in reruns than I ever did during its initial run (probably because I worked nights or had other things going on that took me out of the house on Thursdays).
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DerickA
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« Reply #40 on: December 10, 2011, 03:49:25 PM » |
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FRIENDS is probably one of the worst popular things ever. Not a single redeeming thing about it. Kind of shocking how not one member of the cast is funny in the slightest. I think this show existed in the ROBOCOP universe and got to our tvs via wormhole.
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BrianLynch
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« Reply #41 on: December 11, 2011, 07:23:15 PM » |
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FRIENDS is probably one of the worst popular things ever. Not a single redeeming thing about it. Kind of shocking how not one member of the cast is funny in the slightest. I think this show existed in the ROBOCOP universe and got to our tvs via wormhole.
Go watch GHOSTBUSTERS II. |
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« Reply #42 on: December 11, 2011, 07:53:52 PM » |
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Where's that Sex and the City 2 avatar when you need it?
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BrianLynch
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« Reply #43 on: December 11, 2011, 07:55:44 PM » |
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It's in YOU, all along.
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DerickA
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« Reply #44 on: December 11, 2011, 09:48:31 PM » |
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I think people that were Friends age in the 90's take a special liking to it.
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