Anonymous
Post 09/18/2019 07:22     Subject: F.R.I.E.N.D.S. logo everywhere. Why?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Stupid millennials are just getting around to watching it. They want their own lives to be like the fictional ones on the show, complete with the unrealistic large apartment maintained by a waitress and an often unemployed chef.


This is so dumb. You know most millennials are in their 30s, right?

The show would have been on when you were between 6-16. You were NOT watching Friends during its first run. You guys are just getting into it now like you discovered something new


I’m a Millennial and I watched it on its first run I also bought the seasons on DVD as they were released in 2000-2002.


I’m 36. Born in 1983
Anonymous
Post 09/18/2019 07:22     Subject: F.R.I.E.N.D.S. logo everywhere. Why?
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Anonymous wrote:Friends absolutely hasn’t aged well. It’s embarrassing how uniform that show was with the exception of a few minor characters with diversity. Also, there was an utter lack of socio-economic diversity.

Absolutely couldn’t relate to that show as a brown person in America.


The show didn’t need diversity to be successful or funny. I mean you already had to suspend disbelief that a waitress could afford that Manhattan apartment. It isn’t relevant that you couldn’t relate to it — it was the No. 1 show in ratings for years. And now with streaming appears to have found a new audience. So, your personal feelings about it are whatever, but it doesn’t mean it didn’t age well.

Seinfeld didn’t age well. But that’s because of how many plots revolves around land lines, not because of a lack of racial or socioeconomic diversity. Those are not exactly important elements for sitcoms.


The new audience is likely the same audience that watched the show decades ago.

The world has changed. Most people don’t want to watch shows that suspend disbelief on what America really looks like today. The only difference between then and now is that people have more of a a voice, and Hollywood is actually listening. So no, it has not aged well.
Anonymous
Post 09/18/2019 07:16     Subject: F.R.I.E.N.D.S. logo everywhere. Why?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Friends absolutely hasn’t aged well. It’s embarrassing how uniform that show was with the exception of a few minor characters with diversity. Also, there was an utter lack of socio-economic diversity.

Absolutely couldn’t relate to that show as a brown person in America.


The show didn’t need diversity to be successful or funny. I mean you already had to suspend disbelief that a waitress could afford that Manhattan apartment. It isn’t relevant that you couldn’t relate to it — it was the No. 1 show in ratings for years. And now with streaming appears to have found a new audience. So, your personal feelings about it are whatever, but it doesn’t mean it didn’t age well.

Seinfeld didn’t age well. But that’s because of how many plots revolves around land lines, not because of a lack of racial or socioeconomic diversity. Those are not exactly important elements for sitcoms.

+1. Someone had to play the race card.
Anonymous
Post 09/18/2019 07:06     Subject: F.R.I.E.N.D.S. logo everywhere. Why?
Anonymous wrote:Friends absolutely hasn’t aged well. It’s embarrassing how uniform that show was with the exception of a few minor characters with diversity. Also, there was an utter lack of socio-economic diversity.

Absolutely couldn’t relate to that show as a brown person in America.


The show didn’t need diversity to be successful or funny. I mean you already had to suspend disbelief that a waitress could afford that Manhattan apartment. It isn’t relevant that you couldn’t relate to it — it was the No. 1 show in ratings for years. And now with streaming appears to have found a new audience. So, your personal feelings about it are whatever, but it doesn’t mean it didn’t age well.

Seinfeld didn’t age well. But that’s because of how many plots revolves around land lines, not because of a lack of racial or socioeconomic diversity. Those are not exactly important elements for sitcoms.
Anonymous
Post 09/18/2019 06:59     Subject: F.R.I.E.N.D.S. logo everywhere. Why?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Stupid millennials are just getting around to watching it. They want their own lives to be like the fictional ones on the show, complete with the unrealistic large apartment maintained by a waitress and an often unemployed chef.


This is so dumb. You know most millennials are in their 30s, right?

The show would have been on when you were between 6-16. You were NOT watching Friends during its first run. You guys are just getting into it now like you discovered something new


You clearly don’t know what a millennial is- I was in middle school and high school when it was airing and absolutely watched it every week with my friends.


Then you are the very oldest millennial (b. 1980 - 2000). Friends aired 1994 to 2004.

Unless you meant you watched Friends in syndication? Like Gen-Xer I watched M.A.S.H., or similar



You’re too old to know what millennial means. Go back to your nursing home.

Middle and high school kids absolutely watched Friends when it was on the air. It was a much more parental palatable show than many other teen shows at the time. My parents were more okay with me watching Friends than Buffy the Vampire Slayer (another great show from that era!)
Anonymous
Post 09/18/2019 06:53     Subject: F.R.I.E.N.D.S. logo everywhere. Why?
Friends absolutely hasn’t aged well. It’s embarrassing how uniform that show was with the exception of a few minor characters with diversity. Also, there was an utter lack of socio-economic diversity.

Absolutely couldn’t relate to that show as a brown person in America.
Anonymous
Post 09/17/2019 23:20     Subject: F.R.I.E.N.D.S. logo everywhere. Why?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Stupid millennials are just getting around to watching it. They want their own lives to be like the fictional ones on the show, complete with the unrealistic large apartment maintained by a waitress and an often unemployed chef.


This is so dumb. You know most millennials are in their 30s, right?

The show would have been on when you were between 6-16. You were NOT watching Friends during its first run. You guys are just getting into it now like you discovered something new


You realize that show was on the air for almost a decade right?

I watched Friends when I was a teenager and I’m a millennial.

Anonymous
Post 09/17/2019 23:18     Subject: F.R.I.E.N.D.S. logo everywhere. Why?
I’m a 1990 baby and I’ll admit I did not watch it.
Anonymous
Post 09/17/2019 23:14     Subject: F.R.I.E.N.D.S. logo everywhere. Why?
Huh never noticed the ‘.’ Dots. Now fallen down an internet rabbit hole of theories, but umbrellas seems to be the lead.
Anonymous
Post 09/17/2019 22:55     Subject: F.R.I.E.N.D.S. logo everywhere. Why?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Stupid millennials are just getting around to watching it. They want their own lives to be like the fictional ones on the show, complete with the unrealistic large apartment maintained by a waitress and an often unemployed chef.


This is so dumb. You know most millennials are in their 30s, right?

The show would have been on when you were between 6-16. You were NOT watching Friends during its first run. You guys are just getting into it now like you discovered something new

You sound like you’re a million years old.
- 39 year old x-llennial
Anonymous
Post 09/17/2019 22:31     Subject: F.R.I.E.N.D.S. logo everywhere. Why?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Stupid millennials are just getting around to watching it. They want their own lives to be like the fictional ones on the show, complete with the unrealistic large apartment maintained by a waitress and an often unemployed chef.


This is so dumb. You know most millennials are in their 30s, right?

The show would have been on when you were between 6-16. You were NOT watching Friends during its first run. You guys are just getting into it now like you discovered something new


You clearly don’t know what a millennial is- I was in middle school and high school when it was airing and absolutely watched it every week with my friends.


Then you are the very oldest millennial (b. 1980 - 2000). Friends aired 1994 to 2004.

Unless you meant you watched Friends in syndication? Like Gen-Xer I watched M.A.S.H., or similar


1984 here. Absolutely watched every week. Would have been 10-20 years old when it aired. Totally in the range to have watched in middle and high school, and I'm not even the oldest of Millenials. The gen is into it now as, "retro."
Anonymous
Post 09/17/2019 21:14     Subject: F.R.I.E.N.D.S. logo everywhere. Why?
I’m a Gen-X mom of a 1986-born millennial. She was *not* allowed to watch Friends!

And BTW Friends has aged amazingly well. It’s crazy how funny it still is.
Anonymous
Post 09/17/2019 15:39     Subject: F.R.I.E.N.D.S. logo everywhere. Why?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Stupid millennials are just getting around to watching it. They want their own lives to be like the fictional ones on the show, complete with the unrealistic large apartment maintained by a waitress and an often unemployed chef.


This is so dumb. You know most millennials are in their 30s, right?

The show would have been on when you were between 6-16. You were NOT watching Friends during its first run. You guys are just getting into it now like you discovered something new


You clearly don’t know what a millennial is- I was in middle school and high school when it was airing and absolutely watched it every week with my friends.


Then you are the very oldest millennial (b. 1980 - 2000). Friends aired 1994 to 2004.

Unless you meant you watched Friends in syndication? Like Gen-Xer I watched M.A.S.H., or similar


Anonymous
Post 09/17/2019 14:33     Subject: F.R.I.E.N.D.S. logo everywhere. Why?
Anonymous wrote:Stupid millennials are just getting around to watching it. They want their own lives to be like the fictional ones on the show, complete with the unrealistic large apartment maintained by a waitress and an often unemployed chef.


Um, they had rent control through Monica's grandma who retired to Florida. And after a while, Rachel got her fancy job at Ralph Lauren.
Anonymous
Post 09/17/2019 14:32     Subject: Re:F.R.I.E.N.D.S. logo everywhere. Why?
Friends hasn't aged well - but i wonder if young folks watch it in a retro sense in the same way we used to watch bad giligans island and brady bunch episodes when we were young? It's about the same age at this point that those shows were when we were kids.