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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're adorable, grandma! I watched it in its first run. I'm a 39 year old millennial.

Millennials are now mid-career, with kids in elementary and middle school. Generation Z or the Cloud Generation already has kids who have graduated college and have entered the workforce. Post Malone, who is a megastar (look him up) is too young to be a millennial. We have a guy running for president. He's doing pretty well, you might have heard of him, they call him Mayor Pete.

I hate to burst your bubble but you’re not a millennial... The oldest millennials are 35, you are a young gem X... (I agree with the rest though.)

... and yet Millennials were born between 1981 and 1996 , though some sources say 1980 through 1994

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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

Started watching it in 5th grade- thought it was hilarious even though i'm sure I didn't understand 1/2 the jokes.

Millennial here born in 86. I can't say I watched it in the beginning but I definitely watched the last few seasons every thursday night on NBC.

I would never watch a re-run now, though. Seinfeld on the other hand....

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Anonymous wrote:Do you not pay attention to anything at all? This has been all over the internet and news -- it's the Friends 25th anniversary so they're doing a lot of promotions.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2019/09/16/friends-25th-anniversary-why-we-cant-let-them-go/2154983001/

Yes, but this doesn't explain why people are now *wearing* it.

"they're doing a lot of promotions"

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.

Most sit-coms have no socio-economic diversity because they are about a group of people who hang out together for some reason (friends, family, coworkers) and that relationship tends to = similar SES level. But I think Friends was one of the only shows I've watched that actually did directly address the different SES levels of the friends-- there was an episode when the 3 that made less money (waitress, actor, occasional massage therapist) complained about the other 3 wanting to do expensive things and then all of them having an awkward conversation about it, there were lots of times Chandler was loaning Joey money and it being uncomfortable, then Joey finally making a lot on Days of Our Lives and moving out but it wasn't as satisfying as he thought, Ross feeling threatened when Rachel started having career success and not needing him as much (clearly, I've watched a lot of Friends LOL). I liked that aspect of it, which did reflect some of the awkwardness I had with my own friends in those post-college years when our careers were on different trajectories.

And people need to stop complaining about the apartment -- it was clearly explained that it was grandma's rent-controlled apartment and so dirt-cheap. Chandler/Joey's dump was probably a lot more expensive but Chandler probably made the most $$ of all of them in whatever his job was.

It still makes me laugh and my Gen Z teens love it.

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Anonymous wrote:I can't believe most of this is 3 pages of people arguing it's relevant or it's not. It's one of the most watched shows on Netflix and they paid a ton for it, so people who are making money off it might know just a little bit more about what's relevant and what's still appealing?

It's a dumb comedy. It was mostly funny then and it's mostly funny now. I'm 51 and I enjoyed it mostly (but loved Seinfeld), but saw that it was mostly silly humor and the lack of diversity was really obviously bad. But silly humor is still funny. My teenager just discovered it on Netflix and is bingewatching. She thinks it's hilarious. I'll catch an ep or a scene with her and I laugh, too. It's has its funny moments.

This! When the contract ended and Netflix announced it was going to be removed ppl were furious. So much so that Netflix paid a very good amount to keep it until 2021. After which it’ll be moving to HBOMax who paid $85 mil a year for 5 years which outbid Netflix. So Netflix scooped up Seinfeld. Anyone claiming the show didn’t age well is in denial. I’m not even a fan of the show but it’s clear it has a very loyal fan base and is gaining new fans. You don’t have to like it but enough people do. And I don’t think it’s about relating to ppl, either you find it funny or you don’t. Yeah the cast isn’t diverse but that isn’t important to most ppl when you just want to laugh and watch something mindless. And I’m saying this as a AA woman who absolutely loves Seinfeld and likes about 2-3 episodes of Friends (any episode showing when Monica was fat).

Three's Company had a good run in syndication, and that had little to be with being relatable, or funny, or aging well. Middle of the road comedy has decent shelf life.