Goodbye Friends!
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sweetnpetite
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so friends fans are:
damppanties
curiousphantaC
Wicked-N-Erotic
Dranoel
DirtyJJ
McKenna
Honey123 (actually I wasn't sure- I detected an awful lot of sarcasm
)
minsue
upfront
possibly south_florida_bicur and tatelou
ABSTRUSE
and Juan
anybody else want to come join my pity- er, going away party?
damppanties
curiousphantaC
Wicked-N-Erotic
Dranoel
DirtyJJ
McKenna
Honey123 (actually I wasn't sure- I detected an awful lot of sarcasm
)minsue
upfront
possibly south_florida_bicur and tatelou
ABSTRUSE
and Juan
anybody else want to come join my pity- er, going away party?
minsue
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Sorry, SnP, but I won't be joining your pity party. I think they should have wrapped it up a couple of years ago. I still watch the syndicated re-runs, but I haven't been able to sit through a new episode in quite some time. It's just not funny anymore.
damppanties
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ABSTRUSE said:You forget me
~A~
ps. You forgot Juan.
First face-splitting wide grin-smile of the day. Of course I'm feeling silly and happy today, but...
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Here are excerpts from a Salon article, I presume Friends' fans will get them. P.
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Some Salon staffers offer their own reasons below (1999 was not a good year) and we also invite you to offer your own reasons by submitting them here, with the subject line: "Friends." We'll run them Friday, along with Heather Havrilesky's review of the finale.
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When Chandler left Joey I [Season 6, Air date: Oct. 7, 1999] Joey and Chandler made such a nice couple. So what the hell is Chandler doing with Monica? How can we possibly cheer those two on to love and marriage and life in the suburbs, when it's so obvious that Chandler let the one true love of his life get away? Remember that hilarious episode when Chandler spent Thanksgiving in a stereo box just to make amends with Joey for kissing Joey's girlfriend? Do you honestly think that Chandler would crawl into a cardboard box for that charmless shrew Monica? And how could Rachel ever expect to fill the void left in Joey's heart? Remember that season finale when Joey accidentally whipped out the engagement ring Ross was going to give Rachel when she was pregnant, and Rachel agreed to marry Joey on the spot? She didn't really want Joey, she just wanted a piece of the happiness that Chandler and Joey had known together. And who doesn't?
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The cancelled son [Ben Gellar's last significant role: Season 8, Dec. 6, 2001] I can't help it, I just feel sorry for Ben Gellar. The product of late-blooming lesbian Carol and her estranged husband Ross, his impending arrival and appropriately mishap-riddled birth were the focus of some of Season 1's sharpest story lines. (Ross, on a date with a new woman, is awkwardly seated across from Carol and her girlfriend at a restaurant. It can't any worse -- until she rises to her reveal her huge belly). It would have been dire for "Friends," a show about impossibly attractive people working and dating in New York, to turn into yet another wisecracking kids domestic sitcom. Yet Ben's conspicuous disappearance, except for rare occasions when the presence of a child could throw the ineptitude of the gang into comic relief, has served as a prime example of the show's now trademark inconsistency. The final straw for me came at Ross' second wedding to Emily. Though Ross had been firm with her that he couldn't move to London because of his son, he apparently didn't even invite Ben to the nuptials. I wasn't even a parent yet when the show aired, but I had been a stepchild, and felt for the kid. Mostly I was just pissed at the lazy writing. Though I've lost touch with the show since, I still find myself wondering if Ben has even met his half-sister Emma. For a show that celebrates pregnancy -- it's milked endless fodder out of the gestations of Carol, Phoebe, Janice, Rachel, and now Chandler and Monica's adoption mother -- it's quick to forget even mentioning the fate of its actual children. Maybe that's why these six characters are known as Friends -- they're sure lousy at family.
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Monkey business [Season 1, Air date: Dec. 15, 1994] Whether on film or TV, I've never been a fan of the human-meets-monkey trope. The clever, misbehaving chimp, out of the wild and into the human world, generally going gonzo and outsmarting the hapless human who's inevitably chasing him (see the Bonzo movies, "Going Ape," "Buddy," "Dunston Checks In" and, of course, "Every Which Way But Loose") -– it's just not funny. That's why, midway through the first season, when Ross rescues Marcel the monkey from a lab and brings him to the gang's New Year's Eve party, it seemed like the show had jumped the shark before it had barely begun. Obviously, Marcel's appearance wasn't a harbinger of things to come (though a duck and a chicken, unfortunately, were) but when you bring a monkey onto the soundstage ... well, you've lost me. (Marcel fared well post-"Friends," however: he was the first cast member to leave the show for Hollywood, with a role in 1995's "Outbreak.")
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Some Salon staffers offer their own reasons below (1999 was not a good year) and we also invite you to offer your own reasons by submitting them here, with the subject line: "Friends." We'll run them Friday, along with Heather Havrilesky's review of the finale.
...
When Chandler left Joey I [Season 6, Air date: Oct. 7, 1999] Joey and Chandler made such a nice couple. So what the hell is Chandler doing with Monica? How can we possibly cheer those two on to love and marriage and life in the suburbs, when it's so obvious that Chandler let the one true love of his life get away? Remember that hilarious episode when Chandler spent Thanksgiving in a stereo box just to make amends with Joey for kissing Joey's girlfriend? Do you honestly think that Chandler would crawl into a cardboard box for that charmless shrew Monica? And how could Rachel ever expect to fill the void left in Joey's heart? Remember that season finale when Joey accidentally whipped out the engagement ring Ross was going to give Rachel when she was pregnant, and Rachel agreed to marry Joey on the spot? She didn't really want Joey, she just wanted a piece of the happiness that Chandler and Joey had known together. And who doesn't?
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The cancelled son [Ben Gellar's last significant role: Season 8, Dec. 6, 2001] I can't help it, I just feel sorry for Ben Gellar. The product of late-blooming lesbian Carol and her estranged husband Ross, his impending arrival and appropriately mishap-riddled birth were the focus of some of Season 1's sharpest story lines. (Ross, on a date with a new woman, is awkwardly seated across from Carol and her girlfriend at a restaurant. It can't any worse -- until she rises to her reveal her huge belly). It would have been dire for "Friends," a show about impossibly attractive people working and dating in New York, to turn into yet another wisecracking kids domestic sitcom. Yet Ben's conspicuous disappearance, except for rare occasions when the presence of a child could throw the ineptitude of the gang into comic relief, has served as a prime example of the show's now trademark inconsistency. The final straw for me came at Ross' second wedding to Emily. Though Ross had been firm with her that he couldn't move to London because of his son, he apparently didn't even invite Ben to the nuptials. I wasn't even a parent yet when the show aired, but I had been a stepchild, and felt for the kid. Mostly I was just pissed at the lazy writing. Though I've lost touch with the show since, I still find myself wondering if Ben has even met his half-sister Emma. For a show that celebrates pregnancy -- it's milked endless fodder out of the gestations of Carol, Phoebe, Janice, Rachel, and now Chandler and Monica's adoption mother -- it's quick to forget even mentioning the fate of its actual children. Maybe that's why these six characters are known as Friends -- they're sure lousy at family.
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Monkey business [Season 1, Air date: Dec. 15, 1994] Whether on film or TV, I've never been a fan of the human-meets-monkey trope. The clever, misbehaving chimp, out of the wild and into the human world, generally going gonzo and outsmarting the hapless human who's inevitably chasing him (see the Bonzo movies, "Going Ape," "Buddy," "Dunston Checks In" and, of course, "Every Which Way But Loose") -– it's just not funny. That's why, midway through the first season, when Ross rescues Marcel the monkey from a lab and brings him to the gang's New Year's Eve party, it seemed like the show had jumped the shark before it had barely begun. Obviously, Marcel's appearance wasn't a harbinger of things to come (though a duck and a chicken, unfortunately, were) but when you bring a monkey onto the soundstage ... well, you've lost me. (Marcel fared well post-"Friends," however: he was the first cast member to leave the show for Hollywood, with a role in 1995's "Outbreak.")
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yes, I saw the Rembrandts on the Today show singing the theme song and I got a little teary knowing that tonight is the last night!sweetnpetite said:
OK, so I saw a comercial today and got all chocked up
*sigh*
sad but true.
I hope it's a good episode tonight. The season finales were always great so I imagine this will be too.
And perdita - sweet of you to post Friends info even though you said you weren't really a fan - thanks!
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Honey123 said:
I thought you were being sarcastic, cause you said all your friends were just like that. My fav was always Ross, and I would most identify with Pheobe, too.
I saw some of that special. NOt to bad. Did you see the show were they asked Brad Pitt what he would like to see happen?
Who's planing on getting the DVD?
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Thanks dita!
I agree, what is Joey without Chandler? Ross and Racheal reunited and Joey and Chandler where seperated forever. Bittersweet indeed.
The kids! Good grief. Pheebee has such a hard time giving up her babies, and then we see them again like one time! WTF?
Why do they put hotties on that show and then dress them down so they all look dorky? Paul Rudd seemed to have gotten a makeover when they brought him back, thank god! He was such a doll in clueless
Lesbians! Could there *be* any more lesbian/lesbianesque situations on friend? Lots of gay male jokes as well of course, but they played out just about every possible (male) lesbian fantasy. Could just be NBC's big fetish though, who knows.
I agree, what is Joey without Chandler? Ross and Racheal reunited and Joey and Chandler where seperated forever. Bittersweet indeed.
The kids! Good grief. Pheebee has such a hard time giving up her babies, and then we see them again like one time! WTF?
Why do they put hotties on that show and then dress them down so they all look dorky? Paul Rudd seemed to have gotten a makeover when they brought him back, thank god! He was such a doll in clueless
Lesbians! Could there *be* any more lesbian/lesbianesque situations on friend?
Lots of gay male jokes as well of course, but they played out just about every possible (male) lesbian fantasy. Could just be NBC's big fetish though, who knows.perdita said:Here are excerpts from a Salon article, I presume Friends' fans will get them. P.
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Some Salon staffers offer their own reasons below (1999 was not a good year) and we also invite you to offer your own reasons by submitting them here, with the subject line: "Friends." We'll run them Friday, along with Heather Havrilesky's review of the finale.
...
When Chandler left Joey I [Season 6, Air date: Oct. 7, 1999] Joey and Chandler made such a nice couple. So what the hell is Chandler doing with Monica? How can we possibly cheer those two on to love and marriage and life in the suburbs, when it's so obvious that Chandler let the one true love of his life get away? Remember that hilarious episode when Chandler spent Thanksgiving in a stereo box just to make amends with Joey for kissing Joey's girlfriend? Do you honestly think that Chandler would crawl into a cardboard box for that charmless shrew Monica? And how could Rachel ever expect to fill the void left in Joey's heart? Remember that season finale when Joey accidentally whipped out the engagement ring Ross was going to give Rachel when she was pregnant, and Rachel agreed to marry Joey on the spot? She didn't really want Joey, she just wanted a piece of the happiness that Chandler and Joey had known together. And who doesn't?
...
The cancelled son [Ben Gellar's last significant role: Season 8, Dec. 6, 2001] I can't help it, I just feel sorry for Ben Gellar. The product of late-blooming lesbian Carol and her estranged husband Ross, his impending arrival and appropriately mishap-riddled birth were the focus of some of Season 1's sharpest story lines. For a show that celebrates pregnancy -- it's milked endless fodder out of the gestations of Carol, Phoebe, Janice, Rachel, and now Chandler and Monica's adoption mother -- it's quick to forget even mentioning the fate of its actual children. Maybe that's why these six characters are known as Friends -- they're sure lousy at family.
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I missed the one with Brad Pitt....so I am very glad for reruns.
I watched it last night -- dah, who didn't -- I loved it. .
I do hope that the show "Joey" will make it, but you are right, what is Joey without Chandler. Unless it is really really good, I give it maybe a season.
I will mis that show! Even my 7 year old loved it!
I watched it last night -- dah, who didn't -- I loved it. .
I do hope that the show "Joey" will make it, but you are right, what is Joey without Chandler. Unless it is really really good, I give it maybe a season.
I will mis that show! Even my 7 year old loved it!
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Erm Honey, You might want to edit your post in case any fans who haven't seen it yet (like non-Americans) don't want to know.
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Damn it. I didn't want to know that!
I have to say I quite enjoyed series 9, especially the episode where Joey accidentally punches Ross in the face - that scene makes me crack up.
I'm quite looking forward to Joey - I always found him the funniest. Remember when he bought the encyclopaedia with words starting with the letter V...? I think I identify with him the most.
The Geller parents too - they're great....
God, I'm gonna miss this show so much - It's so crap and I love it so much...
I have to say I quite enjoyed series 9, especially the episode where Joey accidentally punches Ross in the face - that scene makes me crack up.
I'm quite looking forward to Joey - I always found him the funniest. Remember when he bought the encyclopaedia with words starting with the letter V...? I think I identify with him the most.
The Geller parents too - they're great....
God, I'm gonna miss this show so much - It's so crap and I love it so much...
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I did it too. It never even occured to me.
[/B][/QUOTE] Dr. Frued says: the secretly *want* to know or they wouldn't be reading this thread
[/B][/QUOTE] Dr. Frued says: the secretly *want* to know or they wouldn't be reading this thread
Honey123 said:
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Which Friend are You?
Everyone has a friend they most identify with, here's the quiz!
http://www.stomps.org/Quizzes/Friends/
Everyone has a friend they most identify with, here's the quiz!
http://www.stomps.org/Quizzes/Friends/
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Re: Which Friend are You?
I don't identify with any of them. I couldn't answer any of the questions. Rich, white, stupid, middle class people, are not my idea of role models either.
Gauche
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I don't identify with any of them. I couldn't answer any of the questions. Rich, white, stupid, middle class people, are not my idea of role models either.
Gauche
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gauchecritic said:
don't be so narrow minded. Look beyond the obvious.
OK, I'm white- that's it. I'm not rich, and I know that everybody says that, but I mean I've been off and on welfare for quite some time and I've been homeless a time or two as well. I'm not stupid, but I can be rather ditzy at times (mostly it's just cuz people don't get me) and I'm quircky, kinky and spiritual. So guess who I am?
The Q's were dumb, but hey it's just for kicks.
Taken together, the three guys make up "the perfect man"
1. Funny
2.Smart (Like Dr. Degree smart)
3. Smooth, and Sexy
The three girls represent a facet of most women. (or so it's been said.
1. Spiritual/Artistic/Freespirit
2. Girly/Sexy/Shallow
3. Bitchy/Bossy/Competitive
Maybe I will devise a better quize sometime. I'm pretty sure theres a friend fr all of us
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Re: Re: Which Friend are You?
I'm not taking the quiz, it would be against my integrity as a MexChick.
Perdita
Geez, Gauche, you left out Yank.gauchecritic said:
I'm not taking the quiz, it would be against my integrity as a MexChick.
Perdita
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Re: Re: Re: Which Friend are You?
Dita, I think you'd probably have to be Pheobee- although I'm sure it's not an exact match. Out of all of them, she's the one who had a really tough life and came out tough but still caring.
perdita said:Geez, Gauche, you left out Yank.
I'm not taking the quiz, it would be against my integrity as a MexChick.
Perdita
Dita, I think you'd probably have to be Pheobee- although I'm sure it's not an exact match. Out of all of them, she's the one who had a really tough life and came out tough but still caring.
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Thanks, Sweet. I know I'm nowhere near a Rachel or Monica. P.
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perdita said:Thanks, Sweet. I know I'm nowhere near a Rachel or Monica. P.
Certainly not!
