Just Admit It ... You Watched The Friends Reunion
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@rancid-schnitzel said in Just Admit It ... You Watched The Friends Reunion:
I hated it when it was on. I was obsessed with British comedies at the time and perhaps unfairly compared it with them. Obviously sitcoms are a different form of entertainment but if I’m looking to watch something funny I’ll take Bottom or Blackadder any day. In terms of Yank shows, Married with Children crapped on it as well.
But when I moved in with my GF (later wife) I watched it regularly and appreciated it as decent entertainment. There are some good laughs but a lot of seriously unfunny shit as well. The only really likeable character was Joey. Or that Gunther bloke🤣
Add Curb your enthusiasm to the list of American shows that were way better. Larry David is hilarious.
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@mn5 said in Just Admit It ... You Watched The Friends Reunion:
@rancid-schnitzel said in Just Admit It ... You Watched The Friends Reunion:
I hated it when it was on. I was obsessed with British comedies at the time and perhaps unfairly compared it with them. Obviously sitcoms are a different form of entertainment but if I’m looking to watch something funny I’ll take Bottom or Blackadder any day. In terms of Yank shows, Married with Children crapped on it as well.
But when I moved in with my GF (later wife) I watched it regularly and appreciated it as decent entertainment. There are some good laughs but a lot of seriously unfunny shit as well. The only really likeable character was Joey. Or that Gunther bloke🤣
Add Curb your enthusiasm to the list of American shows that were way better. Larry David is hilarious.
Indeed. Much prefer it to Seinfeld. Although the good Seinfeld episodes are really good.
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@rancid-schnitzel yea I found Seinfeld hit and miss, never got into Curb your Enthusiasm.
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@taniwharugby said in Just Admit It ... You Watched The Friends Reunion:
@rancid-schnitzel yea I found Seinfeld hit and miss, never got into Curb your Enthusiasm.
I loved George (who was apparently based on Larry David in real life) and Newman in Seinfeld and that was about it. I guess I just admire the finely chiselled heroic figure.
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@taniwharugby said in Just Admit It ... You Watched The Friends Reunion:
@rancid-schnitzel yea I found Seinfeld hit and miss, never got into Curb your Enthusiasm.
Yeah I loved Seinfeld, but CYE never caught my attention.
My favourite comedy out of the US would probably be The League I reckon.
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@nostrildamus said in Just Admit It ... You Watched The Friends Reunion:
@taniwharugby said in Just Admit It ... You Watched The Friends Reunion:
@rancid-schnitzel yea I found Seinfeld hit and miss, never got into Curb your Enthusiasm.
I loved George (who was apparently based on Larry David in real life) and Newman in Seinfeld and that was about it. I guess I just admire the finely chiselled heroic figure.
Jerry was easily the least funny out of all of them and a shit actor. That standup part before and after was generally really shit. But the bit parts were often brilliant. The parents for instance were perfect.
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@taniwharugby said in Just Admit It ... You Watched The Friends Reunion:
@bones never seen that.
Been a few years but I remember it being fantastic.
An underrated Brit comedy is Green Wing.
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@rancid-schnitzel said in Just Admit It ... You Watched The Friends Reunion:
@nostrildamus said in Just Admit It ... You Watched The Friends Reunion:
@taniwharugby said in Just Admit It ... You Watched The Friends Reunion:
@rancid-schnitzel yea I found Seinfeld hit and miss, never got into Curb your Enthusiasm.
I loved George (who was apparently based on Larry David in real life) and Newman in Seinfeld and that was about it. I guess I just admire the finely chiselled heroic figure.
Jerry was easily the least funny out of all of them and a shit actor. That standup part before and after was generally really shit. But the bit parts were often brilliant. The parents for instance were perfect.
oh yeah, I forgot.. Stiller Senior et al, great stuff..
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US comedies? Barney Miller. Nothing ever really happened, it was mostly just about the crap coffee. But, I liked it..
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@bones said in Just Admit It ... You Watched The Friends Reunion:
@taniwharugby said in Just Admit It ... You Watched The Friends Reunion:
@bones never seen that.
Been a few years but I remember it being fantastic.
An underrated Brit comedy is Green Wing.
Yeah - I seem to recall quite enjoying that. I only have vague memories of it, and couldn't remember the "vibe" - so just looked up some youtube clips... it looks like the entire thing is available on youtube. I might give it a repeat watch - like most Brit stuff, it's fairly short, sharp, sweet.
The League - yeah, that's the fantasy football one? I avoided that for years, due to the name - thinking it was based around actual NFL - which I have zero interest in. But then actually watched it... and fuck, really, really good. Lawyers trading players in their fantasy teams as part of a plea bargain - genuine LOL-snort. -
And to answer the actual Thread Topic...
No.
No, of course I didn't fucking watch it. Christ.
In order to watch it with any context, I'd need to go back and watch the original... and fuck that. I am perfectly content with my only knowledge of fucking Friends being absorption via pop culture references.
Also - I heard that it's terribly racist, homophobic, misogynistic, and all that other nasty stuff.
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@mariner4life said in Just Admit It ... You Watched The Friends Reunion:
Friends fucking sucks and I am judging you all very harshly
Thank God someone said it!!!
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@nostrildamus said in Just Admit It ... You Watched The Friends Reunion:
US comedies? Barney Miller. Nothing ever really happened, it was mostly just about the crap coffee. But, I liked it..
I liked taxi. All star cast, this scene was one of their best
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@nostrildamus said in Just Admit It ... You Watched The Friends Reunion:
@taniwharugby said in Just Admit It ... You Watched The Friends Reunion:
@rancid-schnitzel yea I found Seinfeld hit and miss, never got into Curb your Enthusiasm.
I loved George (who was apparently based on Larry David in real life) and Newman in Seinfeld and that was about it. I guess I just admire the finely chiselled heroic figure.
I'm the opposite, I can't watch Curb because it's just a whole show about George and my annoyance threshold for George is pretty slim.
The best Seinfeld episodes are truly brilliant but it will be interesting for me how the rest of the episodes are (the ones I don't remember off the top of my head).
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@bones said in Just Admit It ... You Watched The Friends Reunion:
@taniwharugby said in Just Admit It ... You Watched The Friends Reunion:
@rancid-schnitzel yea I found Seinfeld hit and miss, never got into Curb your Enthusiasm.
Yeah I loved Seinfeld, but CYE never caught my attention.
My favourite comedy out of the US would probably be The League I reckon.
Oh yeah, I really like The League, wouldn't get close to my favourite US comedy though - that's Community.
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@rancid-schnitzel said in Just Admit It ... You Watched The Friends Reunion:
@nostrildamus said in Just Admit It ... You Watched The Friends Reunion:
@taniwharugby said in Just Admit It ... You Watched The Friends Reunion:
@rancid-schnitzel yea I found Seinfeld hit and miss, never got into Curb your Enthusiasm.
I loved George (who was apparently based on Larry David in real life) and Newman in Seinfeld and that was about it. I guess I just admire the finely chiselled heroic figure.
Jerry was easily the least funny out of all of them and a shit actor. That standup part before and after was generally really shit. But the bit parts were often brilliant. The parents for instance were perfect.
Jerry’s standup was fucken terrible but he was still a massive part of what made the show good. He did the straight man to everyone else’s kooky weirdness extremely well.