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Roseberry1 · 2023-01-04T20:58:00+00:00

"The weirdest place, would have to be... the foot of the bed." Does that mean because she always did it in obscure places so the bed was weird, or does it mean she wasn't adventurous so the foot of the bed was "different "? Never got it? 😁 I'm talking about season 1 in the blackout episode.

LaMarschallin · 04/01/2023 22:37

Rachel came across as a bit of a princess so I assumed she'd only sleep with men who could provide a decent environment: a room with a comfortable bed etc rather than the back of a car or something.

Stevie6 Is it worrying that I read your post and immediately the phrase "Uh...you...uh...know I haven't got a problem with that..." flashed across my mind?

Kanaloa · 04/01/2023 22:45

SaintLoy · 04/01/2023 21:25

I tried to watch an episode of 'Friends' way back in the 1990s and got about 10 minutes in before I grabbed the remote. The relentless American accents, The dad jokes. The canned-sounding laughter.

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Well the American accents aren’t relentless. They do relent for one episode where Ross develops an ‘accent’ in his classroom. Out of curiosity, do the relentless English accents in Eastenders bother you?

The show is full of inconsistencies though. Birthdays don’t make sense a lot of the time, they seem to change. And I always remember in the pilot Monica introduces Rachel to Chandler, but we later see that they’ve met on multiple occasions. Ben totally disappears, Ross never seems to have regular contact weekends with him after about series 3. Joey goes from a cool-guy actor to someone who seems basically developmentally disabled over the course of the show.

SaintLoy · 04/01/2023 22:47

Ducksinthebath · 04/01/2023 22:00

Who would think an American show set in America with American characters would feature American accents?! Funny old world.

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They do grate on some people, me included, if present to excess.

SebastiansLeg · 04/01/2023 22:59

I always thought the foot of the bed meant they didn't quite make it onto the bed so they had sex on the floor at the foot of the bed.

I am still in shock that the original Mindy is Baby from Dirty Dancing. It went right over our heads and we were massive Dirty Dancing fans. Her nose surgery completely changed her face.

xprincessxjanetx · 04/01/2023 22:59

Blughbablugh · 04/01/2023 20:59

I always took it as she wasn't very adventurous and so that was the most adventurous place she had been.

Yep, this!

Justleaveitblankthen · 04/01/2023 23:00

Oh and not wanting to derail but Phoebe's 'Evil Twin' was often forgotten about completely, especially when it came to her growing up with her Grandmother, later discovering and meeting her real mother, when her brother arrives as a character..
I hated the twin-thing 😅

Kanaloa · 04/01/2023 23:03

SaintLoy · 04/01/2023 22:47

They do grate on some people, me included, if present to excess.

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What do you mean ‘to excess?’ They were mostly American actors playing American characters in an American television series set in New York, in America! It would be ridiculous and bizarre to expect anything but American accents.

It’s a bit sad really - you must struggle to access a lot of classic cinema and very good television if you’re not able to tolerate any appropriate American accents in television and film.

WeAreTheHeroes · 05/01/2023 04:38

I thought the thing with Joey was that he seemed cool on first meeting, but was pretty vacuous and not very bright once you went beyond that. We've all met somebody like that.

SaintLoy · 05/01/2023 09:20

Kanaloa · 04/01/2023 23:03

What do you mean ‘to excess?’ They were mostly American actors playing American characters in an American television series set in New York, in America! It would be ridiculous and bizarre to expect anything but American accents.

It’s a bit sad really - you must struggle to access a lot of classic cinema and very good television if you’re not able to tolerate any appropriate American accents in television and film.

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I've got no trouble with US film directors like Tarantino, Scorsese, or the classics, nor decent US TV drama like Mad Men, American Horror Story, Six Feet Under, etc. Love them. But there's something relentlessly trivial and disposable about Friends, at least that's how it comes over to me.

Kanaloa · 05/01/2023 09:24

SaintLoy · 05/01/2023 09:20

I've got no trouble with US film directors like Tarantino, Scorsese, or the classics, nor decent US TV drama like Mad Men, American Horror Story, Six Feet Under, etc. Love them. But there's something relentlessly trivial and disposable about Friends, at least that's how it comes over to me.

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Oh, ok. So nothing to do with American accents then.

Kanaloa · 05/01/2023 09:39

WeAreTheHeroes · 05/01/2023 04:38

I thought the thing with Joey was that he seemed cool on first meeting, but was pretty vacuous and not very bright once you went beyond that. We've all met somebody like that.

I meant more how he changed over the course of the show. In series 1 he’s not academic but not thick - he can shoot jokes out, be sarcastic, he is very socially aware etc. By the end of the show he never makes a joke, he is just the butt of jokes, and some of his comments make him sound like he has the developmental ability of a child of 6/7.

SaintLoy · 05/01/2023 10:05

Kanaloa · 05/01/2023 09:24

Oh, ok. So nothing to do with American accents then.

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There is a certain sort of whiny American accent that get right on my wick, and the characters on Friends seem to do it a lot.

Kanaloa · 05/01/2023 10:09

SaintLoy · 05/01/2023 10:05

There is a certain sort of whiny American accent that get right on my wick, and the characters on Friends seem to do it a lot.

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Again, so it is nothing to do with American accents. If you watched and enjoyed Mad Men, ‘relentless American accents’ are fine. You just don’t enjoy the TV show Friends.

Marigold41 · 05/01/2023 11:02

Kanaloa · 04/01/2023 22:45

Well the American accents aren’t relentless. They do relent for one episode where Ross develops an ‘accent’ in his classroom. Out of curiosity, do the relentless English accents in Eastenders bother you?

The show is full of inconsistencies though. Birthdays don’t make sense a lot of the time, they seem to change. And I always remember in the pilot Monica introduces Rachel to Chandler, but we later see that they’ve met on multiple occasions. Ben totally disappears, Ross never seems to have regular contact weekends with him after about series 3. Joey goes from a cool-guy actor to someone who seems basically developmentally disabled over the course of the show.

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I was a huge fan back in the day (I don't think it's aged particularly well though!), but even at the time, I thought that every single character had become a ridiculous caricature of themselves by the later seasons.

xogossipgirlxo · 05/01/2023 11:33

Friends lack consistency, but I still love it.

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Roseberry1 · 05/01/2023 18:55

Marigold41 · 05/01/2023 11:02

I was a huge fan back in the day (I don't think it's aged particularly well though!), but even at the time, I thought that every single character had become a ridiculous caricature of themselves by the later seasons.

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Absolutely. Monica became really shrill, Rachel became a bit of a "bimbo," I know she started as a "daddys princess " type when you compare her in the last 2 seasons compared to season 3 when was progressing in her career and becoming focused, it's like her character went backwards.

Pheobe went from loving hippy to hard faced bitch, Ross became a bit of a joke considering he was supposed to be the academic, joey just became an idiot (talking on the phone to a Teddy bear ffs!) Chandler was the most realistic as he went from youngish man in his 20s to late 30s, married and more mellow.

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