To think Friends got stupid?

[Pursuitofdesire]

Ok I used to love the tv show years ago and started rewatching episodes on Netflix.

But what the hell is the one where Joey speaks French?! Are we really meant to believe he’s so stupid he can’t even repeat words and genuinely believes he’s speaking French?

I still find it funny..... sometimes I just need to have simple telly for my tired mind to watch 🤣

I love it, it's perfect for when I'm hungover and my brain can't process anything too complicated

Yeah, I agree to a certain extent, the French thing was kind of tedious if you didn't suspend disbelief.
I've been really ill and be rewatching it all on Netflix as well, and I've got to the season where Joey and Rachel get together and OH MY GOD WHY DID THEY DO THAT.
It's single handedly the worst decision any script writers have ever made EVER.
There was no chemistry whatsoever, that whole season is just so insatiably awkward.

Got stupid? Always was IMO. runs and hides

I agree the French speaking storyline is stupid but the very last scene of that episode where joey pours down his front drinks a gallon of milk in 10 seconds is one of my favourites, it’s hilarious

At the time I thought the French episode was fire, however they've recently started to teach French at my sons lower school and it now regularly springs to mind. Ds is so proud, bless him, that he's speaking another language

Was dire... See I can't even type in English

I often refer to the ‘Joey speaking French’ episode when I’m trying to explain how bad DP is at languages. He’s not that bad, obviously (no one is), but he cannot accurately repeat back what’s been said to him. It’s like he can’t hear accent/ nuance etc.
You’re right though.

Je m'appelle Claude!

Tut t'la fruit!!

That's easily the best episode.

I watched them all when I was pregnant and suffering with Hypermesis - it was a perfect distraction!!!

I used to watch it as a student all the time almost becyase I hated it so much! Almost as a weird kind do ad flagellation!

I thought the Joey/French thing was hilarious. I don’t think we were meant to ‘believe’ it. Matt Le Blanc’s gormless expression was comedy gold.

The stupid part is paying 7.99 a month for a service that shows repeats of a 20 year old show that has been repeated ad nauseam on channel 4.
Netflix sucks

The series was based on a premise where you only needed to watch one episode, the entire rest of them were all the same, IIRC.

RoughPatchMum

I never understand if the joke is that he can't drink the milk but thinks he can, or that we should suspend our disbelief and think he can drink it?

It's just hyperbole - I don't think they hit many wrong notes in ten years. It never jumped the shark.

Some of it is a bit dated now (e.g. some of the gay jokes, even though they also had a lesbian couple and wedding), but mostly I think it's aged pretty well. My nieces and nephew love it, and they weren't even born when it finished (Christ I feel old now).

I still love it. Pivot! Is my favourite episode.

Ha, joey soooo thought he had drunk all that milk...

Buster72, you are Rupert Murdoch and I claim my £5!

My favourite episode is the one with the game where they end up swapping apartments.

"Actually it's MISS Chanandler Bong..."

“Today 17:54 Buster72

The stupid part is paying 7.99 a month for a service that shows repeats of a 20 year old show that has been repeated ad nauseam on channel 4.
Netflix sucks”

A whole £7.99 🤣 it’s not repeated anymore. And there is lots of other stuff on Netflix.

I have to admit though, friends hasn’t aged well

We have to get off MN, there's something wrong with the left phalange.

It was always stupid tbh ive tried watching it more than once.
End up switching off within 5 minutes

Blasphemy