To think Rachel should have ended up with Joey?

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Lighthearted thread.

Watching Friends and I wish Joey and Rachel ended up together

I don't think Ross was all that bad... when Rachel got a job via Mark and started going to dinner with him all the time "to talk about work" Ross realised Mark had an ulterior motive, and Rachel always denied this but Ross was spot on! And they WERE on a break (at her instigation)!

Plus there's that whole "Wanting to stop his wedding" thing... of the two of them I think she's worse.

Imagine the AIBU

"Me and my husband had a whirlwind romance but he completely embarrassed me by saying his ex girlfriends name at the altar by mistake. Not only that, I refused to go on the honeymoon, and he took the very same ex!!! He lives in the US, I'm supposed to be moving there (he can't move here he has a son) he has a tight knit group of friends that include this ex. WIBU to tell him that our marriage will only work out if he doesn't see her again?"

Literally no one would think SWBU

Nah @GunpowderGelatine this is mumsnet. You'd get 8 pages of people saying "You sound very controlling. Isn't your DH allowed to have friends? My DH often goes off for weekends with his best friend who happens to be female and I'm totally cool with it because I'm not a jealous shrew like you."

I'm onto the final season now and I'm definitely not enjoying it as much as the earlier ones.

As PP said, the show worked brilliantly when they were singletons but towards the end it didn't work as well.

I used to think Friends shouldn't have ended when it did, but now I'm watching as I'm older I think they ended at the right time.

Btw I am OP but have NC'd since starting this thread

I saw the episode where "Phoebe" does porn, and the joke "Lawrence of Her Labia" was used. So the most cringeworthy line in the risible SATC2 film wasn't even original!

I thought all that stuff that Phoebe came out with about her past and living on the streets was just her making it up- like her grandmother who made up stories about her Dad (and the picture of Einstein that she thought was her Granddad) I didn't actually realise it was supposed to be her real past.

I think it's a mix of both? A fertile imagination adding to her traumatic events? Or her using it to manipulate other people with embellishments or bending things slightly so they "fit" the situation so she got her own way

Yes @Helplessfeeling and @lololove yes like that one where she said

'my mother was killed by a drug dealer'
'You're mother killed herself'
'She was a drug dealer'

I feel like She just said whatever she wanted to at the time to suit the situation

I think it worked well with them as singletons but also enjoyed Monica and Chandler getting together because they did the storylines so well.

It would have been easy to just make Monica and Chandler live happily ever after but they did the fear of commitment thing (which went along with chandlers character,) the proposal, the wedding planning, the fertility issues. It was all done really well and they didn't just suddenly change their characters because they were together.

Joey was awful in the end. In the early series you could see how he could pick up women easily with his looks and charm. Later series though he was just so stupid it wasn't believable that women would just throw themselves at him.

I wish Phoebe had stayed with David. Frustrated me that they had him in and out for so long to just be rudely shoved to the side by Mike

Chandler was always my favourite "I'm not great at the advice. Could I interest you in a sarcastic comment?" ARF grin

I have that on a hoodie. People get proper excited when they read it

I found the classism horrible, the way they make fun of the young girl whose twins Chandler and Monica adopt. She's portrayed as this sort of trashy yokel.

shins I was always really pissed off at the reactions of Monica and Chandler at the thought of the baby's father being in prison. It's probably a sensitive topic with me as I myself was the child whose father was in prison but it wound me up!