[Anyone else feel different about Friends now...]

On 7/1/2018 at 5:13 PM, wendyg said:

Besides the reaction of the studio audience there were reviews and, most important, ratings. Doesn't matter what they say about you; what really counts is whether people watch so advertisers will pay to sponsor your show. FRIENDS started in 1994, around the time the internet was opened to commercial traffic and began really growing. So by the time it ended it was common to find recaps, fan groups, and TV sites (including the late, lamented Television Without Pity) all discussing the show. Social media is a new tool, but there have been many tools before it.

That'd be cool to find a friends blog that dates back to 1994.

[Anyone else feel different about Friends now...]

On 6/23/2018 at 11:05 PM, kariyaki said:

The studio audience. 

Did they interview them or something or was there like a gasp-o-meter?

[Ross and Rachel]

On 6/24/2018 at 9:14 AM, Danny Franks said:

The writers were quite happy letting Ross and Rachel seem to have completely moved on, only to then suddenly give them the feelings whenever it suited.

So you could have that wedding disaster, and then Rachel trying to reignite things... only for it all to be laughed off and ignored for the rest of the season. You could have them make fun of each other's dating mishaps with not an ounce of jealousy, only to then be really pissy over some other person they were dating. And you could have either one of them make definitive statements like the Ross quote you mention, only to then go back on it when there was a need for some romantic tension.

Now, all of this could be passed off as the sort of messiness that comes with friends who used to date, but it doesn't really wash. After six years, either you're still in love with someone or you're over them. You don't switch feelings on and off as necessary.

I really despised that "lobster" crap, and it's one of the bitterest memories I have of the last season of the show. Why were the other four so invested in Ross and Rachel being together, when they'd been such a miserable chore the first time around, and threatened to break up the group on more than one occasion? It was a bad case of characters voicing what the audience was supposed to feel.

I absolutely love it when Monica is trying to follow Chandler to the wine cellar at Ross and Emily's sorta reception and she could not be bothered by Rachel about what she wanted with Ross. Of course Monica eventually broke down momentarily to be a good `friend` but it was nice to see one of the other cast members finally not get all caught up in them and there fickleness

[Anyone else feel different about Friends now...]

On 12/12/2017 at 10:49 PM, WildStyle said:

Mondler actually wasn't planned as a big thing. The writers got the idea in season 3 or 4, and were gonna have that London hookup just be a one-time thing. But given the audience's reaction, and how they had to stop folming to wait for everyone to calm down some, they kept Mondler and played with it as a legit pairing. 

Originally, Richard was gonna be Monica's true love. 

How did they gauge an audiences reaction without social media?

[Queer As Folk (US) - General Discussion]

What’s Cowlip?

[Skin Wars - General Discussion]

I think the winner of season 1 should have been sent home on the first challenge. It was such a hideous paint job and what she painted the models toes so that means she was being creative? Then Gear didn’t knock her out when he should have and she ends up winning!? Bogus, finale should have been Gear and Dutch and the other guy person I forgot about

[The One With the Thing: All Episodes Talk]

On 6/11/2018 at 10:31 PM, Madding crowd said:

I know Monica and Phoebe were roommates in the beginning but it never seemed like Monica and Rachel would be friends with her. Kudrow was good in the part, but it often seemed like Phoebe looked down on the others and was uninterested in their lives and things they liked to do.

I always pretend that Phoebe did to Monica what the group did for Rachel, kind of a more experienced city dweller whenever Monica and her became roommates and Phoebe taught Monica all kinds of life lessons and by the time we meet them in the preimier Monica has grown out of her spoiled daddy girl phase. I was always curious about how Monica and Rachel’s path diverged, they mention Monica going to cooking school; so how did that work? She graduates HS then moves straight to her grandmas apartment and becomes a chef? Meanwhile Rachel is pledging a sorority? Where was Monica when she was 20, u know?

 

something tells me there are secret clues in the scene where Joey has his head in the turkey... correct me if I’m wrong that scene pre dates the premier?

[Ross and Rachel]

can someone point out a scene or episode where it is explained why Ross doesn’t ask Rachel out after his divorce with Emily? We see Rachel work up the nerve to tell him she still loves him before Ross and Emily decide to officially break it off, and when she tells him he doesn’t say he doesn’t feel the same way but rather has to fulfill his commitment to Emily just cause they are married... THEN, possilbly the very next episode he decides that he can’t quit seeing Rachel for Emily’s sake so they officially end it; then nothing. He kinda put Rachel on hold but then never went back to her. Is there any thing that fills in that gap, why wouldn’t you go talk to the girl who’s name you said, who sad she loves you still, who you refused to quit seeing, who u admired since high school? It seemed like a missed opportinity.

 

the other thing: 

 

remeber the the one where they watch the prom video and Ross was going to take Rachel since Chip wasn’t showing up then chip does show up and Ross is disappointed ted and 5hey all see this on the home movie... then Rachel gets up and kissed him, and phoebe says, “see he’s her lobster” this was obviously after the xerox girl on a break incident and also after emily... I’m gonna need to go back to Netflix and do my homework but I can’t remember what happens after she hugs him from seeing the video- did they get back together from that?