Friends TV Show • Page 19

THEY WERE ON A BREAK!!!!!

 

100% on a break.

Ross: Is this about Mark?
Rachel: (shocked) Oh my God.
Ross: Okay, it’s not, it’s not.
Rachel: Oh my God. I cannot keep having this same fight over and over again, Ross, no, you’re, you’re, you’re making this too hard.
Ross: Oh I’m, I’m making this too hard. Okay, what do you want me to do.
Rachel: I don’t know, I don’t know. Urrrgh! Look, maybe we should take a break.
Ross: Okay, okay, fine, you’re right. Let’s ah, let’s take a break, (goes to the door) let’s cool off, okay, let’s get some frozen yogart, or something.. (opens the door)
Rachel: No. (Ross is standing in the doorway.) A break from us.

(Ross looks at her, then leaves slamming the door behind him.)

 

From an on screen chemistry perspective? Absolutely. It's one of the core reasons the show got as popular as it did. "Ross and Rachel" became a meme for relationships off of those two.

 

The Joey thing really frustrated me watching it week to week because longtime viewers knew the writers were never going to commit to it and were merely stalling for time to keep the series running. They built up to it for like two full seasons and then casually tossed it away in one episode (when they couldn’t move past kissing without it being awkward) only to literally never mention it again. It also gave us the dumbest cliffhanger with the Joey fakeout proposal. The whole thing made me so uncomfortable.

 

Still hilarious though in hindsight.

Yep.

 

My girlfriend hates that sooooooooo much. lol

I admit, I liked when Joey had unrequited feelings for Rachel and he genuinely struggled with it and tried to be the bigger person and get over it. It felt like a total cop-out when the shoe was on the other foot.

 

Could Chandler be any more underrated?

 

I personally never saw the chemistry. I get that people rooted for them to be together but that's a whole other issue with society haha

 

I always looked forward to the Friends finales because they were pretty good about leaving you on the hook over the summer. It was always zeitgeisty to talk about at school at the end of the year and wonder over for the summer before it returned in the fall. Sweeps and all that. They were good at it. It was very of the time.

But that finale...I still remember it ending there and being like “wait what? THAT’S NOT A CLIFFHANGER THAT’S JUST A RIDICULOUSLY OVERCOMPLICATED MISUNDERSTANDING CLEARED UP WITH A SIMPLE “oh sorry, no, this aint mine, it was in Ross’s pocket. Oops.””

I was so mad lol. Every time I see it now and Rachel does the whole “oh my god!”

*dramatic pause*

“Okay.”

*Joey makes stupid face*

I just laugh.

 

Yeah that didn't work for me when I first saw it and that was almost 15 years ago.

my god life is fleeting

 

Saw it live in college with a bunch of friends. There was an audible ... "NOOOOOOOO!"

Heh, the line ... "RIDICULOUSLY OVERCOMPLICATED MISUNDERSTANDING CLEARED UP WITH A SIMPLE.."

Sums up sitcoms in a nutshell. How I will always love them.

 

They should have written Ross off the show and replaced him with Russ

 

maybe they did and he just assumed the identity of Ross. no way to know for sure

 

Oh it’s that time of year where I marathon through every thanksgiving episode!

 

My hot take is that they dumbed Rachel down to put her with Joey which automatically makes them a bad couple and also no chemistry.

Ross and Rachel also sucked.

Phoebe/Mike and monica/chandler were my fave couples

 

Joey and the girl that punched him is my fav couple

 

I love that it's Punky Brewster

 

both of those made sense
Phoebe needed someone who got her but was also a bit of a normie
Monica needed someone who got her but also challenged her, and Monica and Chandler are the whole opposites attract thing

 

Yeah Mike grounded phoebe well but also got her.

I love that Monica and chandler weren't totally random. They'd have these lil moments like at the beach house when chandler tries to convince Monica he'd be a good bf, chandler suggesting they get together and have a baby if both are single by 40, all the times chandler comforts her and tells her she's beautiful.. All those lil moments so it made more sense.

 

Speaker of Brewsters, Chandler should have gotten over his jealousy and stayed with Paget

 

Nice segue

 

Not sure which Thanksgiving episode is better: the one with Chandler in the box or the one where Rachel makes the bad dessert

 

Chandler in the box for sure imo

 

I am partial to Rachel's bad dessert.

 

Meat good jam good is the best but I think box is the better episode overall