Friends

Can you tell I hit a sensitive nerve when I insulted Friends watchers? Honestly I watched the show for the first couple of years and thought it was funny. Like any show after a few years the writing gets stale. Does any one still watch the Simpson’s? The Ross and Rachel relationship was getting old so they started to create new romantic relationships between other cast members, but really all they were doing was rehashing the same material with different cast members. It was too much like a soap opera for me. I think the next thing that turned me off Friends was when the whole cast held out for huge raises. Smart on their part to stick together when demanding salary increases but by that time the show was no longer funny. I tried watching an episode of Friends the other night (Did you know Rachel was pregnant? Can I assume that the baby was Ross’s?) but didn’t find one line funny, even though the laugh track thought they were hilarious. Maybe it’s inside humour for long-time Friends watchers, I don’t get it. I think if the show continued they would have had every cast member sleep with each other, including Ross and Monica. The show should have been called “Sluts”, maybe I would have watched it longer. They would have been better off taking a page from Seinfeld and quit while the sitcom was still on top. Truth is I watch very little television these days because I think everything sucks. Besides sports, the only show that I make an attempt to watch on a regular basis is The Office. Still I know there are a few episodes of The Office that I didn’t catch. Personally I think the funniest sitcom, in my television viewing life, was the Mary Tyler Moore show.

How gay is that?