Rachel and Joey - ahhhhhhh...Monica and Chandler - meh...Pheobe and Ross - now you're talking. They could whine together for all eternity.
― Not me I'm the Emotional Type (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 12:05 (fifteen years ago) link
rachel's pretty dreadful in her own ways too, ned.
― doggy1998: im only only 10 and i listen to music like this (stevie), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 13:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh yeah, but I loved the stupid J & R plotline for some reason.
― Not me I'm the Emotional Type (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 14:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Joey and Rachel? That was unbearable, talk about running out of plots.
― chap, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 14:09 (fifteen years ago) link
I think the fact I am watching all this in reverse order may have affected my opinions. I can't wait to see Joey in floppy hair though.
― Not me I'm the Emotional Type (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 14:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Really, many of these are funny in isolation but watching too many of them at once can make you homicidal.
― ^likes black girls (HI DERE), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 14:41 (fifteen years ago) link
one more for Ross, he's the funniest nuff said
― sonderangerbot, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 14:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Chandler. Pill addiction.
― The chance of it are less then 5 per cent (wanko ergo sum), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 14:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Chandler. Unhealthy fluctuations in weight.
― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Tom D.), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 14:49 (fifteen years ago) link
No Chandler, No " .... omg!"
― Mark G, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 14:50 (fifteen years ago) link
We should poll funniest Chandler: normal Chandler, big fat orange Chandler, back to kinda normal Chandler with glasses?
― sonderangerbot, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 14:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Big Fat Orange ftw
― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Tom D.), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 14:54 (fifteen years ago) link
my favorite Chandler was early Chandler (but I'm indie like that)
― it feels late but it's early (wanko ergo sum), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 14:55 (fifteen years ago) link
i saw the thanksgiving episode with rachel's meat trifle the other day and it was still funny and I surprised myself by remembering everything about it, despite having not seen it in years.
― akm, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 15:06 (fifteen years ago) link
I wonder what became of Joey's daft leather waistcoat.
― chap, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 15:12 (fifteen years ago) link
It got a pilot but the network didn't think it had enough potential
― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Tom D.), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 15:14 (fifteen years ago) link
fave ep 4 sure
― it feels late but it's early (wanko ergo sum), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 15:23 (fifteen years ago) link
You forgot ultra-skinny from too much drugs Chandler
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 15:32 (fifteen years ago) link
that chandler's just upsetting
― doggy1998: im only only 10 and i listen to music like this (stevie), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 15:33 (fifteen years ago) link
never got past the fucking theme song!
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 15:33 (fifteen years ago) link
was thinking today, the theme tunes kind of a riff upon 'pleasant valley sunday', no?
― "the Morbius strip of issues" (stevie), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 15:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Crust Punk Chandler
― fenriz jr (wanko ergo sum), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 15:38 (fifteen years ago) link
kathleen turner as chandlers transexual dad is the only sensible answer here
― extremely intoxicated & uncooperative outside a Hסּסּters in Winston-Salem (will), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 16:02 (fifteen years ago) link
rachael because she is annoying. i mean wasnt that the point? annoying, neurotic, single manhattanites fucking up their jobs and relationships because they are annoying and neurotic? and she looks good in a mini skirt + mock turtleneck + boots.
― choomette (sunny successor), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 16:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Ross because he was on fire for the last couple of seasons.
Joey a close second for consistent greatness.
I love this show.
― caek, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 16:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Ross' playing the keyboard is the best moment of the whole show.
― Barnaby (Jack Savidge), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 16:28 (fifteen years ago) link
I have to mute the tv for the duration of the theme tune if I ever watch Friends.
― chap, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 16:43 (fifteen years ago) link
she looks good in a mini skirt + mock turtleneck + bootbs.
― 't (wanko ergo sum), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 16:44 (fifteen years ago) link
the theme song makes me embarrassed for wisconsin
― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 16:46 (fifteen years ago) link
wait are you thinking of "That 70's Show"?
― 't (wanko ergo sum), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 16:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Early cynical IT-skivvy Chandler kind of "spoke" to me at the time. And again when he took up smoking. So, him then.
Several shark-jumps over the years - but an equal number were in reverse, so I kept getting pulled back into it. Give it another four or five years, and I suspect it'll be viewed as a canonical consensus classic.
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 16:56 (fifteen years ago) link
How I Met Your Mother is like a FRIENDS that is funny and awesome. This show bores me. That said, I voted Phoebe because I liked that character.. didn't her character date one played by Paul Rudd at some point? The last few years of Apatow movies have made me love him.
― skeletal lexing (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 17:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Phoebe eventually married the Paul Rudd guy. But she was also married to Steve Zahn, and dated Michael Rapaport until he shot a bird.
― ^likes tilt-a-whirls (Pancakes Hackman), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 17:37 (fifteen years ago) link
HIMYM is charming but so very minor
― 't (wanko ergo sum), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 17:38 (fifteen years ago) link
How I Met Your Mother is like a FRIENDS that is funny and awesome
hmm, i've must've been watching the wrong episodes. US sitcoms are DEAD to me now tho.
but i do like Paul Rudd
― Timezilla vs Mechadistance (blueski), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 17:40 (fifteen years ago) link
HIMYM is odd in that the writing is often good but the execution is really flat and uninvolving. I've enjoyed it when I've watched it but gotten many more genuine laughs out of "The Big Bang Theory" and "Two and a Half Men".
― ^likes black girls (HI DERE), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 17:43 (fifteen years ago) link
are these all very zingcentric? i need more surreal bait and switch
― Timezilla vs Mechadistance (blueski), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 17:47 (fifteen years ago) link
HIMYM can be awesome.
the band that did the friends theme is from waukesha, wi.
― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 17:50 (fifteen years ago) link
embed me a funny HIMYM clip dudez
― Timezilla vs Mechadistance (blueski), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 17:50 (fifteen years ago) link
I can't video at work, but I hear you on thinking HIMYM is a snoozefest, once I finally gave it a shot though it hooked me fully and completely. Some great episodes: Slutty Pumpkin, Slapsgiving, the Pineapple Incident, and Wait For It are all great episodes. Little Minesota from this season is great if you are Canadian or a northern American. I guess you have to have enjoyed Pineapple Express, Dr. Horrible's sing-a-long blog, Freaks & Geeks or Forgetting Sarah Marshall because it's essentially the Jason Segal & Friends happy hour. Josh Radnor (lead guy) is okay but outshined by his supporting actors..
― skeletal lexing (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 18:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Phoebe is the least annoying.
― redmond, Tuesday, January 6, 2009 9:53 AM (47 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
how someone could think this is such a gigantic mystery to me that it kind of reawakens my sense of wonder at the incredible diversity of life on this planet
― dugong.jpg (jabba hands), Monday, 5 January 2009 23:43 (Yesterday) Permalink
this is too hilarious
― Surmounter, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 18:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Lisa Kudrow RIP
― 't (wanko ergo sum), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 18:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Unless you hold a gun to my head, I ain't playing this game. They are all pretty appalling when considered as people. They are only slightly less vomitous when considered as largish hand puppets.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 19:00 (fifteen years ago) link
That particular argument never really made sense to me; why do you have to like the "Friends" characters to find them funny? Since when is likability a necessary component of being funny?
― ^likes black girls (HI DERE), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 19:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Are we supposed to take the question of who is best as meaning who is funniest? This is easier, but easier still would be to take best as meaning the most inane, which rather twists the word "best" unduly hard.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 19:22 (fifteen years ago) link
they don't have to be likeable to be funny but it helps?
voted for Joey anyway because he has to be the only character on tv who became more enjoyable the stupider he got.
― Disco/Very (Roz), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 19:29 (fifteen years ago) link
the band that did the friends theme is from waukesha, wi.― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan)
― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan)
wait waht? at least one of them is a prodigal son of MN.
― virgin mary on the halfshell (John Justen), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 19:30 (fifteen years ago) link
barney is CRUCIAL to himym. it would be an absolute bore otherwise.
― extremely intoxicated & uncooperative outside a Hסּסּters in Winston-Salem (will), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 19:58 (fifteen years ago) link
no wai, robin is everything. barney used to be amazing but there are only so many inane 'this week the writers tried to think of a clever way of saying something about how to sleep with a girl' episodes i can take.
friends sucks. voted phoebe because she's the least evil.
― a hoy hoy, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 20:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Grotesque characters can be funniest of all, but I'm pretty sure that's not what Friends was aiming for
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 20:14 (fifteen years ago) link
xp lol
didn't realize you were a life-long NYer morbius!
― Dan S, Saturday, 31 August 2019 00:23 (five years ago) link
NJ (Sopranos country) til age 30
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 31 August 2019 00:28 (five years ago) link
tho I have gone to school or worked here since 18
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 31 August 2019 00:29 (five years ago) link
however even as a kid I knew the Lucy apartment address (623 E 68 St) would be in the middle of the fucking East River.
Frasier's apartment is in a zeppelin floating hundreds of feet above Lake Union
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Saturday, 31 August 2019 01:08 (five years ago) link