fucking yuppieporn coffeehouse fantasy of NYC
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 30 August 2019 19:38 (five years ago) link
friends is better than f troop morbs
― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Friday, 30 August 2019 19:38 (five years ago) link
to whom?
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 30 August 2019 19:40 (five years ago) link
it knocks the phil silvers show into a cocked hat
― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Friday, 30 August 2019 19:40 (five years ago) link
what the f is a f troop even (skateboards away)
― McGrief the Crying Dog (Old Lunch), Friday, 30 August 2019 19:43 (five years ago) link
every generation needs a tv show that ruined NYC for good.
― Yerac, Friday, 30 August 2019 19:45 (five years ago) link
yeah this show was atrocious, certainly morally much worse than oh say turning a racist war criminal into a cute fake twitter account full of "tellin' it like it is" bullshit
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 30 August 2019 19:54 (five years ago) link
not ruined, made more assholes move here xp
see also S&tC, Girls
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 30 August 2019 19:55 (five years ago) link
"these gen z pussies don't like the retrograde cultural politics of a show written by boomers, this gen z nerd is here to tell you that doesn't matter because the show was lame anyhow"
― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Friday, 30 August 2019 19:55 (five years ago) link
isn't assholes moving to NY basically what made NYC
― Οὖτις, Friday, 30 August 2019 19:56 (five years ago) link
Dutch East India Co were pretty big assholes
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Friday, 30 August 2019 19:58 (five years ago) link
sounding a lil Trumpian there xp
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 30 August 2019 19:59 (five years ago) link
xpost ha! I thought during my post about a poll of Friends, s&tC and Girls ruining nyc but I don't make polls.
― Yerac, Friday, 30 August 2019 19:59 (five years ago) link
I have a friend that used to get very very upset about the show Felicity ruining nyc.
― Yerac, Friday, 30 August 2019 20:00 (five years ago) link
I already did a poll for shows about young women "making it" in NYC, having trouble finding it tho
― Οὖτις, Friday, 30 August 2019 20:06 (five years ago) link
ok, not a poll but here it is TV Shows about single ladies living in NYC
― Οὖτις, Friday, 30 August 2019 20:08 (five years ago) link
I think Chris Noth has given interviews where he gets all grumbly about s&tc ruining nyc.
― Yerac, Friday, 30 August 2019 20:11 (five years ago) link
the idea that friends was some level of awful but seinfeld is worth shit is a venn diagram i could ignore all day
― theRZA the JZA and the NDB (darraghmac), Friday, 30 August 2019 22:43 (five years ago) link
your opinion on seinfeld is worth similar to morb's on friends tho.
― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Friday, 30 August 2019 22:44 (five years ago) link
ive tried with seinfeld, i really have
hes ok in cars getting coffee, i mean i dig the unashamed asshole thing
― theRZA the JZA and the NDB (darraghmac), Friday, 30 August 2019 22:47 (five years ago) link
boring show
― brimstead, Friday, 30 August 2019 22:49 (five years ago) link
larry storch is still living
― brimstead, Friday, 30 August 2019 22:50 (five years ago) link
I remember seeing a feature on Entertainment Tonight back in the day about the upcoming season of new 'Seinfeld clones', including Friends. The next year, they ran basically the same story about 'Friends clones'.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 30 August 2019 22:51 (five years ago) link
think I agree with darraghmac
also, hard to believe any of these shows ruined NY
― Dan S, Friday, 30 August 2019 22:56 (five years ago) link
sitcoms don't ever really feel like they're in the city they're supposed to be in and are generally filmed elsewhere afaict
― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Friday, 30 August 2019 22:57 (five years ago) link
it's mostly S&tC that gets the ruined ny treatment. xpost
― Yerac, Friday, 30 August 2019 23:03 (five years ago) link
I liked Seinfeld a lot. Friends was always mindless entertainment that I never understood the popularity or appeal of the actors. I have no desire to rewatch either.
― Yerac, Friday, 30 August 2019 23:05 (five years ago) link
S&tC and Girls did seem to show NY in a way that the earlier sitcoms didn't
― Dan S, Friday, 30 August 2019 23:07 (five years ago) link
also Broad City
― Dan S, Friday, 30 August 2019 23:08 (five years ago) link
i am sure there are tons of articles written about s&tC but it did encourage the popularity of boozy brunches, overpriced cupcake chains, move to nyc so it can be your very homogenous dream mall etc. etc.
― Yerac, Friday, 30 August 2019 23:11 (five years ago) link
Lol, Seinfeld knocks Friends out a the weigh in and Friends is so shook it never bothers showing at the match.
And I think Seinfeld has dated rather poorly in some respects.
― Mazzy Tsar (PBKR), Friday, 30 August 2019 23:12 (five years ago) link
Neither Seinfeld nor Friends takes place in NYC. Both are located in a dream world that exists nowhere on earth, inhabited by characters who are more homunculi than humans. You may as well say that Plautus 'ruined Rome' as that either one of these phantasms 'ruined NYC'.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 30 August 2019 23:29 (five years ago) link
I can't even explain why I found Friends far less insufferable than Seinfeld, on which it was ostensibly based.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 30 August 2019 23:31 (five years ago) link
Friends beat Seinfeld at its own game; it truly is a show about nothing
― calstars, Friday, 30 August 2019 23:40 (five years ago) link
Friends and Seinfeld were filmed in Los Angeles
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Friday, 30 August 2019 23:48 (five years ago) link
xpost Seinfeld is never in the running for ruining nyc. No white trustfund kid ever moved to nyc because of seinfeld.
― Yerac, Friday, 30 August 2019 23:48 (five years ago) link
this is a great time to bring up morbs' ny stand up career.
― Yerac, Friday, 30 August 2019 23:49 (five years ago) link
morbs moved to ny because of i love lucy
― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Friday, 30 August 2019 23:55 (five years ago) link
Good! As Jerry usta say, "One in a row."
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 31 August 2019 00:04 (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.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 31 August 2019 00:14 (five years ago) link
Welcome Back Kotter ushered in the great sweathog migration to Brooklyn.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 31 August 2019 00:21 (five years ago) link
ed norton inspired a generation of youngsters to become sewer workers
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Saturday, 31 August 2019 00:23 (five 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
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