Friends: The Poll

friends is better than f troop morbs

to whom?

it knocks the phil silvers show into a cocked hat

what the f is a f troop even (skateboards away)

every generation needs a tv show that ruined NYC for good.

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

not ruined, made more assholes move here xp

see also S&tC, Girls

"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"

isn't assholes moving to NY basically what made NYC

Dutch East India Co were pretty big assholes

sounding a lil Trumpian there xp

xpost ha! I thought during my post about a poll of Friends, s&tC and Girls ruining nyc but I don't make polls.

I have a friend that used to get very very upset about the show Felicity ruining nyc.

I already did a poll for shows about young women "making it" in NYC, having trouble finding it tho

ok, not a poll but here it is TV Shows about single ladies living in NYC

I think Chris Noth has given interviews where he gets all grumbly about s&tc ruining nyc.

the idea that friends was some level of awful but seinfeld is worth shit is a venn diagram i could ignore all day

your opinion on seinfeld is worth similar to morb's on friends tho.

ive tried with seinfeld, i really have

hes ok in cars getting coffee, i mean i dig the unashamed asshole thing

boring show

larry storch is still living

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'.

think I agree with darraghmac

also, hard to believe any of these shows ruined NY

sitcoms don't ever really feel like they're in the city they're supposed to be in and are generally filmed elsewhere afaict

it's mostly S&tC that gets the ruined ny treatment. xpost

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.

S&tC and Girls did seem to show NY in a way that the earlier sitcoms didn't

also Broad City

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.

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.

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'.

I can't even explain why I found Friends far less insufferable than Seinfeld, on which it was ostensibly based.

Friends beat Seinfeld at its own game; it truly is a show about nothing

S&tC and Girls did seem to show NY in a way that the earlier sitcoms didn't

Friends and Seinfeld were filmed in Los Angeles

xpost Seinfeld is never in the running for ruining nyc. No white trustfund kid ever moved to nyc because of seinfeld.

this is a great time to bring up morbs' ny stand up career.

morbs moved to ny because of i love lucy

Good! As Jerry usta say, "One in a row."

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.

Welcome Back Kotter ushered in the great sweathog migration to Brooklyn.

ed norton inspired a generation of youngsters to become sewer workers

xp lol

didn't realize you were a life-long NYer morbius!

NJ (Sopranos country) til age 30

tho I have gone to school or worked here since 18

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