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Who Else Is Shocked That This Guy Is 58?
Worst Storylines
Jewish Monica Wears A Cross
Their Looks
Where Are the Other Posts from IMDB?
What's with the posturing?
How come Tim Allen lusts after that old woman?
How Come They Wear Outside Shoes at Home?
That Nancy Travis is just horrible
My thoughts on the movie / Response to the criticism
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I prefer Caucasian with the occasional dash of brown or black, so I'm glad Friends was made that way. There ought to be room for white-only or white-supermajority casts on television and movies. Lighter Hispanics, Indians, Arabs, or Jews (a la David Schwimmer) are fine too in those settings so long as they're Westernized.
There's always been an obsessive and competitive nature in her personality, which I never liked, but that's just how the character was constructed to be.
She pulled it off eventually, that's for sure.
I got Ross, unsurprisingly.
Not shocked, unfortunately. In the last interview I saw him in, he looked and sounded like an 85-year-old. Poor guy aged horribly. He'll be missed.
Sometimes — oftentimes, in fact — a bunch of white people get together and form friendships, relationships, get into conflicts, build professional relations, and so on. And sometimes, this aspect of life will be reflected in art and entertainment. Other groups will be black, others Hispanic, and others multiracial.
If you only have a problem with the first one but not with the last three, then it sounds that you just have a problem with white people. And if you have such a problem with white people as to seek to deny them group representation on television or elsewhere, then no, there's not much validity to your argument.
PS: The whitest of the Friends has just passed away. So there's that. I'm sure there'll be plenty of threads about this.
Half of them were female, some came from riches, some from poverty, some middle class, some Italian, some Jewish. Point is, there was enough diversity in the show for my taste. The closest thing to a person of color in the cast was David Schwimmer, and that was good enough.
I identify most with Ross, but largely because of socioeconomics (college life, solidly middle class, married rather early, no particular desire to womanize).
Hang out with: Any of the three men. They all have their strong points as potential friends: Ross if you want to discuss deep subjects or ideas; Chandler for showing himself reliable when Joey needed help; Joey to just chill out and/or have fun. Obviously, I could hang out with the women, too (with the exception of Phoebe), but not as comfortably as with the men.
Date: Rachel. Not only was she the hottest in most seasons, but her personality is tolerable and even cool at times, contrary to either Monica (competitive, obsessive) or Phoebe (weird).
The two stupidest storylines were the one where Chandler couldn't crack a simple smile for a photo shoot and the one where Joey couldn't repeat short sentences in French. Basically, things anyone whose IQ is above retardation could perform but somehow these two guys weren't able to do. Not sure what the writers were thinking at that point, but those two scenes (and a few others) are automatically skipped during rewatchs.
Janice wasn't the most beautiful but was definitely a bit of a hottie.
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