RIP Matthew Perry

What goes on here is what I talk about here. And lying about people here regarding what they've supposedly done here is a crock of shit. (To be clear ... you haven't done that, far as I can tell.)

 

I didn't like the idea that those yutzes were supposed to represent my generation.

 

I get it. I wasn't addressing that because I don't remember anything about it. I was just pointing out why I have little sympathy for one aspect of the situation.

I agree with you. I don't care for taking shots at former members who can't respond, though I've fallen into that trap on occasion in the past, too.

 

You seem upset. It was mindless entertainment. It was correctly described as comfort food. I was never a big fan. I watched episodes here and there. I watched some again when my daughter discovered it and binged the whole thing at least twice. It wasn't some great art with a high-minded message, but I didn't mind it and Perry played his part well.

 

I understand and recognize the issues with Sorkin's writing, though I recently re-watched The Newsroom. I doubt I'll watch the whole thing again. I've watched The West Wing five or six times. I will do it again at some point. Tying this back to the thread, I did like how Sorkin gave Perry the opportunity to show some range that wasn't apparent on Friends in both The West Wing and Studio 60.

 

PooP-I am upset about a good many things but not really about Matthew Perry.

I don't agree with your premise. Have a nice day.

 

To me, the bangers on that soundtrack were "Chloe Dancer" by Mother Love Bone and Chris Cornell's "Seasons." And the Ann and Nancy Wilson cover of Battle of Evermore.

 

That's the new way to 'debate' around here - Poster makes assertion and rejoinder is to call that person upset or emotional.

Or just find a tweet to suggest that person is overly emotional (about a show barely ever watched)

It won't do.

 

Point of order - they weren’t braless, they just weren’t padded. And the studio was very cold.

 

Would you like some help locating your sense of humor? I was having a little fun with how seriously you seem to be taking a debate about a silly sitcom.

Regarding the sense of humor, poop jokes really don't qualify.

 

Named my late dog Chloe bc of that song. I once spent a summer in London and the only cassette I remembered to bring with me was that soundtrack — and it never got old.

 

I never heard that they were until this weekend. Seinfeld's people were "caricatures," but Friends' weren't? They were wild exaggerations at best.

I mean, what fucking professor can afford Ugly Naked Guy's apartment, which I imagine in current times would go for about $5000 a month, if not more. Ross would live five trains and two states away on what a prof would make in Manhattan. ... Two of them were servers in a coffee house for periods of time in the 1990s. What'd they make, $5/hour + tips? Phoebe would have had to be letting her clients go Deshaun Watson all over her to survive and live the way she apparently did. Storing that cab would have taken a good bite out of that. In fact, they were all at one point or another too poor to live there (did the writers think soap stars made as much as Friends stars?). Yet they always had enough money for plane tickets to anywhere. You've gotta suspend your disbelief from the opening bell with that show. And most of us did. We weren't analyzing it. What fun is that?

But represent a generation? No more than Kurt Cobain and his unintelligible garbage represented it.