Comments on: How you doin’?

By: Craig

Craig — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 11:29:40 +0000

James, spot on there. No matter what the shows faults, it stood head and shoulders above most comedies of that era.

By: James William Kendall Formerly Of Lincoln City

James William Kendall Formerly Of Lincoln City — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 15:36:33 +0000

i quite liked the fact that they all had flaws. i think rachel was supposed to be shallow, just a ross was a bit of a dick.
not a fashionable view in england but i think it’s a very watchable, very funny show. it dived a bit at the end with the moving out of NYC, getting married, babies emotional storylines (no jokes for five mins in one episode) but overal the jokes were better than most comedy.

it’s just funny.

By: pauldwaite

pauldwaite — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 10:52:21 +0000

Bloody hell. My flatmate has pretty much the whole thing on video, so when we moved in I watched the whole lot over the course of a couple of months. But 16 days?!?!?!?!? Yikes! Hence the compulsive humming.

Oh, and the idea with their flat was that Monica's grandmother owned it, or something. And rent control was mentioned a couple of times.

My fave is the season one Valentine's episode. Chandler's finest hour.

By: me_vs_gutenberg

me_vs_gutenberg — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 00:21:46 +0000

The Latin plural of series is also series; that, however, is not the same thing as glasses and trousers being pluralia tantum. The declination paradigm just happens to have the same ending for nom sing and nom pl.

By: Craig

Craig — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 11:11:45 +0000

Serii – that sounds right to me, too.

Christa,
Ooh the photo makes me instantly hum the incidental music that links scenes!

By: Christa

Christa — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 00:32:50 +0000

Funny you should mention the exterior apartment shots and their not appearing accurate. That's pretty much because, like 99% of American series, the show filmed in Hollywood and yet was meant to be set in New York City. Which might explain why the Friends all had crummy jobs and still managed to live in apartments which would require the selling of one's virtue AND one's mother for the rent.

And you know, I happened upon the actual exterior-shot Friends building while visiting NYC last summer, and the fakeness is true. There's really a cafe beneath it. See?

Hooray for observance!

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 18:27:30 +0000

I just saw War of the Worlds, I thought it was great, except the end was a bit abrupt. Dakota Fanning is amazing in it.

I don’t think it’s because we’re English – it’s just really lazy and like showing the Eiffel Tower to show you’re in France or the Acropalis in Greece. Remember Independence Day when they suddenly think they better point out the aliens aren’t just attacking the US of A so they show the Pyramids etc? I reckon the Egyptians didn’t really dig that.

By: lonely_orange

lonely_orange — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 17:54:03 +0000

Shouldn’t that be serii?
No… no… that can’t be right…?

By: mark

mark — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 11:13:33 +0000

The scary kid,isn’t that Dakota Fanning?.
Really scary in War of the worlds…

By: Craig

Craig — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 00:34:49 +0000

Another thing I forgot to mention about Ross, well David Schwimmer actually, is that I can't enjoy his 'physical comedy'. Watching him goof around, it seems he's so conscious that he fancies himself as Charlie Chaplin or something.

The scary kid was the daughter of the people that Monica and Chandler were buying the house off. She was also in I Am Sam, which I really liked.

I didn't really mention Chandler or Phoebe; I kinda assumed that everyone loved them both. Phoebe was great. I adore the moment when, having decided to form a secret splinter group of friends after Ross' English wife doesn't want him to be friends with Rachel, they're in Central Perk and saying bye to Ross, and Phoebe whispers "forever" behind his back.

By: becki

becki — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 22:12:21 +0000

I still find it a bit strange that the show appealed to so many people in England whose taste I tend to respect. I could never stand to watch it regularly because: A. Ross with very few exceptions is whiny without it being charming B. Rachel is shallow THANK YOU for saying that…ever woman in America wanted to be her when the show was at its peak and you just had to go ? C. The theme song…I don’t know what it was like in England, but it was inescapable here…actually the whole series was.

That being said, there are a few things I am fond of. You’ve already mentioned a few: Brad Pitt being mean to Rachel, anything Chandler does, and Phoebe in general. No one gives Phoebe enough credit, and she really had some of the best lines on the show.

Oh, and I thought the England stuff was obnoxious…except when it was Joey getting excited…because let’s face it, he would, it was just being true to character.

By: loulou apples

loulou apples — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 21:34:20 +0000

Yes! Ross IS annoying, and Rachel IS shallow and a bit mean. I’ve been saying this for years but all my mate’s favourite is Ross – how stoopid are they? I just cannot stand when he pops out of the fountain and does that ‘well, hey there…’ eyebrows thing. It makes me feel a bit…violated. Who is the slightly skeletal kid in the screen grab? Scary.

By: The Grammatikor

The Grammatikor — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 19:58:37 +0000

Series, like glasses or trousers, is both a singular and a plural form.

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 19:02:26 +0000

I wonder if that’s just us, though, Dave. Is it only Brits that find that sort of thing annoying? And surely people from other nations might feel the same about Brit stuff that “goes” abroad. I’m sure there’s a lot of countries out there that are pissed off with James Bond films’ portrayals of their countries.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 18:40:25 +0000

Them going to London was definitely the beginning of the end. Ooh look! A red phone box! Ooh look a not very good actress! Where were all the smackies?

Chandler is the only person I think seems to be nice both in the series and real life. And I like his gags. And he looks a bit like my brother