2w ago

Friends is funny

I think most people say that it's not because it's popular to do so. The series has some genuinely funny bits.

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10 seasons,
Cast collectively bargains for $1,000,000.00 per episode per cast member for seasons 9 (24 episodes) and 10 (17 episodes).
Cast each paid $2,500,000.00 for reunion episode 17 years after finale (2021)
Total award wins: 65
Total award nominations: 256
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- Guys, I know it's unpopular to say this, but chicken is DELICIOUS!
- OP was talking about funny not successful, which is a brave take
  
  It's a comedy show. Talking about is success is talking about it's comedic performance.
  
  Real question: Could you show me a funny scene from friends? The first one that comes to mind?
  
  Although you're just being intentionally dense at this point I'll give you another quantifiable fact, the word 'comedy' appears 160 times on this page:
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Friends
  Clearly plenty of people found the series funny, even if you don't.
  
  Home Alone 4 is also a comedy, doesn't make it funny
  
  I'm not making any judgement in regard to your opinion, or even disagreeing, I thought friends was lame as fuck. I'm merely pointing out that friends is overwhelmingly considered a comedic success, and that our opinion is by definition the unpopular one.
- What's the spin off?
  Also the money is not proof of funny, you could make that off with the drama and romance series too.
  But the quotes are amazing. PIVOT! PIVOT!
- Definitely successful, but it's popular for people to say that they think it's not funny, which is what I was getting at.
  
  Tell me you're way too young to have watched it when it first aired... without telling me you're way too young to have watched it when it first aired.
  
  I watched it when it first aired. I'm talking about popular opinion now, not then.
  
  Eh. It was shit then, and it's only gotten shittier since (see: cash grab antics, laugh track BS, etc. above), but you go on thinking that a "popular" opinion is popular because it is, and not because it's the rational, self-respecting opinion that many simply default to and never apply further attention to the subject again. 🤷🏽‍♂️

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