Can you get muppet babies anywhere? Would be well up for giving that a rewatch. The seinfeld contest spoof!
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Itās funny watching the first season of Friends where Joey knows what The Unbearable Lightness of Being is and by the end of the series he could barely spell the word āofā
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Such a waste of money. There are laws in place to make sure thereās never a time of day when you canāt catch a Friends marathon.
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Can we stick to Friends please
Friends obviously has a lot of issues, which are very obvious in hindsight and probably should have been obvious at the time too, and yes the characters are caricatures that can be hard to empathise with - but none of that is really the point for me, as a sitcom based around character-driven gag-writing itās pretty untouchable (not seen Seinfeld though), it sets the standard for that kind of line-line-punchline format, and it does it consistently for ten years.
Iāve said before, but all these American network studio sitcoms are basically the same but reskinned - Friends, Frasier, BBT, whatever. Swap out the references and the setting and the character quirks and itās the same muscle and skeletons underneath, and itās hard to argue with the fact that Friends did it all the best.
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Friends is actually a very highbrow tragi-comedy of an actor losing his mind
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I would argue with that by saying it did it the worst
Frasier did it far better than Friends did
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Oh really? I avoided that because it seemed like it was trying too hard to make the Muppets too āadultā or whatever. But a Rizzo/Gonzo/Pepe flatshare sounds like the sitcom of my dreams.
Guys can we just acknowledge a blanket statement across the board for all 90s entrants that theyāre problematic
The 90s was SUPER problematic in general, pretty much everything from that era has aged poorly from a political standpoint.
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Leave Jurassic Park alone!
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There are loads of CGI Muppet Baby shorts on Disney Lifeā¦ annoyingly I donāt think thereās a function to just play through a series though, so we never watch them because I canāt be arsed to keep reselecting episodes.
FUCKING REX SHAMING!
Thatās the one. Only three minutes long though.
think it took maybe 5/6 episodes to find its feet (and those first few episodes are ROUGH) but thereās some gold later on. If it had started that well thereās no way it would have been cancelled. And yeah, Rizzo/Pepe/Gonzo flatshare should be a sitcom all to itself.
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Any entrants more than 10 years old. At any given
time.
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I started watching it from the start when it went on Netflix but I didnāt find it very funny and found it quite dull tbh, gave up halfway through season 2. Pretty sure it doesnāt hold up if you didnāt see it first time round 
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As a general rule though, those problematic shows arenāt canonised to the same extent and donāt still have the cultural cache they did at the time. Friends is still a behemoth.
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Argggh my eyes!