CRS
Chandler, Arizona, United States

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A Summary Example of Why I Hated the Show "Friends"

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

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I never liked Friends. I've only watched a few episodes all the way through, but it always struck me as being designed by committee for the lowest common denominator, the boringest, most vanilla Americans in the country. It was kind of like Seinfeld, except lame, and completely obsessed with who was having sex with who, if it were written by the most boring people imaginable. You know the voice black comedians use when they're imitating white people? If that was a real person, and there was twelve of them, they'd be writers for Friends.

I'd always thought that, and watching an episode once, I got a very clear example that completely affirmed my thoughts. There was an episode where a plot point hinged on the main characters being excited to go see Hootie and the Blow Fish concert, and being afraid they were not going to make it. This came up throughout the episode.

Hootie and the Blow Fish.

Now, granted, Hootie was selling a hojillion copies of their album, Cracked Rear View, at the time. But Hootie and the Blow Fish were never cool. Not once. And yet we were expected to believe that six reasonably hip young people were excited to go see Hootie and the Blow Fish, to the point where the entire plot of the episode was based around whether or not they could go see this concert. It wasn't just a concert they were going to see, it was the fucking concert. This would be like watching an episode of-- what show nowadays is lame that white people like to watch? It'd be like watching Two and a Half Men where the whole cast is shitting themselves to go see American Idol winner David Cook. It's not that it's unbelievable, but it is clearly not the best example of something an adult that has there head on their shoulders properly would be extremely excited about.

But I don't think the writers for Friends wrote "Hootie and the Blowfish" in their script. Here is what most likely happened: A writer wrote "Green Day" in the script, and a producer said, "Ehm, 'Green Day' is a little too scary for us. Go with someone less scary. How about Hootie and the Blow Fish?"

You want to know why? Because he thinks you are a fucking idiot. And that sums up the entire show for me.
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with love from CRS @ 7:27 AM 

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