Deja Q
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Thu Nov-20-03 08:57 PM
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How many of you NEVER found 'Friends' to be funny? |
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I've seen occasional episodes throughout its overlong history.
It is not funny.
Never has.
Never will be.
Or maybe I'm just thick, but we'll discuss that truism later. What makes this show funny? :shrug:
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Thu Nov-20-03 08:59 PM
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I've always hated Friends and never found it funny. I actually find Becker to be a lot funnier and more enjoyable!
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Thu Nov-20-03 09:01 PM
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2. Funny six years ago... |
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Edited on Thu Nov-20-03 09:02 PM by onehandle
Not anymore. They are too tan, taut, and old to be believable as those New Yorkers at that age.
They look like L.A. millionaires.
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Thu Nov-20-03 09:01 PM
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Thu Nov-20-03 09:11 PM
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Edited on Thu Nov-20-03 09:22 PM by cosmicdot
but, what a gig
maybe someone's parent has connections
give me Ralph Kramden and Ed Norton as "friends" any day or
currently ... Ardal O'Hanlon in "My Hero" (BBC)
simple sets and better writing could go a long way
there's got to be better creativity in this country ... I try to imagine ... re the crap on TV ... someone picking up a script and going "OMG ... this is so fab ... we must spend millions to produce it" ... I just don't get it
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Thu Nov-20-03 09:01 PM
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Posts like yours make me really mad, because people always criticize the writing of the show. But it's not the quality of the writing that's important, IT'S THE QUALITY OF THE FRIENDSHIP! AND I DON'T THINK YOU'RE BEING A VERY GOOD FRIEND TO THEM, AND I DON'T THINK THEY WANT YOU TO BE THEIR FRIEND! IN FACT, I THINK THEY LIKE ME MORE THAN YOU! THEY'RE MY FRIENDS! THEY'RE MY FRIENDS! THEY'RE MY FRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIENDS!
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Thu Nov-20-03 09:05 PM
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LOL! :-) Never mix television with reality...
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Thu Nov-20-03 09:33 PM
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21. Tv set there,message board here; now breathe; tv set here, |
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message board there; breathe . . .
ROFL!
Since this is the first I've seen of yours,
Welcome! :toast:
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Thu Nov-20-03 09:02 PM
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5. I actually find it funny... |
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I think it's well-written and well-acted. Lisa Kudrow is great comic and oddly enough, Jennifer Aniston turned out to be a GREAT comedian. I thought she was really weak when the show started, but she's grown a lot.
Not the best show on TV, but definitely better than the likes of Everybody Loves Raymond or much of the other dreck that passes for sitcoms.
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Thu Nov-20-03 09:10 PM
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It's nothing revolutionary or spectacular, but it's enjoyable enough.
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Thu Nov-20-03 09:05 PM
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People who don't like firends... |
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Usually have a bad outlook on life.
ever stop to think why it has been on tv for so long?
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Thu Nov-20-03 09:11 PM
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It's been on so long because the lowest common denominator keeps getting lower...
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Thu Nov-20-03 09:26 PM
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Thu Nov-20-03 11:54 PM
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Where was the case?
Thanks for the giggles.
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Thu Nov-20-03 09:36 PM
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22. I loved the Carpenters, I hated "Friends." |
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By themselves, no problem. But the show is just too cute for my taste.
I do, however, love "Smelly Cat," which I believe is the only episode I ever watched all the way through.
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Fri Nov-21-03 02:18 AM
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because a lot of people like to watch A LOT OF CRAP ON TV ?????
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Thu Nov-20-03 09:05 PM
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7. Friends is the perfect show for this generation: |
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No wit or class, not much of a plot, that I could comprehend. I never did watch it regularly, and I've scarcely had my TV on in the last couple years, but I never could understand how anyone could watch that show unless they were simply vegetating and wanted to stare at a TV screen.
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Thu Nov-20-03 09:08 PM
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it DOES have Jennifer Anniston and Courney Cox. 'nuff said.
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Thu Nov-20-03 09:07 PM
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8. The first season was very good... |
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but it took a nosedive after that...
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Thu Nov-20-03 09:10 PM
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11. I liked Friends for the first two years it was on |
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However, I grew up and the "Friends" didn't. They're boring.
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Thu Nov-20-03 09:19 PM
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14. I never thought much of it either. |
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I often like ensemble cast shows, but I guess the fact that they were nakedly marketing me with this show just put me right off. I got enough 'shows about nothing in particular' after the first few seasons of Seinfeld, though.
I will say that one of the few good things to come out of the show was Lisa Kudrow's independent film work -- she was great in 'The Opposite Of Sex.'
I don't know -- 'Friends' came on the air just as I was getting sick of everything on network television but 'Homicide: Life On The Streets.' That's the last series I ever watched, and may well be the last one I ever watch. If I want light, screwball comedy, I'll go dig up my copy of 'The Philadelphia Story' and watch it again.
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Thu Nov-20-03 09:24 PM
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Thank you for asking. I've only seen it two or three times since it started. I usually watch PBS (no cable), but have seen it on my friends' teevees occasionally and just don't get the hype about it. Haven't seen "X-Files" but once or twice and thought "Seinfeld" was only okay, too. John Actually I am staring at the computer screen far more often than the TV screen.
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Thu Nov-20-03 09:25 PM
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16. I watched on episode and that was it for me |
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Maybe I should have turned it back on and given it another chance.
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Thu Nov-20-03 09:28 PM
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Absurd premise. Written in simpleminded, broad strokes. Mugging characters. You just feel the elbow at your ribs, urging, "laugh!"
It may be a moneymaker, but it ain't funny.
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Thu Nov-20-03 09:30 PM
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Thu Nov-20-03 09:32 PM
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or remotely interesting.
Friends don't let friends watch "Friends." ;-)
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Thu Nov-20-03 09:47 PM
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23. I've never seen so much as one episode of "Friends" |
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I can find more constructive ways to spend my leisure time than watching television. Remember, there's a good reason why they call it "programming."
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Thu Nov-20-03 11:51 PM
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people only like it because it appeals to the ordinary person with the average sense of humor.
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Thu Nov-20-03 11:55 PM
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26. *frantically raises hand and goes "ooh, ooh, ohh!"* |
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I despise that fucking show.
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Thu Nov-20-03 11:57 PM
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27. I've never found friends to be funny. |
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i think that show is stupid.
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Fri Nov-21-03 12:00 AM
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28. Me. Never found it even remotely funny. Or Seinfeld, either... |
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Fri Nov-21-03 12:10 AM
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Here's a flame for ya... what's funny if Seinfeld's not?
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Fri Nov-21-03 12:04 AM
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29. Are they still going to be carefree bachelor-ettes when 60? |
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Makes you wonder.
They could break a hip running around a littered apartment like that.
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Fri Nov-21-03 12:46 AM
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31. I don't know. I never watched it. |
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Fri Nov-21-03 12:49 AM
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32. when i was attempting to pitch scripts in hollywood... |
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the vermin therein said my stuff was funny, but they wanted it to be "funny like Friends."
I can't describe the look that would come over me, which is why I'm perpetually underemployed.
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Fri Nov-21-03 05:00 AM
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Funny, like 'Friends'? They're not funny, they're stupidly silly.
I tell you what, some of the best comedy is right here on DU. There are times I sit here and laugh my ass off over some of the shenanigans here in the lounge and GD. DU's quick wit is fun and funny.
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Fri Nov-21-03 12:57 AM
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33. *shrugs* Eh, it has its moments. |
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It's not the best thing on the idiot box, but it's not the worst thing either.
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Fri Nov-21-03 01:01 AM
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34. I think because it reminds white people of High School or College |
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If you ever noticed it was in New York and there were no minority's in the show.:wtf:
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Fri Nov-21-03 02:36 AM
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I think it's a crap show. |
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I don't find it funny in the least.
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Fri Nov-21-03 08:36 AM
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50. Now "Fairly Oddparents" IS definitely funny. |
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My 6 yo son and I watch it together, faithfully.
I mean, the Ahnold-like head fairy? That is classic. Love it!
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Fri Nov-21-03 02:36 AM
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Fri Nov-21-03 02:50 AM
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37. I only found it somewhat funny while I was in college... |
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Because one of my college roommates "Joey", shares some of the qualities of the friends "Joey"...had to be there to believe it. And now he just ran in his first election to become a city council member (and as a repub too, arrrgh! I figured i'd have the liberal inside of him out by now...it's not too late....i can feel the good inside of you...let go of your hate and the dark side Joey...:crazy:)
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Fri Nov-21-03 02:53 AM
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38. I thought I was one of very few who didn't like the show at all. It wasn't |
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interesting to me in the least.
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Fri Nov-21-03 04:48 AM
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I tried to watch an episode or two but couldn't get into it, not funny or interesting enough to catch my interest. :shrug:
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Fri Nov-21-03 04:57 AM
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But there are thousands of shows and movies I can't stand that I won't post in the lounge. People find different stuff funny then other people, you ask What makes this funny? well someone might respond giving their reasons why they think it is funny and you will reply, That's not funny. People have different tastes then other people, lots of people obviously like the show because it has been on the air for what 7 years?
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Fri Nov-21-03 05:08 AM
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... pile of shit! Total horseshit, in fact. Can't stand it's goofy fuckin optimism. If I lived in the same building as those cunts I'd fuckin kill myself. Why it became so popular, I'll never know. Moreover, I'm always a bit suspicious of people who own DVD box sets of the shite. They all seem to be airheads who hate the unemployed because they're... well, unemployed.
Just to re-iterate, Friends is WANK!
Thank you
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Fri Nov-21-03 05:10 AM
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It seems to me you painted them with a broad brush, they like the show you don't. So fucking what, I am sure you like shows that others don't.
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Fri Nov-21-03 05:20 AM
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44. friends is not comedy... |
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... it's fuckin propaganda. I like Laurel and Hardy. I don't like Buster Keaton. But I respect the man's comedic talent. I understand that he's not trying to make me "feel good", he's trying to make me laugh. There is an ocean of difference between the two.
Friends glosses over those aspects of existence which are genuinely humorous. It is anti-human.
It's bollocks.
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Fri Nov-21-03 07:12 AM
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45. I watched off and on the first year.... |
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then it got stupid or I smartened up....Not my cup of tea....unfortunately in my line of work I'm surrounded by youngsters and many of them love the show and babble on and on about it....but then that's how I was when Northern Exposure was on.
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Fri Nov-21-03 07:34 AM
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46. I figured I was just too old... |
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Fri Nov-21-03 08:27 AM
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47. It had its moments, but that's about it. |
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It made me giggle a few times, but I never thought it worth the other 20 minutes of relationship drama that put me to sleep.
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Fri Nov-21-03 08:32 AM
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48. Not anymore. Watching actors with questionable talent making $1 million |
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An episode...and self same actors being so smug about it...just sort of takes the edge off the laughs, IMO. Not really very likable characters, either.
Worst of the bunch...Matt LeBlanc. Annoying, annoying, annoying.
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Fri Nov-21-03 08:33 AM
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49. Only seen it a few times... |
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.... couldn't find a reason to watch it. It is mildly funny sometimes, but as "sitcoms" go there are many, many, many better ones and I only have an hour a week or so to watch them...
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Fri Nov-21-03 09:28 AM
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51. never actually watched an entire episode |
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but what I did see was "cute" and I'm not a fan of "cute".
I prefer my funny kinda bent and 'Scrubs' IS fooking funny!
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Fri Nov-21-03 09:41 AM
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not much more. I don't go out my way to watch it. The hype is more annoying than the show. And those girls are WAY too skinny.
The ep I hated most was the one where they had a flashback to where Monica was fat. As if Courteney Cox could have EVER been fat!
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Fri Nov-21-03 09:44 AM
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I think it epitomizes bad sitcoms.
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Fri Nov-21-03 09:47 AM
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55. Briefly, in its first year - not any more |
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I will be happy when it's off the air. I happened to catch a few minutes last night and it's really difficult to see them as real characters rather than "the cast from Friends" (if that makes any sense). New blood is DESPERATELY needed.
If I want to laugh out loud, I'll watch Springer.
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