Friends Reunion

PurpleThrobber · June 2021

1to392831weretaken said:

Swaye said:
I think I like sitcoms that most other people don't like. Arrested Development is my all timer. King of Queens. Northmen. Etc. I always thought Curb and Seinfeld were okay, but not the all timers everyone else did. Friends is utter shit. Only redeeming quality is Rachel and Monicas perkies.
I've always gravitated toward sketch shows or animated stuff, but when I think of live-action sitcoms, AD is definitely king shit of turd mountain. Married With Children was definitely my launching off point. Way underrated show, as somebody pointed out above. Friends always sucked to me. I liked Seinfeld, and there are some seasons for which it really pays off to watch in order (back before this was a thing with every show). I really got into Trailer Park Boys, but not sure if you could call that a sitcom. More recently, Ted Lasso was surprisingly great.

Have you seen Letterkenny? That's the latest for me. Letterkenny was pretty much made for Hardcore Husky.

Letterkenny is pretty fucking funny. The Throbber does a shitload of bidness with Canadians and the guys from Alberta and Saskatchewan are just like that. Fuck Toronto/Ontario guys. They are arrogant pricks.

Another older Canadian sit com that's pretty funny is Corner Gas. It used to be on Prime for free. Google that shit yourself. One of the chicks had a nice rack.

Swaye · June 2021

1to392831weretaken said:

Fenderbender123 said:
Most sitcoms in the 90s were filmed in front of a live studio audience. The laughter you hear in all these shows consists of real laughs from audience (fans who wanted to watch them film as well as some hired professional laughers), and then in post production they would strengthen them or soften them as necessary for the final cut. The only time the laughs were completely piped in were for scenes shot at locations that couldn't be filmed in front of audiences.

I just watched the first 7 episodes of Friends. Not once did I hear the same laughter twice, nor did it sound any more fake than any other sitcom I've seen in the 90s. But, since you seem to know the laugh track so well, maybe you're a bigger fan than me and I don't know what I'm talking about. If you have any examples, I'm down to check them out.
Bolded points one and two: So pretty much exactly like piped in stadium crowd noise over a small actual crowd like I compared it to?

Bolded point three: I'm not going to find examples for the same reason I'm not going to hit myself in the balls with a hammer to see how badly it hurts.

I was at a friend's house when I was in high school, and he was watching Friends. I went to the kitchen to make a sammich, so for five minutes I couldn't see the show but I could hear it. About three minutes in, I was never able to watch again. The sheer frequency of over the top laughter (at anything) and how same it was drove me nuts. No idea what season or episode, but that was the end for me.
Swaye said:
Nope haven't seen it I'll try to watch unless its on Hulu because I still don't have Hulu because I'm stupid I guess.
It actually is on Hulu, but that's what VPNs and bittorrent were invented for. I don't have Hulu either. Here's a taste:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rSBmOgpcDE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDL4DjqI690

This looks worthwhile.