According to me friends, according to my wife Seinfeld.
I feel it depends when in your life you discover it and how good your English is at that time. Friends is very beginner friendly and straight forward.This answer. Friends, Seinfeld, The Office. They all have great episodes but that’s not the norm since most of them are Ok at best.
eh, they are different vehicles. friends sucks cuz its trite, common bullshit. seinfeld was actually interesting because for once the cast was supposed to be unlikable… they were all terrible people destined to be tortured by their own narcissism.
Yeah but I don’t have to listen to Jerry’s jokes or voice on Friends
I’d say Friends is worse. But it’s a thin margin.
Neither are good by any means. But my sister loves Friends, and she has terrible taste in television, so I’ll accept her judgement.Hmm, friends is hard to watch it’s so bad. Seinfeld is slightly better, but it stars an Israeli pedophile.
I’d say Frasier
I really like Friends but not as much as I like Frasier. I haven’t watched Seinfeld for quite some time but I don’t remember disliking it.
Kelsey Grammer is a MAGAt
Oh that’s unfortunate. Well I don’t feel bad about torrenting Frasier then.
Friends.
In Seinfeld the characters are supposed to be miserable and you aren’t supposed to identify with them. People don’t go around trying to put on a Seinfeld persona (at least in my neck of the woods. If your area is different please don’t make me more depressed than I am).
The number of people I’ve met purposely styling themselves after Joey or Phoebe is depressing and it’s more accepted because they’re “normal every day likable people”.
Gag me with a spoon
Lol I forgot about “gag me with a spoon”
Now think about the mapping between Friends and Jersey Shore…
Honestly? Most of the jersey shore fans I’ve known have just liked to drink and dance, relatively low drama and relatively self aware. Not the most amazing people but I’ll still take them over the Friends fans I’ve known.
There is an old adage about freedom that goes ‘you have the right to extend your arm until your fist hits my face’.
The Jersey Shore people will be the type to often go too far and make contact with the face.
The Friends people will lobby to make sure arms may only be extended in pre approved motions with proper regulation and paid royalties on the patented movements, which they strive to own dividend stock in.
The one with laugh tracks.
Oh.
Neither? They both used studio audiences.
As one that remembers watching NBC “Must See TV” Thursday nights in the 90’s, back then, Friends was more approachable as a twenty-something that identified somewhat with the idea that it’s ok to be quirky, laughable, and fun.
Now, I prefer Seinfeld. Say what you will about the cast, the show’s darker take wears better on the post 9/11 world.
It’s easy to pick on one or the other now, but having lived the era, and the era of TV that led to it, both shows made more sense back then.
As a teenager at the same time, Seinfeld fit better with my absurdist sense of humor.
But I totally agree that they were products of their time.
I enjoyed both when they were still airing, but I can completely understand why people watching them today for the first time wouldn’t. It’s one of those, “you had to be there” kinda things. Just like I probably wouldn’t enjoy watching The Beverly Hillbillies or I Love Lucy if I tried watching them today.
Can’t speak for the hillbillies but Lucy stands up, for the most part. She was a real one. It is funny seeing hers and Ricky’s separated twin beds for filming, though.
The Bevery Hillbillies is still pretty side-splittingly funny. Standard product-of-its-time disclaimer applies.
Edit: Honestly, watching their asshole bank manager neighbor get shit on in every which way is all the funnier, today.
I haven’t watched The Beverly Hillbillies lately, but the nursing home I worked at had DVDs of I Love Lucy. It still holds up, in my opinion.
As to classic, old shows that feel out of place today, I’d have to go with Looney Tunes and similar early cartoons. Even watching them as a kid, the violence and sexism felt really weird to me. A lot of the “humor” came from physical violence or cross-dressing honey pots, which felt tired, repetitive, and not funny to child-me.
Then a lot of those old shows had stories that involved two male characters fighting over a female character. I remember thinking, “What is this? If two guys started a fist fight over me, I wouldn’t swoon over the winner, I’d walk away from both of them for being violent at the drop of a hat.”
i did appreciate the old Looney Tunes for exposing us to amazing music though. that’s the one thing they did. I remember the music, not the cartoons. that might just be because i’m a musician tho
Friends is worse.
Friends feels extremely bland and the characters just react to the misfortune events and the episodes are low stakes drama. Friends cant make the characters pieces of shit because the audience is suppose to like them. Seinfield seems like the characters are intentionally bad people and cause their problems and the show is intentional about the conflict being pointless drama. They are fine with people hating the characters.
I mean, to be clear, Always Sunny is essentially a remake of Seinfeld. They modernized the setting and took advantage of modern broadcasting standards, but the show really is just Seinfeld 2: Philadelphia Boogaloo.
But Ross is an abusive piece of shit.
I must have missed the abuse episode because from what ive watched of Friends it was a pretty mundane show.
Friends was a gratingly unfunny ode to shallowness and self-centeredness. The same would apply to Seinfeld, only less grating.
Trigger warning: criticism of popular media
Friends is an extremely boring and formulaic show, it just has handsome people in it and sometimes the ladies don’t wear bras. I much prefer Seinfeld, which was in a way revolutionary for sitcoms, and it can still be enjoyed today (the laugh track is unfortunate though). It definitely inspired It’s Always Sunny, another great show, whilst Friends inspired How I Met Your Mother… and you can draw your own conclusions from that. 😅
Friends. Seinfeld is actually funny, friends is just good looking people.
But friends is more popular. I used to work for a streaming service and friends was constantly running. I think its a emotional support thing. People like to have it on in the background because they feel good from it.
But it really isnt funny. Its more like cozy. Like a soap opera but better than that.
Seinfeld is great.
Well, ol’ Jerry’s a zionist, so …
Seinfeld. One of the cringiest and unfunniest shows I’ve ever watched.
I am pretty neutral on Seinfeld being cringy, but Larry David later made ‘Curb your Enthusiasm’. That was cringy up to the point of being unwatchable.
