Things that would not work in 2016
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Moonlighty — 9 years ago(July 25, 2016 01:02 PM)
Some people do but how many jokes in Friends are based on stereotypes? Very rarely would any joke from this show be iffy now, so it's not like sensitivity has ruined all comedy.
Consider the daffodil. And while you're doing that I'll be over here looking through your stuff.
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Robert_A_Fett — 9 years ago(July 25, 2016 03:53 PM)
Someone on this thread stated there was an "unnecessary" number of fat jokes. It really doesn't matter how rare it is as it relates to a single show. The fact of the matter is that the efforts to censor comedy (and really just about everything) are real, and we should all be concerned about the issue.
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Robert_A_Fett — 9 years ago(July 29, 2016 10:33 AM)
In follow up:
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mjn-seifer — 9 years ago(August 22, 2016 08:31 AM)
The volume of gay jokes wouldn't fly.
The gay jokes were ahead of their time, because the majority of them were making fun of straight people. It was mostly about characters like Chandler not wanting to look gay, while being gay was treated as normal everyday thing in Friends. -
hitorijime — 9 years ago(August 23, 2016 07:41 AM)
The only gay jokes I found funny were when Joey was teaching Ross dirty talk, Ross and Joey's naps and the 'gay cruise' thing. The overall homophobic vibe (especially from Ross) was a product of its time and wouldn't fly today.
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mjn-seifer — 9 years ago(August 23, 2016 09:09 AM)
The overall homophobic vibe (especially from Ross) was a product of its time and wouldn't fly today.
I never picked up a homophobic vibe from Friends. Like I say it treated being gay as a normal lifestyle choice, and the characters who you would at least expect to be homophobic (Chandler and Ross) weren't. Chandler was embarrassed by both his parents, but never seemed to have any problem with gay people (and if he did it wasn't shown), and Ross seemed more focused on the fact that his wife had found someone else, not that it was another woman.
The closest Ross got to homophobia was with Sandy, and even that was revealed to be just Ross being insecure about himself. -
Mrsstarshock990 — 9 years ago(July 27, 2016 10:32 AM)
Almost every scene in an airport would be different/gone. No way would Rachel have made it as far as she did to get to Ross before he left for China, and same thing with Janice hanging around waiting for Chandler to leave for Yemen. Speaking of which Chandler trying to get a fake ticket to Yemen would have been marked as "suspicious behavior" and he would have been hauled off for questioning.
The world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters. -
Blizzard_Beasts — 9 years ago(July 27, 2016 11:04 AM)
I never understood why some people hate fat people so much. It's one thing to see someone and go "oh damn that person's fat" but it's another thing to keep going on and on about their fatness making jokes like it's the only problem in the world. To me, that's just weird.
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SeinfeldFriend — 9 years ago(July 30, 2016 03:06 PM)
That one does actually exist. Not for that actual airport joke, but when Chandler and Monica go on their honeymoon, Chandler made a joke about a bomb and they hauled him in for questioning. Because of 9/11 they changed the storyline. In recent years, they released the original scenes though. If you YouTube it, it should come up.
You're welcome
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rainbow26 — 9 years ago(July 29, 2016 11:21 AM)
Rachel finding out about Monica and Chandler by listening to their landline conversation (I know some people still have landlines, but Monica and Chandler would obviously use cell phones for "secret" conversations)
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BenignPillows — 9 years ago(August 31, 2016 03:14 PM)
They never could have gotten away with waiting so long to call Rachel on her cell when they were trying to stop her from going to Paris in the last episode. That was really contrived how Ross wouldn't say anything on the phone when they finally did call her, lol
I didn't find the fat jokes funny in the original run either. Never will.
Kathleen Turner however, as Chandler's dad, that was HILARIOUS. Why wouldn't it fly now? They didn't make him look stupid or anything. He was played flamboyant, which there's nothing wrong with, and also had serious scenes. Kathleen Turner did an awesome job. I think we are still able to not take ourselves too seriously in 2016.
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