Friends is a lot better if you fast forward any time Ross and Rachel are on screen together. The rest of the show is pretty funny and each episode is like 10min long.
friends.
Seinfeld knew what they were, a show about nothing.
friends masqueraded as something it was not, a comedy.
both
I enjoyed Friends for a while, never enjoyed Seinfeld. But other people said the opposite. Most of us wouldn’t rewatch either one.
So, what are you asking? I’m unclear on that.
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 thought both were okay. Not great but not awful. Both aged rather poorly though. But that’s not unusual for sitcoms. Most of them do.
Friends is horrible, watch Happy Endings if you want the same premise with funny jokes.
Seinfeld was also not good but did introduce a lot of tv tropes, so Larry David and Curb are where the funny is made there without the laugh track.
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
Friends is pretty good. I haven’t seen Seinfeld in a while and don’t know how it holds up, but I remember liking it when I watched it.
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.
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.
Two Broke Girls: “Hold my beer…”
Lemmy sure is a tough crowd.
If only… imagine a Lemmy with Colin Quinn, Patrice ONeal and Greg Giraldo.
RIP Patrice and Greg
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.
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. 😅
