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Friends to the End

My husband and I have always been fans of the television show Friends. We have been fans ever since Friends first existed. When we were just friends ourselves it was a talking point. Then when we became a couple, we watched it religiously together, kept videos of the show and watched episodes again many times over.

And then we indoctrinated our children. J Our children have seen many, many episodes, and Friends remains a show that we can all watch together at any time. It’s funny to hear an 11 year-old, or even a 6 year-old, say, with complete earnestness, “I’ve never seen this one!”

We still discuss it, we can quote lines to each other and we identify entire scenes from a single quoted line.

We watched the complete series from the beginning to the very end. We often discussed both the good things and the absurdities that happened in the show. (All of these beautiful people had trouble getting a relationship??) And we’ve enjoyed watching all the episodes again on various channels.

To this very day, Friends remains a show that almost anyone in my family will watch at almost any time.

To be honest, we are TV and movie people. We have a lot of favourites and know a lot of quotes from a lot of different shows and films.

But Friends will always be special to us. It was a special show, with a unique group of people, and writing like we’d never seen before at that point in our lives. And even 18 years since it all began, it’s still funny and can make us laugh, even when we know all the jokes ahead of time.

No other show has had such longevitity with us or with our children. Sponge Bob may come and go. Lost has definitely gone. (And I still miss it!) But Friends, I feel, will always be with us.

 

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