- being 'on a break'
- Secret Santa
- jazz hands
I'm sure there are more. This show's cultural impact isn't discussed enough.
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Things that didn't exist until the popular television show 'Friends'
37 votes
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by Royter-Hatfood
Going 'commando'
A half-hour space on Channel 4 on Friday nights
before I went to the snooker club. I was a cool teenager.
^ this is definitely one of them
OH. MY. GOD
Pet Monkeys
Paelentology
Mocolate
Lesbians
"OH! OH!
This must be how EVIL TASTES!"
Transvestite fathers
Fat Matthew Perrys
Moustache combs
'I'm Judge B, define me!'
*bumps clenched fists together*
No, we've always had that.
HEY
how are you doing?
no! it's "How you dooing?"
idiot!
People who didn't pretend they were living in New York and such super best quirky friends with "brea
and Geese as pets. aww.
"Breasts"?
i'm always indebted to friends for giving us those
Subquestion:
Did Jennifer Aniston ice her nipples before each take?
I've thought this before
I reckon she paid a 'tweaker'. Which is a terrible job, but someone gotta do it.
I reckon it was really cold in the studio
and no other cast member had nipples.
Chandler had three
you nubbin
i always did think he resembled a pinball table
Actually he had a nubbinectomy
so only two for most of the shows run. But that was THE CHARACTER not THE ACTOR.
I liked the episode where he asked Rachel if she could see his nipples through his shirt, twas ironic.
John Power did.
I can vouch for him.
"breaks"
"bread" and Geese as pets?
Prole?
People saying
"The episode where [insert character name here] is [insert plot here] and they [insert joke that wasn't that funny in the show and certainly isn't when told outside it]" and then looking at you amazed when you don't laugh.
For the record I don't think Friends is terrible, I just don't think it is good either and it is certainly not a show that lends itself to have it's jokes being told repeatedly if you haven't seen it as they seem to come out of situational constructs rather than one liners.
you're thinking about it too much
Thanks for that.
Now stop talking crazy and make me some tea.
He's more righter than you!
stupid people
buying the video boxset, speaking along with the show, laughing before the really NOT funny the first time punchline
me wanting to kill the cast, the production team and all it's fans just to MAKE IT STOP
:D
Calling table football 'fooss-ball'?
What the fuck?
i think you mean "fussball"
which is the german word for... yep, football!
another mystery solved.
Yeah, I'm just exaggerating the pronounciation
and pointing out that until Friends I had only ever heard it referred to as 'Table Football' in this country. See?
(Especially as 'fussball' could also be read as 'fuss ball' which ain't how they say it.)
It's spelt with one of those German letters that looks like a 'B', the 'Eszett'
It makes a double 'S' sound.
Yeah
http://www.paratype.com/pictures/help/term/126.gif
not anymore
they got rid of those in about 1997.
a 'scharfuss' s
i don't think that's spelled right in any way.
We called it 'babyfoot' before that, and still do
Friends does a similar thing, innit.
I never remember them calling it 'baby foot'
and I've never heard that term before. I quite like it.
J'aime joue le babyfoot!
Not them, you spoon.
Babyfoot is the French. 'Je joue au babyfoot' was a sentence that featured in every single one of our 'What we did last weekend' things in French lessons at the age of 11. Good times. They use the German rather than the French though. But it's all Greek to me.
Ah I get what you meant now.
I didn't realise that was the French term.
"so..." ?
sofas in coffee shops
coffee shops themselves!
^ This is the only correct answer
The word 'kooky'
The Kooks
me sitting in my shorts
eating cheese, drinking wine and laughing at jokes I've seen dozens of times before yet still find amusing.
Also the fall asleep whilst someone is talking gag.
Secret Santa has been around
looooong before this godawful tv show.
NOT IN THIS COUNTRY
SORRY!
i'd heard you guys didn't give out valentines but i thought you'd at least do (sorta-secret) xmas gift exchanges!
Nope,
we don't give out cards or presents for anything at all.
We each have a 'special day' each year (decided by the local government), when all our friends and colleauges gather round and stare at us for 30 seconds. Then we get back to work.
Darling cut that down
to 25 seconds in yesterday's budget.
It's a postcode lottery
A festivus for the rest of us!
Oh, hang on.
Possibly not over here, though.
Traditionally he's 'Father Christmas' here so I guess it wasn't as quick to catch on.
And he's not secret
You give presents to people you want to give presents to, you don't raffle off your kindness.
well you don't do secret santa with your friends!
i have no idea what Friends has taught you as i don't watch the show, but it's only done in offices and also when you have like 100 relatives, like my family :)
i watched a Simpsons last night
where they went to Tarrannaaa and one of the people they met there said "ehhh?" at the end of a question and i laughed the end
i'm glad you're coping without me there to entertain you :)
DEEP
Oh raffle off
as a child you said:
"When's Father Christmas coming daddy?"
that sounds odd.
*insert horrendous joke*
if you are a stupid child
you might say that, normal kids could probably hazard a guess
:P
It's a traditional British term
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Father-Christmas-Picture-Puffin-Raymond/dp/0140501258/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1205402024&sr=8-1
HUMOUR
The concept of an entire TV Channel surviving solely on repeats of one television show
and the related advertising revenue from sodding Peartiser.
I think 2 Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps/BBC3
proved that first. Maybe.
*2 Bottles Of Peartiser and a Meatball Sub
*drools*
PEARS PEARS PEARS
AND A TOUCH OF SPARKLE
Drinking coffee
paleontology
*polentology
*polenta
The inability for my mother or sister to communicate
in any other way than through 'Friends' quotes.
Dear sister, when my father and I are struggling to get your new sofa into your house, shouting 'pivot' doesn't amuse anyone. Thanks.
it amuses me
Get her a DiS account
I would probably chortle at that.
You can scrap the probably from that sentence.
I did this with a wardrobe
just last week.
PIIIIVOT!
Ahem
Could this thread 'beeee' any funnier?
Can i get...
rather than the much politer and less agressive "Could i have?" or "I would like" " or may I have?"
People in newsagents in Milton Keynes saying "I'll get ten marlboro lights and some apple hubba bubba"
will you now?
everyone being labelled as
"a bit like pheobe" or "a bit like chandler", or whatever.
word "so"
as a descriptive term.
flat-obsession which means chefs, temp waiters and unemployed actors feel inadequate unless they have a massive penthouse in the city centre.
coffee shops in every other building.
culture in which sitting in Starbucks and having eight coffees in an evening is a valid alternative to sitting in pub and having eight pints. Luckily this has never taken off in UK as much in US, it would seem.
Every American mainstream sitcom has to contain crying, hugging, and stretches of screentime with no comedy.
friday nights without
insufferable pain and anguish
I remember telling a long-term boyfriend
that we should have a break (we were about 18) and he said "fine, but this isn't a 'Friends' style break. If I find out that you see anyone else I'll kill you" (he wouldn't have actually killed me I'm sure). Even at the tough times 'Friends' is there.
true
and when it starts to get a bit sad you'll just go back to the early episodes with the bad hair and peripheral characters.
Joey
lies
the Rachel Cut
(layers)
Long pause
"...Anyway". This was usually Ross' thing.
When people
use "like" all the time in describing an event.
"So I was like, why did you do that?"
"what did he say"
"he was like, because I can"
Ross' thing
was not knowing when to shut up.
hi!
um . . . hi?
Friends merchandise
DVD's, board games, t-shirts, coffee cups. That sort of thing.
people displaying video/dvd boxsets around their houses
like they were books.
vile speech cadences
flatmates in their 20s who never discuss rent or work
women holding large cushions in front of them whilst watching tv
Fancy not discussing rent or work!
Wretched!