A Critique of Friends in American Culture

The text to me that represents the most about culture is television, particularly of the sitcom genre. There is one television sitcom on the air that attracts millions of viewers every Thursday night. This show received an award for Outstanding Ensemble Performance in a Comedy Series from the Actors Guild and twelve Emmy nominations since its debut. It features six twenty-somethings, three women; Monica, Phoebe and Rachel and three men; Ross, Joey and Chandler, who face life and love in New York. They take on the single life with their hilarious predicaments and different backgrounds, learning at the end of each episode that there’s nothing that provides true comfort and companionship like friends. But in every episode, the cast helps us realize through laughter that life’s little problems are best handled in the company of others. If you haven’t guessed the show’s title already, it’s the hit NBC show “

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” It had some obvious differences but at first glance it definitely looked similar. She was like an exact replica of pretty, preppy Rachel Greene, in a forest green sweater with a short black skirt. Finally, the show sets an example of how six diverse people from so many origins can still be the closest of friends.

Well if you’re all bummed about not being able to live your TV-lifestyle, just sit in your chair and watch an episode of “Friends”. She thinks in a way that only one who has gotten everything they wanted in life could. They didn’t look as good as the actors which they aspired to dress like. As Monica says in the first episode to a teary Rachel, “Welcome to the real world! It sucks; you’re gonna love it!” They do love it, and are aware in every episode that the most important thing in their lives is each other, and that’s the point the producers are trying to make. Odds are that you can look your entire life for a person in the world that is an exact match of a character in a comedy series and not find one ever. The producers also know that people are going to go out and copy the same furniture patterns of the cool, hip TV show, so they can live out the same lifestyle as their favorite characters. It gives people new hope if they are in a tough situation, and see one of the characters survive a similarly tough battle.

Each friend has something that they’ve overcome, and it affects the way people think about life. Rachel represents the selfish side of you, which is the way you feel when you only care about yourself at one time or you get upset over physical appearances and things that don’t go your way. Monica’s roommate Rachel brings laughter through her obsession with her looks and attitude. I expected the show’s producers to have planned each furniture prop so that it made the set look good.

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