Friday, May 07, 2004
Not Quite Politcal, But...
Fuck Friends. So it's over? Who cares? I've never seen an episode. I think I've seen maybe thirty seconds of an episode here or there over its eleven years on the air, but in every case dove for the remote thinking, "My god, this is absolute crap."
I think back to the finale of M*A*S*H, a show which had been on for almost my entire life at the time it ended -- and that was a moving farewell. If I remember correctly, it ran for just as long as Friends -- 11 seasons. The difference was this -- M*A*S*H (as I've learned from reruns) began as a shallow, silly sitcom and grew into something else -- a funny show that was really about something. Friends didn't change a bit.
In the course of 11 years, M*A*S*H grew a set. But any man who watched Friends for more than a single show no doubt lost his cojones in the process.
And, in any event, it's all bread and circuses. According to NBC, you'd think that the end of this lame show was the biggest news since... well... since the discovery of fire. It's not. It's bullshit.
If you care in the slightest that there will be no more new Friends ever and your genitals are on the outside of your body, then you, my friend, are a total asshat.
I think back to the finale of M*A*S*H, a show which had been on for almost my entire life at the time it ended -- and that was a moving farewell. If I remember correctly, it ran for just as long as Friends -- 11 seasons. The difference was this -- M*A*S*H (as I've learned from reruns) began as a shallow, silly sitcom and grew into something else -- a funny show that was really about something. Friends didn't change a bit.
In the course of 11 years, M*A*S*H grew a set. But any man who watched Friends for more than a single show no doubt lost his cojones in the process.
And, in any event, it's all bread and circuses. According to NBC, you'd think that the end of this lame show was the biggest news since... well... since the discovery of fire. It's not. It's bullshit.
If you care in the slightest that there will be no more new Friends ever and your genitals are on the outside of your body, then you, my friend, are a total asshat.
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