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Joey being molested by his tailor for years
"That's how they do pants!"
Yeah IN PRISON
That was my first thought too
I immediately thought of this too. Funny how it also means it's a good joke, lol
You have to stop the Qtip when there’s resistance.
If you stopped the laugh track, that's dark.
It’s dark regardless. He had been seeing this tailor since he was 15 (wait, no 16, wait, no, he was 15. Ok when was 1990?) so it had been going on for a long time. I’m a woman and I’ve had pants altered a few times and when they measure the inseam and go all the way up they do graze the crotch area briefly. That said, I honestly don’t know what a tailor does to pants to size them properly but I’d imagine balls do get in the way? But cupping them and moving them seems like it’s unnecessary. Maybe a man who has had pants altered can chime in here.
Absolutely but I think the laugh track in dark moments within sitcoms can be used to distract from how dark a moment can actually be. So the effect is "this is dark but funny" vs "this is disturbing" same effect can be said when Ross gets mad about his Thanksgiving sandwich being taken and the laugh track comes in but if you remove that, it's actually pretty scary to see Ross that unhinged.
Oh yeah I’ve watched some scenes with the audience laughter removed and it’s pretty funny how easily this can go from comedy to dark drama at times.
Chiming in to say I love the way you write. Seriously, I want to read everything; send me your shopping lists. Also yeah, super messed up, poor Joey
That’s so sweet of you to say! I’d say feel free to read my comment history but most of it is nonsense with the rare exception of some advice for people going through various medical issues because I’ve experienced them myself. But yeah, have at it.
I need eggs, whole wheat bread, romaine lettuce (chopped, not a full head, I’m not a chef), salted butter (unsalted butter is just grease), kosher salt, turkey (again, sliced because I’m still not a chef), provolone (see previous comments about not being a chef), mayonnaise, baby carrots, ranch dressing, borax, sponges (the yellow and green kind, not the lame ones without a scrubby side), coffee (light roast, ground), cat food (fancy feast pate because my cats are spoiled brats and just lick the sauce off of the regular wet food leaving the actual chunks of food behind), paper towels. I think that’s it for now! Cash tip if you bring to my door, 4th floor walk up.
And one of the funniest scenes of the entire series.
The little Girl Scout who was selling cookies so she could go to space camp. Her dad gambled her college fund away and would likely lose her bike if she won second prize, and then Ross broke her leg.
“I’m an honorary brown bird member. It means I can sell cookies, but I’m not invited to any sleepovers”
What a scrud!
Why don't look in the mirror scrud! her sass is next level
Makes me laugh every time 🤣
Her?
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Wait what? Space camp girl was egg from arrested development??
Yes. She was the very same one with the Holy Eternal Rapture (H. E. R.)
Egg?
Yeah, that little girl's life sucked... I hear she had a brief fling with George Michael though, which seems weird
Then almost got married to Gob
Dad loves the slots.
Such a ross moment
What a scrud.
I still call my husband this when he’s pissing me off
Dad loves the slots!
The entire suicide plot with Jason Alexander.
"...is that because you ran out of toner?"
what is toner?
The joke of him on the phone and phoebe asking if he was busy, and he turns to his white board with “todays to do list: kill yourself” gets me every. Single. Time.
I always loved how he said “How?” when asking how Phoebes mom killed herself.
Such a great line.
And then her retort “I’m not gonna give you tips!” I say that often (though not in this context).
“... chandler?“
This is the one I was looking for. My favourite joke of the whole show
All he needed was some serenity now
Serenity now. Insanity later.
Was that wrong? Should they not have done that? 😂
Nice. I use the "was that wrong?" quite often after obvious wrong behavior and I'm concerned that nobody gets the reference.
I use it way too much too lol. Unfortunately, the number of people that get my Seinfeld - and Friends for that matter - references in real life these days is getting smaller as time goes on.
The whole universe cares!
She should know, she has the whole world on her shoulder.
What was that? I can’t remember
It’s the episode where Phoebe finds herself on the phone with a man planning to kill himself because literally no one even knows he exists, then goes to where he works to try and dissuade him.
He asked how her mom killed herself and she’s like “I’m not gonna give you tips!”
Yes that’s right. It is too dark.
When Phoebe was selling the toner online
On the phone
Oh yes
Why isn’t this the top comment
It is now lol
"Come on, by that age, kids have already seen orgies. ... No? Just me??"
😬
yes! everyone talks about phoebes messed up childhood but chandler had a lot of trauma too.
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Mostly? Her mother committing suicide, her step dad going to prison, and being homeless are pretty traumatic and real things.
My favorite part of that Pitch Meeting episode, she's a very trauma filled individual, "Nah, she's the quirky one"
A pimp spit in her mouth. That's pretty rough.
I don’t think they’re myths. I think even Denise existed. None of them ever go hang out at her place. I think she intentionally didn’t tell them all about Denise and then accused them of not listening to her.
I believe that she stabbed a cop. She robbed Ross and even knew the guy who was going to rob Ross when they were adults. She has skirted the law a lot. Even Gary says that her file shows that she’s done a lot of shady things.
I even believe the Prague thing. She probably went as an au pair, maybe learned how to be a masseuse there. Lived 6 months and probably got deported, even.
I love the Prague theory!
I don't know, I completely believe that she stabbed a cop.
WHAT HE STABBED ME FIRST
I heard about one theory that she is or used to be a spy. That’s why she has all those crazy stories.
What’s the context here? I don’t remember this
I think it's when he's filled the Ms Pac-Man scoreboard with rude words and Monica's stressing about clearing it off before Ben gets there.
Idk if 'dark' is the right word, but when Phoebe goes on a date with that creepy guy before meeting Parker:
"I write erotic novels for children."
Like... Yikes.
"They're WILDLY unpopular! 😃"
I fucking loved that character.
me too lmao. almost everything he said was hilarious. idk if my humor is regressive to like a 4th grade level but the 'PHD' line slays me, especially because they use that same joke backwards in another episode with one of Rachel's sisters.
And those breasts.. mmhh!!
You know he's on a watchlist somewhere.
oh shit maybe he was the guy at Emma's beauty pageant who came without a kid >.<
I always felt Joanna getting hit by a car and killed was really dark. Like it just came so out of left field. Also Ross and Monica finding out they unknowingly made out is really dark to me like, I don’t even find it funny it just makes me feel ill 😭 moreso than Ross and his cousin
what if sophie actually killed joanna and she just acted like she knew about joanna when she arrived at the office? 😭
"I sure did... because it was meeeee"
OMG yessssss lolol
I loooooved poor bullied Sophie and her outright glee at that hag's death!😅
I thought the whole Ross kissing Monica thing was way darker because Ross saw a drunk sleeping girl and decided to kiss her.
The fact it was Monica just made him look like an incestual creep
Omg I hadn’t even thought of it like that, you’re so right. That whole plotline should’ve never happened 😭
To be fair, he was just going to give her a kiss on the forehead.
Ngl, as a woman, if I found out a bloke had kissed me on the forehead while I was passed out drunk, I’d find and batter him. I don’t care how innocent it is to him, don’t kiss me anywhere without consent.