Friends Tv Show Essay

So no one told me life was gonna be this way. This is going to be legen wait for it dary. On September 22nd, 1994 Monica, Chandler, Ross, Phoebe, Joey and Rachel starred in the first episode of Friends. More than ten years later, Lily, Marshall, Ted, Barney, and Robin starred in the first episode of a show about a man telling his kids about how he met their mother. Both shows are situational comedies set in New York City. The shows both star a group of white, twenty-something year old adults trying to make it in the city. Monica played by the wonderful Courtney Cox, is the nurturing and controlling “mother figure” of the Friends’ friend group. She is a gourmet cook and ends up marrying the funny guy with the boring job, Chandler. On How I …show more content…
The nerdy guys in both shows (Ross in Friends and Ted in HIMYM), fall in love with the girl whose life re-starts with the Pilot of the show. Ironically both of these ‘working women” who start their life over with the start of the show both have names with the initial “R”. Although this may seem like these two shows are parallels, situations and minor character set these shows very much apart. Joey is a lovable sandwich lover while Barney is a player. Phoebe, well that's exactly where the shows differ, there is no sixth character on HIMYM. The lack of a character completely changes the dynamic of the small plot events. Characters like Janice and Gunther and Carol and Susan give Friends a more entertaining humor rather than HIMYM’s lame excuse of a show. Friends also had many celebrity guests and a sad ending that tied the show together in a way that pleased fans for the most part. Unlike the mediocre ending to what was the longest and worst excuse for a story on how Ted met his kid’s mother. The show could have stopped after the Pilot because as predicted Ted and Robin end up together; but not after wasting ten seasons on nonsense that led to well