Learn English with Friends | Part 1 (2)

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

And I don't, I honestly, it's not even funny.

Like it doesn't even make sense.

And, um, yeah, it just, no, don't, don't, don't do it.

So.

Mm-hmm.

. Yeah.

No, those, the films and TV series from that period can be quite, um, yeah quite

bad for, for, for that kind of thing.

So, yeah.

Yeah.

Anyway.

Definitely starting with the bad

. Yeah.

There's lots of bad, there's also the running, uh, like lesbian jokes about

Ross's ex-wife, um, who's a lesbian.

That that is like, I think I, I may have been reading something

and there was a clip of of the joke and I was just like, oof, really?

Like that was...

Oh, I'd forgotten about that.

Oh yeah.

That was constant as well.

You know, 'cause she's, shock horror, she's gay, like she's a lesbian.

Yeah.

Cause we should probably add that, like the whole of the

main cast were white, thin.

Straight, um, straight.

Oh, rich.

So I do re remember an episode where there was a bit of like class consciousness

in Friends because basically half the group were rich or had sort of

well paid professional jobs and the other half had more kind of like

precarious um, lower paid employment.

So like Joey was an actor.

Phoebe was doing massage therapy or something at one point and...

Rachel was working in the coffee shop.

Yeah.

Rachel was in the coffee shop until she mysteriously got a job

working at, what was it, Ralph Lauren or Calvin Klein or one...

With no experience.

Coming straight from the coffee shop.

Yeah, I just walked straight in coffee shop cause her hair was so, was so

beautiful that she just got a job.

And then the other three, so like, Monica's a chef, but like

a, a chef in a fancy restaurant.

Mm-hmm.

Ross was what?

A paleontologist.

Yeah.

So he's an academic, that's just the most random job, like...

Um, and uh, so he is, you know, an academic in a university and Chandler

was, I don't know what Chandler is.

That's the big, the joke, right.

The running joke is like, do we, what does Chandler do?

He works with like something in an office.

An HR job.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And yeah, I remember one episode where they, they're like, they've gone to

a restaurant together and, um, the, the tension comes up because, you

know, half of the group can't really afford any of the items on the menu.

Mm-hmm.

And so, I don't know, Phoebe or Joey just orders like a, a salad, a side salad.

Yeah.

You know, like is the, is the main course.

So tiny little bit of class consciousness.

But other than that, that, yeah, very straight, very white, very kind

of rich, and even if they're poor, they're all living in these apartments.

In what is it meant to be?

Which area of New York is it meant to be?

The village, Greenwich Village, which is...

I don't know, actually.

So...

somewhere, like somewhere where I don't think you could afford to live there.

Mm-hmm if you're working in a cafe or you know, like, no, no offence.

There's nothing wrong with that.

But I think it isn't, it is supposed to be an expensive part of New York.

It's all a bit mysterious.

How they're all...

maybe not for the better off ones, but for the others it's kind of like, how,

how do they, how do they live here?

How does thathat work?

I remember reading, or maybe they, they mentioned this in the show or this was

something mentioned outside of the show, but I think, so Monica has the amazing

giant apartment that would just be, the rent would just be astronomical, but

she's supposed to have, it's supposed to be a, uh, rent controlled, which

is like a New York thing, I think.

I don't think that is a thing here in Vancouver, like they just

increase the rent and they want more money whenever they want.

Yeah.

Yeah.

There seems to be this, this thing in maybe the states or in New York,

this rent controlled building, rent controlled appartment, so, I think the

idea is that Monica inherited the, the apartment from her grandmother and it's

rent controlled, so it's, you know, they, that's why they can afford it.

I think that was addressed at some point.

Yes.

Oh, okay.

It's like, come on...

'cause otherwise it is, it is a bit surprising.

Like, cause it is a nice apartment.

If they lived in a really grotty apartment, you'd be like, okay...

you wouldn't wanna watch then.

You wouldn't wanna watch.

No, but I mean...