After Hours - How 9/11 Changed 90s Sitcoms Forever (Friends, Seinfeld)
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- Friends, Seinfeld, and the rest of NBC's Must-See TV sitcoms were the pinnacle of TV in the 90s, then 9/11 happened and changed everything... forever...
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How 9/11 Changed 90s Sitcoms Forever
That reaction when two people who've watched Community realize they're in the same room together is the most realistic thing I've ever seen in my life
Does Soren say Season 4 of Community? They talk over each other so it’s hard to tell but all the seasons take place in greendale so that confused me
Kyle Kolek yeah me too. Season 4 is the worst season (for many fans) so I thought that it is some kind of joke. But I don’t see what joke exactly.
Maybe season 4 is the first season that states the shows location as Colorado
@@katieboucher1225 well said
I've always thought Soren was streets ahead.
In retrospect, while the 90s created a great batch of sitcoms, taken as a whole they look like a sleepwalk of optimism. One aspect of the sitcom is that the characters must all be liberated from obligation outside the scope of the show. The 90s friends shows featured good pay and leisure time. The post 9/11 workplace sitcom gets darker when you realize that culture was catching up to the fact that the leisure class was shrinking. These sitcoms sought liberation in the meaning of workplace relationships, since leisure was shrinking for the gainfully employed. The other strain of post 9/11 sitcom features rather poor people who may not have much except for time.
Working class sitcoms have always been a rarity and those that did exist were rarely "smart" comedies, I think of stuff like Frasier and NewsRadio and they were basically goofing around in their white collar jobs all day but they were actually more about work than most sitcoms before and afterwards. If you think about the stuff that was mostly relevant directly post 9/11 it was often around before 9/11, from cartoons like King of the Hill or The Simpsons, what else was there that King of Queens show?
Finally another after hours this has to be my favorite Cracked series
The rest of Cracked is just an endless series of spinoffs, like Joey.
SheWolf Is Here I love this and obsessive pop culture
Elliot's boyfriend Sean works at Seaworld in Scrubs. Meaning it takes place in either San Diego, San Antonio, or Orlando.
Obsessive Pop Culture Disorder is my favorite.
Obsessive Pop Culture is #1 for me, but this is a very close 2nd. Side note, from back in the day, check them out on Let's talk about something more interesting from the Live Prude Girls channel.
It's a shame you didn't mention the fact that Frasier and Wings' creator died on American Airlines 11.
Nolan Baldwin wait seriously?
@@Ayden_B Unfortunately, yes.
David Angell
Thanks, that actually explains a lot.
Frasier SUCKS
I love after hours in a very deep intense way
Can Doodle
Me too when I fuck my gf, I close my eyes and imagine them
Rogue-Spear-you sir, made me laugh out loud.
it would have been funny if when mike said that they did another clip from agents of cracked were mike and dan kissed
Can Doodle we all did
It's funny that cracked liked this comment considering what they did to after hours.
10 years from now: How covid changed tv.
2 After Hours in 1 month? This is the best timeline.
I see what you did there. I love you.
Shelf Strider Or is it? *duunn duunn dunnnnnnn*
Shelf Strider Donald trump changed everything.
in that other timeline w/o 9/11, we wouldn't have had this episode!
Community reference, nice!
One of the most impactful things about 9/11, to me (then a HS sophomore) was that most victims died at work, with their coworkers (with notable exceptions, like the plane passengers.) What followed, culturally, was an emphasis on banding together and appreciating the simple things. Perhaps this is a subtle reason why workplace comedies became so popular. As I wrote in my blog 15 years later:
"It’s hard to explain how that idea impacts me, but I suppose one way is that I believe work is an important part of one’s life, and if it’s bad, you should look for something else, because life could be short. And that you might die next to your coworkers (or they might save your life), and you should always honor them as fellow people. Life includes work and work includes YOU - you shouldn’t just have to turn in your personality and your happiness for 8 hours a day and become a robot. Perhaps this idea, subconscious or not, shaped how my generation now approaches their careers."
Wow. Thank you for that. U r right. Life is short, 8 hours a day is as long time to b unhappy. It has been an on going problem we with me. But anyways ty lola
I think this is the most important take on this subject. Thank you for bringing it up.
This explains why people like Michael Scott so much. Despite all his flaws, he does at least want everyone to enjoy themselves.
It's unrealistic to think life is short when living in a country who's government has no regrets or regards for human life. This internal attacked & false flag was the ultimate realization that popped the bubble metaphorically speaking to all Americans. Everyone who felt safe & everyone in denial who loves their country had to come to terms with such an outrageous crime against themselves & their countries freedoms. Loved ones, strangers & hero's that were there that day paid the ultimate price while the Republican & Liberal party did everything in their power to prevent justice & transparency. Anyone in their right mind who thinks or knows better is called out as a conspiracy theorists by the same scum bags who refused to do a proper investigation.
"Wings did 9/11."
- Katie Willert, 2017
Beriorn Believe it or not, one of the co-creators of Wings, David Angell, was a passenger on the plane that hit the North Tower
Thomas Pierce well now I'm depressed
It's no crazier than saying it was the US government (which people still believe)
Dammit McCartney
Planes did 9/11!
I have a theory that a long-term sitcom about a bunch of friends is doomed to eventually get a little creepy, because your friends are people you generally *choose* to be with. So to have consistent conflict with characters in a show like that would eventually allude to the show being about dysfunctional relationships, which is why it's a common joke for a long-running sitcom to have a therapist character that reveals how crazy everyone is. This joke usually occurs later on in the show, and is a good way of addressing the flaws yet emphasizing why they still choose to hang out.
But when it comes to workplace environments, as stated by everyone everywhere including this video, you are forced to maintain relationships with the people around you. This leads to natural conflict. In Scrubs, JD and Cox are a good example of this. Or Cox and Kelso. It's more entertaining to have a cast of characters that may hate each other for the majority of the show. But JD and Turk stands as an example of how they can have their cake and eat it, too, since they can still maintain a "great group of friends" dynamic for more stories.
I'd argue the workplace sitcoms are just as dysfunctional, maybe moreso. A group of friends is people hanging out together because they want to, which is idealized but also strained by the demands of drama to provide story. Normal or healthy equals boring, so by definition if something is either of those, it takes place off-screen. E.g. Ross in Friends is meant to be a good father, hence most of his relationship with Ben must be healthy, normal and boring from an audience perspective.
But in a workplace, if someone stays in the same place over a long period it is just stagnant. The characters aren't advancing their careers as within that workplace there are limited opportunities to challenge themselves or advance, and yet they're still prone to still become incestuous and creepy in how the characters interact and their history builds up. E.g. Their love lives and private lives which I'm sure most people would want to keep separate become completely tied to their work and their colleagues.
Even worse, it's kind of dystopian in how reliant the majority of the characters are and how they are stuck there, and how work seems to dominate even their private lives, yet this is rarely critiqued and instead framed positively. You could argue how much this applies to different workplace settings, but even in better off professions it comes across as stagnant, incestuous and creepy.
Solid episode, I'd give it a 9/11.
Nater boo
Dude that is the hardest I have laughed in ages
Nater awe too soon man
J Egner Not at all lmao
Nater Not funny
I bet Daniel was in the Cracked office like "Hey guys, I found a... thing, let's do an After Hours about it"
"But Daniel, we already did one this month, and it's only just one poi-"
"I SAID AFTER HOURS"
Is it just me or when Soren says "Mad about You" it sounds like "Mad about Jew"?
Terrible J I had to scroll throu because I knew someone else had to think the same
Terrible J Not just you.
I heard Mad about Shoe
Yes! I had to go back and re-watch it was so disconcerting!
Since he pluralizes the shows, it sounds like "You're Mad About Jews".
Scrubs is obviously in Southern California, probably near San Diego. From the states that they mention as out of state, we can rule out Texas and Florida, so what other state has such easy access to a beach and Sea World, and has a large enough Hispanic population that Carla is shocked and a little insulted that Eliot doesn't speak any Spanish? Has to be California, and since Sea World is in San Diego and Eliot never complains about the commute when she dates Sean who works there, boom. Has to be within 50 miles of San Diego. Other evidence: Eliot is afraid to admit she's Republican because of the heavily Democratic population, the ocean is cold, therefore must be the Pacific, not the Atlantic or the Gulf of Mexico, they make a road trip to Tacoma, Washington and get there within a day. The exact time is never specified, but according to Google, San Diego to Tacoma is a 19-hour drive, so doable in one day if you drive through the night, as they do.
If you ever mention Scrubs in an episode, you can bet your hat I will leave a comment. I have watched and rewatched that show so many times I probably know it better than some of the people that worked on it.
It's a great show.
Agreed. I always thought the location was in Southern California.
you are my hero
@Imight Realperson please dont take this personally but fuck off
Scrubs is an unbelievable show. A lot funnier than most comedies, more accurately depicts the medical profession than most medical dramas, better drama and characters than a primetime soap opera, to me it seems like the only shows that compete with Scrubs are shows that don't compete with it directly, like Twin Peaks.
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I can't believe you mentioned My Name is Earl. I love that show. Ending still leaves me peeved.
Magic Skittles , it is implied off screen in a headline of "Raising hope" that he did finish his list.
I know. They make references to My Name Is Earl a lot on that show. The last episode was still a cliffhanger and we didn't get to see Earl finish his list. We got a conclusion but we didn't get to see it happen.
Magic Skittles My Name Is Earl and Wings are my two favorite comedies ever. Of course I am a comedy snob. Scrubs was terrific also.
Maddie Hayday The ending of how I met your mother?
wasn't the end of my name is earl supposed to mean his list will never be finished because he's done so many wrongs, it'll take his whole life to make them right?
Also funny how the shows became more multi-racial after they left freaking NYC.
JoeyTheRedKangaroo Being new York you expect those shows to be multiracial. Oh they were all racist. All except Seinfeld. they took on other races.
I think that just has to do with the change in society where suddenly everything has to be multiracial even if you have to force some characters in there or else youre "racist"
The Gum Under The Table in USA half of the people are not white
Vicente Rubio doesn't mean there still don't exist groups of friends who are mainly 1 race.
False, as of 2015 survey white people make up 73,3% of American citizens. Black people are on the second place making up 12,6%. Obviously, percentages will change from state to state and New York for example has different white/non-white ratio. Still, ethnic groups tend to keep together so same race groups are more common than mixed race ones, so shows with all white cast aren't exactly that unrealistic.
That 70's show was based in Wisconsin, and it's a 90's sitcom.
But it wasn't an NBC sitcom. I personally like it more than Friends.
Was That 70s Show must see TV??
@@BrokenSocialScene23 No, it was on Fox not NBC
Only the first two seasons
Was also related to Third Rock From The Sun, which was set in Ohio. But I think that's just where the creators were from
Okay good episode but how i met your mother was a post 9/11 show about friends in new york
Well, duh. It eventually came back around, with a show that was intentionally more aware of reality and less comforting than the previous shows in its genre.
True but it doesn't disprove what they're saying. Nobody said the change needed to be permanent. It's like fish scattering when they're disturbed but will return to the same spot once things calmed down.
I feel that HIMYM was a Friends for the post 9/11 generations. It was much more contemporary in it's humour.
Timothy Graham true but how I met your mother only began a year after friends ended yet in the video they talk a lot about parks and rec which didn't start until 2009
Ella Mitchell I know and they also talk about the single camera setup which has been used in plenty of sitcoms for years. It was starting to become popular again around 2 years before 9/11. Besides that, they don't mention Will And Grace.
You guys should do an After Hours on why every book series set in a dystopian universe is essentially the same.
The same, how? I mean they are diffrent stories set in dystopian worlds. The dystopian part will always be the same, that's how term definitions work. Now irregardless of the story, at some point the protagonist will at least attempt to overthrow, or break free from his/her oppressors. I don't think dystopia can be just a casual background setting. Now, if you wanted to point out that most agrarian societies portrayed in cenima turn out to be truly dystopic I could see that as a very interesting episode. Or....or, the fact that people can't accept agraria and will imagine conflict and struggle, and in some cases create it, just to cope.
I love both the fact that Community is mentioned and the thought that maybe Lindsey Ellis's video about 9/11's impact on movies had some role in inspiring this.
Not sure why they singled out the 4th season, though (other than it was the season the show kept going without its creator)... but all the seasons took place in the same setting, so... hm.
g fox I also wasn't sure; I assumed maybe the state wasn't explicitly mentioned until season 4 or something...
I love that the characters seem to be slowly realizing that they're on a web series and that their fates are fixed
"Greendale, Colorado in the 4th season of Community"? In what season was Community NOT in Greendale, Colorado?
If I remember correctly that was the first time they explicitly said they were in Colorado
The shift from New York City to small towns in fiction has less to do with 9/11 than the fact that 95% of America lives in suburbs or small towns where you never meet people and nothing really happens ever. Making the kinds of friendships featured in Friends and Seinfeld is only possible in cities like New York. In suburban America, it is impossible to meet people, and you are forced to make friends with your coworkers, the only humans with whom you interact. Sometimes you might have friends you know from high school. And that's it. No crowds, no chance encounters, no background characters. Nowhere to go on Friday evenings. Just your workplace, your home, and the isolated drive between the two of them. This post-9/11 shift is indicative of America's urban planning crisis.
spot on
David Ullman you’re so wrong
David Ullman Most Americans do not live in small towns anymore. We’re more urban than rural now.
Yeah...80% of people in the US live in urban areas. www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/12/18/americans-say-theres-not-much-appeal-big-city-living-why-do-so-many-us-live-there/?noredirect=on&.26bc090d8d49
What about wings?... No 9/11 definitely changed the programming, Stations have always been cautious with their programming choices in relation to recent events, especially tragedies...
In fact media in general is always like that, like how they quickly took the two towers web scene out of Spider-man...usually it involves postponing though...
Amidst all of the new shows that we're trying to get used to, After Hours is that shining beacon of familiarity that keeps the Daniel's of us in the world comfortable.
jman8904 amen
Until they change the cast... Wait what?
Or until they fire the cast....oh wait...
Michael Swaim and the gang have a new channel called small beans
@@univers_ALLYrad *Batman
Why, of all the seasons of Community, did they mention the 4th?!!?
Because the 4th season had some really good moments. Personally, I liked it better than the 6th season.
I too hope that Michael Swaim has been alive forever.
So it took until How I Met Your Mother until we got the NY sitcom back?
another awesome episode!
Thanks!
boardmonster19702 my thoughts exactly. PHONY!!! HEY THIS GUYS A PHONY!
Nope, just a panderer. Which, apparently, is all that is required to get Cracked to officially like your comment.
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Mad About You doesn't get enough love.
Don't get me wrong, I ADORE Friends, but you know, share the love.
After hours is must see tv!
Courtney Cox was also in a Seinfeld episode! "The Wife"
I live for this fucking show!
Um, actually Scrubs didn't take place in the middle of America. It was very clear throughout the series that it took place in Los Angeles, likely somewhere in the San Fernando valley.
All My Friends Are Dead...
Antonio Ortega Steve Jobs is ded... I'M DED
They got kicked in the head.
That's Intense.
Push me to the edge, all my friends are dead!
It's a good book, yes.
I would so love Roger to just appear in an After Hours show and just be like "wtf are you kids doing"
Great video! Keep it up
They should do an After Hours episode of how *Jersey Shore* managed to get so popular and how the formula of "reality TV" manipulating audiences has become such a science. It could be an intriguing topic just ripe for theories & jokes.
"If I've followed the events correctly I think I might be some kind of magic"
God I love Agents of Cracked
Personally, I remember being relieved that Friends and other shows in New York City avoided the topic of 9/11. It was (rightly) everywhere. News and other media were constant reminders that an attack could happen anywhere at any moment. Entertainment was a powerful method for viewers to escape the reminder of how vulnerable the United States suddenly felt and providers were happy to oblige its audience. It seems tragic in hindsight, but at the time it was a relief.
I'm pretty sure scrubs is in California. I think the city they're in is called San Frangeles or something ridiculous like that.
San DiFrangeles, California my first day.
So 9/11 changed sitcoms, not 90's sitcoms. An event that occurred in 2001 cannot change shows from the 90's. I get what you mean, but it's poor, clunky title.
That's true. Not to forget that many 90s sitcoms, like FRIENDS and Will & Grace etc. have restored the Twin Towers in their footage. So they aren't gone all of a sudden and neither the shows or their legacy.
I really wish they would bring these back with the old crew 😭
I miss this show
"I'm a noticer xP"
I love the stupid things Daniel does with his face!!
I like to think they removed the laugh track because laugh tracks are a crutch for shitty comedy and a crippling injury for good comedy
Cheers, Frasier, Roseanne, Married With Children, Friends, Seinfeld...all excellent.
And those are just modern shows. Some of the best 50s and 60s shows have laugh tracks. Hogan’s Heroes, Andy Griffith Show, I Love Lucy. And don’t forget kid’s shows, especially from the 90s, like Boy Meets World, or Sabrina the Teenage Witch.
Great episode. Waiting for a always sunny episode
The video could just be summed up in one sentence : before 9/11 shows largely took place in New York , after 9/11 they moved to smaller towns in America and they abandoned laugh tracks.
Thanks I just saved 10 min of your time
Thank you! 2 minutes in, and I was so frustrated by their “back and forth”, I wanted to give up.
That’s the joke of the episode which Katie brings up. After hours is as much about it’s analysis as it is about its characters.
Ruined. You ruined my video. Asshole.
u lost me at "season 4 of community". BAD CRACKED... YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED! XD
Man, everyone rips on that season. What was wrong with it? It didn't look so different to me.
It had potential, but to many viewers (including me,) it just wasn't as funny as the others. But it's just an opinion. :) But just to defend us, the show ripped on itself plenty of times by blaming that on a "gas leak" lol.
Still, it (and seasons 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 on yahoo) were all in the same setting in Colorado, so they only mentioned season 4 to make a cheap shot at it, apparently...
"Written by Cody Johnston"
who else lmao
Anthony Clarke star of Boston Common
How i met your mother or friends 2.0 took place in New York from 2005
Y'all should just make after hours and ocpd
I haven't seen that second show. Is it about the Orange County Police Department?
Timothy Graham it's just Dan, it's my favorite show, look it up
Chunky N Stars Didnt even notice
The TV show Friends not handling 9/11 is actually true. In fact, not only did the TV show change the New York skyline scene transitions due to the missing twin towers, there was an entire portion of a Friends episode cut and changed due to the terrorist sensitivity at that time. It's the episode where Chandler and Monica are about to go on their honeymoon, but they don't get bumped to first class like the couple in front of them and keep getting snipped by them. Originally, the Bings were supposed to get those 1st class seat upgrades but Chandler made a bomb joke that red-flagged a ton of security guards and prevented them from boarding their flight. The young married couple before them was created to work around the episode rewrite. You can find the original deleted scene online on RUclips.
Oh the Office the greatest show ever besides game of thrones
1:00 Did Soren just say "Your Mad about Jews?" Just wondering.
“Your Mad About You’s”
eeeee agents of cracked references!!!
These people are incredibly odd. Are these real people? Are these people actors or are they writers acting out what they’ve written? Who are they? Are we supposed to know who they are? I’m confused.
SCRUBS!!!
Scrubs took place in California
thank God never stop after hours .more swiam and Katy looks good as always
Greendale was established to be in Colorado in Season 5. We don't talk about the 4th season.
Even before they made reference towards Colorado.
You are the best part of cracked. Keep it up!
Scrubs was not set in an "unnamed middle America town" - it took place in Southern California....L.A. County to be specific.
It changed Family Guy comedy. Everyone got upset when Peter says 9-11? You mean "Nine-elev-fun!"
"Are you saying that WINGS DID 911?!?"
Friends didn’t leave nyc because they could not deal with reality. The nyc they were living in was always a fantasy 🤣
SCRUBS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SCRUBS IS THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love you, but stop saying it's filmed in some cafe somewhere when you're in front of a pair of green screens. You're not even opposite each other otherwise the cameras would be visible. The editing and acting is genius, but the logistics of these shots are impossible!
4:20 yes they did after 9/11 there was an American flag in the background of central perk
Scrubs takes place in Washington state, or at the very least in the Pacific Northwest, Zach Braff's character goes swimming in one episode in the ocean off the coast in an area that's known for late winter/early spring swimming despite the fact that the water is practically freezing.
Kim flew to Tacoma, most likely the Seatac Airport in between Tacoma and Seattle. So the Puget Sound area is out
god... fruit of the loom, you're killing me
You got the Fruit of the Loom ad before this video too?
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The Watcher Helm it's such a shame i'm broke and think RUclips Red is a waste of what little money i have
3:45 that was the most enthusiastic "9/11!" I've ever heard, courtesy of Dan
Wow, katie willert you have changed a lot and you look amazing by the way.
I like the old look
Yeah, her and Soren have the same haircut
AH!
Daniel was almost there.
9/11 changed tv from being about being safe in your homogeneous group of close friends you were able to choose, with whom the characters could navigate a vast city of strange concepts and new exciting problems.
After 9/11, the world felt smaller and more compact, where we couldn't escape the neighbors who were threatening to create problems that were inescapable but hopefully after enough time, we will get around our differences and become a familial unit.
A short lived series that addressed NYC in post 9/11, three year after, was when Ted Danson's character, Dr. Becker, spent his whole day helping a lady get to ground zero in the episode titled "Subway Story." I defy anyone to not tear up, watching it from start to finish... :'(
Why would Friends talk about 9/11. It's a comedy
@Some Guy Agree. Although Friends does approach serious and real topics, such as cheating, commitment, breakups, infertility issues etc. it wasn't meant to make comedy out of terrorist attacks pure and simple. The show did almost the best they could bearing the situation in mind. It was easy to love and admire the Tributes in the show in season 8. E.g the American *flag* being shown everywhere and Joey and Rachel wearing these FDNY and NYPD t-shirts.
However, Friends could have left the Twin Towers in the show instead of editing them out in the first years after September 11th for its inital 7 seasons. The Twin Towers were eventually restored a couple years later, but equally they could have been included in season 8, 9 and 10. The best way to pay tribute to the lives that were lost and the symbolic Twin Towers as well.
I love this show, honestly one of the most well written, hilarious, awkward, and insightful shows on RUclips.
Keep it up cracked!
I miss After Hours. Wtf was Cracked thinking shitcanning just about all of their best people??
2:03 The guy on 'Boston Common' looked familiar... Anthony Clark, and I was remembering him from 'Yes, Dear' a show I routinely watched, but legit, 100% completely forgot existed.
Nick D. Clements oh yeah... that was a good show. Where did that take place?
@@KrisRN23935 Yes Dear? Southern California.
Here 4 years later! I miss them so much, they were MY friends! In my head...
And here we are. Watching our friends. Next stop is Agents of Cracked
I'm just happy to see My Name is Earl get a mention. Most underrated show ever.
Ngaaawww... Daniel....
We all love you
Forgot sex and the city idk when it aired in America as in day of the week but wasn’t that a group of friends in New York in the 90s /2000s
This series is what got me into videos on Cracked.
In a way it did. When I first watched an episode, I didn't like it at all. So, I started digging around to see what the articles were like. That led me to AoC, which led me back to After Hours. Then I found out that I was probably in a pissy mood when I watched my first episode and my opinion was affected by that mood.
I miss after hours
I think the theory is, after 9/11 people became more paranoid and felt less safe is larger, more crowded cities. Its why as the shows changed, it became more about people living is smaller towns that were peaceful and relaxing, where the worst problems felt almost comical while the people around you, no matter how different they were from you, all went through the same problems as you did. Sitcoms became less about people dealing with petty problems in the big city and more about people coasting by with deep problems in small cities.
Frasier was in Seattle. It was in Seattle, not New York, so not the same bubble.
Welcome to 2020. Must see t.v. on NBC is Chicago Med. Chicago P.D. & Chicago Fire
Loved the "They Live" moment!
Friends purposefully didn't audibly mention 9/11 but they did do things to reference it
No need to bring Seinfeld up other than thr fact it was on amd happened in new york. Seinfeld ended in 98.
It was part of the ‘Must See TV’ line up for its last years.
John Carpenter's They Live In New York.
To be fair Friends did show some effect from 9/11, but not directly referenced. Such as the last episode of season 10, when Rachel is on the plane and the man next to her gets extremely paranoid just from her saying Phoebe “had a feeling” something was wrong with The plane. That caused an evacuation of the plane because of the paranoia somewhat caused by 9/11. That’s how I saw it anyhow.
Jake Donavan I never thought of it. Maybe it was an indirect implication. I always thought that they should have (at least) mention in one episode the unfortunate events of 9/11, but that would also mean bending the comedy effect. After all it's a sitcom. But with not talking about 9/11, it's been destroyed the real aspect.
Jake Donavan the planes where hijacked and flown into buildings the joke was there was something wrong with a made up part of the plan it was not a reference to 9/11 it didn't even air around when it happened so what would of been the point
thegossipswan009 Friends never dealt with serious subject matters so why would anyone be surprised
The implication is just that people in the big cities wanted to not think about that for a while, and so we moved to more escapism.
SEINFELD IS THE BEST!
Denis Lama THE BEST DENIS, THE BEST!
The AoC reference alone warrants a like on this video. And while I missed the typical back-and-forth point-counterpoint format, this was still an interesting topic and everyone was excellent, as usual.
What about a little known show called How I met your mother...
Wasn't around back then
This episode was streets ahead
The way he flicked that card and she tried to dodge it 😂😂
You gotta be quicker than that A Cup
Daniel will ALWAYS be the sexiest nerd ever .
What about how I met your mother
Well similar to what they said about 30 Rock, it depicted New York as a little bit scummy. Lily and Marshall end up wanting to move away from the city to raise their kids. Barney likes New York but he's a bit of a pyschopath. Robin was always getting shit on by the city whether it was because she was a foreigner or just because something unlucky happened. Hell, they even had that one episode where everyone told her that 'You're not a true New Yorker until you kill a cockroach, cry on the subway and don't care about people staring, steal a cab from someone else' (and I think the other one was meet some local celebrity?) which all make the city seem kind of shitty.
The only character who really loved New York was Ted, and that was probably only because he loved the architecture in it. There were countless gags of strangers and weirdos coming up to them and doing something gross or odd. Sure it still gives respect to the city and those jokes are mostly made out of love for it, but the point of the video was that characters stopped feeling as safe in New York, to some extent and it wasn't looked at through rose-tinted glasses like it might have been in the earlier shows.
Jurgen Who has never killed a cockroach?