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View Poll Results: Was Friends The GOAT?
Yes, Without a shadow of a doubt 22 44.00%
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it's one of the Greatest, But not the Greatest 11 22.00%
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And lets not forget Taxi and Cheers
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Both awesome. I used to have the Paramount comedy channel in the late 90's early 2000's and at weekends it was a sitcom blitz. Used to be too many annoying stand up and sketch shows during the week but the weekends was for sitcom both British and American. All these show were on wall to wall. Bliss. Those were the days
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I never fancied friends when it was first shown, i subsequently watched it and it does have a certain something, but I don't think its anywhere close to the best.

There were shows like Frasier and the Odd Couple that were far funnier, and during the 60's, 70's and 80's the BBC put out countless classics. I could add another 10+ to Alf's list that were pure magic.
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Oh and my 18 year old daughter has just started watching Friends from scratch and she loves it too
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One Foot in the Grave is more my cup of tea, but Friends was great too
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The weekends ep of Harry Hills Alien Fun Capsule with Canon and Ball was pretty good too
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Tbf I've only seen a few episodes of Friends, but it's not as quirky or as fun as shows like Arrested Development, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Community, or Parks & Recreation imo based on what I've seen of the show.
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none of the above shows are anywhere close to Friends

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No Mock that is not correct

none of the above shows are anywhere close to Friends

not even close
They may not be as popular, but their style of humour is more to my style as I'm not into the OTT Rom-Com elements of shows like Friends.
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Now THERE'S one of the best of all time!
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Who's your favourite character? I love them all but I think that my favourite is Gob.
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Oh it's got to be Lucille! Just incredible.
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Well if you do, then my guess would be that comedy isn't your favourite genre on television. The reason it's not your favourite genre is because you dislike the good stuff.
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This show is like a mash-up of Cosby show + All In The Family... the latter is based off of it apparently (I didn't even know that...)


It ran for 9 seasons. It was on regular reruns on local when growing up... still is on cable.
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1. Absolutely Fabulous
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