I always assumed in early episodes of Friends that Chandler is basically paying for everything whenever the Friends do anything expensive, and he does this because he has no other way to make friends, and his self-loathing over this is why he's such an acerbic person.

I always assumed in early episodes of Friends that Chandler is basically paying for everything whenever the Friends do anything expensive, and he does this because he has no other way to make friends, and his self-loathing over this is why he's such an acerbic person.

Which requires that you assume they are currently doing nothing and have always done nothing because the only obstacle to success is your personal choice to DO SOMETHING or not — and has nothing to do with not having anything to do something with.

Which requires that you assume they are currently doing nothing and have always done nothing because the only obstacle to success is your personal choice to DO SOMETHING or not — and has nothing to do with not having anything to do something with.

@avclub-a80fcd777df4edacea4dd9e20f8730e4:disqus Well, if you remember the episode, or can extrapolate from basic logic, the reason it's the kids' problem is that they live with their parents and if their parents become homeless they, too, will become homeless.

@avclub-a80fcd777df4edacea4dd9e20f8730e4:disqus Well, if you remember the episode, or can extrapolate from basic logic, the reason it's the kids' problem is that they live with their parents and if their parents become homeless they, too, will become homeless.

I don't at all fault Mitt Romney for going around doing the CEO thing instead of being an idle playboy. I fault him for generally applying his privilege and talent to causes that, in my personal political estimation, have made the world a worse place.

I don't at all fault Mitt Romney for going around doing the CEO thing instead of being an idle playboy. I fault him for generally applying his privilege and talent to causes that, in my personal political estimation, have made the world a worse place.

In any show that was even close to trying to be economically realistic, the massive debacle that was the Michael Scott Paper Company arc would, in reality, have been would've been the first of not that many nails it would take to finally nail Dunder Mifflin's coffin shut.

In any show that was even close to trying to be economically realistic, the massive debacle that was the Michael Scott Paper Company arc would, in reality, have been would've been the first of not that many nails it would take to finally nail Dunder Mifflin's coffin shut.

I know everyone likes to talk about how "meta" shows about actors are convenient because actors don't work normal business hours and can be wherever you want them to be getting up to whatever hijinks are necessary for the plot without 9-to-5 type considerations.

I know everyone likes to talk about how "meta" shows about actors are convenient because actors don't work normal business hours and can be wherever you want them to be getting up to whatever hijinks are necessary for the plot without 9-to-5 type considerations.

I always have a hard time deciding whether the portrayal of a trophy-wife kind of marriage as a basically positive, no-big-deal kind of thing is refreshingly realistic or disturbingly cynical.

I always have a hard time deciding whether the portrayal of a trophy-wife kind of marriage as a basically positive, no-big-deal kind of thing is refreshingly realistic or disturbingly cynical.

If anything the way the lack of financial consequences ends up smoothing over the many huge fuckups people subject each other to on Modern Family is a very solid demonstration of why socioeconomic class is a real thing — being broke doesn't just affect the superficial external elements of your lifestyle but changes…

If anything the way the lack of financial consequences ends up smoothing over the many huge fuckups people subject each other to on Modern Family is a very solid demonstration of why socioeconomic class is a real thing — being broke doesn't just affect the superficial external elements of your lifestyle but changes…

One of the great things about Seinfeld slowly peeling back the mystery of Kramer is the way it nonetheless stays mysterious — we end up seeing that Kramer's joblessness doesn't preclude him from concocting all sorts of insane get-rich-quick schemes, and yet we see that the vast majority of them totally fail and had no…

One of the great things about Seinfeld slowly peeling back the mystery of Kramer is the way it nonetheless stays mysterious — we end up seeing that Kramer's joblessness doesn't preclude him from concocting all sorts of insane get-rich-quick schemes, and yet we see that the vast majority of them totally fail and had no…

The point of Kramer's whole persona is that he leads this weird, bizarre charmed life. It was Seinfeld and Larry David exaggerating their former real-life neighbor Kenny Kramer (whose income in reality came less from weird bizarre falling backwards into money and more from realistically depressingly being a mooching…

The point of Kramer's whole persona is that he leads this weird, bizarre charmed life. It was Seinfeld and Larry David exaggerating their former real-life neighbor Kenny Kramer (whose income in reality came less from weird bizarre falling backwards into money and more from realistically depressingly being a mooching…