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I rewatched Fresh Prince last year and I was surprised at how well the first seasons specially work. The change of Vivian was a bit unfortunate, as second Vivian has a softer presence.

I’m an old millennial and I swear the show I hear my friends talk about loving to rewatch the most is Frasier. I haven’t done so myself yet. I rewatched Fresh Prince. It can be hokey, but in a winking way and Will is a real creep to women (but it’s depicted as him being lame and he gets shut down for it 90% of the

How is this a complex problem? Pay more or fuck off.

Except working in fast food actually does require skills. Knowing what to cook and when is a skill. Making sandwiches quickly and accurately is a skill. Keeping your cool during a rush is a skill. And not just anyone can be trusted to reliably show up for their shifts on time and sober.

And this means that those people who are in fast food are lacking something? Your statement is the entire problem, we seem to believe that treating people like garbage is ok, and then clutch our pearls when they don’t stick around. Institute a living wage, then you’ll have people who won’t bail at the first

I’d say Frasier has aged a hell of a lot better than Friends. I recently rewatched it and I was surprised at how much it avoids the gay-panic humor that was so common in the 90s (particularly on Friends). There were a few (surprisingly few) episodes where Frasier or Niles either pretend to be gay or were mistaken for

Ross Geller is one of the most toxic characters to have ever been on television, and we’re supposed to think it’s cute. Or at least funny enough for the entire show to have resolved around shipping one of the worst couples ever. 

I’ll be the first to hop onto the “Friends isn’t nearly as good as you remember” train, but I wouldn’t go so far as to say it was awful—well, not the first four or so seasons, anyway. It was a competently written with a charming and likable cast that was a clear cut above the Caroline in the Cities and Suddenly Susans

You’re such a bad faith piece of shit. Do you honestly think people being criticized is “silencing” them? Or is it more likely that you find any criticism of “anti-PC” behavior (in other words, racist, bigoted bullshit) as intolerable and you believe you should be free from consequences of your backwards ass views?

Fuck off with this reverse racism bullshit. It’s getting old and tired. Do some research for yourself and stop being so ignorant.

Everyone was discussing Friends and Seinfeld in the 90s, but the truly great sitcom was Frasier.

That is solvable just by increasing staffing numbers, getting managers out front to stick up for the employees, and operating strict employee safety rules. It works, but is not cheap and it requires office lurkers to do work instead of office lurking. Plus, we should all be making a difference by both being polite to

Wow, it’s almost as if it won’t be extremely simple and cheap to automate jobs like everyone talking about minimum wage increases was arguing.

Pretending for half a second that you’re being sincere and not trolling, Blackish is about a black family and has shown white and Asian people (at least) exist in LA. Friends is about a friends group in New York City who seemingly almost never interact with Latinx, black, Asian or any other minority group despite NYC

Could not agree more that this show is overrated. Its huge popularity on the streaming services is baffling and upsetting to me

1. What the fuck are you talking about? 2. Fuck off.

Your attitude is what would prevent us from winning. Luckily, most people don’t share it. Shutting down constructive dialogue is not in the spirit of democracy or the Democratic Party.

Would attend. 

I always thought The Matrix was a little bit corny but I always thought that quality was perfectly fine, even laudable. 

Or maybe just that there are so many other movies that explore men’s experiences that aren’t, you know, incredibly denigrating to men. American Beauty’s protagonist is pretty terrible, and if that’s supposed to be an exploration of men’s experiences then it’s certainly an unflattering one.