The problem with the hang-out format of Friends is that it's essentially what most long-running sitcoms become. The longer a show runs, the more the "situation" plots, be they in a workplace or a family, become McGuffins to get the characters bouncing off each other.

Do a Memorial Day episode then. Stannis can be all "That whore Cersei Lannister has seized the funds meant for the Veterans of Robert's Rebellion, which are mine by right."

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You can look through the site's TV Club coverage of the series for fairly balanced takes on the show. And there are several FYOC pieces that reference stronger aspects of the show in relation to some larger issue (i.e.increased awareness of the autistic spectrum possibly helping to ease life for Noel Murray's autistic…

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Now I really want to see a Bond film with Daniel Craig and Eva Green passive-aggressively flirting with each other in their middle-age while trying to avoid getting killed by some old nemesis.

Then I'd say that JMS either embellished it his memory or while writing it out, perhaps unconsciously. Or his girlfriend had a tendency to speak with two many words, or she awkwardly sputtered out the words or she broke into laughter while saying them. Either way, it's hard to see a real life scene playing out exactly…

Except in most spy agencies, failures in communication tend to happen for the opposite reason: bureaucracy. If groups are operating in isolation and not sharing information, you can have serious problems.

Well, part of the problem with sticking "real" scenes in fiction is that they get filtered through memory, and then further filtered by fictionalizing it. I can buy that JMS had a snooty waiter push a drink on him (something like, "Coffee wouldn't go well with the roast duck sir, maybe you would like a nice Pinot Noir…

That's been my impression too. It's a good reason not to drink, but it means that JMS's depictions of drunkenness and alcoholism tend to feel off—heavy-handed at best and judgmental at worst.

That reminds me of Tigh and his wife in the BSG reboot, where they're introduced as a couple that brings out the worst in each other. Then the last season retcons them into this weird exemplar of eternal love, including a scene with them doing shots in a strip club that is somehow convinced it's depicting a healthy,…

I really don't like the Garibaldi's off-the-wagon arc, and you've pointed out pretty much why. It really feels like a non-drinker's view of alcoholism. I assume that JMS's teetotalism comes from having an alcoholic parent or relative, and he projects that background onto Lochley and Garibaldi (if he actually is a…

No, the correct response was "I think I'm gonna switch back to briefs."

Greetings, my friend. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future.

No, because you're not Ted Danson.

Sorry, but since I'm not actually Chris Eigerman, it could only end in disappointment.

I'm nostalgic for conversations I had yesterday. I've begun reminiscing events before they even occur. I'm reminiscing this right now.

Mine was Cliffhanger, which was so stupid that I was completely uninterested in seeing any more R-rated films for a good while after.

All the Real Girls?
Elf cuteness?
Brief cameo appearance as an exotic feather dancer in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford?

It's okay. Hitchens just tended to have that effect on people.
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