Why is Friends so popular? Every character is unlikable and there aren't any jokes

Why is Friends so popular? Every character is unlikable and there aren't any jokes.

Pay closer attention to sitcoms. On almost all of them the characters are horrible people.

Seinfeld at least has jokes though. If the characters are insufferable and nothing is funny, why did Friends succeed?

the characters all have some qualities that are likable and some that aren't

i'd argue that joey, chandler, and late season ross are all pretty likable guys, as is early monica.

the show is comfy. it's not top tier by any means, anyone who says it is is just looking through rose tinted lenses.

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I enjoyed watching Ross' decent into insanity across the seasons.

The constant humiliation and cuckoldry of Ross is the best part of the show.

I'd begun to think "fuck why'd I ever think this was good" and then ended up watching like 16 episodes of season 2 in a row. That show was great. And every character was likable.

Except Phoebe.

White people like seeing other white people doing boring white people stuff. See Seinfeld and Big Bang Theory

It's a nineties thing. You had to be there.

what? there is constant jokes.

I wasn't planning on watching Friends, but now that you've mentioned it, I'm going to give this show a try.

Can you list all the episodes where he's cuckolded? And can you green text a few examples of his cuckoldry?

>there aren't any jokes.
Elaborate

lul

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he goes to have a threesome with his wife and another woman, however things dont quite go right for Ross, as he doesn't actually participate,
then his wife leaves him for the woman and becomes a lesbian. oh and the two women raise Ross's unborn child.

and that's just season 1

Chandler cucks his best friend joey and steals his gf then she cucks chandler and cheats on him.

>i just want to be married again
>a bride comes in
>and i just want a million dollars!

that's a joke m9

Because americans can't into humor

I thought this was well known?

Because it was legitimately funny most of the time.

Literally everybody gets cucked in this show at some point. Ross got it worst though. Cucked by his own sister and best friend.

I like the characters and the jokes are funny.

it was inoffensive and it was a different time at the height of its popularity

If you don't understand popularity of such basic show why are you even on /tv?

>Cucked by his own sister and best friend

You're using it wrong, you fucking moron.

Really makes you think

>And every character was likable

None of the women were likable, they were all judgmental, two faced, cunts. Especially pic related.

Wrong. They're not White. They're all Jewish.

>there are people on Cred Forums who actually like Friends
Is there any minimum standard for this board? Are there people here who like Adam Sandler "films" and Friedberg and Seltzer cinematic "films"?

Why do writers usually turn women into easy sluts on American sitcoms? An example other than friends that comes to mind is HIMYM, the two women were turned into obnoxious whores by season 4 or 5.
Do Americans find brazen promiscuity humorous?

>legitimately funny
No, it wasn't. Big Bang Theory is more "legitimately funny." I'm serious.

>Do Americans find brazen promiscuity humorous?
Unfortunately, yes.

I am going to go see BOO! A Madea Halloween this weekend...

Shut the fuck up, Click was legitimately good.

Why are you telling me this? Are you seeing it "ironically," or because you actually enjoy it? For the former, you should kill yourself. For the second, you should still kill yourself, but you also have no right whatsoever to complain that people keep seeing capeshit and Transformers movies because those movies, no matter how mediocre they are, clearly have some craft to them, unlike that garbage.

Firstly, I was speaking generally, as if someone could like all of even most of his films. Secondly, not it wasn't. Think of all the films Cred Forums hourly or by the minute trashes, often quite rightly, and clearly have more merit than Click.

>Crocodile porn
Monica was likeable for quite some time

>his own sister
what did Ross mean by this?

>Crocodile porn

Wasn't that shark porn?

>characters are unlikable
When will this meme criticism end? It's the same as 'the characters weren't relatable'

So why would people watch it?

Because other people like them

That's a less valid as a reason for liking them than saying the characters are unlikable is as a criticism.

Yeah I agree and so you can see now why your criticism is less valid because it is based on being subjective

That wasn't my criticism, as I'm not OP. As far as I see, this show, at the very least, has nothing of value, meaning it's the equivalent of staring at a wall for 23 minutes or so, plus commercials.

If the show has anything of merit, I'm willing to somebody suggest it.

*willing to hear somebody suggest it

>muh laughtrack

Unrelated but I genuinely can't find a single person who agrees that seinfeld is the better sictom. The retards who just spew out friends are the ones who have never even seen seinfeld

someone help I've been looking for that chandler werewolf thing in vain forever