Super Silly-ous

Some memorable quotes from Friends:

Monica: “That? That would be the work of a Blowfish.”

Chandler: “You have to stop the Q-Tip when there’s resistance.”

Rachel: “Who’s FICA? Why is he getting all my money?”

Ross: “Hey, remember when I had a monkey? Yeah, what was I thinking?”

Phoebe: “They don’t know that we know they know we know.”

Joey: “Why do you have to break up with her? Be a man. Just stop calling.”

On my recent trip to LA, I spent some time with Heidi and Scott.  We had a blast hanging out and making fun of each other (as usual) and also squeezed in a tasty dim sum meal.  Before I left, Heidi let me borrow season one and two of Friends.  I’ve always been a big fan, but Heidi is hardcore since she actually owns all the DVDs for the series!  While I’ve watched the majority of Friends’ episodes, I know I haven’t seen them all so I thought it would be a good idea to watch them back to back from the beginning. =)

Can I just say that I am completely enamored with watching a television series on DVD?!  There are no commercials and I get a lot more continuity since I’m watching a bunch of episodes all at once, so remembering what happened to who is much easier.  The best part though is that I don’t have to worry about cliffhangers anymore.  Does an episode ends in an unresolved and thrilling manner?  No problem…I can just press play again or simply switch the disc to see what happens next.  This might well change the way I watch TV forever!

I’ve finished watching all of season one and am halfway though season two right now.  So far there aren’t any “new” episodes that I didn’t already see, which doesn’t surprise me because I was pretty good about catching Friends each week during their first few years.  But around the midpoint of the series run, I was rarely home on Thursday evenings (probably because of volleyball!) to follow the latest developments.  I started to lose track after Phoebe had the babies, Monica and Chandler shacked up, and Joey was rehired by Days of Our Lives.

I didn’t like Friends that much when it began, but it grew on me because one of my old college roommates was a huge fan and she kind of forced the rest of us to let her watch it on our TV every week.  The very first episode I saw was the one where Rachel and Ross finally kissed.  I remember the moment it happened, there was this tremendous collective roar outside from people watching all across the dorm complex.  There must have been thousands of students who could not stop cheering, but at the time I was like “What’s the big deal?” =P