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Best. Lines. Ever.

May 7, 2004 on 5:20 am | In Uncategorized

Maybe not the best lines ever, but two insta-classics crom the Friends finale:

Unless we’re on a break. (Ross, to Rachel, about how they’ll never be stupid/apart now that they’ve reunited for the final time.)

Where? (Chandler, after the gang agrees they should go get some coffee.

Too bad Joey’s chick (the fowl) plot line stank on ice.

And what was the point of the dude in the cab? A momentary foil? Not funny, not needed.

Oh, and a current Groundling guested on this episode, alongside alum Lisa Kudrow. Good for him.

NBC’s scheduling times (e.g., 8:58 – 10:01) had TiVo flipping out a bit. The company sent an alert to all its subscribers warning us to check our settings to make sure we didn’t miss the show. My TiVo actually cut off the end of the final episode, which stretched till 10:03 or so at least. Had I not taped ER, I could have been SOL. As is, I only missed about two seconds, the ones right after Chandler died.

Ok, that didn’t happen. I missed the two seconds before the gasp and the embrace shared by Ross and Rachel. No biggie.

I fear for babies Jack and Erica, whose parents leave them alone in their home on their (the babies) first day of life, with the door to the apartment closed, even when they’re right across the hall. Chandler spends about fifteen minutes with his new children before hanging out with Joey for ages. Nice.

Joey didn’t move to LA yet. Maybe he saw the previews that aired during tonight’s finale for next season’s Joey spinoff and realized there was no need to rush.

Phoebe also got a finale shaft of sorts… Her biggest revelation was that both she and her husband (whom she never hangs out with) want to make babies. Lots of them, apparently.

Interesting, Monica, who’s unable to have children, is played by Courtney Cox, of whom Chandler might say (in a bizarre universe where he was the fictional character and Courtney the real actress), “Could she be more pregnant?”

All in all, a fine farewell. Actually, the first hour, that clip show retrospective, was extremely well done for what it was. I give it an A, as best in class, and the finale a B+ for doing the best with what it could. The audience wanted what it wanted, and got it.

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