On the Literary Side of 'Friends'

When you think of Friends, the perennial favorite of young people since 1994, an eternal bastion of comfort for innumerable viewers for thirty years now, living in perpetuity on network television and streaming, you think, probably, of sarcasm-laced banter in living rooms and coffee houses, Clinton-era network TV Rabelaisian chatter. You think of Chandler making quips, Monica cleaning with her special secret cleaner, Joey eating sandwiches, Ross boring everyone with his science stories and correcting people’s grammar, like E.B. White with hair gel. But, on this last viewing, my eighth or ninth (it plays all day every day on TBS), I was, for the first time, and perhaps belatedly, delighted by the show’s literary jokes.

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