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Also that a group of underemployed 20-somethings can afford huge, well-furnished apartments in Manhattan.
I believe in Friends, it's justified as Monika pretending that her grandmother is living there so she still gets her rent controlled tenancy agreement. I thought I remembered that there was an episode where she and the custodian were having a fight so he threatened to reveal the grandma isn't alive anymore so that Monika would have renegotiate the agreement (and it was resolved so he didn't do that.)
As for Joey and Chandler's apartment, no clue how that one happened lol
You’re recalling correctly. Joey has to agree to be the building manager’s dance partner in order to keep him from snitching. My wife watches Friends on repeat so it’s burned into my memory from proximity.
As for Joey and Chandler, Chandler has a well paying job that nobody can quite explain as a running gag. He’s not a “transpondster”, at a minimum.
He works in data management.
IIRC Chandler was the only one with a substantial job. He worked in IT and then as a data scientist. There was a running joke that he couldn't explain his job in a way that his dense friends could understand.
The show is set in the 90s and IT wasn't something mainstream back then. The plot is not that they're too dense to understand, it's that it is too obscure to care
Well theirs is a rather small apartment, but I also think there as in implication that one of them has been there for quite a few years.
And you are right it's both mentioned and an explicit plot point that Rachel and Monica are in a rent controlled apartment after Monicas Nana, not sure what OC is on about
I think Joey got some kind of windfall from an acting gig and then kept it rent controlled or something
I always notice all the useless junk people own in sitcoms. Like look at all that shit in the background of the screenshot.
You DON'T own useless junk? Only thing that's stopping me somewhat is that I don't really have anywhere to put it.
I mean, it looks mostly like kitchen implements, cutlery, cooking stuff. Not really useless junk. I have 8 cupboards of similar stuff in my kitchen.
And Monica was a chef.
Take a photo of any room in your house. Not to post on the Internet, just to look at with fresh eyes. You will almost certainly see a bunch of useless clutter.
I have one room. Can fit everything i own into three rubbermaid bins. Most of what I own is clothes or food. And I don't even have enough pants to last a week.
In terms of stuff other than clothes and food. A laptop and an air fryer.
Most people prefer not to eat tendies off a paper napkin for every meal. Your case is not the norm.
White people can do this.
Source: My friend worked around the clock in banking while living a room in a rowhouse in Manhattan. His roommates were random white people who were like aspiring artists.