It's totally possible, as long as everyone get up super fucking early.
My social batteries would be drained before leaving the house :D
How about the notion that one can afford to live in NYC while working at a coffee shop with only one roommate
The apartment was rent controlled, and legally leased by Monica's dead grandmother. Monica was committing fraud.
That's not an absurdity, and if it looks like one then it's the world that's wrong.
That's part of the point.
The sizes of apartments on TV were also a blatant lie.
On the plus side, my apartment has four walls and they meet the ceiling.
What about the floor? Do the walls reach the floor? Do you even have a floor?
The size of Monica's apartment was mentioned in the show. It was her grandma's apartment and under rent control; the apartment building didn't know that it wasn't the Grandma anymore. With that, it wasn't unreasonable for her to be able to afford it during the 90s
Tho the houses seem to be relatively realistic for white families living in gated communities on the east coast
Jerry Seinfeld's apartment seemed close to right although we never saw the bedroom.
The biggest lie tv told me was how much quicksand would feature in my life.
And the lie of someone getting knocked on the head and passing out for an hour. If you're unconscious for that long after a head injury, then you're not going to wake up again.
This is such a dangerous lie.
While it's never happened in my presence, I can envision someone seeing some else get knocked out and going "Ah, they'll wake up in an hour or so." And not phoning an ambulance.
And the whole trope where one good guy knocks out another good guy to prevent themselves in harm's way. Like, my brother in Christ, you probably just killed them.
We did this in college when we all lived in the same apartment complex. It's was a whole thing where whoever had the latest class would cook eggs every Monday and Thursday morning, and it lasted an entire year before it fell apart due to various commitment issues.
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.
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 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.
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.
They lived across the hall from each other. It actually made sense in this case.
Good point. But, I don't even have breakfast with people in my own house. Just don't have time and different schedules.
Would have to be "perfectly" aligned with one another to pull this off in different apartments.
These were supposed to be young people with very laid back schedules. That's what the vibe of the show was about. I'm pretty sure there isn't a shortage of groups of young adults with moderately wealthy parents living in this sort of bohemian setting now and there certainly wasn't one in the 90s.
But yeah, it isn't universal and it can come across badly in sine cases
I wish. We had a weird schedule at work the other day and I left the house after sunrise... Golly, I know it's February but I swear I could hear the birds and see godly sunshine the whole drive. "Is this what empowerment feels like?" I thought.
You guys have breakfast?
I'll rather get my full 4 hours of sleep instead.
4 full hours of sleep and you only skip one meal?! Look at this guy living the life over there.
You guys are sleeping every day?
I'd argue there's not a single relatable thing in any of these sitcoms and the moment they stopped pretending to be and were about us watching the misery of four of five rich yuppies suffer, sitcoms had a resurgence.
Seinfeld went this way after Larry David departed, but Arrested Development was the first.
I had this realization recently. I don't watch much tv anyways, but whenever someone recommend a show to me it's just rich people doing rich people things.
I guess it's a nice dream to have? I just can't unsee it now.
Bob's burgers is a decent alternative, struggling restaurant and kids playing with garbage most the time.
You should watch Shameless
Idk about resurgence, there's still a lot of traditional sitcoms on TV. They all get like 7-8 seasons, they're all the same kinda trash. I think the difference is just that we now occasionally get good ones.
An apartment the size of a barn in the East Village at that.
It’s really hard to shoot six people eating in their cars during their commute to work.
I never have breakfast. The Kelloggs company lied when they said it's the most important meal of the day.
It wasn't that much of a lie for Gen-X in tech. In the company I was with in Austin, we use to have a breakfast (from taco trucks or delivered). Employee significant others were welcome to join. You might think that it doesn't count because they were co-workers, but we were also close friends. All around the same age, working together, gaming together, partying together, etc. Even after we switched jobs, a lot of us continued to meet up for breakfast, and I am still close friends with most.
People with apartments (& work hours) like that just might, idk what rich folk do.
We used to do this during Uni while living in the dorm, because we were penniless more frequently than not and had figured out that we could pool our leftovers together for a feast. And not just for breakfast, we'd also pool together for lunch and dinner - I still have a soft spot for spaghetti with no sauce and hot dogs. It was a tight-knit group and we usually had a lot of mornings together, as this was our main drinking group as well. We'd just crash wherever we landed first and that was that.
Coffee was usually the main issue, though, but thank fuck for those single-cup solubles!
You can make it happen, with planning and willing friends!
An impossible list of requirements
Nah
*Chugs down nutrient liquid
Ain't no one got time for that.
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Eh, it does happen from time to time tbh
I have oatmeal, an apple, and some kind of protein almost every morning. Just feels nice.
Or, don't be so fucking dumb that you think stuff in TV and movies is a representation of real life unless explicitly said so. And this detail is far from the most unrealistic thing in that show.
