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An apartment the size of a barn in the East Village at that.
The biggest lie tv told me was how much quicksand would feature in my life.
That, and the Bermuda triangle.
I can’t believe we’re ignoring the danger posed by the Bermuda Triangle
It’s really hard to shoot six people eating in their cars during their commute to work.
Eating cereal on their way to work like god intended.
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 never have breakfast. The Kelloggs company lied when they said it’s the most important meal of the day.
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.
Ross lived elsewhere
Only across the street, they can see into the window
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.
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.
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.
The sizes of apartments on TV were also a blatant lie.
Jerry Seinfeld’s apartment seemed close to right although we never saw the bedroom.
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
Wow even in a 90’s TV show they had to commit fraud to have affordable housing
man it sounds like rent control might be kinda nice? maybe we shou- BANG BANG BANG BANG oh how unfortunate, this commenter seems to have suddenly decided to kill themselves…
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?
Tho the houses seem to be relatively realistic for white families living in gated communities on the east coast
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?
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.
Breakfast at work is one thing, breakfast before work is a whole nother level of time commitment. I’m pretty sure I started skipping breakfast around the time I started working a 9-5
Driving over to your friend’s place to have breakfast before work is just insane!
Ross lived across the street, and Chandler lived across the hall. For Chandler, the difference between his own kitchen and Monica’s kitchen was 2 doors and about 10 steps. For Ross, it was only three flights of stairs. The only one who consistently lived farther away was Phoebe.
Plus it’s NYC. They’re not driving anywhere; They walk or take the subway. Even if Ross lived farther away, if Monica’s apartment was on his way to work, it would just be a matter of getting off at an earlier stop to pop by.
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
*Chugs down nutrient liquid
Ain’t no one got time for that.
Nah
Posting when you’re supposed to be working?
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.
