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boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks agoI’ll watch Friends over the Office personally. This is despite the fact that I think the Office is more creative in some ways. Reason is all the cringe, particularly around Michael. So I’ll watch things like the Jim pranking Dwight compilation on YouTube, but I won’t watch the show again. But Friends is completely OK background noise. You don’t have to pay attention to it. You’ll just notice the funny bits sometimes while you’re doing other things. You won’t be like “shit I missed the last episode, now I have to go back” because it doesn’t matter what happened usually.
zaki_ft@lemmings.world 2 weeks ago
Michael was the star of the show and it died when he left.
A couple of my redditbrained friends agree with you, though. I don’t think they can tolerate humor that offends anyone.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
I don’t disagree that it died when he left, nor that he was the star of the show.
It’s not humor that offends someone that I can’t tolerate, it’s the cringe. Maybe it’s because I was awkward growing up and I still sometimes blurt out things I shouldn’t (I blame ADHD for this one, I often don’t realize what I’ve said before I said it). Michael has the parts of my personality that I’m the most insecure about, amplified 100x.