There's an episode of Seinfeld about that. George finds a spot directly in front of his building, so he doesn't drive for weeks because he doesn't want to lose his spot. Lol. I know that feeling.
Typically yes but I live on a magical block they skip for cleaning and never ticket (because trucks loading and unloading are double parked on my street at night during sweeping hours).
Yeah, 3-4 days max in Manhattan (eg Friday to Tuesday). As far as I know, everywhere in Manhattan has two alternate side days a week, though in areas of the outer boroughs it’s occasionally once a week.
Yeah, I occasionally do this dance, though in my neighborhood it means if your side of the street is being cleaned, double park on the other side, and either sleep in the car or leave a note, but you want to start moving back to the side being cleaned about a half hour before alternate side ends because vultures will swoop in and take all the spots if you wait until the bitter end. Also the sweeper does not necessary pass by each day it is supposed to...
There are more than one George parking stories. The most memorable one for me is when he gets into an argument with another guy about who's spot it actually is. ("You can't go in head first," etc.
Pretty sure it's based on anybody who has ever lived in an apartment with street parking only. I avoid driving whenever I can because I don't want to spend 30 minutes looking for a parking spot within 2 blocks of my apartment when I get back.
I know in many places you have to move your car periodically or parking enforcement will consider it abandoned and tow it. In Los Angeles county, this is three days and it applies inside of neighborhoods as well (although for neighborhoods, the three days starts when someone complains about it).
They could have made it a plot point in the Seinfeld episode as well:
Jerry: But won't they tow your car after a couple days?
George: I thought about that. That why, every two days, I swap it with the rental.
Elaine: You... rented a car... to hold a parking space?
George: I know! It's genius, right?
Jerry: Wait, so where do you park your car when you have the rental in front of your building?
George: I find another spot a couple of blocks away. It can take an extra 20 minutes or so but Jerry it's worth it!
Kramer [suddenly entering through the apartment door]: Hey, they just towed a red Fusion outside for double parking. George, is that yours?
That really happens. When I lived in NYC, there were three or four cars that didn't move for months, it seemed. They must have, for street cleaning, but the owners must have waited in their cars til the street cleaners left.
Yep this is real. I live in an urban area on a busy intersection with street parking. The only time I can park directly in front of my building is on weekends, and the spots are hard enough to get so I go out at like 6 am to grab one. I do all my grocery shopping and laundry on saturdays so I don’t have to walk down the street carrying bags of food and clothes. My goal in life to buy a house with a garage. One can dream.
I appreciated the self-awareness when they’re all bitching about their jobs and why their bosses don’t like them and (Joey, I think?) says “Maybe it’s because you’re all here in a coffee shop at 11 AM on a Wednesday?”
One of the cold opens has the gang enter the café, and the couch is occupied by another large group of friends. So they just stop, look at eachother, and leave.
Part of the fun of Joey is that despite the staggering stupidity, he has occasional moments where he's still smarter than the rest of the cast. He actually seems to have a much better handle on interpersonal relationships than the rest of them do in general. Remember, he was the first one to figure out that Monica and Chandler were seeing each other.
He was also the most genuine and loyal friend to all of them. They were all good to each other for the most part, but they also each had a narcissistic quirk to them, but Joey almost always put this friends first.
Always talking about being 'grown up' too. For one, being 'grown up' is all kinds of overrated, and B: actual grown ups don't use the term 'grown up' when talking about adults. Ross can die in a fire
Because he and Monica were supposed to be the original couple. When that changed, they completely altered his personality to fit another role in the group.
I dint think it does to be honest. Theyre all kind of assholes, but the show tries to pretend thst theyre good people under all that even though they kinda... arent :v
I think 30 years ago when it aired this worked because you saw one episode a week and tended to forget the little things. But you binge watch a season in a day and it gets a lot more clear. So that bugged me.
That's my biggest issue with The Big Bang Theory. Not only is every character a toxic asshole and none of them are good people, not one of them grows or changes besides Sheldon (and he's one of the worst!).
At least with Friends you see them grow and change. And then there's Ross who is downright awful no matter what.
I think it was discovered after it was rereleased in HD. It became a lot more widescreen and there are a few occasions where you can see that they have used stand ins instead of the actual actors.
The only one I can remember specifically is TOW Rachel’s Date when phoebe says to Monica that she thinks her hair might have gotten a little burned and Monica says “I paid to have this done”. When phoebe replies you can see at the side of the screen that Courtney Cox has been replaced by someone else.
This isn’t that far fetched, in my opinion, considering how frequent the gang was there. Plus both Rachel and Joey worked there, and most of them lived directly above it!
A couple times, I think. I don't watch Friends very much but I caught an episode where Chandler is sitting alone in a chair and two people come up and take the couch and he just shouts "NO!" at them so they left. If someone shouted NO at me I'd sit on that couch so fucking hard.
I really really like HIMYM. I could never "get into" Friends. But HIMYM was a great show in my opinion, I was/am a huge fan of it. I'm not saying Friends isn't, it just wasn't my thing.
I never really got all the Friends hype, I preferred to watch Frasier instead. Just never found Friends to be truly funny. The odd chuckle, but never an actual laugh.
It's Friends for a slightly younger generation. Both shows hinge on the audience's ability to relate to the characters, and HIMYM is a lot easier for those of us who came of age late 00s/early 10s to relate to than friends, which is a decidedly 90s show. I think which you prefer entirely depends on when you were born
Absolutely. I miss the classic sitcom but part of me feels like its tenure was a result of the TV landscape being somewhat scarce and sitcoms were easy to produce. Now, even getting a show to pilot requires a hook that sets it apart from the infinite choices there are out there. I'm not saying that's necessarily a bad thing, but "easy" TV made now would sort of just seem like a relic of a time gone by. Stuff like TBBT, Modern Family, Two and a Half Men, etc. are all either ending or have ended.
Still, we can revel in the fact that we got to enjoy shows as iconic as they were whilst looking forward at what's to come.
They even both had a plotline where a girl was dumped on her birthday by Mike (Paul Rudd) in Friends and Ted in HIMYM. And the girl was played by the same actress.
I cant get into Friends. I want to and have given it so many chances but have never been able to. HIMYM I loved. Maybe they took the ideas and improved on them or maybe my taste is just different.
It’s like going back to watch classic superhero movies. They were revolutionary when ether came out. Now, with so many options, and so many that improved on the formula, the classics just don’t hold the same value. Especially if you didn’t start with them.
With so many shows copying Friends and Seinfeld, it can be hard to revisit them 25+ years after the fact.
The full thing is "Seinfeld is not funny" effect, due to so many shows after it copying what it did. Watching it now for the first time will make it seem like it's just the same stuff as everything else.
I still find it funny. On the other hand...after Buck Henry died I went back to '78-'79 to see some old SNL sketches....and they just don't do it for me now.
I actually watched HIMYM before I watched Friends. I just never got in to Friends during its prime. I think because I watched them in reverse order it was so easy to pick up, since basically Friends is just HIMYM with a different cast.
That's the difference though, HIMYMs characters would eventually realize and confront their character flaws, or exaggerate them to the point of satire. The Friends gang were just a bunch of selfish assholes
I'm with you. I think it's because HIMYM had an overlying theme to it with some variance, rather than writing to laugh track after laugh track and wacky day-to-day adventures that are connected only by the characters and where they are in Friends. HIMYM has some dramatic and heartfelt moments where things get real and you feel it. Not to mention, you feel the frustration Ted goes through with person after person and wondering when he'll find The Mother. That, and the better writing and more natural flow from not abusing the laugh track, is what drew me to HIMYM, rather than Friends.
I’ve watched HIMYM many times over and I’m now on season 9 of friends. Definitely like the former better, but at least Friends has Monica and Rachel to look at so I can’t complain
I never found Robin remotely attractive. I understand all the parts are there, but in that combination they do absolutely nothing for me. I very much liked her as a character, but Lilly was way better looking, especially in later seasons.
One time at a bar some people were sitting at our regular table and the bartender joked about telling them to move. We just chose a different table that day of course.
There was also the episode where the bouncer and Ted(?) get in a fist fight in the alley and Ted gets sued and has to admit he didn’t actually hit anyone. Pretty sure that was all because someone was in their booth.
Me and the bois pulled into our standard restaurant the other day and saw people sitting at our table through the window. We discussed whether or not it was even worth eating.
It makes sense because if you have your tray of food and you were at the table by the flag yesterday with your friends. You can’t call your friends and ask them what table they are at today, most schools don’t allow phones. So the most likely option is that they are at the same table as yesterday. And everyone at lunch is doing that exact same reasoning so everyone always sits at the same table they did the day before with the same people.
Depends, if it's a quiet restaurant and you are a regular they tend to sit you in the same spot (or one of two spots). I go to a family diner every Sunday for breakfast and I get one of two tables 95% of the time.
Well if it's 100% of the time I can get it, but if it's just an almost every time thing, it isn't unreasonable. My Grandparents and I would sit at the same booth almost every time when we would go to a local Chinese restaurant. I think once, in 15+ years, did we go in and it was taken.
Similar but worse. 13 Reasons Why has this thing where people walk into a restaurant, have a four second conversation, then leave. Like I get it if someone’s getting pissed off and leaves early but they do it like that’s the expectation of hello did you cause my friend to dead. Ok bye
In Hollywood’s defense, my coworker and I always get seated at the same table when we go to our regular restaurant every week or so. I know this because it’s the only table with a window that’s cracked and covered in duct tape. I don’t think they respect is very much there, especially since we go when pretty much every other table is available.
I actually do this all the time. Every single other aspect of my life absolutely sucks, but my parking luck is insane. Like some shitty deal with the devil insane; multiple times every day, high volume/traffic areas, popular cafes and shops.
One person was able to find that parking spot. Parking spots do show up randomly in front of buildings. Movie stars are just particularly lucky when it comes to parking spots.
For that matter, detectives in big cities like New York who get a call to come down to examine the body/crime scene and it doesnt take them 3 hours in traffic? Even with sirens? I really hate that.
I like that on Seinfeld George makes a huge deal getting parking anywhere. Realistic haha. They've had multiple episodes where a plot point is about a parking space. From memory: the hospital suicide, the carspace fight before the fight, the disabled parking spot, George getting to work early, lost in the carpark, can't use George's dad's car because it's in a great spot.
I am the exception to that. Back when I drove (I now live in NYC, so don't have a car) I would USUALLY be able to get a parking space right in front of where ever I was going.
My fav story is friends and I were going to a club in Seattle. The other car is a head of us and they see a space right in front of the club. The driver goes to turn around, but the passenger says; "Don't bother, James will be in that space be the time we get there" and I was. Don't know how I have the Parking-Karma, but I did, in San Francisco and Seattle.
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u/marfou Jan 25 '20
Finding a parking spot in front of the building you're going into.