Central Casting in a way. When that show came out, it was on ABC on Thursday night and I watched every episode. I was really into that show from the very first episode, but the show that its rival that was new on NBC was Friends. Okay. I think it's pretty clear that my so-called life lasted one year and has still some kind of, you know, cultural residue. But Friends became one of the biggest sitcoms that ever existed. Okay. Now Friends is a weird example of something from the 90s in the sense that these are young people in their 20s trying to find, you know, their way in the world. It seems like that should be very indicative of the Gen X mindset and it should be a Gen X show, but it's not. That show kind of exists out of time. The characters on Friends don't look like Ethan Hawke and reality bites. They don't have those kind of conversations. They almost exist as though, you know, we could be living through any period of time. The problems we're dealing with, the relationships we're (30/57)
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