NBC'S FRIENDS ENDS ITS PRIME TIME RUN: BFD!

From an amusing essay at AlterNet:

I watched the final episode of Friends from a hot tub on the roof of a hotel in Burbank. I just wanted to go to the hot tub, I swear. Went to dinner with a friend, bitched about how the end of Friends is eclipsing one of the defining moments in modern American democracy: the slow-motion implosion of America's legitimacy on the global and human-rights stage, quite possibly the end of an empire, because even Rome could not stand beset by enemies without and the slave revolts within, and should Rummy resign? And was the apology enough? It's enough to curdle your sushi (pass me the unagi....) – or, wait, maybe it's the reverse. Maybe this media coverage of this whole torture-Iraqis thing was some evil rival-network attempt to take media attention away from the end of Friends. Like, CBS exposed the prison story and Friends is NBC. It's clear now! Those bastards!

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What's amazing to me is that this writer managed to find an entire article's worth of material about what has to be the most whitebread show to ever hit the airwaves. All I've been able to say about Friends over the years is that it's boring and lame--indeed, the show's utter lameness easily cancels out any babe factor that Aniston and Cox might have brought to the table. That's right: Friends is worse than Baywatch.

If you're actually sad about the show's demise, you should be ashamed of yourself.

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