Subjects/subject
Friends
2019-03-09, 1 mention2021-03-14, 1 mention2021-05-30, 1 mention2022-06-19, 2 mentions2024-08-17, 1 mention2024-09-14, 1 mention2024-12-28, 1 mention
Tim’s take
His main recurring joke is that Friends sold a fantasy where a waitress and a struggling actor could somehow afford a huge Manhattan apartment, and he brings that up as shorthand for unrealistic 90s prosperity more than once 1:17:21 28:30 50:16. He also uses the cast and reunions as an example of famous people with nothing left to say still being paid to say it 30:46 23:41. At one point he actually defends the show against fat-shaming and homophobia accusations, which cuts against the mockery elsewhere 23:41.
Every Reference (8)
"and you're tapping into those. I'm talking about a brand new friends. A Friends, you don't know any of these people, and then it just"
"the show's like friends where it's like yeah you could live in new york city and be a failed actor and live in a big apartment and earn no money"
NYC Gentrification, Cop Defunding, and the Death of Art — #243 - Best of Patreon Vol. 2 | The Tim Dillon Show+546s into the segment"friends did a reunion which was uh completely unnecessary but friends was the biggest show when we were growing when i was growing up"
The Friends Reunion, Fat-Shaming Discourse, and Beverly Hills 90210 — #254 - Apocalypse Olympics with Abby Martin | The Tim Dillon Show+1s into the segment"CAN I BE ON FRIENDS? WHY DO YOU WANT THIS LIFE? Can you not? But they need to kill"
Mortgage Rates Jump the Most in 35 Years — #303 - Meeting In The Woods | The Tim Dillon Show"Courteney Cox talk about fun things that happened on the set of Friends, a show that was on in the 1920s, when actors could afford to"
Apocalypse Prophecy and Closing Riff on Podcasting's Fate — #303 - Meeting In The Woods | The Tim Dillon Show+307s into the segment"how long did he live after friends 20 years yeah about yeah that's all you live when the fame drain when when Fame depletes you've got about 20 years left before you end up inevitably in a hot tub dying"
Matthew Perry's Ketamine Dealers and the Ketamine Queen — Matthew Perry & A Hamptons Tragedy | The Tim Dillon Show #405+30s into the segment"look at the show Friends it was like an actor and a waitress and they all were able to live Manhattan somehow lived in [ __ ] Manhattan"
The Starbucks CEO's Commute and Peak-90s Nostalgia — The Presidential Debate & Eating Cats | The Tim Dillon Show #409+52s into the segment"THERE WHY WHY ISN'T ALL AMERICAN CULTURE CHINESE? Can you imagine Friends is all Chinese people? Is that fun? No one talks. It's quiet."
Netanyahu's Confidence and Believing in Yourself — Tech People & Celebrating Nothing | The Tim Dillon Show #423+127s into the segment