One of my favorite television sitcoms, Friends, dispensed from the traditional sitcom structure of a family oriented setting. Friends portrays six young adults in their mid twenties who are all single for most of the series. Monica (Courteney Cox) and Chandler (Matthew Perry) get married later in the series, but they are the only two to be married permanently by the end. Ross (David Schwimmer) and Rachel (Jennifer Anniston) have a child together, but they break the normal social behavior of having a child within a marriage. They both insist on not getting married when finds out she is pregnant. The two still claim that they love each other, but they don’t think that marriage is right for them.
The emphasis of the show is based around the true friendships that these six characters share with each other. Their lives show that marriage isn’t necessary to have a happy and successful life. This parallels with the idea that was emerging in the 90’s, which portrayed friendships as just important, if not more important than marriage. I think that this show is very humorous but not always appropriate for children. There is a lot of talk about sex and hooking up, which wasn’t very common in earlier sitcoms. Overall, Friends is a very humorous show that isn’t as family oriented, but it does show that importance of friendship.
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Thanks, Catherine. All sounds fine to me--but I'm not sure if you really need all of the second paragraph, do you?
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