#friends reboot

[genzennialfriends]

Phoebe Buffay

The longer you know her, the crazier the lore gets:

She speaks fluent French and everyone finds out when she’s randomly approached by tourists.

Identical twin sister? Oh yeah, she works as a waitress over in the next borough.

Didn’t you know she was homeless as a teenager and that’s why she knows how to use a switchblade? (Sorry about that mugging, Ross.)

She’s a registered massage therapist, a strict vegan, and lives with her grandmother in a rent controlled apartment. Loves plants. Lived with Monica until they realized they couldn’t live together due to their vastly different cooking and cleaning philosophies. Her close friendship with Ross is baffling until you realize that they like to get high together on the weekends and that she is subconsciously trying to make up for mugging him all those years ago. (Again, sorry!)

[joolzrichie]

A Friends spinoff but the audience don’t know that’s what they’re watching! I shall explain!

On the outset it’s a standard comedy TV show with a couple Emma and Aaron (Aaron is Janice’s son) - you never know their surnames (but it’s not obvious!). They’re getting married and the series is centred around the preparation for it.

Every so often they’ll mention an Auntie Bee (Emma couldn’t pronounce Phoebe when she was young) or uncle Joe, auntie Em (M for Monica!) and uncle C (who sadly passed away 🥺) …..

Clues would dropped as to who they are throughout the season, like Aaron and Emma sharing a birthday, the book that Joey read casually on the side, the wall her her apartment could be purple, her older brother Benny texting about the wedding

The the last episode of the season the camera pans out at the wedding to reveal the original cast applauding the nuptials

[aquanutart]

THEY'RE BACK!!!! my childhood manga!!!

[loveydovey489]

Pt2 of ghost being good with animals, I bet you anything he has an amazingly well trained DOG

TW: none!

This dog is fucking massive, like a Great Dane or something that he finds as a puppy and is like ‘oh, this couldn’t be so hard’ only when the dog is 3 feet high (90cm) but now he loved the fucker so he’s stuck with a giant dog,

The dogs name is somthing stupid, or so so basic, like Bob. Or just mutt (affectionate) and is so well trained, this dog will look both ways before crossing the road, close doors behind him, he can open the fridge and get Simon a beer,(nobody knows how the fuck he trained the dog to do that.) he know the rules of the house and he follows them, he could work as a military dog, (like Riley from ghosts) but ghost doesn’t want that! That’s his boy

He treat the dog like he’s a person, the dog is allowed on all the furniture. Chairs, tables. The single couch chair his mattress of the floor (because this man’s apartment is so empty) he cooks the dog steak or other meat and they eat dinner together, and he’ll speak to him like he’s a person too. He’ll come home and he’ll grunt a “hey.” To the dog and sit on the chair to have the massive fucker of a dog sit on his lap. Like he’s still a little puppy,

Ghost would have it any other way, he loves his boy <33

[crispycreambacon]

I had a vision while walking back to the hotel from getting barbeque, and I had to execute it immediately

[ratatatastic]

maffhew who refuses to say runebergin torttu because he knows hes gonna butcher it so bad he might be kicked out of the country the second he tries and staunchly avoids that by going "the one dessert that barky is going to have to explain 😃"

sasha who gets faced with the most generic description of everything hes ever eaten in his life so far because of maffhew and going "???... oh you mean runebergin torttu!"

"he did good he liked the food and he likes the finland so far so its good" sasha says with so much pride now that all the anxiety has left his system that his husband teammate is enjoying his country and doesnt hate it

media availability | 10.29.24 (x)(x)

the smile of a man who knowlingly doomed his husband and said husband using all his brain power to context clues his way to whatever the fuck he just got asked that his brain is running hotter than a mid 2012 macbook air thats somehow still alive in the year of the lord 2024 but girl does she chug along shes louder than a fighter jet

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

#Name A Better Childhood Friends To Lovers Glow Up I'll Wait

[sea-beam]

i need an episode focused on topher and gandhi NOW

[leporellian]

‘the scary implications of the care bear stare’ PLEASE elaborate i need to know

THE CARE BEARS are an insane hodgepodge of christian allegories, which makes them fascinating to analyze- not in a 'your favorite childhood cartoon is actually super fucked up #childhoodruined!!!' way but in a way i genuinely find really entertaining/endearing

like the care bears are, Very Clearly, a form of guardian angels/saints, with elements from both the cultural belief of the former and the general behavior of the latter- the bears watch over individual children in certain situations, each bear has its own patronage for what it represents, the bears possess a level of omniscience, etc. Furthermore Care-A-Lot borrows very heavily from popular culture imagery of Heaven

Care Bears II: A New Generation plays with this further by having a whole Noah's Ark esque plot, a monotheistic God, Satan and a Faustian deal with him (his name is even 'Dark Heart' which could be read as a play on Lucifer's name meaning 'the bright one' and we first see him in the form of a serpent), etc, like they're really on the nose about it here

And since then Care Bears has sort of leaned on this bizarre Christian hodgepodge. Like fallen angels are a thing that can happen

So the Care Bears are (barely) secularlized guardian angels/saints who actually do things to help people. And in this light the Care Bear Stare becomes really fascinating

The Care Bear Stare works not by dealing physical damage but by toying with the mind. In one of the 80s cartoon episodes they define it as being done by the bear concentrating their energy and forcefully shooting it out of them. So what's going on here is essentially an angel aiming all its energy at you and then using it as a form of mindrape, preying on your reactions to either change your behavior or render you at the mercy of your own hatred. Insane stuff

The Care Bears can also use it on EACH OTHER and it seems to work so not even supernatural beings are immune to its power

I say all of this not because I think the Care Bears should be Dark and Fucked Up (that would be stupid, although i would be in favor of giving them 2000 anxiety disorders bc I imagine being a guardian angel would be stressful as hell) i just genuinely think this shit is fascinating. We dont have quasi-religious infighting angel cartoons like we used to man

[satsuha]

they have my heart always...

[somegrumpynerd]

Do you think, in a truce scenario, Nightmare would try and keep his boys from spending too much time around Dream because he's worried they'll end up liking Dream more than him because that's what everybody's always done?

[genzennialfriends]

The One With the Binge Watching

Monica, Rachel, and Phoebe enjoy night in with a New Girl marathon, pizza, and wine. They compare their lives with the character’s lives and find themselves lacking until they remember it’s a TV show.

Chandler, Joey, and Ross get tickets to a Rangers game. Ross gets hurt thanks to an enthusiastic fan, and the guys wait for hours in Urgent Care. Ross quickly becomes a meme.

“How did they afford that apartment?”

“It’s just a television show, Pheebs, don’t worry about it.”

[mossdogs]

not sure how compatible they'd be

[fizzlecosmos]

The original ten bears!

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[asphelissorcery]

couple doodles of the hockey bros cause i haven’t been drawing much lately and they’re on the brain

[nichelleladonna]

i love total drama (obviously) but "hey what's up i'm here to slay" is the worst ick any TV theme song has ever given me