Caroline

I hate looking at Ben.

When Ben is like a kid with short hair who like has lines and stuff, I'm like fine with him then.

Holiday Armadillo.

I'm so down with Holiday Armadillo.

That is the only Ben storyline I really fuck with.

And you and I watched that episode recently and we realised it was one of the few episodes that is directed by David Schwimmer.

What's really interesting about faith in Friends, and obviously neither of us are Jewish, so it's, you know, it's just very much finger in the air observations from two Gentiles.

But, like, the show, even though Rachel's Jewish, Monica's Jewish, and Ross is Jewish, the show rarely feels like it is Jewish unless the older people are involved, right?

Like unless it's Rachel's parents who are involved or the Geller parents who are involved, they bring so much of that culture with them, you know?

And like the way they deliver jokes, the jokes that they're delivering, the way they talk about like doctors, the way they're sort of like kind of, they just, they make it feel like a more like rounded Jewish show in a way that like it doesn't feel that way when it's just the six friends together.

except for the holiday armadillo episode, which is directed by Schwimmer.

And also like it literally opens on, you see the kind of the flat decorated for Christmas, but you also see a Hanukkah blanket.

And like, oh, we've never seen that before.

The horrible lamps of Friends!

Wow.

Oh my God.

When Monica starts giving Rachel shit for bringing home that nude girly lamp, like, yes, is it a silly, dumb, ugly lamp?

Of course.

But is it, I don't see it as being any worse than any of the other lamps already in that house.

Oh my God, that's such picture book stuff.