Hannah Fry

And it's only been like recently that we've dug into like,

like, what kind of, like, what is the knock-on effect of those jokes?

Like, why do we find them funny?

Are they funny at all?

So I do think it's probably about, I think it's like a product of the cruelty of comedy of its time and also a familiarity with these characters over years and years and years that means that we earn the right to joke about their darkest, saddest things.

They don't call me Dr. Darkness.

Well, I think what's more upsetting about Chanda than the dad who runs away with Mr. Garibaldi is the toxic novelist mum.

But I feel like she's so overlooked in the psychological context of Chandler Bing.

Yeah, yeah.

There's such an obsession with Chandler's dad, as she's always called.

That's got to do something to a young man.

Having such a hyper-sexualised...

Also, I've just realised, Charlie must come from obscene wealth.

probably quite preppy yeah like he probably went to like a private school and he didn't touch a tiff when he was 19 yeah it's so interesting like when you intersect what that would be who that character would be with the class system of England that would be like an Etonian you know he's got that like corporate job

Yeah.

If you put him in England, that would be a repressed Etonian.

With absent parents, who was raised by nannies, who can't emotionally connect with women.

And who works in the city.

Yeah, because it's through Ross is his entry point to the group.

Yeah, the Gellers kind of treat him.