Hell is Television
The last few weeks, I've been turning on the television in the morning--sort of like white noise that wakes me up as I make breakfast. And without fail, ETC would be showing the same few episodes of Friends Season 4--the one where Rachel wants to go out with a newly divorced customer and where she inevitably sets up Ross to go out with her boss' niece from London. Ross and Emily hit it off, go to a bed and breakfast in Vermont and have a two-week fling. Rachel finally makes a move and invites the guy over for a "surprise" going away party for Emily.
At some point within this loop, these things happen: Chandler and the girls go to a strip club, Phoebe is pregnant and is craving meat, Joey goes to a shoot reeking and sneaks into Charlton Heston's bathroom, Chandler pretends to go to Yemen so he can get rid of Janice.
I suppose all in all this would be four episodes kept in a loop. I never saw them chronologically. Always the end of one episode bleeding into the beginning of another. You always figure it out. Nobody gets lost with the Friends timeline.
Today there is a breakthrough: I caught the end of an episode where Emily shows up at the Friends' apartment looking for Ross. Chandler goes, "Are we in London?" Emily has gone to the department of whatever university Ross teaches paleontology in and she couldn't find him. She calls her own phone in London and it turns out, Ross is sitting in the rain outside her building's stoop. He hears the call but can't answer. He runs to the nearest red phonebooth and calls New York. It's the big "I love you" episode and both of them are in the wrong city.
I guess I'm in Friends purgatory now or a lower circle of hell, if there's such a thing. In the next few weeks, I'll probably be seeing the next few episodes in bits and pieces over breakfast. What I don't get though is why loop the same four episodes again and again and not just go through the entire season and then start from the top of the season again. Oh well.
This is already an improvement from my previous predicament, where I got stuck with the same episode of a show called "Friends With Benefits" that has a guy asking his rich guy friend to fund his macaroni and cheese food truck idea and this black dude who lands 9th place in a list of 20 of the best lays in the city and tries for a do/lay-over so he could land the top spot.
At some point within this loop, these things happen: Chandler and the girls go to a strip club, Phoebe is pregnant and is craving meat, Joey goes to a shoot reeking and sneaks into Charlton Heston's bathroom, Chandler pretends to go to Yemen so he can get rid of Janice.
I suppose all in all this would be four episodes kept in a loop. I never saw them chronologically. Always the end of one episode bleeding into the beginning of another. You always figure it out. Nobody gets lost with the Friends timeline.
Today there is a breakthrough: I caught the end of an episode where Emily shows up at the Friends' apartment looking for Ross. Chandler goes, "Are we in London?" Emily has gone to the department of whatever university Ross teaches paleontology in and she couldn't find him. She calls her own phone in London and it turns out, Ross is sitting in the rain outside her building's stoop. He hears the call but can't answer. He runs to the nearest red phonebooth and calls New York. It's the big "I love you" episode and both of them are in the wrong city.
I guess I'm in Friends purgatory now or a lower circle of hell, if there's such a thing. In the next few weeks, I'll probably be seeing the next few episodes in bits and pieces over breakfast. What I don't get though is why loop the same four episodes again and again and not just go through the entire season and then start from the top of the season again. Oh well.
This is already an improvement from my previous predicament, where I got stuck with the same episode of a show called "Friends With Benefits" that has a guy asking his rich guy friend to fund his macaroni and cheese food truck idea and this black dude who lands 9th place in a list of 20 of the best lays in the city and tries for a do/lay-over so he could land the top spot.