Lol I feel a little bad for laying into you now that I saw that second post
'Inoffensive fluff' it may be but the success of Friends baffled me as a kid and baffles me to this day. It's like modern-day-CBS level terrible inanity and for some reason a subsection of my fellow 30 something year olds love it and it drives me nuts. It's such a lazy show that it is difficult for me to fathom the writers having any intent with the scripts beyond finishing them as fast as possible so they could go bump lines of e off neon rollerblades or whatever was hot in the 90s