CurseoftheGods
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Which is the better sitcom? I am thinking of buying a boxset.
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Better sitcom: Friends or Frasier?
- Thread starter CurseoftheGods
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Tempesta di Fuoco
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Seinfeld.
BodiesWithoutOrgans
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Frasier
I still crack up over the shaving foam exploded in Niles face lol
I still crack up over the shaving foam exploded in Niles face lol
Zeyphersan
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Friends for running through the series, Frasier for catching a random episode on TV
DUFFMCWALIN
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CoyoteSpitfire
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Probably Frasier.
Enter The 36 Chambers
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Frasier>Seinfeld>>>Friends
gutter_trash
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1st post nailed it
ElectricBlanketFire
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Frasier >>>>>>Friends>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Cat chasing laser pointer>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Chuck
Goro Majima
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Frasier easily.
It's better than Cheers.
It's better than Cheers.
Friends is better because of the constant emphasis on serialized storytelling which was a rare thing in sitcoms from that era.
Any given episode of Frasier can be amazing, but try watching about 20 in a row and see how you feel about it.
Friends, on the other hand, becomes more addictive with each passing episode, at least up to a point. The last few seasons get a little annoying at times, but overall it was a great show and it might still be my favorite sitcom ever.
Any given episode of Frasier can be amazing, but try watching about 20 in a row and see how you feel about it.
Friends, on the other hand, becomes more addictive with each passing episode, at least up to a point. The last few seasons get a little annoying at times, but overall it was a great show and it might still be my favorite sitcom ever.
The first half of Friends is pure gold. It's consistently great up until the Vegas trip, when things really start to fall apart. After that, The show is a shell of its former self, getting by with running gags and references to a better time. Occasionally you get a glimpse of what drew you made it so enjoyable in the first place, but they only serve to make the surrounding mediocrity sting harder.
Fraiser is definitely more consistent, never coming close to the same lows. I'd argue it doesn't reach the same highs, either though. The characters are more human, but don't have the Everyman element of the Central Perk gang. Frasier don't quite have as wide an appeal either.
Random episode on TV: Frasier
Cherry-picked marathon: Friends
Full series binge: Frasier
Top 10 episode of Friends > Top 10 episodes of Frasier.
Fraiser is definitely more consistent, never coming close to the same lows. I'd argue it doesn't reach the same highs, either though. The characters are more human, but don't have the Everyman element of the Central Perk gang. Frasier don't quite have as wide an appeal either.
Random episode on TV: Frasier
Cherry-picked marathon: Friends
Full series binge: Frasier
Top 10 episode of Friends > Top 10 episodes of Frasier.
Goldenroad
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Frasier by far.
ImpalingNarwhal
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Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
It got weird when the storylines started to center around Niles rather than Frasier.
IdreamofHIME
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Fraiser has my all time favourite slapstick moment in comedy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTPHKPg7hjI
I cannot watch this and not laugh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTPHKPg7hjI
I cannot watch this and not laugh.
ElectricBlanketFire
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VeryGooster
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Frasier for the radio show murder mystery episode alone.
This guy
Count of Monte Sawed-Off
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Of those two, Frasier.
Haha I saw that for the first time recently. Good shit.
Niles was a much better character, but probably left in smaller doses. I feel like they "normalized" him a bit too much.
I enjoy both shows quite a bit but they're so different in tone that I'm not sure they're directly comparable. Both had major downswings in quality (Friends, the last two seasons, although some will argue it started earlier than that, Frasier, Seasons 8-10 before recovering with a strong final season).
crazy monkey
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i enjoyed way better then frasier
Pretty much, aside from a very rare few Friends episodes (like the Brad Pitt Thanksgiving). They are very, very different shows.
Chie Satonaka
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Fraiser.
I'll always consider Friends to be overrated.
Come at me.
I'll always consider Friends to be overrated.
Come at me.
NameGenerated
Who paid you to grab Dr. Pavel?
Between those two, Frasier easily. Friends is garbage.
The Technomancer
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I'm going to go with Frasier on this one, a show I didn't really appreciate until I was an adult
The show really is a very specific product of the 90s in a way that Friends wasn't quite either. In that the history of TV sitcoms since then has basically been trying to re-create Friends, while Frasier still stands as its own kind of thing.
The show really is a very specific product of the 90s in a way that Friends wasn't quite either. In that the history of TV sitcoms since then has basically been trying to re-create Friends, while Frasier still stands as its own kind of thing.
Bo Knows GAF
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Only took one post. Shouldn't have even been that long tbh.
MacH1nation
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There's no way I could go through all the ups and downs of the different relationships in friends again. Once you take that away, I don't find many friends episodes very funny, amusing with some laughs, but it's not something I'd put on to make me laugh. Fraiser on the other hand is a show you go into not expecting to laugh that much, and you wind cracking up till tears. Fraiser is one of the GOAT network sitcoms, Friends...you had to be there I guess.
You Are Viewtiful
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Am I going to be the only one here who says Friends? I was a teenager when these two were airing. Fraisier was way too serious for me, I would probably appreciate it more if I watched it now. But for now Friends is still winner in my mind.
TheAdmiester
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Friends and it's not even fair.
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