It's one of those shows that you have to watch when it first came out.

It was sorta funny back then, at the time we didn't have nearly as much selection of niche stuff as we do now. If you stayed up late you could catch Beavis and Butthead and that was about it.

It was the thing you watched with your parents.

Now it just comes across like it's a cleaned up comment section of a mainstream social media site. The stuff they hope to portray themselves as.

Parts of Friends are funny, but overall it has way too much manufactured drama with Ross and Rachel to be enjoyable.

In the late 90’s UK it was a huge show, everyone really liked it, it was one of the first binge serials I can remember. I’ve not watched it for 25 years, maybe worth revisiting, although reading through the comments, seems it hasn’t aged well. It’s always sunny in Philadelphia is probably a better re-watch these days, it’s like extreme (anti) Friends on crack.

If you go in with the predisposition that it won't be funny, then of course it won't be. Go watch something else.

What do you mean you don't like The Office??

It's the sheer laziness and cynical nature of US comedies which sucks - develop a formula and keep shitting out episodes until there are enough for syndication. That's it. The actual show itself is just 20 minutes of meaningless, throwaway nothing with some jokes. Occasionally a show will try something different but 90+% of them are just this until cancellation or syndication.

lack of pocs in NYC.

Friends is a funny show. But I’ll say that after season 5, it got progressively less and less funny.

That's me watching any sitcom

Me watching most modern "comedies," outside animation. So much shit in the category that is just "we put a joke in this crime drama, so it qualifies, right?"