I think the looming writers strike might have helped here.

jokes about gay people, transgender people, fat people. Phoebe's brother has a relationship with and marries his high school teacher. Ross as a college professor has a relationship with his student.

Offensive with older folks. My parents told me I couldn't watch it growing up, they thought it was too sexual. I still watched it.

And this is how I fucking find out...from some momo on Reddit (read in Jackie Rohr's voice).

It's a cute enough show...

Lol, this could be said about almost any sitcom from the past 50 years.

I've never watched Blue Bloods (my mom likes it tho) but I'm happy whenever it gets renewed. I have the wierd thing where I like when things that were in when I was a kid are still running cause that means I can't be that old yet lol

Hopefully this is finally the season they discover the genetic component that's turned their blood blue.

Really they did? Why did the show be the biggest show ever then?

You do understand I'm joking??? Older means different decades for different "aged" people. The way you put it: aimed at older people, I mean 40's....sounds funny & typical coming from someone much younger. You know when you watch a tv show, and a character asks can you describe him/her-and a young person will say-old, you know like you or like my mom, etc.

Fuck that. Make the comedies like we used to have them and if people want to be offended fuck them. Those are the people likely not buying the shit anyway. Tired of big studios and creatives being scared of this niche audience of pussies.

I haven't watched it yet but does the premise of her being visted by the dead people she writes about last? Cause the marketing of the show did a 180. It was all about the premise before the show aired and then every commercial since then has just made it look like a regular workplace comedy so I didn't know if they retooled it.

It’s a few people pointing out that it had an all-white cast and some casual sexism and maybe homophobia I believe. These are all true. It’s a product of it’s time. Most of these people don’t make a huge deal out of it. But it’s good to acknowledge what was done wrong in the past, in order to avoid it in the future. Compared to other stuff, like say American Pie, this isn’t offensive at all. And no you don’t really have to be that careful with comedy now, people are just becoming increasingly aware that comedy at the expense of groups of people is bullying and it’s not okay. There’s a difference between making fun of something and making something funny. It’s not always okay to do the first one. It’s why we tell kids not to make fun of other kids after all. I honestly wish more writers or directors acknowledged how certain things have aged badly in older stuff. It shows personal growth.

There's some gay jokes that haven't aged well.

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USPOTUS

It’s actually terrible. I cringe so hard at certain scenes.

There's occasional content (gay jokes come to mind) that probably wouldn't be done today, but not enough to meaningfully alter the dynamic of the show.

> Get orders from Admiral Janeway one episode

Somehow link it to Prodigy too.

You mean the same ones that watch it religiously?

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I'm so tired of old people complaining about comedy evolving. Nobody finds friends offensive. People just have a different type of sense of humor now in days. Get over it.

Why’s it considered offensive?

Several generations of adults found it offensive when it aired.

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