Ok, FRIENDS is a beloved show. It’s also not exactly a recent show anymore. A mom named Rebecca is going viral for tweeting out all the “outdated” things about Friends she needed to explain to her daughter… including:
I'm rewatching all of Friends with my 14-year-old daughter. We are on season 2. Here is a running, but incomplete, list of all the things I have needed to explain to her:
— Rebecca Makkai (@rebeccamakkai) April 16, 2022
Milk cartons used to have pictures of missing kids
Who Dudley Moore was
Who Joan Collins is
What pagers were, and how they worked. (I needed help from my husband on this one.)
That you could see people off at the airport gate
That you could meet arrive people at the airport gate— Rebecca Makkai (@rebeccamakkai) April 16, 2022
I babysat for a family in the 90s where the mom sent me to video store w her kids for them to watch, and said she wanted us to get a b/w movie from the 40s bc new movies were too violent/racy. Then she said “But nothing with smoking, please!” 😂
— Rebecca Makkai (@rebeccamakkai) April 17, 2022
Could anyone please explain the difference between a pager and a beeper
— Rebecca Makkai (@rebeccamakkai) April 17, 2022
Anyway:
Why people used to hold up lighters at concerts
How to responsibly split a restaurant check
What a hickey is— Rebecca Makkai (@rebeccamakkai) April 17, 2022
Anyway:
Why people used to hold up lighters at concerts
How to responsibly split a restaurant check
What a hickey is— Rebecca Makkai (@rebeccamakkai) April 17, 2022
What a green card is
What the Ice Capades are
“Are pornos narrated?” uhhh… 🤔— Rebecca Makkai (@rebeccamakkai) April 17, 2022
Oh, I forgot: Who Hank Azaria is, and the fact that Minsk used to be in the USSR.
— Rebecca Makkai (@rebeccamakkai) April 17, 2022
What "VD" is, and how stock photography works
— Rebecca Makkai (@rebeccamakkai) April 16, 2022
How perfume samples work in department stores
Why secretaries answer office phones— Rebecca Makkai (@rebeccamakkai) April 16, 2022
Here's one I can't actually explain: Chandler's mother has sold over 100 million books. If we say that conservatively, she's made 2 dollars a book, she's worth 200mil. Chandler is an only child. She doesn't seem to have cut him off. And yet he makes Joey pay for a table he broke.
— Rebecca Makkai (@rebeccamakkai) April 16, 2022
The fact that if this apartment were real, it would be worth millions of dollars
What Bloomingdales is
Who Demi Moore is
That Eddie Moskowitz is a Jewish name— Rebecca Makkai (@rebeccamakkai) April 16, 2022
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