Friends Quiz: Which Character Had Which Disastrous Date?
Before you finally find your lobster... you're gonna catch a whole lot of crabs.
It's theorised that situation comedies help create a safe space in which we can assess and confront the reality of our daily lives: creating an absurd, outlandish version of ourselves that we can laugh at from the comfort of our living room.
If that's the case, then what on earth does the sitcom dating experience tell us about the human condition? Seinfeld, How I Met Your Mother, Cheers, Frasier - every classic American sitcom seems to present us with a hellish nightmare of freaks and weirdos, incapable of self-reflection or empathy.
By the end of the tenth and final season of Friends, all but one of the six central characters had finally found a partner that allowed them to leave that incestuous cesspool of drama and meaningless conflict that is dating (Joey was always in an open relationship with food anyway).
But before Chandler and Monica found each other; before Phoebe let Mike put a ring on it; before Ross and Rachel stopped taking so many breaks... good god, their dating experiences were car crashes.
Let's see how many of these disastrous scenarios you remember - 1000 shiny Internet Points if you get 100% the first time!
Answers at the end!