This is the show where simply acknowledging a character owns/owned a NES was the entire punchline of a joke.
Yeah if you turn off the laugh track this show is terrible, for so many reasons.
"Friends": Ross Geller without laugh track = psychopath

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Also, Friends just isn’t funny. Every character except Phoebie is bland and unlikable.
I’ll add that the laugh track is doing a lot of heavy lifting for Seinfeld as well. Some of the writing is good but it might as well be called the Jason alexander show.