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Originally Posted by vektor
I'm not saying there weren't story arcs at all, but from a storytelling perspective they had very little in the ways of actual unique concepts. Seinfeld created colloquial terms that people don't even know were from Seinfeld, each episode had a unique idea and there were most definitely story arcs in Seinfeld. Just not as many as in Friends. It's not that it didn't meet my tastes, I'm all for artistic variety and what not, I'm not the biggest Seinfeld either but it's just that from a societal aspect Seinfeld was way more impactful and "classic" if you consider how much it actually shaped the language, idioms and colloquialisms of North American culture. The show single handedly ingrained things like "yada yada yada", "no soup for you", "hoochie mama" and the ever hillarious "shrinkage" into the minds of Americans.
Friends was more around the formula, it worked, but for the most part it was the same formula over and over again as where Seinfeld rarely if ever stuck to a formula which is why many regard it as one of the best shows ever, I'm not even a huge tv watcher, just jumping in on the conversation. Personally I like Community better than both of them because of how much of a risk they are willing to take with their new ideas, things like the paintball episodes and the AC repair man conspiracy were awsome
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Seinfield was great. I don't see Friends as any less of a show because of how great Seinfield was. Don't find the need to compare the two either in that great of detail. All I said was Seinfield also had the luxury of not having to worry about continuity at all or any ongoing storylines or character arcs. It's a brilliant show, it's one of my all time favorite shows, Seinfield is great. I'd argue that Friends was still a good show for most of it's run. Every show eventually jumps the shark when on for that long, much like the later seasons of Seinfield. And I feel as if Friends did have enough character development and long enough story arcs that it was not them trotting out the same thing for 9 seasons. You're clearly not a fan, that's okay.