That final scene with everyone pinning Rachel down for the eye drops is one of my favorite scenes. True friends take care of you, whether you like it or not!
I know! I've seen some people be put off by it, saying you shouldn't assault your friends, but if it was me and I was being irrational about something that could easily be fixed or potentially lose my eye, assault me please. Lol
Nick seems like such a sweet person to me. it makes me so happy to see him get so excited about disney movies,and other stuff including this show.. it makes me happy how his online persona is such a sweetheart,i like to believe he's like that in real life,haha. i like to see these reactions, because this show is sthg i first saw 20 years ago.... so i get to see it through a new perspective today. Also my own opinions on this show have changed and i'm glad Nick and Cody do not just bIindIy follow anything the writers back then thought was okay :)
We respect Friends too much to just automatically praise it for everything. this great opus deserves our real critique. i always needed people like you guys back when i was growing up and everyone around me at school and in my family seem to have one simple opinion about comedies and media. it's great to see here on this site people like you guys, who think for themselves and don't hide how they feel.
good thing you guys don't just mindlessly go along with everything the show throws at you! makes us all feel like we're not alone. this is what i started watching youtube for in 2008 - finally discovering people who think for themselves when consuming art. it's good to think critically. the least ethical episodes are still yet to come. love your work, guys.
I actually react just like Rachel with eye stuff and at the eye doctor. They actually have it written in my chart how difficult of a patient I am about my eyes.
4:49 I have a family history and was born with glaucoma. My grandfather, dad, brother and son all also had or currently have it. It's when fluid builds up behind the optic nerve which increases your eye pressure. Normal is 12, but mine hovers near 20 most of the time. My brother and I both lost an eye to it and when they removed his eye his pressure was 50!
@egefluff they're watching it for the very first time ever. when i first watched this show 20 years ago, i didnt get Joey saving his sandwich. i didnt even laugh. hey're being honest about how this experience is for them. do you want them to fake-laugh and Iie to us instead...? (However, i did laugh at - SPOILER - playing s.a. that Ross suffered, s.a. that Chandler suffered and s.a. that Ross committed, for 'comedy'.... today i fill gross at these jokes bcs i've suffered it myself.)
@egefluff i enjoyed the british IT crowd or old Mr Bean episodes, and i've seen quite a few very funny parts of Seinfeld here on YT. on Seinfeld, however,the actions of the characters are being clearly judged by the show itself, whereas on Friends, the show seems to expect us to agree with the characters much more often. But me enjoying all these comedies doesn't mean i have to pretend to take everything as funny just to please other people. I love Friends but i do not agree with everything the writers seem to be saying, or every joke. These guys are allowed to have their own reactions, and i'm sure they'd enjoy parts or most of Seinfeld or The Office. but maybe not all. I prefer How I Met Your Mother to Friends, and I simply love The Good Place and Ted lasso. sue me.
@egefluff We respect Friends too much to just automatically praise it for everything without actively thinking and examining how we really feel about this great opus. i needed so much reactors like this back when i was growing up and everyone around me seem to have one simplistic opinion about movies and tv shows. this helps so much,to see that there are people who think for themselves and don't hide how they feel about media,even if it's not all positive pink unicorns.
It makes me wonder though how you guys would've reacted to something like "Married... with Children" where the humor is mainly the characters being awful to each other. Though I would recommend "3rd Rock From the Sun" & "Coupling" first since I find those to be better written sitcoms. Don't let anyone tell you that taking sitcoms seriously is exclusive to your generation b/c Friends fans have been arguing against each other for decades now.
I wish people hadn't made you feel like you have to apologize every time you do something or say something re this show. People shouldn't be so judgy; everybody experiences a TV show their own way. The Rachel storyline in this one is just exactly how I behave with this stuff i. It took me until I was in my thirties to figure out how to put in eye drops, I can't sit still for that glaucoma machine, and if anybody has any eye touching going on even in a movie I have to leave the room, so I feel for her in this one. I would have felt so violated if my friends jumped on me like that and forced me to have eye drops!
Vegas can be extremely cold compared to what people think about a desert. It's in the desert, but a desert just means that it's very dry typically. The temperatures can be extreme both ways surprisingly
I had a very similar eye exam to Rachel when I was about 6 years old where they wanted to do the glaucoma test, but I was so afraid/bothered by the puff of air that I kept closing my eyes or jerking my head away. Finally I started crying and the doctor said I was probably too young to have glaucoma anyway and we didn't have to do the test. I looked it up, and the type of glaucoma they look for with that test takes years to develop, which is why most health authorities recommend they begin testing for it around 40 years of age. I don't know why they even bothered me with it at 6 years old. Seems like doing unnecessary (and scary) medical tests on young children would be a good way to create fearful, medically hesitant adult patients.
@@Karamarika why it does not hurt - makes no sense - i have myopia - i have been going to eye doctor since i was 6 - now i retinal disease - i had a tear in my retina i had laser surgery many times to repair my retina's - and you are awake while the doctor shoot a laser through your pupil to repair the retinal tear - you no what is worse than touching your eye going blind - so it makes no sense to me that some would risk their eye sight because they do not want the doctor to touch their eye - glaucoma which the puff test is used to detect will also lead to blindness if not detected and treated -
yup.. That is what happens in later series. Especially with Joey's character but also a bit with others, especially Monica, they become over the top caricatures.
@@Cairo198 Yeah. I know it’s fairly common for characters to become less dimensional as a series goes on - “Flanderization” - but Joey’s especially annoyed me. He was never the brightest, and that’s fine, but he could at least be self-sufficient, navigate life, even little things like cook, etc. By the end, he became a helpless child.
I did the glaucoma test with the puff of air back in 2019. it's not so bad. Now it's a drop in your eye, and the dr shines a light in your eye up close. And glacouma is a condition/illness that damages the nerve from the eye to the brain and causes blindness. Famous Italian opera singer Andrea Bocelli was born with glacouma, and when he was 12 he took a sports injury to the head that blinded him.
actually the device is touching your eye you do not feel it because they give numbing drops lol - the light is just to distract you so you do not see the device touching your eye
I can’t imagine how infuriating it can be to watch a show and fall in love with it only for people to tell you it’s a comedy and stop loving the show your way. Sorry you have to deal with it Nick, you and The Cocoa Couch seem to be getting a lot of those comments,
nah it’s a completely valid criticism when jokes meant entirely as jokes and not character moments affect their reaction. Like them getting overly annoyed at the girls for switching the apartments back. Don’t think we should be promoting the unhealthy attachment to fictional characters
@@jinxysaberkHave to disagree. Just because something is taken as a comical moment doesn’t mean you have to take it that way. Every moment can be judged on this show, most people choose not too. But if Nick and Cody take 3-4 moments out of the 100+ episodes and get overly serious that’s their prerogative. Most episodes they seem to be fine, and even though I do agree the apartment situation they took too seriously, that’s how they interpreted the situation. Just because something is played for laughs doesn’t mean everyone is going to feel that way. And as for promoting an unhealthy attachment to fictional characters, that is ludicrous to me. Anyone can care about a character as much as you want. Obviously I have never been invested in characters like Nick has, but that’s how he is. Can’t change someone just because you don’t like some of their takes.
@@BymonialShreddeeyou can't change somebody and you can't stop somebody from providing their feedback even if it is critical. As long as people aren't rude, I don't see the problem. I do understand that a lot of people tend to be quite rude and downright abusive about it though.
@@that.ll_do_pigThe issue is the rude and disrespectful comments, Nick and Cody talk about the critical and different takes. They enjoy hearing other peoples opinion as long as it’s not rude or people don’t curse at them.
lol. I worked at two optometrist offices as a tech and I'm sorry but I get so frustrated (in my head of course) when people get scared about eyedrops, contacts, and the puff of air that they do. I try to relate but I just can't. 😆 because it’s easy for me. Btw, WITH CLEAN HANDS, you can touch the white part of your eye, it doesn’t hurt. UNLESS you press too hard. Lol. The only part that will hurt is if you touch the pupil because the pupil is like a hole in your eye.
It's a hole, but it's also covered by the cornea. It just allows light to enter into the iris so it can be detected. It's not a hole in the sense that you can poke something into it.
No it’s in the eyes. If you don’t take control of it, you will go blind. It’s also hereditary. I’ve been dealing with it since i was a teen. Right now my doctor is doing everything he can to save my sight in my left eye. Very painful
There's a lot of reactors that say the same about the show and not liking how the characters are treating each other and y'all tend to be around the same age group. I think it's funny because for me it's just a sit com. And some of you grew up more sensitive to things that don't bother me. And too we watched weekly episodes til mid season then about 2 months break then season would start and end. You're watching 2-3 and more per week. That's a lot to break down and think about. 😃 Y'ALL ARE DOING A GREAT JOB. 👏🏽 I appreciate all the hard work you produce and laugh along. 🙏🏽👍🏽
Definitely a generational issue. People are WAY too sensitive these days. Can you imagine if they watched Seinfeld?? I don't think they could survive those characters.
There were plenty of sensitive people back then, their reactions just weren't recorded. The actor who played Gunther even talked about being berated by a fan for getting in the way of Ross & Rachel. To this day, there are many longtime fans in the comments who trash certain characters that they dislike. Most often Ross, Rachel, Phoebe, Susan, Carol, etc...
Y’all act like we didn’t grow up watching things like Family Guy and South Park, shows much more offensive and vulgar than these sweet little sitcom shows And yeah, kids do still watch these things, and now kids are watching shows like Hazbin Hotel which if you show to someone older would make them clutch their pearls 🤣
Rachel being super dramatic with her eye drops 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 and despite Mónica being somewhat strong she still can't do it alone and needs the rest of the gang to do it. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣
@danilo1920 i think people forget that for these guys this show is completely new. When i first watched it back in 2000s, i was young and this was new. i didn't get everything and i also didnt like everything. I love this show today and i've rewatched it many times. these guys are taking it all in for the very first time,though.
I have a thing about my eyes too... tried to wear contacts as a teen, I just couldn't do it.I absolutely dread the idea of drops or anything touching my eyes.. I don't know why lol it's like a spider in the room to me... I don't know why I'm so terrified of a tiny spider but I am lol
My mother and I watch movies all the time and we are two different personality types in terms of how we approach life, movies, shows, situations, life on a first time first impression basis. I find people break down in one of two catagories when expeirencing things in real time based on your whole essence and emotional make up. Mine is to automatically observe people and situations to pan for the potential humor of any given moment and situation. I've just always had the soul of a stand-up and have a default setting for the sense of the ridiculous. My mother's knee-jerk rorschach test reaction to anything is serious first, humor distant second. She birthed me, raised me, has known me all of my 40 something years of life and most likely knows me the best out of anybody. From day one out the womb, all I've done is a tight five opening set like I'm workshopping my act for an upcoming Netflix special. Yet, whenever I start a story that then clearly veers wildly into the theatre of the absurd that is clearly a joke, her first response is to reply back taking my humor seriously like she doesn't know where anything I dsay is going. That is a really welded in there stubburn force of will genetic firewalls to not adjust expectations of people's personality types taking everything on a case by case basis. Which is an endless source of material for me. It's our dynamic and of course the rest of my family and friends my whole life roast me saying they thought my mother was the funny one. Yeah, that's the nurturing support system that's makes ol' Pablo long for the sweet, sweet release death will bring. I mean, unconditional love! Where's my emotional support spirit pelican, Larry? Is my eye twitching? Am I crying? I can't tell anymore. And yes, that was all a bit there at the end. Text and comments need a studio audience or laugh track. The point of this all is watching reaction videos with you two reminds me of when moms and I watch stuff. You both have the instant default setting of take something at face value and our natural born literalists. The phenom for me as the opposite who looks humor first in all things as my natural inclination is it's funny when all y'all will go into a comedy and sitcom knowing it's sole objective is to make its audience laugh and immediately a character will say a line that sounds harsh and deliever it deadpan. I have mutiple examples of my mom and you two instantly responding, 'Are they serious?' And then the punchline comes. Without fail. And I love this unintential comedic timing and beat. It actually is like i'm getting two levels of comedy at once. Both of you are really engaging personalities who both bring something different to the table while meshing together beautifully. Nick is such a sweetheart and people pleaser if anybody has an issue with him, everybody knows whose at fault and it ain't Nick .He's kind to a fault so it's instinctive to protect Nick from Trolls because he's a National tresure. Cody is THAT guy. He's Like the Steven Hyde from That 70's Show of this duo. Only with way more empathy and Cody has code of conduct and strong vibe morality vibe (you too Nick). The main difference between you two is Cody gives off that whole take it of leave it vibe. He seems social and accomidating, but he's also not going to take anybody's crap and able to walk away and not another F was given. Cody is the muscle. lol. The plot twist here for me is I unconsciously seek out people and friends who are more serious minded automatically I believe as a jokester I never want yes men or curtousy laughers in my inner circle. Otherwise, I could never really trust if my humor was really funny or not. But if you can get a serious minded person to laugh, you've accomplished something. That feels like crushed a sold out statium because y'all are harder to impress. And it means more when one does. So whenever you guys really laugh at something, it's earned. Especially when you an tell its against your better judgement. That's when you onow a show is working. Happy to hear Nick you stand talk and firm on your stance to just be yourself. We were worried you might conform which would have been ridicilous so right on. When we then started to wonder if Cody would, yerah, we stopped right there and laughed a good hearty laugh. Never a question if Cody would conform, but if he'd flip one bird or two while telling social media trolls to suck enormous hippo ass. Thanks for the 25 days of FriendsMAS, my dudes. Depression will be down this season these holidays thanks to y'all. Doing ther lord's work fellas. ;D
Nick you have already posted so much, but I would love if you could post episodes 23 and 24 together. If you can’t it’s fine but it is technically a two parter!
Tbh at this point it's just funny to me to see you taking this show seriously sometimes lmao. I saw the confusion in your eyes about Phoebe and I was like "guys, chill😂" but then I don't really mind. It's fun to see people react differently to comedy. Don't worry about it
@@MyGoldenShadows yeah but at times, phoebe is incredibly kind. like having the kids for her brother. this is kinda sorta too unfair. can be funny but definitely also can leave some people annoyed at the final resolution of this episode.
I don't mind the puff of air but my eyelids have a mind of their own and won't stop flickering whenever I get those tests 😂 also it's great to hear you laugh again Nick 😊 I think you worked around the audio issue as best as you could 👍
I don't know how the majority of people took Chandler's whole "this isn't your big break" thing, but I was never that mad about it. First, it only came out because Chandler was being led to respond without thinking. This leads me to believe he wouldn't have said this to Joey under normal circumstances. Second, of everyone in the friend group Chandler is the one most aware and supportive of Joey and his career. He'd probably have at least some idea of show business and how it works and what is and isn't a good thing. There's also the fact that Joey and Chandler have different opinions about what is a big risk. While it's still a big opportunity for Joey, there would be things that Chandler would worry about more. Chandler at the start though still made the conscious decision to support him and go out there with him.
That puff of air IS that bad!! You guys are probably too young to have experienced it, they don't do that anymore, thank GOD. I had a hard time staying still like Rachel, everything else I was fine with tho.
I can't stand that puff of air in the eye test. Not quite as bad as Rachel but pretty close. They've actually skipped it bc i couldn't keep my eyes open. I can't put in eye drops without dripping it right beside my eye and letting it run into it
So... I didn't wanna do this but some children in the comments are making me.. I hate seeing my Friend have to apologize because some of you have the emotional maturity of a walnut. so just because something is funny to one person, doesn't mean it is funny to the other people... Comedy is subjective. There are a lot of really funny moments in this show that both me and Nick loved and enjoy because we are on Season 9 on Patreon right now. I have to say though that the amount of people criticizing him and myself for how "serious" we take this show is utterly appalling and you should be ashamed of yourselves. To be honest I could care less about what y'all say about me, I could care less about the negativity. But I see how it affects Nick. Nick is one of the best friends I have ever had in my life and the way some of you treat him over the dumbest stuff makes me think you have no empathy for anyone in your lives whatsoever. Nick has always been there for me and I will always be there for him and it hurts me to see how you all make him feel the need to apologize over the way he feels. The real problem is that toxic mentality right there. Let us react how we wanna react. PERIOD. The world already has enough hate in it, so don't bring more of it here. So to those doing it, stop. Stop sending him messages with negativity in them, stop criticizing for how he feels in a show that brings him so much joy like how dare you?? Do better people, seriously.
@ItsTotallyCody hmm,i'm so sorry to read this bcs Nick seems like such a sweet person to me. it makes me so happy to see him get so excited about disney movies,and other stuff including this show...my only objection,which i never sent anywhere to Nick(there's a way to send him messages??)... is that when Monica and Rachel stole the appartment back, then you,Cody,said it's a double standard... i agree it was shady and mean of them, i felt bad for Chandler there,but i disagree it's a double standard,since we've seen both Chandler and Joey do horribIe things and i promise, ethically worse stuff is coming in the future. still love the show and your reactions. but i am not happy with how the writers sometimes make the characters way too..shady. thank you and Nick for everything, it makes me happy how his online persona is such a sweetheart,i like to believe he's like that in real life
@ItsTotallyCody i truly needed people like you guys back when i was growing up and everyone around me at school and in my family seem to have one simple opinion about comedies and media. it's great to see here on this site people like you guys, who think for themselves and don't hide how they feel about a movie or a show,even if it's not all mindlessly positive. We respect Friends too much to just automatically praise it for everything.
Phoebe is such an insufferable airhead. Treating Ross like crap and bad mouthing him to the whole group all because of a dream she had!! And nothing even resembling an apology to Ross at the end of it all
People keep telling Nick to stop apologizing for reacting their way to the show, but do people realize how negative some people have been towards him. This is one of the sweetest reactors over the past 4 years, never has he received as much hate as from this show. And it’s one of his new favorite shows… sigh i’m sorry Nick. I understand why you feel the need to apologize, but most of us love how you react.
@@KaramarikaPatreon messages, Instagram he’s mentioned, TH-cam comments Paulbros and I (we’re moderators) have deleted well over 100 since season 2 for just cursing at them or saying some foul things towards them. Lots of times we delete the nasty comments quickly so Nick doesn’t see it, but think he sees a decent amount before we actually delete them.
I love how you can tell who is new to Nick’s channel versus who isn’t. Anyone who is new, THIS IS NICK. He’s always apologized when he has gotten criticism, I of course feel bad he has to even apologize, but he’s been apologizing for years. I think the fact this show has caused him the most amount of divisiveness is why he’s apologized for his feelings on the show 3 times.
I totally get why you guys are annoyed with the Pheobe storyline.. it does seem sort of out of character for her.. and, while there were some scenes that are funny ("I didn't see you there" when Ross takes the magazine away from her lol).. it was kind of just not the best writing. I think they were just trying to come up with a story for Pheobe and Ross, but... I think Pheobe is smarter than that. So totally get your pov on this. :)
I don't get why it's so difficult for people to understand that something being a comedy doesn't mean the plots, characters, and relationships can't also be something you take "seriously". Is this an American thing? As a non-American, everyone here takes all comedy shows super seriously, whether that's sympathising with the characters, despising the characters, or whatever else. The amount of times I've tried bringing up that a character in Friends, or some other show, did something dick-ish (not as a critique of the show, but just to talk about it) online, only to get 50 people telling me "it's comedy bro", is insane. I don't get that attitude at all.
Y'all should watch some documentaries and footage on how the episodes were written. It's a sitcom from the 90s!. Sometimes they literally added details, jokes and plot twists during filming. When a certain joke didn't work with the live audience, the writers (and sometimes actors as well) flocked right there with pens and sheets of paper, and brainstormed some ideas, which they immediately tried out on camera.
There is absolutely NOTHING wrong with the way you two react to Friends. You both keep it really fair and you can tell that you are not actually hating on a character but just saying that they sometimes act ridiculous or frustrating. Trust me, there are a few reactors out there who completely have lost it when it comes to characters and really are hating on some of them. But you two are not amongst these reactors. These characters are not perfect, all of them make mistakes and sometimes act childish. It's okey to point that out. And you both react fair!
Phoebe and Ross are comedic duo, the whole thing was funny. Chandler was being honest, if best friends won't do that the who will. Sensitivity is a real problem with your generation, while you shouldn't apologise for how you naturally react, but it's not okay in today's time how sensitive you lot get over a sitcom, primarily created for humour. I mean save it for a show like The Handsmaid's tale or Mad men? Not being mean, I don't think so much sensitivity is good for health and in order to exist in today's society. You guys are halfway through the sitcom, surely you must get how a sitcom works? I know there are people in the comment section saying it's ok, it's actually not. Sensitivity should not be enabled. Maybe not insert yourself in the scene and let it play out before having an opinion so you won't have to provide a defence. Again not being mean, you guys are great most of the time, but it can be frustrating. And this is my opinion. let's agree to disagree.
@sbasi2739 this show,Friends,is a work of art. we respect it way too much to just nodd along and laugh without thinking. it deserves to be critically examined, and still stand the test of time,in many aspects. the writers deserve us to watch it seriously and appreciate it but also critique it. i do not fake my laugh. i react genuinely to this show, positively and negatively.
Nick - For God's sake, please stop apologizing over and over again about how you and Cody react to the characters of the show. To me, part of the enjoyment of the show is reacting to the behaviours and storylines of the characters with our agreement, disagreement, sympathy or empathy. I also did not like how Phoebe treated Ross in this episode over what turned out to be a silly dream. 🙄😀
Phoebe barely did anything,lmao. Why you people take her character so literal. She's a witty weirdo amd says out of pocket shxt. That's probably never bothered you all so far so why change now
Nick,i get you like to get emotional to the characters And trust me, its a treat watching and getting opinions but damn, stop taking phoebe so serious. This is not meant as hate. I love your reactions, i have for 2 years now and you're open to have your own opinions.
Yes that’s telling him to change how he views the show and characters. He can’t do that when he has already reacted to most of it. He can’t change how serious he takes Phoebe lol
i love how people get mad at you for taking jokes too serious EXCEPT for when it’s ross then they want to write essays on how he’s a horrible person lol. Hypocrites.
The glaucoma test freaks me out…. I had never done it before and they didn’t warn me and I was only able to get one eye done because I kept basically doing what Rachel did. He said pretty much the same thing except he said to me “well one eye is good enough” 🤣 now I can’t get it done because I know what the machine looks like now 🥲
That final scene with everyone pinning Rachel down for the eye drops is one of my favorite scenes. True friends take care of you, whether you like it or not!
I know! I've seen some people be put off by it, saying you shouldn't assault your friends, but if it was me and I was being irrational about something that could easily be fixed or potentially lose my eye, assault me please. Lol
Mine too!
First 20 seconds we get to hear Nick laugh, OUR BOY IS BACK
It is a relief 😅 I missed his laugh
SAAAAMEE @@neshwhat702
His laugh is the best part lol
Ross: why are you so mad at me??
Phoebe: i dont know I don't remember!
Nick: *insert confusion face*
😭😭😭😭
Finally get to hear Nick again! Thanks for flying through these.
Nick seems like such a sweet person to me. it makes me so happy to see him get so excited about disney movies,and other stuff including this show.. it makes me happy how his online persona is such a sweetheart,i like to believe he's like that in real life,haha. i like to see these reactions, because
this show is sthg i first saw 20 years ago.... so i get to see it through a new perspective today. Also my own opinions on this show have changed and i'm glad Nick and Cody do not just bIindIy follow anything the writers back then thought was okay :)
Nick, i simply LOVE it whenever you get invested in what you are watching
We respect Friends too much to just automatically praise it for everything. this great opus deserves our real critique. i always needed people like you guys back when i was growing up and everyone around me at school and in my family seem to have one simple opinion about comedies and media. it's great to see here on this site people like you guys, who think for themselves and don't hide how they feel.
I like that you take it seriously
good thing you guys don't just mindlessly go along with everything the show throws at you! makes us all feel like we're not alone. this is what i started watching youtube for in 2008 - finally discovering people who think for themselves when consuming art. it's good to think critically. the least ethical episodes are still yet to come. love your work, guys.
I actually react just like Rachel with eye stuff and at the eye doctor. They actually have it written in my chart how difficult of a patient I am about my eyes.
So happy we can hear you again Nick.
Wooo! Great to be able to hear you again, Nick! 🥳
Yesss Nick’s voice is back
We get to hear nicks laugh again ❤
Yes, react as it pleases you. You don't need to apologize, we're here to watch you and Cody! :)
You're doing great with these reactions, Nick
4:49 I have a family history and was born with glaucoma. My grandfather, dad, brother and son all also had or currently have it. It's when fluid builds up behind the optic nerve which increases your eye pressure. Normal is 12, but mine hovers near 20 most of the time. My brother and I both lost an eye to it and when they removed his eye his pressure was 50!
The way they take it so seriously sometimes. I can't imagine this two watching Seinfeld or The Office. Let alone watching any British sitcoms
@egefluff they're watching it for the very first time ever. when i first watched this show 20 years ago, i didnt get Joey saving his sandwich. i didnt even laugh. hey're being honest about how this experience is for them. do you want them to fake-laugh and Iie to us instead...? (However, i did laugh at - SPOILER - playing s.a. that Ross suffered, s.a. that Chandler suffered and s.a. that Ross committed, for 'comedy'.... today i fill gross at these jokes bcs i've suffered it myself.)
@egefluff i enjoyed the british IT crowd or old Mr Bean episodes, and i've seen quite a few very funny parts of Seinfeld here on YT. on Seinfeld, however,the actions of the characters are being clearly judged by the show itself, whereas on Friends, the show seems to expect us to agree with
the characters much more often. But me enjoying all these comedies doesn't mean i have to pretend to take everything as funny just to please other people. I love Friends but i do not agree with everything the writers seem to be saying, or every joke. These guys are allowed to have their own reactions, and i'm sure they'd enjoy parts or most of Seinfeld or The Office. but maybe not all. I prefer How I Met Your Mother to Friends, and I simply love The Good Place and Ted lasso. sue me.
@egefluff We respect Friends too much to just automatically praise it for everything without actively thinking and examining how we really feel about this great opus. i needed so much reactors like this back when i was growing up and everyone around me seem to have one simplistic opinion about movies and tv shows. this helps so much,to see that there are people who think for themselves and don't hide how they feel about media,even if it's not all positive pink unicorns.
Congrats on getting your audio back we can hear your sweet voice again during Friends reactions 😄👏🏻
It makes me wonder though how you guys would've reacted to something like "Married... with Children" where the humor is mainly the characters being awful to each other. Though I would recommend "3rd Rock From the Sun" & "Coupling" first since I find those to be better written sitcoms. Don't let anyone tell you that taking sitcoms seriously is exclusive to your generation b/c Friends fans have been arguing against each other for decades now.
imagine these lot reacting to Will and Grace
I am a huge Friends fan, been watching it over and over again since the 90s. love your reaction. ❤ignore the haters
Don’t apologize! Be yourself! It’s cool that you’re so invested! And btw, I actually don’t like Phoebe 😂
I wish people hadn't made you feel like you have to apologize every time you do something or say something re this show. People shouldn't be so judgy; everybody experiences a TV show their own way.
The Rachel storyline in this one is just exactly how I behave with this stuff i. It took me until I was in my thirties to figure out how to put in eye drops, I can't sit still for that glaucoma machine, and if anybody has any eye touching going on even in a movie I have to leave the room, so I feel for her in this one. I would have felt so violated if my friends jumped on me like that and forced me to have eye drops!
Vegas can be extremely cold compared to what people think about a desert. It's in the desert, but a desert just means that it's very dry typically. The temperatures can be extreme both ways surprisingly
I've gone to Vegas in mid May for the past 6 years. I learned my lesson the first time. Super hot one day, and high winds and super cold another.
@LeoRichVids the wind can get crazy in Vegas. We went in January one year and it was sooo windy. Better than being super hot, though.
I had a very similar eye exam to Rachel when I was about 6 years old where they wanted to do the glaucoma test, but I was so afraid/bothered by the puff of air that I kept closing my eyes or jerking my head away. Finally I started crying and the doctor said I was probably too young to have glaucoma anyway and we didn't have to do the test. I looked it up, and the type of glaucoma they look for with that test takes years to develop, which is why most health authorities recommend they begin testing for it around 40 years of age. I don't know why they even bothered me with it at 6 years old. Seems like doing unnecessary (and scary) medical tests on young children would be a good way to create fearful, medically hesitant adult patients.
I hate that air puff test. The alternative isn't any better. I wear glasses because I don't want to touch my eyeball, so stop trying to poke it.
@@Karamarika why it does not hurt - makes no sense - i have myopia - i have been going to eye doctor since i was 6 - now i retinal disease - i had a tear in my retina i had laser surgery many times to repair my retina's - and you are awake while the doctor shoot a laser through your pupil to repair the retinal tear - you no what is worse than touching your eye going blind - so it makes no sense to me that some would risk their eye sight because they do not want the doctor to touch their eye - glaucoma which the puff test is used to detect will also lead to blindness if not detected and treated -
It's good to hear you laugh again Nick!!
Anyone remember when Joey was cool, calm, and collected? Not poking his own eye like a child? 🤦🏻♂️
yup.. That is what happens in later series. Especially with Joey's character but also a bit with others, especially Monica, they become over the top caricatures.
@@Cairo198 Yeah. I know it’s fairly common for characters to become less dimensional as a series goes on - “Flanderization” - but Joey’s especially annoyed me. He was never the brightest, and that’s fine, but he could at least be self-sufficient, navigate life, even little things like cook, etc. By the end, he became a helpless child.
Nick your so sweet bless ya you guys are brilliant 👏 ❤️
I would absolutely love to see the two of you react to some of the Friends bloopers!
I did the glaucoma test with the puff of air back in 2019. it's not so bad. Now it's a drop in your eye, and the dr shines a light in your eye up close.
And glacouma is a condition/illness that damages the nerve from the eye to the brain and causes blindness.
Famous Italian opera singer Andrea Bocelli was born with glacouma, and when he was 12 he took a sports injury to the head that blinded him.
actually the device is touching your eye you do not feel it because they give numbing drops lol - the light is just to distract you so you do not see the device touching your eye
I can’t imagine how infuriating it can be to watch a show and fall in love with it only for people to tell you it’s a comedy and stop loving the show your way. Sorry you have to deal with it Nick, you and The Cocoa Couch seem to be getting a lot of those comments,
Yeah, I saw where The Cocoa Couch said something about that. Crazy, let people react to the show in their own way.
nah it’s a completely valid criticism when jokes meant entirely as jokes and not character moments affect their reaction. Like them getting overly annoyed at the girls for switching the apartments back. Don’t think we should be promoting the unhealthy attachment to fictional characters
@@jinxysaberkHave to disagree. Just because something is taken as a comical moment doesn’t mean you have to take it that way. Every moment can be judged on this show, most people choose not too. But if Nick and Cody take 3-4 moments out of the 100+ episodes and get overly serious that’s their prerogative. Most episodes they seem to be fine, and even though I do agree the apartment situation they took too seriously, that’s how they interpreted the situation. Just because something is played for laughs doesn’t mean everyone is going to feel that way. And as for promoting an unhealthy attachment to fictional characters, that is ludicrous to me. Anyone can care about a character as much as you want. Obviously I have never been invested in characters like Nick has, but that’s how he is. Can’t change someone just because you don’t like some of their takes.
@@BymonialShreddeeyou can't change somebody and you can't stop somebody from providing their feedback even if it is critical. As long as people aren't rude, I don't see the problem. I do understand that a lot of people tend to be quite rude and downright abusive about it though.
@@that.ll_do_pigThe issue is the rude and disrespectful comments, Nick and Cody talk about the critical and different takes. They enjoy hearing other peoples opinion as long as it’s not rude or people don’t curse at them.
lol. I worked at two optometrist offices as a tech and I'm sorry but I get so frustrated (in my head of course) when people get scared about eyedrops, contacts, and the puff of air that they do. I try to relate but I just can't. 😆 because it’s easy for me. Btw, WITH CLEAN HANDS, you can touch the white part of your eye, it doesn’t hurt. UNLESS you press too hard. Lol. The only part that will hurt is if you touch the pupil because the pupil is like a hole in your eye.
It's a hole, but it's also covered by the cornea. It just allows light to enter into the iris so it can be detected. It's not a hole in the sense that you can poke something into it.
@@Karamarika yeah, my bad!
No it’s in the eyes. If you don’t take control of it, you will go blind. It’s also hereditary. I’ve been dealing with it since i was a teen. Right now my doctor is doing everything he can to save my sight in my left eye. Very painful
Of course phoebe mad at Ross over a dream the mask 1994 reference obviously
There's a lot of reactors that say the same about the show and not liking how the characters are treating each other and y'all tend to be around the same age group. I think it's funny because for me it's just a sit com. And some of you grew up more sensitive to things that don't bother me. And too we watched weekly episodes til mid season then about 2 months break then season would start and end. You're watching 2-3 and more per week. That's a lot to break down and think about. 😃 Y'ALL ARE DOING A GREAT JOB. 👏🏽 I appreciate all the hard work you produce and laugh along. 🙏🏽👍🏽
Definitely a generational issue. People are WAY too sensitive these days. Can you imagine if they watched Seinfeld?? I don't think they could survive those characters.
There were plenty of sensitive people back then, their reactions just weren't recorded. The actor who played Gunther even talked about being berated by a fan for getting in the way of Ross & Rachel. To this day, there are many longtime fans in the comments who trash certain characters that they dislike. Most often Ross, Rachel, Phoebe, Susan, Carol, etc...
@@Karamarika OMG! They probably have PTSD if they watch Married With Children 🫣
Y’all act like we didn’t grow up watching things like Family Guy and South Park, shows much more offensive and vulgar than these sweet little sitcom shows
And yeah, kids do still watch these things, and now kids are watching shows like Hazbin Hotel which if you show to someone older would make them clutch their pearls 🤣
@michaellott5007 Like Terry Rakolta?
Rachel being super dramatic with her eye drops 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 and despite Mónica being somewhat strong she still can't do it alone and needs the rest of the gang to do it. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Taking this show seriously is wild 😂 good reaction tho
It's not just a comedy. It has more depth than that. Sorry that we see that?
@danilo1920 i think people forget that for these guys this show is completely new. When i first watched it back in 2000s, i was young and this was new. i didn't get everything and i also didnt like everything. I love this show today and i've rewatched it many times. these guys are taking it all in for the very first time,though.
@danilo1920 we respect this show, this work of art, way too much to mindlessly nodd along. we watch it critically.
I have a thing about my eyes too... tried to wear contacts as a teen, I just couldn't do it.I absolutely dread the idea of drops or anything touching my eyes.. I don't know why lol it's like a spider in the room to me... I don't know why I'm so terrified of a tiny spider but I am lol
My mother and I watch movies all the time and we are two different personality types in terms of how we approach life, movies, shows, situations, life on a first time first impression basis. I find people break down in one of two catagories when expeirencing things in real time based on your whole essence and emotional make up. Mine is to automatically observe people and situations to pan for the potential humor of any given moment and situation. I've just always had the soul of a stand-up and have a default setting for the sense of the ridiculous. My mother's knee-jerk rorschach test reaction to anything is serious first, humor distant second. She birthed me, raised me, has known me all of my 40 something years of life and most likely knows me the best out of anybody. From day one out the womb, all I've done is a tight five opening set like I'm workshopping my act for an upcoming Netflix special. Yet, whenever I start a story that then clearly veers wildly into the theatre of the absurd that is clearly a joke, her first response is to reply back taking my humor seriously like she doesn't know where anything I dsay is going. That is a really welded in there stubburn force of will genetic firewalls to not adjust expectations of people's personality types taking everything on a case by case basis. Which is an endless source of material for me. It's our dynamic and of course the rest of my family and friends my whole life roast me saying they thought my mother was the funny one. Yeah, that's the nurturing support system that's makes ol' Pablo long for the sweet, sweet release death will bring. I mean, unconditional love! Where's my emotional support spirit pelican, Larry? Is my eye twitching? Am I crying? I can't tell anymore.
And yes, that was all a bit there at the end. Text and comments need a studio audience or laugh track.
The point of this all is watching reaction videos with you two reminds me of when moms and I watch stuff. You both have the instant default setting of take something at face value and our natural born literalists. The phenom for me as the opposite who looks humor first in all things as my natural inclination is it's funny when all y'all will go into a comedy and sitcom knowing it's sole objective is to make its audience laugh and immediately a character will say a line that sounds harsh and deliever it deadpan. I have mutiple examples of my mom and you two instantly responding, 'Are they serious?' And then the punchline comes. Without fail. And I love this unintential comedic timing and beat. It actually is like i'm getting two levels of comedy at once. Both of you are really engaging personalities who both bring something different to the table while meshing together beautifully. Nick is such a sweetheart and people pleaser if anybody has an issue with him, everybody knows whose at fault and it ain't Nick .He's kind to a fault so it's instinctive to protect Nick from Trolls because he's a National tresure. Cody is THAT guy. He's Like the Steven Hyde from That 70's Show of this duo. Only with way more empathy and Cody has code of conduct and strong vibe morality vibe (you too Nick). The main difference between you two is Cody gives off that whole take it of leave it vibe. He seems social and accomidating, but he's also not going to take anybody's crap and able to walk away and not another F was given. Cody is the muscle. lol.
The plot twist here for me is I unconsciously seek out people and friends who are more serious minded automatically I believe as a jokester I never want yes men or curtousy laughers in my inner circle. Otherwise, I could never really trust if my humor was really funny or not. But if you can get a serious minded person to laugh, you've accomplished something. That feels like crushed a sold out statium because y'all are harder to impress. And it means more when one does. So whenever you guys really laugh at something, it's earned. Especially when you an tell its against your better judgement. That's when you onow a show is working. Happy to hear Nick you stand talk and firm on your stance to just be yourself. We were worried you might conform which would have been ridicilous so right on. When we then started to wonder if Cody would, yerah, we stopped right there and laughed a good hearty laugh. Never a question if Cody would conform, but if he'd flip one bird or two while telling social media trolls to suck enormous hippo ass. Thanks for the 25 days of FriendsMAS, my dudes. Depression will be down this season these holidays thanks to y'all. Doing ther lord's work fellas. ;D
Nick you have already posted so much, but I would love if you could post episodes 23 and 24 together. If you can’t it’s fine but it is technically a two parter!
I can't believe we're already almost done with season 5! The best season, hands down.
Tbh at this point it's just funny to me to see you taking this show seriously sometimes lmao. I saw the confusion in your eyes about Phoebe and I was like "guys, chill😂" but then I don't really mind. It's fun to see people react differently to comedy. Don't worry about it
to be fair i was pretty angry at her too, the first time i saw this episode, but that was 20 years ago
@celinelia8127 really?? For me that's so Phoebe coded: she's one of a kind, she was "Phoebeing". That's so her 😂
@@MyGoldenShadows yeah but at times, phoebe is incredibly kind. like having the kids for her brother. this is kinda sorta too unfair. can be funny but definitely also can leave some people annoyed at the final resolution of this episode.
@@Cairo198 I never thought she was unkind. Even when she's mad at Ross and she can't remember why, she's cute in those moments
I don't mind the puff of air but my eyelids have a mind of their own and won't stop flickering whenever I get those tests 😂
also it's great to hear you laugh again Nick 😊 I think you worked around the audio issue as best as you could 👍
This is when Phoebe started going down to #6 on my list of favorite Friends
I don't know how the majority of people took Chandler's whole "this isn't your big break" thing, but I was never that mad about it. First, it only came out because Chandler was being led to respond without thinking. This leads me to believe he wouldn't have said this to Joey under normal circumstances. Second, of everyone in the friend group Chandler is the one most aware and supportive of Joey and his career. He'd probably have at least some idea of show business and how it works and what is and isn't a good thing. There's also the fact that Joey and Chandler have different opinions about what is a big risk. While it's still a big opportunity for Joey, there would be things that Chandler would worry about more. Chandler at the start though still made the conscious decision to support him and go out there with him.
That puff of air IS that bad!! You guys are probably too young to have experienced it, they don't do that anymore, thank GOD. I had a hard time staying still like Rachel, everything else I was fine with tho.
So, Joey's Movie Is Based Off An Actual Urban Legend, Also Glad To See You're No Longer Having Issues With Your Audio!
I can't stand that puff of air in the eye test. Not quite as bad as Rachel but pretty close. They've actually skipped it bc i couldn't keep my eyes open. I can't put in eye drops without dripping it right beside my eye and letting it run into it
Good reaction.
5:03 yes it is. Trust me.
Oh no...did I miss something? Only 1 episode? I was waiting all day...too bad. But i loved hearing from you again.
So... I didn't wanna do this but some children in the comments are making me.. I hate seeing my Friend have to apologize because some of you have the emotional maturity of a walnut. so just because something is funny to one person, doesn't mean it is funny to the other people... Comedy is subjective. There are a lot of really funny moments in this show that both me and Nick loved and enjoy because we are on Season 9 on Patreon right now. I have to say though that the amount of people criticizing him and myself for how "serious" we take this show is utterly appalling and you should be ashamed of yourselves. To be honest I could care less about what y'all say about me, I could care less about the negativity. But I see how it affects Nick. Nick is one of the best friends I have ever had in my life and the way some of you treat him over the dumbest stuff makes me think you have no empathy for anyone in your lives whatsoever. Nick has always been there for me and I will always be there for him and it hurts me to see how you all make him feel the need to apologize over the way he feels. The real problem is that toxic mentality right there. Let us react how we wanna react. PERIOD. The world already has enough hate in it, so don't bring more of it here. So to those doing it, stop. Stop sending him messages with negativity in them, stop criticizing for how he feels in a show that brings him so much joy like how dare you?? Do better people, seriously.
Seeing the two of you always brings joy to me.
It’s okay, Cody and Nick, we understand
@ItsTotallyCody hmm,i'm so sorry to read this bcs Nick seems like such a sweet person to me. it makes me so happy to see him get so excited about disney movies,and other stuff including this show...my only objection,which i never sent anywhere to Nick(there's a way to send him messages??)... is that when Monica and Rachel stole the appartment back, then you,Cody,said it's a double standard... i agree it was shady and mean of them, i felt bad for Chandler there,but i disagree it's a
double standard,since we've seen both Chandler and Joey do horribIe things and i promise, ethically worse stuff is coming in the future. still love the show and your reactions. but i am not happy with how the writers sometimes make the characters way too..shady. thank you and Nick for everything, it makes me happy how his online persona is such a sweetheart,i like to believe he's like that in real life
@ItsTotallyCody i truly needed people like you guys back when i was growing up and everyone around me at school and in my family seem to have one simple opinion about comedies and media. it's great to see here on this site people like you guys, who think for themselves and don't hide how they feel about a movie or a show,even if it's not all mindlessly positive. We respect Friends too much to just automatically praise it for everything.
Phoebe is such an insufferable airhead. Treating Ross like crap and bad mouthing him to the whole group all because of a dream she had!! And nothing even resembling an apology to Ross at the end of it all
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People keep telling Nick to stop apologizing for reacting their way to the show, but do people realize how negative some people have been towards him. This is one of the sweetest reactors over the past 4 years, never has he received as much hate as from this show. And it’s one of his new favorite shows… sigh i’m sorry Nick. I understand why you feel the need to apologize, but most of us love how you react.
Where is the hate? I always read the comments after I watch the video and never see all this hate. I assumed it was coming from Patreon or something.
@@KaramarikaPatreon messages, Instagram he’s mentioned, TH-cam comments Paulbros and I (we’re moderators) have deleted well over 100 since season 2 for just cursing at them or saying some foul things towards them. Lots of times we delete the nasty comments quickly so Nick doesn’t see it, but think he sees a decent amount before we actually delete them.
Nick certainly seems very adorable and sweet and nice, i enjoy how he reacts to everything
0:45 I see
2:24 Vegas!
3:47 Damn!
4:23 😂😂😂
7:22 What the Freak Phoebe
8:21 Wrong Answer Chandler
9:31 😅😅😅
10:49 WTH Monica
11:25 WTF
14:21 DOG pille!!
YESSS I CAN HEAR YOU AGAIN :D
I love how you can tell who is new to Nick’s channel versus who isn’t. Anyone who is new, THIS IS NICK. He’s always apologized when he has gotten criticism, I of course feel bad he has to even apologize, but he’s been apologizing for years. I think the fact this show has caused him the most amount of divisiveness is why he’s apologized for his feelings on the show 3 times.
Chandler!! 🥺🥺
i HATE the glaucoma test too hahah i cant help but move my head back, its just a reflex, awfulll
Chandler was right about Joey big break!
6:15 A pity Joey has zero knowledge of Hollywood's "creative accounting".
We have audio again!!
Could you please react to Ready or not 2019? I think you would like it.
I totally get why you guys are annoyed with the Pheobe storyline.. it does seem sort of out of character for her.. and, while there were some scenes that are funny ("I didn't see you there" when Ross takes the magazine away from her lol).. it was kind of just not the best writing. I think they were just trying to come up with a story for Pheobe and Ross, but... I think Pheobe is smarter than that. So totally get your pov on this. :)
Joey overreacted in my opinion and Phoebe was hilarious being fake mad like most woman do after a dream or something
Hiya nick watch top cat the movie 🎉🎉🎉
I don't get why it's so difficult for people to understand that something being a comedy doesn't mean the plots, characters, and relationships can't also be something you take "seriously". Is this an American thing? As a non-American, everyone here takes all comedy shows super seriously, whether that's sympathising with the characters, despising the characters, or whatever else. The amount of times I've tried bringing up that a character in Friends, or some other show, did something dick-ish (not as a critique of the show, but just to talk about it) online, only to get 50 people telling me "it's comedy bro", is insane. I don't get that attitude at all.
Y'all should watch some documentaries and footage on how the episodes were written. It's a sitcom from the 90s!. Sometimes they literally added details, jokes and plot twists during filming. When a certain joke didn't work with the live audience, the writers (and sometimes actors as well) flocked right there with pens and sheets of paper, and brainstormed some ideas, which they immediately tried out on camera.
There is absolutely NOTHING wrong with the way you two react to Friends. You both keep it really fair and you can tell that you are not actually hating on a character but just saying that they sometimes act ridiculous or frustrating. Trust me, there are a few reactors out there who completely have lost it when it comes to characters and really are hating on some of them. But you two are not amongst these reactors. These characters are not perfect, all of them make mistakes and sometimes act childish. It's okey to point that out. And you both react fair!
Perhaps you're starting to see why Phoebe is not a very good person. She can be pretty awful at times.
sadly true, especially in later seasons
Phoebe and Ross are comedic duo, the whole thing was funny. Chandler was being honest, if best friends won't do that the who will. Sensitivity is a real problem with your generation, while you shouldn't apologise for how you naturally react, but it's not okay in today's time how sensitive you lot get over a sitcom, primarily created for humour. I mean save it for a show like The Handsmaid's tale or Mad men? Not being mean, I don't think so much sensitivity is good for health and in order to exist in today's society. You guys are halfway through the sitcom, surely you must get how a sitcom works? I know there are people in the comment section saying it's ok, it's actually not. Sensitivity should not be enabled. Maybe not insert yourself in the scene and let it play out before having an opinion so you won't have to provide a defence. Again not being mean, you guys are great most of the time, but it can be frustrating. And this is my opinion. let's agree to disagree.
@sbasi2739 this show,Friends,is a work of art. we respect it way too much to just nodd along and laugh without thinking. it deserves to be critically examined, and still stand the test of time,in many aspects. the writers deserve us to watch it seriously and appreciate it but also critique it. i do not fake my laugh. i react genuinely to this show, positively and negatively.
Nick - For God's sake, please stop apologizing over and over again about how you and Cody react to the characters of the show. To me, part of the enjoyment of the show is reacting to the behaviours and storylines of the characters with our agreement, disagreement, sympathy or empathy.
I also did not like how Phoebe treated Ross in this episode over what turned out to be a silly dream. 🙄😀
Phoebe barely did anything,lmao. Why you people take her character so literal. She's a witty weirdo amd says out of pocket shxt. That's probably never bothered you all so far so why change now
Where’s Cody?
Dude, he's right there
@@stacydenisonOh yeah
@@stacydenison I just didn’t see him at the beginning of the video, and wondered where he wad
Video new
Nick,i get you like to get emotional to the characters And trust me, its a treat watching and getting opinions but damn, stop taking phoebe so serious.
This is not meant as hate. I love your reactions, i have for 2 years now and you're open to have your own opinions.
Your comment makes no sense. They are almost done with the show he couldn’t change his opinion if he wanted to.
@eileenscornes6805 no one said he should. I said he should stop taking phoebe so serious🙄
Yes that’s telling him to change how he views the show and characters. He can’t do that when he has already reacted to most of it. He can’t change how serious he takes Phoebe lol
@@Visual_Gene maybe don't take the criticism to heart? Hope this helps
i love how people get mad at you for taking jokes too serious EXCEPT for when it’s ross then they want to write essays on how he’s a horrible person lol.
Hypocrites.
The glaucoma test freaks me out…. I had never done it before and they didn’t warn me and I was only able to get one eye done because I kept basically doing what Rachel did. He said pretty much the same thing except he said to me “well one eye is good enough” 🤣 now I can’t get it done because I know what the machine looks like now 🥲
They don't do the puff at most places anymore.
@@that.ll_do_pig good to know! Im still going to be afraid every time I go 🤣 it’s been a while since I’ve been to one so I had no idea.