![]() ![]() For every enjoyable celebrity cameo, there are a lot of needless ones, such as an entirely gratuitous and unfunny cold open featuring Robin Williams and Billy Crystal. The show also gave a boost to careers of guest stars like Paul Rudd and Giovanni Ribisi, while also featuring great turns from established stars like Bruce Willis, Kathleen Turner, Elliott Gould, Susan Sarandon, Tom Selleck, and many more.Of course, 'Friends' wasn't perfect. Sure, it took the cast and crew a while to find their footing in season one, and you got a few dud episodes like 'The One with Russ' (where Rachel dates Russ, played by David Schwimmer, who is distressingly similar to Ross) or the two-part 'The One That Could Have Been' (where they spend an interminable hour exploring an alternate universe where Monica is still fat, Chandler's unemployed, Phoebe is a high powered stock broker, Rachel married Barry, and so on), but for the most part 'Friends' is close to the pinnacle of traditional multicam sitcoms. It's a sad change to an otherwise fun character.But even though the writers made Chandler less funny in later years, the show itself was almost always very consistent. In fact, in season nine's 'The One with the Male Nanny', there's an entire plot about how Chandler thinks he's funny, and everyone else is humoring him. Around this time, he goes from being the guy who is genuinely funny to someone who is laughed at because of how unfunny he is. However, his basic character trait, that of the bitingly funny guy, gets muted once he marries Monica. ![]()
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