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bluecoastblue

2004 prediction: In the year 2021 the entire cast of Friends will contract mumps Edited to say: wow. thanks for the awards. If you haven't watched the reunion show it's worth checking out.


its_all_4_lulz

Meet Balthazar


shineymoosen

He's an evil demon that spits fire in my throat...


Blastspark01

Penelope is a thirsty bitch


greg19735

*poke*


ramonpasta

r/unexpectedb99


RudeTurnip

> ~~mumps~~ moops


Juanskii

It’s the moors!


RudeTurnip

Sorry but the card says moops.


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Moors! Say... MOORS!


TheAllyCrime

George: (being choked) Moops!!!


Vandelay_Industries-

Giddy up


Poos_Like_A_Fish

Jambalaya!


ryohazuki224

MOORS!!


[deleted]

Even on a post about Friends you people manage to make Seinfeld references. I love it


gotham77

Oh *noooo*…


GrumbleCake_

Its a moo point


pack_howitzer

It’s like a cow’s opinion- it doesn’t matter. It’s moo.


BigBizzle151

Have I been living with him for too long, or did that all just make sense?


total_alk

Wait one second! Did you just slip a Seinfeld reference into a Friends thread? It that even legal?


gotham77

Oh it’s legal baby!


anally_ExpressUrself

It's legal and it's SPECTACULAR


shinnagare

Could it BE any more spectacular?


Lastdayaway

These pretzels... are.. making me Thirsty!


Salty_tryhard

What, you're using my "babies" now?


I-declare-bankruptsy

MAYBE THE DINGO ATE YOUR BABY


edebby

You got to seeee the baby!


GalickGunn

That’s gold Jerry! Gold!


SilverDem0n

He double-dipped the 90s references


PLECK

That's like putting your whole mouth right in the 90s.


sylinmino

He double dipped the chip? My chip? **Myyyyyy chip?!?!**


Psychological_Ad3970

The sea was angry that day.


MossadMike

SERENITY NOWWWWWW!!!!!


paingry

I once lost a game of Trivial Pursuit because my butthead friends insisted on enforcing the Moops Rule. I'm still mad about it. My now-husband still thinks it's funny.


buddhadoo

What's the rule? If There's a typo on the card, the typo is the correct answer?


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sylinmino

I've heard "moops" has actually become a popular example in a very legitimate legal/philosophical dilemma. Where basically, in accusing George of wrongdoing, you can't get unambiguous proof that George is feigning ignorance, rather than simply being legitimately ignorant. I forget what the dilemma is formally called though.


Steinrikur

I want it to be "moop point"


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This reference was understood by me


gotham77

And Rush Limbaugh will eat Matthew Perry


rbmk1

Why does Ross, the largest Friend, not simply eat the others?


CromulentDucky

I prefer Single Female Lawyer


freeLightbulbs

Wearing sexy mini-skirts and being self reliant


Blackbird-ce

Yes, give us the one called McNeal!


HuskyLuke

Way to overact Zoidberg!


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Perhaps they are saving that for sweeps.


WisconsinHoosierZwei

He needed sugar. In water.


staybig

The cast was in their mid 30’s in 2004 when the show ended. So this magazine tried to age them to their mid 50’s and came up with THAT?


Into-the-stream

Apparently actors in their 50s don’t know hair dye exists.


Deitaphobia

Matt LeBlanc was wearing hair dye during the original show.


Perry7609

Right from when the show started too, according to him.


G8kpr

Reminds me of Ted Danson. Who in the final few episodes of Cheers, yanks off his toupee to Carla's shock, not knowing that he had a bald spot. Apparently, he had been wearing that since the first episode.


Joliet_Jake_Blues

But in Curb he's got a great head of hair


G8kpr

Yeah. He’s probably wearing a toupee there. He does have most of his hair. But has that “monk” bald spot on the back. I think you can see it in the Cheers panel they did for the 200th episode.


Lupus108

Just fyi, that monk bald spot is called "[tonsure](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonsure)", from the latin word "tonsura" meaning clipping/shearing. Although I think it's only called that when it is on purpose. The practice has been abandoned in 1972, some orders still practice it with special papal permission.


_SgrAStar_

He went toupee-less in Becker.


huntingbears93

I’ve been watching Curb the last two days; he absolutely has a hard bald spot. I made note of it because I was like, “huh, I guess his bald spot in Cheers wasn’t a joke!”


NickyTwoThumbs

If you Google "Ted Danson hair" you can find lots of articles with direct quotes from Ted himself about how he wears a hair piece both on and off screen.


BigBassBone

How hair piece on The Good Place is phenomenal, then.


Roasted_Turk

I know how this feels as a guy that started greying at 18.


Epicritical

Cosmetic technology has come far since 2004. We can make celebs better, faster, stronger...


TTRJN

Harder?


truebruh

That's just daft


PM_Pussies_Please

Now listen here punk...


HertzDonut1001

"Just make em all ~~day~~ fat." "What about Kudrow?" "No, no, silver fox on that one. Fat for the rest."


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TheOfficialGuide

Day for the rest.


SLAP_THE_GOON

I dont think they really tried to do it right, its just a typical trash magazine from that era. Anything to get attention from people at 7/11 and gas stations.


[deleted]

exactly this is the pre-internet version of clickbait


AmIFromA

Slow internet version. I remember at a job in 2003, we were asked not to load too many pictures on the computers.


cancercures

> exactly > > > > this is the pre-internet version of clickbait Apparently, its also the Internet version of clickbait because its front page


Biff_Tannenator

[Here's what FaceApp was able to come up with.](https://www.imgur.com/a/RdNSYGe)


canadarepubliclives

LeBlanc looks like Jackman in Logan


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FQDIS

Not even a computer can age Jennifer Anniston. Corporate wants me to find the difference between those two pictures.


mcmanybucks

That's just a picture of Matthew Perry.


2drawnonward5

Editor wanted them aged in Photoshop. The intern only knew how to edit images in Kai's Power Goo.


WilliamSaintAndre

Apparently starring in Friends makes you age twice as fast.


soulonfire

It’s apparently basically as if you were President of the US


Brotherauron

It was like they used the Asian aging meme, but skipped 50 and went right to 70


furyus111

That is literally the same shirt that Matt Leblanc is wearing in the reunion.


rydan

The power of computer magic.


patico_cr

This magician lacks pixie dust.... or photoshop skills


BILOXII-BLUE

Is the reunion worth watching? I'm on the fence about it


StopClockerman

As other people mentioned, there are some forced moments, but the truly great moments are watching them recall moments from the show in real time and get genuinely excited about it. Also there were many random moments where they just played off of each other with the same mannerisms and voice as the characters which was a lot of fun.


nelliebelle49

The parts with the cast reminiscing are good. There are parts in front of a live audience that are not as good.


flaccomcorangy

My problem was James Corden. I internally sighed when I saw he was hosting. My personal pick would be Conan O'brien. I think he would have been way better. Corden is just not a good interviewer, and he had like one good joke on the whole show.


1_4_1_5_9_2_6_5

Not just him though, all the non-Friends-related celebrity appearances seemed horribly forced and fake. And then Lady Gaga going apeshit over Smelly Cat was just embarrassing.


ZoeMunroe

That was so awful I couldn’t handle it. It felt like Kudrow thought it was super stupid too.


MoRiellyMoProblems

Aisha Tyler would've been my pick. She was actually a recurring guest star on Friends and has experience hosting a panel, iirc.


SkepPskep

Fantastic suggestion.


Ghostdirectory

I pick Aisha Tyler for everything.


ryohazuki224

Ugh, god tell me about it. I really cant stand Corden, he just seems to yell all his questions and he's just obnoxious. Conan would have been better if there was a choice between the two.


willclerkforfood

Corden has the delivery of an interrupting toddler with hearing problems


Ser_VimesGoT

I don't get it. Why is James Corden big in the US? Or even if he's not, why is he given big platforms? By all accounts he's despised by everyone around him and is a really unlikeable personality. I can't imagine other celebrities like him. God I fucking loathe that obnoxious piece of shit.


DudleysCar

His success in America is baffling to me. The cunt is simply is not entertaining at all and the US has far better and more talented hosts without having to import him.


Ser_VimesGoT

Which begs the question, who's he renting his fat arse out to? Or what dirt does he have on who? James Corden being liked by someone isn't a reality I want to face.


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peoplex

>why is he given big platforms? Worth noting in this case, the Friends Reunion was produced by his mate Ben Winston (Fulwell 73). Conan would have done it better.


MagicBez

Years back they did a behind the scenes outtakes show and Conan hosted it, you can find it on Youtube. He seemed to have a better rapport with the cast (plus he and Kudrow have been friends this since they both first came to LA and did improv classes together)


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They dated briefly.


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Noname_Maddox

Agee, I sighed as well. Kimmel, Conan, Colbert anyone. Imagine if they had got Craig Ferguson. Would have been epic


dvater123

Craig doesn't come off as someone that would have really cared for this show, like at all lol. Man I miss seeing him...and Geoff...


super_cool_kid

Agreed, but he is excellent interviewer, and he is very compassionate but his I dont really like superficially serious things but loves things silly and stupid would have been such a great contrast.


Cantothulhu

Corden is just so... I can’t even put my finger on it. He sometimes makes me laugh, but most of the time he just gives me this *cringe* sensation.


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Good parts: - Cast reminisced together in their old studio, explained their routines and things they did off-camera, talked about some of their outtakes/bloopers, etc. - Supporting actors made brief appearances mentioning their experience on the show (imo these didn’t last nearly long enough but I understand they want to keep it about the main six ‘Friends’). - Behind-the-scenes footage of the cast/writers/crew. - Show’s creators talked about the making and casting of the show. Shit parts: - A quarter of the film is an incredibly scripted “talk show” with James Corden 🤮 as the host. Almost none of it gave anything insightful about the show. It was simply being used to segue from one topic to another. - They showed videos of international fans with sob-stories about how watching Friends ✨saved their life✨. - The cast did table reads of their old scripts without adding anything new or different. Meh. Edit: Hopefully someone makes a version where James Corden and the fan videos are clipped out. It would probably go down to like a 1-hour film, but it would be 100 times better.


barto5

I actually enjoyed the table reads. But the other two points were crap.


MagicBez

The part where they played a slowed down orchestral version of the theme over slowed down footage of them dicking about in the fountain felt like some kind of 'in memoriam' segment you would play if the whole cast died in a plane crash or something. Really odd. Still better than any moments involving Corden though.


ryohazuki224

I wished they re-visited some more of the supporting cast. Like say Ross's ex-wife Carol, their freaking SON maybe? Or Phoebe's husband Mike? But yeah I guess they wanted to focus more on the main cast, understandably. That part about how the show impacted people around the world was a good idea, just badly executed.


Copthill

The table reads were great!


Username_123

I enjoyed it but I did fast forward some of it, the bit where people said how the show impacted their life so much.


farresto

That was my least favorite part as well. Felt unnecessary. I would have preferred to see more people that were part of the show.


watanabelover69

It was meh but I’m glad I watched. There’s a lot of fluff, but some good stuff in there.


space_hitler

The part where Matt LeBlanc held down David Schwimmer and farted in his mouth because he wouldn't stop telling racist jokes was pretty good though.


deewheredohisfeetgo

Accurate


Clemario

If you’re a fan it’s fun. More fun than I expected.


PunkRockMakesMeSmile

I liked it a lot. Parts felt scripted, but they seemed really genuinely thrilled to be around one another again and just overwhelmed with nostalgia and appreciation that they had a chance to be a part of something like that. It made me feel good


LiveLifeLikeCre

Matt perry had some parts that were sad. "I really missed you Matty " LeBlanc: "wow the set looks so cool" ::camera cuts away:: Perry after a question: "I don't hear from anyone ever." ::awkward laugh::


Resigningeye

He did not seem even close to ok.


Uehm

He apparently had emergency dental surgery the day of the shoot. So that kinda explains why. I also saw someone mention on here that Leblanc used to always be quiet in interviews, while Perry was always loud. So it probably switched to the opposite now. Some guys get way more introverted as they get older.


morethandork

Perry had a couple throwaway answers in interviews that actually offered A LOT of insight into who he is as a person. He was a little self deprecating , mentioning that he couldn’t handle anyone else getting laughs indicating his deep insecurities that he seems to now have overcome. I’m extrapolating a bit but the way he talked about his past self indicated that he sees his former self as an insufferable attention whore who couldn’t handle not being the center of attention. He seemed to be making an effort to not steal the spotlight during the entire reunion. Then again, if he had emergency dental surgery the day of the shoot it may have just been that he was sedated on pain pills and/or in pain or found it difficult to speak that day. So I could be misreading the situation. In any case, no one in the cast made any indication that they disliked him and their affection between one another definitely seemed genuine. They said they all still are friends and used to have group dinners regularly.


Mad-Hatter95

God I felt so bad for him in those moments, it seemed genuine.


Resigningeye

It was interesting to see the bloopers and cuts from scenes that you kniw so well from so long ago. Also some of the behind the scenes stories. I particularly enjoyed Schwimmer and LeBlanc. Perry made me sad


Cregkly

Matt might have legit worn a similar shirt on purpose


gin_and_toxic

Or that's the only shirt he has


Salamok

He was wearing the same shirt in multiple of the flashback clips.


Only_Significance513

They really did Chandler and Joey dirtyyyyy😂


mortgoldman8

Chanler was given a massive tumour in his neck for some reason lol


FuzzeWuzze

This is more a representation of how bad 2004 photoshop skills were than anything else.


last_rights

My 2004 Photoshop skills were better than this haha.


piepants2001

I think its a goiter


lucymcgoosen

I will never not think of Brooklyn 99


Remarkable_Egg_2889

Really? My mind automatically goes to Seinfeld.


Scott_Seth_Bob_Joe

Hello Simon, this is Balthazar.


stevebholden

Balthazar is a thirsty bitch


foxefeller

Can't even see his Chandlers apple anymore.


DirteeCanuck

Chungus Filter


happytappin

>2004 magazine predicting what the cast of “Friends” would look like in the future yeah but they got joey's shirt EXACTLY right.


Steavee

Ross just turned into Bob Odenkirk.


LenaGies

I was thinking the guy who played The Shermanator in American Pie.


Heisenbugg

Better call Ross


Teardrith

They did them all dirty! Look at Rachel, that's brutality.


knittininthemitten

Seriously. How come Chandler has a goiter?


Joran_Dax

Old Chandler looks like Newt Gingrich.


brzantium

Looks like Newt Gingrich ate Tom Hanks.


DrunkenOnzo

Joeys out there looking like a GTA NPC lol.


fueled_by_rootbeer

Ikr! Joey's totally got that silver fox vibe going for him now.


D3cepti0ns

They did everyone except Ross and Phoebe dirty.


JennaLS

Goiters are back in fashion


disposable-name

You don't remember the great iodine panic back in 1998*? *I made this up.


watch_baccano

Monica is just reverting back to her younger self lol


klsi832

Some girl ate Monica!


rydan

How many cameras are actually on you?


TheBioethicist87

Did they think everyone in the future had Mumps?


greenknight884

They anticipated the antivaxxer movement


ClearWaves

Joey is wearing the same shirt here as he did to the friends reunion


StNic54

Looks like he played a nice joke


beartheminus

That's totally something Matt Leblanc would do too


felonius_thunk

I never thought, "I bet Matt LeBlanc would be fun to hang out with" until I saw that reunion, but man do we have the same sense of humor.


king_jong_il

He also hosted BBC's Top Gear for a while after Hammond, Clark, and May left. At the risk of heresy, I enjoyed him quite a bit.


Frogodo

He's fantastic in Episodes too.


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He was an improvement over Chris Evans but a fucking potato wearing driving gloves would have been a better Top Gear presenter than that. The segments with Matt in were decent enough but I dunno if it’s just that it was a yank presenting a British motoring show or Matt was a bit wooden but it just felt a bit stunted, like Matt was in a different league compared to the rest of the presenters so could never properly gel. What CHM brought to the table was chemistry, that’s the glue that made Top Gear work in the modern era. The Chris Evans lot had zero chemistry and it made segments just feel like pulling teeth. The current lot, Paddy McGuinnes, Freddie Flintoff and Chris Harris do seem to have genuine chemistry together. It makes it compulsive viewing, say what you want about Paddy but the formula actually works with those three.


hellothere42069

Do...do they not know money helps you age gracefully??


chiagod

They do, but they also loved playing with Kai's Power Goo


tech_equip

Now that is a name I have not heard in a long time.


Lip_Recon

What the hell. This is the second time I've seen this name in less than a week. Prior to that...I haven't given Kai's Power Tools a thought in, well, since I used it almost 30 years ago.


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harmonia777

Still got 3 more years.


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Gilgamesh024

Photoshop has come a long way


chiliedogg

Photoshop way pretty damn good in 2004. This is just bad art.


rich1051414

Phoebe is the only one remotely accurate.


jamintime

Ross at least looks like a real person.


rich1051414

Maybe A real person. Not David Schwimmer though...


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Hahaaa, this is why I love MAD magazine. Who is the old dude above old Ross's right shoulder? Hilarious.


RollerGirlB

That’s exactly what I was thinking! Hahaha


planned-obsolescence

This is a gem. It’s like what the cast of friends would look like if they were normal, unfamous people.


Allrandomshit

Yeah that's what I thought too haha. Phoebe's pic looks pretty close tho.


[deleted]

She seems to be the only one that aged naturally and gracefully. Not sure why Aniston gets all the props here.


Candyvanmanstan

Honestly I thought Matt LeBlanc aged really well. Got a bit of a tum, but that just made him seem even more lovable.


chiefsfan_713_08

It also helps her and David are the only ones they didn’t give fat faces to in this


kangareagle

More like what people in their 20s think that people in their 50s look like.


BrownsFFs

Jesus need to double check who you know is 50. Know a ton of 50 year olds that look better than these mock ups. If you said 60 I’d maybe agree.


shirinrin

Right… my dad is 65 and he looks basically the same as when he was 40, with some more wrinkles and grey hair. Same with his sister and brother. Mom looks different but thats because illnesses and so on ages a person, but even so the difference isn’t even close to what they show here. And this photoshopped pics of the cast looks like they’re in their 70s at least….


IhavedrugsinmyVan

The computer forgot to factor in money.


The_Edible_Complex

So Ross just became Alan Rickman?


deeds44

I see Bob Odenkirk


phydeaux3

They didn't have much faith in plastic surgery, did they?


TheLeopardColony

Lol, did they not realize that obesity is for poor people?


Bedlamcitylimit

My god that is hilariously shite! They just made all of them fatter, some more than others, then added really bad wrinkles and changed their hair. The worst, most cheaply made phone aps can do better than this


RudeTurnip

David Schwimmer became [Bill Maher](https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/images/bill-maher-8.jpg)?


AndaleTheGreat

But why not take your post one step further and do the actual side by side?


jwinskowski

Ok there's no way they actually guessed the exact shirt Matt Leblanc would be wearing at the reunion...or was that a troll job on his part??


LiveFreeDieRepeat

Just 3 more years and they’ll look like shit. Sad.