You may have wanted to know the REAL reason that ‘Friends’ has been taken off the airwaves. The ‘official’ reason is that the show’s makers wanted to quit before the show became too stale.
The truth is rather more sinister.
In Lyle, the California Court of Appeal held that creative discussions in which writers of the popular sitcom Friends developed ideas and created scripts could constitute sexual harassment of individuals listening to the sometimes bawdy banter of the writers.
So now we know.
[Thanks to Virginia Postrel for the link.]
Agreed, it was already ‘stale’….
Still, what a dumbass reason to stop a creative project.
Geez, at first when you said there was another reason besides the “official” one, I thout you were going to say it was a Zionist conspiracy. Whew, glad something wasn’t!
Talk about stale now there will be wall to wall reruns, just like Swinefeld.
Her full declaration (from before) is here.
I provided these wacky excerpts at the time (“I” is Lyle):
58. I saw [‘Friends’ writer] Greg Malins draw in the coloring book the vaginal area of a cheerleader who had her dress up and legs open.
…68. I heard [‘Friends’ writer] Chase once rhetorically asked [sic] the group, of Cox and Arquette, “do you think they fuck in the dressing room”. [sic]
…74. [Three of the writers] regularly discussed making the character Joey a serial rapist…
…77. [Three of the writers used the terms] “dick,” “schlong,” and “cock.”
…83. I can recall sitting around waiting to go home while writers were sitting around pretending to masturbate and continually talking about schlongs.
Good thing she didn’t work around the writers for Seinfeld. Sheesh.