Friends was an awful all white television program that ran during the 1990s. The show was so cheesy and corny that it developed a huge following amongst cheesy and corny people, of which there are many. So now "Friends" is considered the holy grail of white comedy, a bunch of losers with no ambition hanging out in their apartment and crying about the various troubles they face. Everyone else may love that kind of "humor", but it just is not my thing. I have always loathed the show "Friends" because it is completely detached from reality, which Hollywood constantly claims it is the kind of portraying. There is nothing real about the show at all. But what is most unreal about the show is that they never once encounter any black people, at all. The show follows the classic put upon white person narrative. It follows a bunch of lazy underachievers who have been handed everything in life, yet somehow still feel that they have the worst lives in the world. I mean, what is Monica going to do now that she has to choose which designer dress to put on today? How will Phebe go on knowing that she must tell quirky jokes with a dumb smile on her face every episode? How will Ross woo whatever girl he is desiring this week? And why has the world been so unkind to Joey, an out of work actor who seemingly has no income whatsoever, yet is somehow able to afford an apartment in Manhattan? The character of Joey is particularly offensive to me. I know what it is like to be a struggling actor and, trust me, rich people are the last ones to befriend you, let alone invite you to hang out in their upscale Manhattan apartments. The character of Joey is symbolic of ignorance to me. People meet characters like Joey on television and they find them amusing, but when the same people meet real life Joeys their first reaction is disgust followed by complete disrespect. The show is basically a slap in the face to real struggling artists because struggling to eat is not a fun romp in the park where catchy tune chime in every time someone is in trouble. The show trivializes life; it is about much more than the obvious racist undertones. It is not easy for women to make it like the female characters on "Friends" make it, all of them somehow finding great success in the job market, and able to support themselves. For most of the show's run, these women are single and sexually active, yet they never have kids and rarely is the topic of birth control even brought up. Where are the episodes about terminated pregnancy or STDs that would inevitably come from leading such a lifestyle? Maybe all the women are sterile and come with advanced vaginal cleaning systems. Who knows? The point is that the show creates this odd alternate reality where you can have the best of the party single life, while at the same time making the salary of a corporate executive. None of the people on the show ever do any work. They kind of flounce through life, bouncing from paycheck to paycheck with no real thought whatsoever and everything always works out in the end. It worked out for these white people so well that they ended up living in an all white neighborhood without any black friends in a portion of New York, Manhattan, that as of 2019 had a population of a quarter million black people. A quarter million black people in the town your prime time show takes place in and there is not one black person that ever makes an appearance on the damn show? And now on top of that I am supposed to say that this is not racist? It's obviously racist. The casting director did not want to screw with the white purity of the show so they made up some bullshit excuse, essentially implying that Manhattan is too nice for black people or some nonsense. You can see how I would be irritated by this comment because black people make up a large population of the entire state of New York. Had she never made this dumbass comment, this episode of More Content Talk would have never happened. Blame her.