The American Spectator

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The author claimed that when Ross and Rachel came back to New York, they didn't have an apartment. I have no idea where that came from. Rachel did, indeed, give up her apartment, Ross still had his.

"The other subplot centered on another of the show's couples who somehow managed to get married."

The characters' names are "Chandler" and "Monica."

"It's never explained who filled out their marriage license for them. But clearly they seemed clueless about what to do once married."

Let's see. They got married. They saved up to buy a house. They tried to have a child, found out they couldn't, and decided to adopt. What on Earth did they not do? What is the author referring to?

"More likely they reached the critical decision resolved last night the same way that modern marrieds do when they decide to build an add-on to their split level or maybe a sun-porch: they decided to have themselves a baby. Not theirs, really, but a young girl's."

p>No, the decision to have a child was anything but casual. The Bings spent an entire season trying to conceive, and when they found out they were not physically able, spent another year trying to adopt. br> The young girl, rather than having an abortion, carefully screened several people, until she found a couple that she trusted to raise her child. I'm not quite sure why that's a bad thing. /p>

"The actual mother? She's sent away with a parting gift and a promise by the larcenous parents that they'll call her. If they were going to do it that way, why not have a stork do the delivering? At least then we'd still be in the realm of the recognizably human."

I can't tell you how much I hate the above paragraph. It's smug. It's arrogant. It's profoundly funny. It doesn't even make any sense. Why did the author claim that Chandler and Monica were "larcenous parents"? Is Enemy Central under the impression that adoption is illegal? Would the author have preferred that the child be aborted? Or that the teenaged girl becomes a single mother?

You ended up by quote Thomas Friedman in the New York Times. "In his New York Times column yesterday he said it's no surprise so many Americans were obsessed with the Friends finale. 'They're the only friends we have, and even they're leaving.' You've got to admit that's a better line than any written for the show itself."

No, I don't have to admit that, and I won't. It's a better line than anything Enemy Central wrote, but it was nowhere near the level of Friends." The best line in the show, BTW, was when Joey looked at the Monica and Chandler's now empty apartment and said in amazement "has this room always been purple?"

p>It took ten years of knowing Joey to make that joke work. The Enemy Central review read like it has hacked out in ten minutes. To paraphrase The Comic Book Guy on The Simpsons

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