Monday, September 5, 2016

The characters on Friends live in Manhattan thorugh 9/11 - and never mentioned it once

Seasons 7-8 of Friends occured 2001-2002, the characters lived in Manhattan, relatively close to the WTC in Manhattan.

Not once do any of the characters mention the most historical terrorist attack on American soil, which occured a few miles from them, in any of the time immedietely after the attacks.

This is clearly a universe where 9/11 happened as establishing shots showing the WTC pre-2001 were recorded on the show (and obviously the towers were gone afterwards).

I imagine, for New Yorkers, this would have been a big deal. Were the characters Seinfeld-level self-centered to NOT EVEN MENTION the attacks once in that entire year?

Discuss.



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