'What exactly were the parameters of the giftbasket/orgasm economy?' emargaretbrewer writes on Joey Tribbiani's fruit baskets on FriendsTV
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The episode follows a comfortably predictable formula – up to a point. In the main plot, Rachel learns that Ross, at that point rushing off to China for fossil business, is in love with her. No surprises there. In the B plot, Joey enrolls in a fertility study to make some cash, and is therefore not allowed to have sex. This complicates things with his girlfriend of the week, Melanie, the co-owner a fruit basket company called “The Three Basketeers.” So far, so relatable.
Rewatching Friends as a youngish person in New York City raises some concerns. On top of rampant homophobic, transphobic, and fat-phobic jokes , the friends in question are meant to represent semi-recent graduates struggling into adulthood, but their interactions suggest a different story. These are people who wander in and out of each other’s apartments, eat breakfast together on weekday mornings, deliver dialogue loudly and clearly as if to an invisible – but audibly laughing – audience.
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