Does anyone else randomly slip this into conversation with people...or is it just me?

I randomly rewatched an episode (S2?) where Ari gets rejected from Top 40 under 40. Jess (the T4u4 organizer) asks what year Ari graduated. Ari: 1990. Jess: not law school--undergrad.

Ari never actually answers when he graduated undergrad, but Jess says he's not eligible for T4u4 bc Ari's turning 40 on some upcoming Thursday, not 36 as he likes to claim.

Since Ari did a JD|MBA, he was at Michigan for 4-5 years, which would put his undergrad graduation year @ ~1985 (@ age 22, or 27 in 1990). 13 years later from 1990 (from 27 to 40) =~2003, which would put the show's in-universe time ~2 years behind its irl airdate of 2005 (S2)

What up, E?

Now this may be retarded, or maybe I'm just baked, but you said you wanted Vince to gain 50 lbs. For the part, right?

70. It's more authentic.

Right, but you still need him skinny for the early years. So you shoot the first half now before "‪ Aquaman‬ 2" while he's skinny. Shoot the second half after he wraps when Vince piles on the pasta.

Like De Niro in "Raging Bull."

Like Clooney in "Syriana."

Or Johnny Chase in "The Commish" when I played that bulimic pedophile. Did you see that one, Paul?

No.

Is there any way to watch it without paying for it?

It would’ve been ironic because Vince used to say “I don’t want to be anyone’s first and I don’t want to be anyone’s last and then Justine and Vince fuck after she loses her virginity, so he wasn’t the first but he could’ve been the last. It also would’ve shown Vince’s growth after season 7.

This is one of my favorite Drama/Walsh scenes😂

When I 1st watched this show live as a teenager, I was kinda naive. The episodes' audio quality were...of a lower quality than BluRay rips let's say, & the device I watched it on had modest audio hardware.

Hence whenever I don't hear dialogue clearly, I just filled in the gaps using contextual clues. For instance: back 10-15 years ago, I never quite heard what Gal Gadot said in the limo in S6. I had always assumed she asked "E's not seeing anybody [at the moment]?" bc I thought that'd be most people's natural inclination upon learning someone's rolling stag. Instead, when I rewatched that episode just this week, I learned Gal actually asked Vince "E's not gay, is he?"

Likewise, when I 1st watched the David Schwimmer cameo 10-15 years ago, I thought I heard "I couldn't even eat dessert [not] knowing [he--Andrew Klein] wasn't going to f**k [Lizzie Grant] today." You know, as if out of a protective
fatherly concern for Lizzlie against creepy Andrew Klein. This interpretation fit the character I'd come to associate w/ Schwimmer, esp bc at this point he's only 5 years removed from Friends, where Ross had ended as a responsible father entering his 40s, contemplating migrating out to Scarsdale NY. ie the exact type of character who would feel protective fatherly concern for Lizzie, esp since she's a full generation younger.

Instead: the actual Schwimmer quote laments that he himself [Schwimmer] "wasn't going to f**k" Lizzie Grant. A sentiment either 1) "noble," worthy of a high5 if it was just "bros being ['alpha, red-blooded, hetero] bros; OR 2) creepy just as Andrew Klein was creepy.

Either way, Schwimmer is hardly the prototype of "bros being bros"

I know she was a side character but you’d think after 8 seasons she’d have at least one episode that gave a little more focus on her.

Even during Vince’s addiction phase she was heavily under-utilised when it could have been a great opportunity to dive into how she actually does her job.

Anyone else feel the same?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35AgULAxZdI

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