Quoted within Blanp's recent "Stoopid Psychiatry" post:<p>The world of "Friends," which leaves NBC in May, is enviable. Sure, the show has a surreal ratio of beautiful-to-average people, and the New York digs are incredible (and unaffordable).<p>Somebody's probably already beaten me to this rant, but I can't help myself. Enough with the "surreal"! It has become the catch-all popular term for anything remotely "unusual." <p>Unless Rachel and Chandler are wandering through a denuded landscape, wearing black derbies, and carrying melting clocks, there is nothing surreal about "Friends." These shows are just basic sit-com wish fulfillment. <p>Let's try to remove "surreal" from the arsenal of unimaginative, TV-addled writers. Here's a small sampling of alternates: Unrealistic, fantastical, preposterous, unlikely, absurd, incongruous, incomprehensible, far-fetched, ridiculous, weird, improbable, unusual, remarkable, unreasonable, unnatural, straining the bounds of reason, etc.
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