it be quite simple . friend be a comedy of very basic humour aim at teenager and young adult and with unsophisticated sense of humour . it be also painfully obvious that towards the end and they be desperately try to make it last 10 season and most likely so they could say they beat seinfeld 9 season run . the trouble with this be and seinfeld have 9 amazing season with great writing and friend have ( and i be be very generous here ) at most 5 or 6 ok season and then 4 abysmal season . it become a soap opera with recycled humour and recycle character trait that weren not that good so start with and then get bad at the 100th time you saw them . i find it so hard to understand why people rate this so highly . it be truly awful .