Why was early Friends so comfy?

cause youre a nigger

cause you're a woman

Because the writing was good and the women were hot.

All that changed around season 3.

Because the characters weren't cartoon characters yet

>>83240737
Seinfeld>Friends

>>83241135
basically this, plus the writers gave a shit and didn't do the same tropes over and over again
audience needs some subversion of their expectations or they'll just get bored, first season friends was mean to its characters but respected them and so the audience could laugh along at their fuckups. when they were all cartoon characters we couldn't relate and stopped caring about their shitty one-episode-lasting problems
(still watchable to the end though just for the occasionally great jokes/moments, but seasons 1-2 were its peak)

>>83241341
>finally committed to watching all of Seinfeld after seeing "people" on /tv/ calling it the GOAT for years
>it's literally just a slightly smarter Friends
expected more desu

>>83240737
Lots of scenes of the gang just hanging out. It felt far more organic. In later seasons they more often split up episodes into A, B and C plots, with two friends to each plotline.

>>83241465
holy run on sentence batman.

Go back and watch season 1 and Joey is just a wiseguy who's a bit dim. By season 10 he's a functioning retard. Can't imagine what they'd have don't to him by season 15. That episode of him trying to learn French was kind of emblematic of how much the writers bastardised the characters.

>>83241568
it's 4 sentences
people on this site don't always use correct punctuation

anyone else notice how in the early seasons the characters actually laugh at each other's jokes and slip-ups?

>>83241617
Pro-tip: Practice good grammar. Your future employees will expect this from you.

>>83241765
they still do in the later seasons, but usually only if the character is in the background and not directly involved in the conversation