The Deleted Scenes

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New and Old #224

"Friends" and family, political disagreements, retro games, and humanity vs. policy

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Addison Del Mastro
Jul 25, 2025
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We learned the wrong lesson from ‘Friends’, Nuclear Meltdown, Jim Dalrymple II, January 24, 2025

There’s a whole genre of writing about these New York City-based sitcoms from the 1990s, from the insightful (Ryan Puzycki on Jerry’s apartment in Seinfeld as a kind of private third place) to the silly-to-alarming, like one about Friends I came across the other day that mused it was a …

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