a post of boundless geekery

[fahye]

pirateygoodness made this icon and it is my new favourite thing in the world after Cadbury Creme Eggs and Chandler Bing.

Basically the recipe for today was: 1 cup buying very cheap Easter chocolate (mmmm), 1 cup buying industrial amounts of sausages and bread for the choir rehearsal weekend, 2 cups studying for neuroscience/abnormal child psychology exams, and 2 cups of Friends <--- I am developing a SERIOUS PROBLEM, guys.

So serious that I have actually spent time comparing its male characters to the male characters of Coupling and MAKING A VENN DIAGRAM, but then, making Venn diagrams is my kneejerk response to all sorts of situations, especially if the alternative is more studying.



(for the what, all two people on my flist who have seen both?)

The 'Unique Advantage' Theory Of Relationship Comedies



It's so neat I hardly want to annotate it. Salient points:

- Steve and Ross are pretty much exactly the same person but I have left small amounts of individuality at the edges to acknowledge that Steve is capable of actually forming a relationship with a mostly-sane woman.

- The 'Unique Advantage' Theory stems from the fact that the characters that make the shows (for me) are the ones with no counterpart. There is nobody on Coupling with Chandler's particular brand of deadpan awesome, and nobody on Friends as utterly insane as Jeff. Patrick gets bonus unique-space for being occasionally suave, which nobody on Friends is IN ANY WAY.

- I do not like Joey much. He is the puppyish pathos of Jeff and the brainless-playboy instincts of Patrick and I don't really care about either of those aspects.

See? It makes sense. I am not going to attack the girls, though, because...I am not quite that desperate for entertainment just yet. Though there are some pretty clear and simple Jane-Phoebe, Sally-Monica, Susan-Rachel parallels. The Venn diagram would be far less interesting.

Uh, I maybe need a hobby of some kind?

Have an awesome xkcd comic to distract yourself:



IT SHOULDN'T BE THIS FUNNY. BUT IT IS. It simultaneously makes me want to spurt tea everywhere and track down my Year 11/12 physics teacher so that I can smack her in the head with a pillow.

I am going to start spamming you all with XKCD on random occasions. You get no say in this.

Comments

[minna.livejournal.com]

I LOVE IT

>---------------------------------------------------------------<

THAT MUCH

THERE IS NO END TO MY DOTTED LINE OF LOVE

[kcdl.livejournal.com]

If you did a Venn diagram based on comic value of the two shows you'd have two circles on opposite sides of the universe. I'd say I get the same amount of laughs out of a single episode of Coupling as I do out of ~3 episodes of Friends. I did watch Friend from start to finish though so it wasn't like I hated it - like them both in different ways.

I love the comic BTW.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

True! I do think Coupling is cleverer and sharper than Friends. But I have seen all four seasons of Coupling SO MANY TIMES that finding new material that is even remotely like it is just wonderful.

You should really check out XKCD (http://xkcd.com/). It's perfect for us science-types.

[kcdl.livejournal.com]

Man, I should really Coupling on DVD...hang on I'm making money now I can (I keep forgetting this development)!

Shall check-out XKCD. Sinfest in my only regular webcomic at the mo'. Any time I find a webcomic I like the artist decides to go in hiatus for insanely long periods of time - it's rather frustrating.

[skygiants]

But . . . Steve > Ross in every way. :O

*ADORES STEVE AND WOULD LIKE TO MARRY HIM AND TAKE HIM HOME FOREVER AND HAVE HIM RANT ABOUT SEEMINGLY ORDINARY ITEMS ON CUE*