general Sorry, not actual content (again) (still)

Posted May 13, 2006 • Comments Off on Sorry, not actual content (again) (still)

The episode of Friends (TOW Chandler Doesn’t Like Dogs) is on where Ross can’t name all fifty states. You’re supposed to name them all in six minutes, and it’s supposed to be hard, and Monica only gets thirty-six, and so on and so forth.

Every time I see this bullshit I am compelled to play this game.

It took me almost two minutes this time. Granted, I only wrote the two-letter postal abbreviations, not the full names, but I do, in fact, know the names of all fifty states off the top of my head. I had a slight pause after 45 because I had skipped four of the big square ones in the West, but a few seconds later I realized which chunk I’d missed out. Then I had one missing and had to go back over the mental map before I realized I’d forgotten Ohio (the state I was born in; heh). But it didn’t take me all day. It didn’t take me six minutes. It took me less than two.

The following statement can really only make sense to someone who watches as much Friends as I do. (Julie?)

I find this episode completely unrealistic. These are supposed to be college-educated people!