F.R.I.E.N.D.S and The Big Bang Theory are the most popular sitcoms of all time, in the whole television history.
If you have watched them, then you might have felt the similarities in the characterization and the emotions between both the shows.
A brief description about plots:
F.R.I.E.N.D.S
Friends (stylized as F•R•I•E•N•D•S) is an American television sitcom, starring Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer, the show revolves around six 20–30-something friends living in Manhattan. After several script rewrites and changes, including a title change to
Rachel Green flees her wedding day and finds childhood friend Monica Geller, a New York City chef. They become roommates, and Rachel joins Monica's social circle of single people in their mid-20s : struggling actor Joey Tribbiani, business professional Chandler Bing, masseuse and musician Phoebe Buffay, and newly divorced paleontologist Ross Geller, Monica's older brother. To support herself, Rachel becomes a waitress at Central Perk, a Manhattan coffeehouse where the group often hangs out; when not there, the six are usually at Monica and Rachel's nearby West Village apartment, or Joey and Chandler's across the hall.
The show started airing on NBC from September 22, 1994, to May 6, 2004, lasting ten seasons. All ten seasons of Friends ranked within the top ten of the final television season ratings, ultimately reaching the No. 1 spot with its eighth season. The series finale on May 6, 2004, was watched by around 52.5 million American viewers, making it the fifth most watched series finale in television history, and the most watched television episode of the 2000s decade.
THE BIG BANG THEORY
The Big Bang Theory is an American television sitcom which is primarily centered on five characters living in Pasadena, California: Leonard Hofstadter and Sheldon Cooper, both physicists at Caltech, who share an apartment; Penny, a waitress and aspiring actress who later becomes a pharmaceutical representative and who lives across the hall; and Leonard and Sheldon's similarly geeky and socially awkward friends and co-workers, aerospace engineer Howard Wolowitz and astrophysicist Rajesh Koothrappali. The geekiness and intellect of the four men are contrasted for comic effect with Penny's social skills and common sense.
Over time, supporting characters have been promoted to starring roles: Neuroscientist Amy Farrah Fowler, who joins the group after being matched to Sheldon on a dating website (and later becomes Sheldon's girlfriend); Bernadette Rostenkowski, Howard's wife (previously his girlfriend), a microbiologist and former part-time waitress alongside Penny; Stuart Bloom, the cash-strapped owner of the comic book store the characters often visit.
The show's pilot episode premiered on September 24, 2007.
Over time, supporting characters have been promoted to starring roles: Neuroscientist Amy Farrah Fowler, who joins the group after being matched to Sheldon on a dating website (and later becomes Sheldon's girlfriend); Bernadette Rostenkowski, Howard's wife (previously his girlfriend), a microbiologist and former part-time waitress alongside Penny; Stuart Bloom, the cash-strapped owner of the comic book store the characters often visit.
The show's pilot episode premiered on September 24, 2007.
MY VIEWS
To put it simple and in a single line, I felt that:
Big Bang Theory is an INSTANT ADDICTION! One can get addicted to big bang theory by watching the pilot itself.It may be the first show which completely focused on nerd comedy.
BUT, somewhere around & after 5 or 6 seasons, the show loses it's essence and some episodes will redefine boring. ALTHOUGH, it gets uninteresting as the season count increases, big bang theory can always be that show with which you can enjoy your holiday with a popcorn (large, of course).
Where as in the case of Friends, it gets BETTER and BETTER up until the very last episode.This is what I can say about Friends and that explains every thing in a single line.
However,if you are interested and patient enough, you can go through the full contrasting from here on.
- Ross is similar to Leonard. Both geeks ending up with a hot girl.
- Rachel and Penny, the hot girl, who is the love interest of geeks in the series.
- Pheobe's ‘Smelly Cat ' ,and Sheldon’s ‘Soft Kitty '.
- Both, Roschel (Ross + Rachel) and Lenny(Leonard + Penny) are on and off.
- Howard-Rajesh and Chandler-Joey bromance.
- Both Joey and Penny are struggling actors, waiting for their 'big break '
- Chandler and Sheldon, both of them have a sarcastic nature but it is portrayed very differently, while Sheldon is more towards geek and weird in nature, Chandler is more normal and uses sarcasm as his tool for every situation he lands up in.
- Howard and Joey, the flirty ones and the weirdos.
- Both plots show a group of friends going through similar stages of life, including complications in job life, getting hold of their lives, moving towards a stable life and managing the complications of relationships and at the end of the day yet sitting together and enjoying food/drinks with them.
- Rachel, Monica, Joey and Chandler were neighbors, in the same way as Leonard, Sheldon, and Penny.
- Both, Leonard and Rachel’s mothers reveal to their kids their plan of divorcing their spouses.
- Pheobe and Howard’s father left them at an early age.
- Joey’s agent is Estelle LEONARD.
- Most importantly, it all revolves around an APARTMENT.
Here's a surprise to all The Big Bang Theory and F.R.I.E.N.D.S. fans.
FRIENDS & BBT for LIFE!