[Barry the Sprout]

Friends is a really good exaxmple of what can be done with pretty good actors and an American style writing committee instead of just one or two writers. It was only rarely brilliant but was pretty consistently good. Sort of sad to see it go in a way as they proved, at least to me, that it had enough life to keep trundling on for a while yet. Sure it probably wouldn't have been ground breaking, but you don't want that from every show you watch. It still makes me laugh every now and then, however pedestrian it may have been.