`FRIENDS' FANS AT UO GET READY FOR FINALE.Byline: Lewis Taylor The Register-Guard Faithful fans of NBC's "Friends" will have a gaping half-hour hole in their Thursday night social calendars after the final episode of the 10-year-old sitcom airs today. "I'll probably do my homework and go out a little earlier (on Thursdays)," said Sharon Howell, 20, a University of Oregon The University of Oregon is a public university located in Eugene, Oregon. The university was founded in 1876, graduating its first class two years later. The University of Oregon is one of 60 members of the Association of American Universities. student and a self-avowed "Friends" fanatic. "That half-hour block won't be forgotten." Howell, who lists "The One Where Nobody's Ready" and "The One With The Embryos" as her favorite "Friends" episodes, plans to attend a party at the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority sorority: see fraternity. house before today's 9 p.m. finale airs. Then, she hopes to find a quiet television set and say goodbye to Ross, Rachel, Monica, Chandler, Joey and Phoebe. "I am definitely going to cry," said Howell, who has seen every episode of "Friends" and fully expects Rachel and Ross to get back together in the final episode. "Everybody is going to watch it, even if they haven't really been following it this season." NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. expects at least 50 million viewers to tune in for tonight's finale, which is being called the Super Bowl of sitcoms because of its $2 million per 30-second-slot advertising rates. The finale, which will be available in limited-edition DVD format See VOB and DVD. on Tuesday, is being shamelessly over-hyped on TV, in newspapers (ahem) and at the grocery store checkout stand where commemorative "Friends" magazines are selling for $11. Top-40 radio station KDUK-FM and local NBC affiliate KMTR-TV were running a joint promotion this week in anticipation of the finale. The contest, which posed "Friends" trivia questions to radio listeners and TV viewers, brought in calls from fans ages 16 to 40, DJ Valerie Steele Valerie Fahnestock Steele (born 1955) is a fashion historian, curator, and director of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology. She was appointed director of the museum in 2003. said. "I don't think anybody's ready to say goodbye." Steele, 32, said "Friends" was the first TV show that she and her friends were able to call their own because they could relate to issues the characters faced - what to do after college, paying bills, who to date and how to deal with being dumped. "It's the small things that have made the show what it is," Steele said, pointing to a recent episode in which Rachel and Monica both cry so uncontrollably that neither can understand a word the other is saying. "I think all girls have had a moment like that." At the Buzz Coffeehouse (the closest stand-in for the Central Perk Central Perk is a fictional coffee shop in New York City's Greenwich Village. It is situated near Monica's apartment, and was one of the focal points of the popular television sitcom Friends. we could get on short notice) in the UO's student union, the mood was somewhat less mournful mourn·ful adj. 1. Feeling or expressing sorrow or grief; sorrowful. 2. Causing or suggesting sadness or melancholy: the mournful sound of a train whistle. . Colleen Lawler, 20, and Marissa Slavin, 19, both planned to watch the finale, but neither seemed particularly choked up about the end of the "Friends" era. "I enjoy the reruns more," said Slavin, echoing the conventional wisdom that this season's episodes haven't been up to par. "You have to think you're going to run out of ideas eventually." Amber May, 23, compared "Friends" to the 1970s sitcom "Three's Company Three's Company is an American sitcom that ran from 1977 to 1984 on ABC. It is a remake of the British sitcom Man About the House. Description Jack, Janet and Chrissy lived in apartment 201, directly above the landlord unit. " in that many of the recent plot lines seemed to involve simple misunderstandings that just needed to be worked out. "They've seemed really desperate for ideas," said May, who didn't plan to watch the season finale because "it will be in syndication until the end of time." Iosha Reed, 21, and Nick Horner, 22, both had little interest in tuning in tuning in, v process in which a therapeutic touch practitioner centers himself or herself so as to be aligned with or “in tune” with a healing energy “frequency,” so that the patient may choose to join the practitioner (tune for the final episode and Horner echoed the sentiments of other men who said they didn't particularly care for the show. "I've never been into it, it's not my type of show," Horner said. Aesha Williams, 24, is one "Friends" fanatic who wouldn't miss today's finale for the world. She plans to attend a "Friends" viewing party in her apartment building. `It's impossible to watch the series finale
A series finale is the very last installment of a television series, usually a sitcom or drama. of `Friends' without friends,' she said. `FRIENDS' FINALE When: 9 p.m. today Where: NBC, KMTR Channel 16, Comcast cable Channel 3 Also: An hourlong "Friends" retrospective will precede the show CAPTION(S): Jennifer Aniston, David Schwimmer David Lawrence Schwimmer (born November 12, 1966) in Astoria, New York) is an Emmy-nominated American actor and director, who gained popularity when playing Dr. Ross Geller on the American sitcom Friends. (center) and Matt Le Blanc will play Rachel, Ross and Joey for the last time tonight as "Friends" ends a 10-year run on television. |
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