• Malle_Yeno@pawb.social
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      19 days ago

      I believe in Friends, it’s justified as Monika pretending that her grandmother is living there so she still gets her rent controlled tenancy agreement. I thought I remembered that there was an episode where she and the custodian were having a fight so he threatened to reveal the grandma isn’t alive anymore so that Monika would have renegotiate the agreement (and it was resolved so he didn’t do that.)

      As for Joey and Chandler’s apartment, no clue how that one happened lol

      • NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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        19 days ago

        You’re recalling correctly. Joey has to agree to be the building manager’s dance partner in order to keep him from snitching. My wife watches Friends on repeat so it’s burned into my memory from proximity.

        As for Joey and Chandler, Chandler has a well paying job that nobody can quite explain as a running gag. He’s not a “transpondster”, at a minimum.

    • bahbah23@lemmy.world
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      19 days ago

      The size of Monica’s apartment was mentioned in the show. It was her grandma’s apartment and under rent control; the apartment building didn’t know that it wasn’t the Grandma anymore. With that, it wasn’t unreasonable for her to be able to afford it during the 90s

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    19 days ago

    How about the notion that one can afford to live in NYC while working at a coffee shop with only one roommate