NYU according to F.R.I.E.N.D.S

‘Started hitting the NYU dorms around midnight, I am selling cookies by the case’

When I first watched F.R.I.E.N.D.S almost 10 years ago (what a frightening thought) I didn’t think much of the references to New York University. Now that I’m attending NYU, the references have me laughing so hard I’m gasping for air. Probably because the truth is some of the sketches aren’t a million miles away from the truth. Looking back, they actually got it right.

Making money at NYU according to Friends

Looking for extra cash? Not interested in joining the growing number of NYU sugar babies? Sign up for at NYU’s Centre for Behavioral Studies to earn up to $20 dollars an hour towards paying off your obnoxious student loan. Sex study on a Friday night? Why not? Only at NYU…

When you’re asked why you went to the sperm bank and you have to tell them how you were making money at NYU

Food consumption at NYU according to Friends

Probably my favorite reference to NYU is when Ross realizes that the secret behind his success in cookies sales is ‘the munchies’. Sounds a lot like Insomnia Cookies to me.

‘Cookie dude!’, ‘insomnia cookies’, ‘muffin man’- it all sounds the same to me.

Greek life at NYU according to Friends

*tries to say hello. Sorority girls walk away*

Need I say more? (keep it Friendly NYU).

Asking questions in class at NYU according to Friends

Everybody knows that kid in class who asks the outrageous questions (if you don’t the chances are that it’s probably you).

*all class raises their hands*

Class related questions?

*all hands go back down*

Professors at NYU according to Friends

I wish

Because when there is a Professor (even a fictional one) there is a Rate My Professor…

What bastard described Ross Geller on Rate My Professor as “skip class? you won’t pass”. The fictional character from the best television from the 90s (and our teenage years didn’t really produce anything that good if we’re being honest) deserves a “there for you”. Let’s be honest he was there for you on DVD (this was before Netflix, no chill) around the time when your first “relationship” ended. If you’re going to write a review on Rate My Professor, a review that is about a reference to our university in popular culture, then at least give our friend Ross descriptors like “would take again”.

Student-professor relations according to Friends

Did someone run the Friends script by NYU?

Savage

Emotional rollercoaster

The library at NYU according to Friends

I don’t know if it’s just because I don’t spend a whole lot of time in Bobst but I have never heard “ecstatic moaning” from between the book shelves. And can someone please tell me if there really is a book by Wendy Bagina?

Chandler: ‘Sounds like two people are really enjoying the Dewey decimal system’

So yeah, they didn’t get everything right. But overall, Friends, you did good.

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