Another high school girl I spoke to, a 17-year-old who lives in Brooklyn, told me she hadwatched every episode of “Friends and half of them twice. “That’s true for a lot of my friends,she said. “We are really into categorizing each other as a Rachel or a Monica; it’s fun to play intothat. This girl asked that I not use her name because she was in the process of applying tocolleges, and in the world as it is, a public statement about an entertainment produced not inthe 18th century — a statement a college-admissions officer might find on the Internet andregard as frivolous — is considered perilous. “I think, for people my age, it’s such a stressfultime in terms of school and college applications, and ‘Friends’ is a funny show that you canwatch before bed and just chill out, she said.

另一位住在布鲁克林的17岁高中女孩说，《老友记》的每一集她都看了，有一半看了两遍。“我的很多朋友也是这样，她说，“我们非常喜欢讨论对方是蕾切尔型的还是莫妮卡(Monica)型的，很好玩。那个女孩让我不要透露她的名字，因为她正在申请大学。在如今这个社会，公开评论一部非18世纪文娱作品被认为是危险的。大学招生处的人可能在网上看到她的评论，认为她太过轻浮。“我觉得，我这个年纪的人因为学业和大学申请都觉得很有压力，而《老友记》很好玩，你可以在睡觉前看一下，放松心情，她说。

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