Advantages: It's probably the best sitcom ever - excellent twists in the story Disadvantages: Some of Penny's insults are awful!
...on DVD that I realised just how funny it was. Let me tell you a bit about it...
~ The Story ~
Broadcast from 1983 to 1986, 'Just Good Friends' was the story of Penelope Warrender and Vincent Pinner, a young couple who were to be married - until Vince jilted her at the altar. Obviously, Penny was devastated but managed to get on with her life - even though Vince was the only thing she ever thought about. Five years later, they meet by chance, fall ... ...just good friends to avoid anything like that happening again. But throughout the series, they develop an on-again-off-again relationship and end up becoming far from 'just good friends'! Sounds like the same old story, I know, but you really have to watch it - it's such a funny sitcom!
So what's so good about the same old boy-meets-girl story? Well, the script is hilarious, to put it bluntly. It's quite an intelligent comedy which I think makes ...
beatlesgal25 05.07.2005
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