How did Seinfeld ever become popular? No, seriously. Friends I understand, the show is as vapid and idiotic as the average citizen, but Seinfeld was far too intelligent and funny; how it succeeded shall remain forever a mystery. If you like Friends, I both pity and admire you. Pity you for being the slack-jawed yokel you are, admire the way you have navigated so successfully through life armed with only a chestnut for a brain.