KLPNO
Senior Member
- Joined
- Oct 19, 2007
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- Russian
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- Russian Federation
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- Russian Federation
Hello everyone,
About the Friends series ():
It turned its little-known cast into paparazzi-hounded superstars, helped NBC create its unbeatable Thursday night “must See TV” slate, expanded the range of permissible adult content on prime-time network television, influenced dozens of other shows, and became one of the most beloved series of all time. A quarter-century later, removed from all the history and hoopla, the ten seasons and 236 episodes of Friends still comprise one of the most popular and lucrative series ever created—a body of work that continues to endear itself to new generations of fans worldwide, including many fans born after the show went off the air in 2004.
It also got a decade of comic mileage out of a folk song about a stinky pet feline.
I think "mileage" is used with the following meaning:
https://www.lexico.com/definition/mileage
2 [FONT="]Actual or potential benefit or use to be derived from a situation or event.
[/FONT]But I'm not sure what the whole sentece means.
Does it mean that a folk song about stinky cat was referred to in some way in the series and this made the series popular as a comedy?
Thank you.
About the Friends series ():
It turned its little-known cast into paparazzi-hounded superstars, helped NBC create its unbeatable Thursday night “must See TV” slate, expanded the range of permissible adult content on prime-time network television, influenced dozens of other shows, and became one of the most beloved series of all time. A quarter-century later, removed from all the history and hoopla, the ten seasons and 236 episodes of Friends still comprise one of the most popular and lucrative series ever created—a body of work that continues to endear itself to new generations of fans worldwide, including many fans born after the show went off the air in 2004.
It also got a decade of comic mileage out of a folk song about a stinky pet feline.
I think "mileage" is used with the following meaning:
https://www.lexico.com/definition/mileage
2 [FONT="]Actual or potential benefit or use to be derived from a situation or event.
[/FONT]But I'm not sure what the whole sentece means.
Does it mean that a folk song about stinky cat was referred to in some way in the series and this made the series popular as a comedy?
Thank you.
