The Take | The Struggle of Being the New Friend, Explained 😅 Friends, HIMYM, & Beyond @thetake | Uploaded July 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
Friends' Phoebe Buffay and How I Met Your Mother's Robin Scherbatsky both encounter a particularly difficult quirk of friendship dynamics: being the New Friend in the group. Being the newest friend working your way into an already existing friend group can be difficult, and leave you feeling like no matter how well you’ve integrated into the group, they’ll always choose each other over you. Sometimes the New Friend is able to overcome this hurdle and truly become an equal friend with everyone else in the group, but others get left feeling like they’ll always be second best no matter what. So, let’s take a deeper look at this trope, how Friends' Phoebe Buffay and How I Met Your Mother's Robin Scherbatsky exemplify the good and bad side of the New Friend dilemma, and what it all tells us about the power of friendship.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:56 Making new friends can be tough
01:48 Attempting to make friends as an adult can feel impossible
03:56 The two sides of the New Friend dilemma
04:36 How Phoebe fought for friendship (& won)
07:10 Why things didn't work out so well for Robin...
09:15 Even when it's hard, making friends is worth it!
The Take was created by Debra Minoff & Susannah McCullough
Films/shows mentioned/shown in this video:
Friends
How I Met Your Mother
Mean Girls
The Big Bang Theory
The O.C.
Boy Meets World
New Girl
Living Single
Stranger Things
Seinfeld
Girlfriends
Bridesmaids
Insecure
Friends' Phoebe Buffay and How I Met Your Mother's Robin Scherbatsky both encounter a particularly difficult quirk of friendship dynamics: being the New Friend in the group. Being the newest friend working your way into an already existing friend group can be difficult, and leave you feeling like no matter how well you’ve integrated into the group, they’ll always choose each other over you. Sometimes the New Friend is able to overcome this hurdle and truly become an equal friend with everyone else in the group, but others get left feeling like they’ll always be second best no matter what. So, let’s take a deeper look at this trope, how Friends' Phoebe Buffay and How I Met Your Mother's Robin Scherbatsky exemplify the good and bad side of the New Friend dilemma, and what it all tells us about the power of friendship.
Join our Patreon to unlock the members-only series “Total Take," vote on what we cover next, and more: patreon.com/thetake
Read articles on film, TV and culture: the-take.com
Follow our socials: https://linktr.ee/thisisthetake
CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:56 Making new friends can be tough
01:48 Attempting to make friends as an adult can feel impossible
03:56 The two sides of the New Friend dilemma
04:36 How Phoebe fought for friendship (& won)
07:10 Why things didn't work out so well for Robin...
09:15 Even when it's hard, making friends is worth it!
The Take was created by Debra Minoff & Susannah McCullough
Films/shows mentioned/shown in this video:
Friends
How I Met Your Mother
Mean Girls
The Big Bang Theory
The O.C.
Boy Meets World
New Girl
Living Single
Stranger Things
Seinfeld
Girlfriends
Bridesmaids
Insecure
