With Friendship Day upon us, celebrations are in order! And what better way than to have a binge-watching session of the best onscreen friendships, with your best buds
Never has there ever been a better reason to spend all day in front of your television with your besties than this Sunday — because it also happens to be Friendship Day! Here is a list of all-time favourite friendships of television, so you can decide what marathon you’ll be celebrating today. Don’t forget the popcorn!
Chandler and Joey — Friends You knew this was coming! Chandler and Joey defined the meaning of friendship for a lot of us, while we were growing up. Of the whole group of lovable misfits, their friendship seemed the strongest of them all.
How a witty and perennially sarcastic man found his soulmate in a slightly vacant but well-meaning wannabe-actor, is beyond us. But, despite their differences, they managed to get along like a house on fire and make us laugh. Who can forget the emotional moment when Chandler and Monica had a specific Joey room in their new house Or when the duo took care of a chick and duck Best bromance ever!
Rick and Morty — Rick and Morty Rick and Morty is an animated series that follows the relationship between a grandfather and his grandson and the friendship they slowly develop. Rick is an alcoholic and a genius scientist who mysteriously comes back to his family after having disappeared several years back.
He then goes on to create mad inventions in the garage and take his awkward teenage grandson on his adventures. The entirety of the show rests on the camaraderie this oddball pairing share — sometimes as family members, but most times as the weirdest buds ever!
JD and Turk — Scrubs Scrubs, as a show, is a hilarious look at the workings of a hospital and the weird characters it houses. A comedy show with a smattering of emotional moments, Scrubs managed to make a mark in the television sphere. What aided that was the relationship JD and Turk shared.
Both doctors in the hospital, they were the best of friends and their weird shenanigans proved how well they got along. They were even prepared to neglect their partners for each other, making their friendship better than most of our actual romantic relationships. The best part is that the actors, Zach Braff and Donald Faison are very close in real life too!
Sherlock and Watson — Sherlock Sherlock and Watson have been friends since Sir Arthur Conan Doyle thought of them and that translated beautifully onto both the big and small screen. Arguably one of the biggest successes on television, Martin Freeman and Benedict Cumberbatch have portrayed these roles to a tee, giving their friendship a twist of their own.
The eccentric and ruthless Sherlock manages to find and stick with a loyal and unlikely ally in Dr Watson who seems a little too level-headed for the amount of mishap that befalls them. The crime-solving twosome is everyone’s idea of friendship goals, even if one of them is a sociopath.
Meredith and Christina — Grey’s Anatomy You are the Christina to my Meredith’ — if you haven’t heard at least one person share a post on those lines somewhere on social media, you are either a hermit or you don’t like having friends. In which case, let Meredith and Christina change your mind. In a doctor drama where everyone keeps dying one after the other, Meredith and Christina managed to create a bond that even the show couldn’t overshadow. Despite Christina coming off as frigid, it was obvious that she had a soft spot for Meredith who had her own fair share of problems but stood by her best friend when needed.
Leonard and Sheldon — The Big Bang Theory The equation between roommates Leonard and Sheldon is admittedly what holds The Big Bang Theory together. Sheldon, being the neurotic genius scientist with a thousand different quirks, and Leonard being a shy comic-loving nerd with the patience of a monk makes for the perfect recipe for laughs and conflict.
Even though Sheldon can be mostly annoying, Leonard still takes care of him and drives him around when needed. Sheldon, on the other hand, thinks average humans are beneath him but seems to make an exception for Leonard.
