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The Terrible Best Friend Trope - A Strange Message in So Much TV
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Best friends light up our lives, but bad best friends can totally snuff out that spark – and for some reason, they’re everywhere on screen. When we take a closer look at a lot of tv and movie friendships, we quickly realize that things are a little… off. Whether they’re side characters with nothing but snippy remarks or main characters that can’t see past their own issues, terrible best friends are a recurring theme. But… why?! Today, we’re unpacking the truth behind this trope and taking a look at why these bad best friend stories can surprisingly be a good thing.

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00:00 What's behind bad besties
00:34 Why we stick with sucky friends
04:30 Standing up to terrible friends
08:19 Making amends

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@thetake

5 months ago

WATCH MORE - So terrible best friends can bring a lot of drama, but what's the behind-the-scenes drama of the "Gay Best Friend" trope? Here's our TAKE on an outdated concept: https://youtu.be/c89Q6Y226y4

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@PrettyPrincess9609

5 months ago

Unfortunately having terrible best friends is accurate for so many people. I had a terrible best friend in highschool and college. She would shame me for having different interests than her, she talked crap about me and passed it off as “ jokes “, everything was about her and she expected all of her friends to drop everything for her, she stopped spending time with me when she got a new bf and a new friend, and she wasn’t there for her when I needed her most. My mom warned me about her but I didn’t listen. I didn’t want to give up the friendship because we were friends for years but my final straw is when she called me selfish for worrying about my family during a hurricane. That’s when I was done. Sometimes it’s really hard to leave a toxic friendship.

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@trinaq

5 months ago

In "Easy A", Olive and her initial best friend Rhiannon didn't seem to like each other, but seemed to have been friends since they were little kids, but simply hung out together out of habit. Olive didn't seem to respect Rhiannon, and Rhiannon couldn't tell when Olive was lying, repeatedly calling her a bitch.

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@josabby474

5 months ago

Leslie Knope was well intentioned, but often a steam roller who didn’t listen to others. She thought she knew what was best. When Anne called her out on that behavior, it actually helped her fix her romantic relationship with Ben. Each person in a platonic or romantic relationship needs agency in that relationship.

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@rebeccassweetmusic4632

5 months ago

Thirteen is one of the most raw depictions of the "toxic friend" trope. Or the "codependent friendship." You see the sudden changes in the main character's behavior when she hangs out with someone thats really bad for her. I think what makes this movie even better was learning that the girl who played Evie was also the screenwriter for the film.

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@witchplease9695

5 months ago

Mia’s friend from the Princess Diaries angered me so much.

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@lynnevetter

5 months ago

Hmm, not sure about you including Devil Wears Prada.. I always thought the friend group attacking Andi was so not right. She was going through something with her job, but she was still there for her friends. She just needed a little bit of support from her friends. Yeah they could tell her about her job, but in a way that is more supportive. They were so rude.

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@DodaGarcia

5 months ago

I still think it happened far less times than it should have, but it was SO satisfying whenever Carrie's friends called her out. My favorite time (in a way, because it's one of the moments her selfishness make kinda hard to watch) is when Stanford asks for her take on his new boyfriend and she says "He's nice" before going right back to whatever high-school drama she's preoccupied with that week. Stanford lets her have it in no uncertain terms, and if he ended the friendship right at that point he'd be entirely in the right. I do like that "...And Just Like That" shows her having matured a lot from that though, even before the major loss that kicks off the show.

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@cbushin

5 months ago

I am guessing bad best friends are the friends that are available. The good thing they do is save their friends from loneliness. Loneliness can be worse than having people like Carrie as friends. The bad friend can also help people tolerate everyday annoyances.

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@trinaq

5 months ago

I always felt that the ending of Ferris Bueller seemed more tragic than optimistic. Even though Cameron takes the blame for Ferris, he might not be able to completely escape his dad's wrath.

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@360shadowmoon

5 months ago

We've all been there. I think it's most common when you're young because you don't know how to set boundaries yet. Also, you and your friends are still developing and it's not always clear how either of you will turn out.

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@msandrews87

5 months ago

I would've liked more commentary on Molly and Issa from Insecure. Their friendship saw many changes

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@story3877

4 months ago

it's real. I had a terrible friend in school. She would tell me i was stupid, make rude comments about my hair regina george style. I went to college and got away from her for the first time since kindergarten. summer came and my mom was like oh you should go to the mall and catch up, don't forget your old friends. Half way to the mall i wanted to dump her out of my car. 30 minutes "shopping" (window shopping) I was bored and no longer willing to listen to her BS. I made up some reason to go home early, dropped her off at her house and we haven't hung out since. We're in our 40s now. I have much better friends now. We're old so kids take the front seat and make it hard for folks to hang out, but when we do schedule something, it always feel like my batteries have been recharged, vs the draining hellscape that was my school friend.

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@mundaneamazing

5 months ago

Yessss! The trope that's never mentioned, but was a toxic example for so many of us!

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@chrissiem3958

5 months ago

I would say that all of the relationships on Friends are (for the most part) good best friends, but I still really love the bromance between Chandler and Joey. Chandler is constantly paying for Joey's side of things, but never asks for the money back, and when Chandler steals Joey's girlfriend, he stays in the box (😅) to show how bad he feels. But Joey, himbo that he is, still has enough sense to see the things Chandler does for him and is appreciative.

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@lstarsabb

5 months ago

I think it's easy to take your BF for granted. And sadly the longer you've been friends if not check it can be very toxic because they are practically you're family at a certain point and it's harder to see that they really don't like or use you to make themselves feel better about themselves of course that is the worst scenario. I have been the self-center friend and feel entitled to be upset when my friends didn't wouldn't answer my calls or text, but learned to chill out. You don't do it on purpose, but your so use to holding your feelings in you feel like you friends are the only ones that will have your back and you intentionally take advantage but if you truly care about the people in your life you will try to cut back on complaining and ask them how they are doing once in a while so the friendship isn't one sided.

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@danielledocherty2058

5 months ago

One of my old bestie passed me today. And i dont regret her and me finishing. Even 15 years later and loads that have happened she still wont own up to how she treated me and even others. As you get older you release its the right thing to part ways.

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@Aaron-kj8dv

5 months ago

Is it a message or a reflection of a lot of friendships? I think more than half the people in the comments section had a terrible best friend or good friend so it would more strange to not show it in media.

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@hodonyassin9760

5 months ago

I would say that Dijonay Jones and Dodie Bishop are the worst BFFS so far

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@mayln163

5 months ago

Dodi from ‘As Told by Ginger’ is one of the worst best friends.

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