Enter the howling maw of Friends’ entire first season overlaid on itself
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The Internet at-large has produced many mashups both terrific and mundane. But “We Used to be Friends”—a 22-minute, 47-second cut of every episode of season one of Friends overlaid on itself—argues that the powers of cheap, consumer-grade video editing tools are best used to capture the horror of Baconian nightmare.
Instead of the comforting faces of Ross, Rachel, Phoebe, and the rest of the gang, the viewer is instead greeted with a swirling, fleshy mass of color accompanied by the discordant clash of the show’s opening theme song and canned laughter that can be best described by this Paris Review recap of Canto III of Dante’s Inferno:
