If you find any person who is at least twelve years old and asked them if they have seen the show “Friends,” odds are the answer will be an enthusiastic yes.

This timeless show first aired September 22, 1994 and since then it has proven to be one of the best shows that has ever aired on TV.

The show follows the lives of six twenty-something year olds through their lives in Greenwich Village, New York City. Rachel Green, Phoebe Buffay, Joey Tribbiani, Chandler Bing, and brother and sister Monica and Ross Geller all gather in the Central Perk coffee shop to complain about their lives or to just talk about their day. Along with a cast that genuinely seems to be best friends like their characters are, “Friends” also brings in A-list guest stars like Paul Rudd, Tom Selleck, George Clooney, Reese Witherspoon, and many more to make the show even greater.

Despite the unrealistic size of the New York City apartment that they all have lived in, the characters live lives that everyone can relate to. The problems that they experience are just like those that a normal person would encounter and they solve them with humor and knowledge. The characters seem to tell it like it is, like when Monica tells Rachel, “Welcome to the real world; it sucks – you’re going to love it.”

On top of being able to relate to the lives of the characters, watchers of the show are able to see themselves as the characters. Everyone has a friend who is a little “out there” like Phoebe or always has a sarcastic comment like Chandler. No matter who you are friends with, there is always a resemblance of one of the “Friends” characters.

Commenting on the status of her show, Lisa Kudrow (Phoebe) said that “Friends” is “now one of the most wholesome TV shows.” This is because a lot of shows now-a-days either try too hard to be comical or they only apply to a certain gender. “Friends” is a show that appeals to anyone, boy or girl, and is funny without including the crude humor that often fills many of the shows that air weekly.

Although it will have been off air for ten years this year, “Friends” is still thriving as a show. The Daily Mail has reported that there are about 17 episodes aired every day on Comedy Central. And this does not include the three that air on Nick @ Nite and TBS every night as well. There are Twitter and Instagram accounts dedicated to the characters and events of the show as well as Sporcle quizzes and categories on Quiz-Up. These types of social media and internet games did not even exist when the show started and now, ten years later, still uphold the audience of the show.

“‘Friends’ was my favorite show. I always put it on no matter what else is on,” says VHS senior Lauren Ednie. She, like most of the current audience of the show, was not even born when the first episode aired. In fact, the audience of “Friends” is hardly whom it originally appealed to twenty years ago.

“Friends was groundbreaking when it came out because it targeted a generation of viewers that had never before been acknowledged by sitcoms. And somehow its subject matter has been able to connect with every generation who has watched it since, despite their age or their location. When I fell in love with it, I was an 11-year-old living in New Jersey, but I felt such a connection to this group of 20-something’s living in New York City,” says Sam Initili, a sophomore at New York University.

Many find that there is not an exact reason for why the show is so good. Ednie adds that there is “just something that hooks you.”

We all can find a piece of our lives in “Friends” which is why it is a timeless show that will continue to entertain generations to come.