In the last two weeks, two very long running shows on NBC, Friends and Frasier, came to an end after 10 or more years. I managed to catch the final shows of each series and it made me think about something. I didn’t watch every episode of these shows, but I caught them fairly regularly. I’m 29 now and so I was able to relate to Friends more than Frasier, but for both of them it made me think about the fact that I’ll miss these shows and these characters. They were like people that we knew. Of course they were people who we saw for an hour a week and who were able to solve most of their problems in about an hour. How does it happen that we become so attached to these characters? I actually watched an hour long show that talked about the history of these shows where they showed lots of clips from the shows. As I watched the clips, I remembered events from my own life that went along with the show. Is it sad to have those kind of associations? I don’t think so. I think that TV has become