Friends Text Analysis
Overview
Most Popular Locations and Phrases in the TV Show
Most popular phrases used by the main characters from friends and the number of times it is used by them
Catchphrases of Ross
| Catchphrases | Count |
|---|---|
| WE WERE ON A BREAK | 18 |
| Paleontology | 46 |
| Divorce | 38 |
Catchphrases of Joey
| Catchphrases | Count |
|---|---|
| JOEY DOES NOT SHARE FOOD | 4 |
| How you doin? | 40 |
| An actor | 115 |
| Dr. Drake Ramore | 62 |
Catchphrases of Monica
| Catchphrases | Count |
|---|---|
| I KNOW! | 171 |
| My Restaurant | 27 |
| SEVEN! | 19 |
| MOM! | 65 |
Catchphrases of Rachel
| Catchphrases | Count |
|---|---|
| Job | 72 |
| NOOOOO! | 26 |
| It is so Pretty | 52 |
Catchphrases of Phoebe
| Catchphrases | Count |
|---|---|
| Smelly Cat | 38 |
| My lobster | 25 |
| Twin sister | 76 |
Catchphrases of Chandler
| Catchphrases | Count |
|---|---|
| Joey | 372 |
| Monica | 252 |
| Oh MY GOD! | 71 |
Ross is mentioned most number of times in the script
However, the name of Phoebe is used as Pheebs and it is
mentioned 441 times in the script.
Episodes and Seasons
Number of Lines in all episodes (1-228) all seasons are clustered in 3 different ways
Some episodes have more than 500 lines while most episodes are clustered below 300 lines
However, Season 09, Episode 23 has the highest number of lines - 623 and Season 10, Episode 17 has 610 lines
Most Used Trigrams Across All Seasons
Wordcloud of Rachel’s most frequent words
Wordcloud of Joey’s most frequent words
Wordcloud of Ross’s most frequent words
Wordcloud of Chandler’s most frequent words
Wordcloud of Phoebe’s most frequent words
Wordcloud of Monica’s most frequent words
Linguistic Analysis
The average number of words in a dialogue in friends is 10.63
However, the average of all the words in each sentence of a dialogue spoken by all the characters is 6.43
Moreover, most of the sentences have less than 3 words. They can be considered as an expression and can be removed for sentence analysis.
Count of words spoken by each character per season
| Character | Season.1 | Season.2 | Season.3 | Season.4 | Season.5 | Season.6 | Season.7 | Season.8 | Season.9 | Season.10 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Monica | 8234 | 8534 | 8651 | 7836 | 9001 | 9058 | 9961 | 9141 | 9460 | 7590 |
| 2 | Rachel | 9166 | 9399 | 9120 | 9645 | 10641 | 11071 | 12187 | 11887 | 10661 | 8773 |
| 3 | Phoebe | 6771 | 9488 | 9571 | 8606 | 9236 | 8738 | 8538 | 8036 | 10209 | 8060 |
| 4 | Ross | 10427 | 9802 | 10965 | 8922 | 9734 | 10370 | 9338 | 10509 | 11492 | 9267 |
| 5 | Chandler | 9058 | 9353 | 9173 | 9641 | 8957 | 11200 | 9159 | 6629 | 11813 | 7233 |
| 6 | Joey | 6582 | 8075 | 8866 | 8781 | 10354 | 11258 | 10389 | 10978 | 10144 | 7839 |
Overview of verbosity per character
Analysis of the words spoken by the main characters in friends
| Speaker | Total Sentences | AverageWords | MinWords | MaxWords | SD_Words | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chandler | 6387 | 13.32 | 3 | 123 | 10.84 |
| 2 | Joey | 6159 | 14.01 | 3 | 168 | 11.94 |
| 3 | Monica | 6210 | 12.90 | 3 | 225 | 10.40 |
| 4 | Phoebe | 5674 | 14.18 | 3 | 225 | 12.38 |
| 5 | Rachel | 6634 | 14.31 | 3 | 205 | 12.42 |
| 6 | Ross | 6598 | 14.13 | 2 | 188 | 11.76 |
Most common words used in sentences with more than 3 words
Most used verbs by the main characters
Most used adjectives by the main characters
Most Verbs used by men
Most Verbs used by Women
Most Nouns used by Women
Most Nouns used by Men
Most Adjectives used by Women
Most Adjectives used by Men
Most Adjectives used by Men
Sentence Analysis of the 6 Main Characters of Friends TV Series
Sentiment Analysis
Season 7 and 9 have the most sentiment score
Heatmap of bing sentiment Analysis
Anticipation is the highest scored sentiment where as Disgust received the lowest sentiment score
Rachel has scored more in all emotions other than Anger, Ross has the highest score in Anger
Most Humourous Words Used by the Characters in Friends
Most humorous words used by Chandler
Objectification
Friends has received criticism on social media from both new and old viewers. Many were disappointed by the storylines and some have accused the show of racism, sexism, and homophobia. However, not everyone agrees that “Friends” is problematic.
The adjective “Stupid” was the most used among all the characters, followed by “Bitch” and “Fat”
Number of objectifying words towards woman vs men across all Seasons
Women are objectified 32.24 times more than men across all the seasons of friends
Number of objectifying words towards woman vs men per character
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