You kids change partners more than square dancers!
—Kitty, That '70s Show
A diagram of their love affairs would look like an underground system where every train stopped at every station.
—Roger Ebert on the Bloomsbury Group
Twitter user andyswift: Nice headshots (on the coffee table in the writers' room). Is that how you choose story lines? Throw darts at them?
Degrassi: The Next Generation writer Ramona Barckert: 1. Throw photos up in the air. 2. Whoever lands touching = that's who dates next.
Ed: What's with Kyle? Why's he so happy?
Mike: First off, he's got that idiot thing going on. And secondly, he was out till 3:00 a.m. doing God-knows-what with my daughter.
Ed: I thought he and Kristin broke up.
Mike: Actually, he's dating Mandy now.
Ed: Kyle pulled off sisters? That's impressive. He'll be telling that story in bars the rest of his life.
Mike: First off, he's got that idiot thing going on. And secondly, he was out till 3:00 a.m. doing God-knows-what with my daughter.
Ed: I thought he and Kristin broke up.
Mike: Actually, he's dating Mandy now.
Ed: Kyle pulled off sisters? That's impressive. He'll be telling that story in bars the rest of his life.
It strengthens the friendships that stay platonic. They don't feel forced and weird and contaminated by drama and backstabbing. Basically, it's like the exact opposite of the Glee cast, where a few seasons in, you're watching all these people singing on stage together and you're like, "These people shouldn't be friends. They should be lunging across the stage trying to kill each other." Because that's what happens when you play romantic musical chairs with the core characters. Slowly, the dense oppressive tangled roots of in-group friendcest grow wild and free.
—Quinn Curio, "But WHY is Riverdale's Writing so Cringey?"
