Friends history. “You’re whiny, you’re obsessive, you’re insecure, you don’t just seize the day...And oh, you wear too much of that gel in your hair,” retorts Jennifer Aniston’s Rachel Green after being convinced to make a list of her paramour’s negative points, after finding one he’d written about hers.
Her father, in a later series, snipes “Nice hair. What’d ya do? Swim here?." Ross’s own sister comments that his hair hasn’t moved since 1989.
Ouch.Of course, the character’s overly gel-slicked hair is part and parcel of men’s grooming in the 90s, back when David Beckham was the face of Brylcreem and his Manchester teammates were scraping their curtain cuts into crusted follicle stalagmites.
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