New Year’s resolutions for your favourite TV characters
The thing with new year’s resolutions is that most people have forgotten about them within a couple of weeks (or a couple of hours) of making them. That doesn’t mean they weren’t made with the best of intentions, but points more to the likelihood of people’s regular behaviours being stronger than the urge to form a new habit (or break an old one). A great example of fleeting resolutions are those made by our favourite television characters – so often made at the beginning of a January episode, and then never mentioned again once the closing credits roll.
Here are some resolutions made by your favourite TV characters (or ones we think would do them some good in the new year).
1. Fixer Upper
Real or suggested: Suggested
Characters: Chip and Joanna Gaines really should rethink their decision to end their house makeover show after latest season. What are we to do without a weekly fix of Jojo’s interior design flair and Chip’s demo day excitement?
Kept? We can but dream.
2. Friends
Real or suggested: Real
Characters: Joey vows to learn some of the special skills he has listed on his CV, enlisting Phoebe to help teach him the guitar. Ross wants to try something new every day, leading to him buying tight leather pants and wearing them on a date. Rachel promises she’ll give up gossip, but is tested when she discovers Monica and Chandler’s secret relationship. And Chandler tries to stop making fun of his friends.
Kept? Of course not. But boy did these resolutions make this a fun episode to watch. We wouldn’t want our Friends any other way.
3. Veep
Real or suggested: Suggested
Character: Selina really should re-evaluate her staffing choices. She’s so blinded by her own ego that she can’t manage to see how good things could get if she fired everyone who uselessly tells her how great she is without contributing anything. Of course, then we wouldn’t have a show, so maybe this isn’t such a good idea after all. Might make for an interesting episode, though!
Kept? Nah, Selina is nothing without her useless flunkies.
4. The Office
Real or suggested: Real
Character: Michael resolves to never make his on again-off again girlfriend Holly never cry (“Unless it’s from laughing too hard. Or making love too beautifully.”
Kept? Undetermined. But we have low expectations of Michael Scott.
5. Big Bang Theory
Real or suggested: Suggested
Character: Sheldon really needs to start being intentionally nicer to Amy. One of these days he’s going to turn around and she’ll be long gone – possibly right into the arms of some handsome scientist who doesn’t treat her like crap.
Kept? We doubt he would. Unless he’s challenged by one of his friends as some kind of scientific experiment…
What’s the longest you’ve ever kept a new year’s resolution?