Episode 95: Ross from Friends

Today we’re talking about Dr. Ross Geller, the best friend from NBC’s hit 1990s sitcom. Ross is probably the world’s best-known palaeontologist, except it’s not clear if he specializes in dinosaurs or Pleistocene mammals. And sometimes he seems to be doing palaeoanthropology... or geology. Anyway, we’re not on a break, so prepare to pivot and achieve a state of true unagi, because we have 18 pages of notes for this episode—front and back!

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In this episode:

• Ross Palaeontology YouTube playlist

• Museums in Friends Blog

• “Mastodon” means “breast tooth”

• Chambers and McCahey (2024) 1990s dinomania: Public and popular cultures of palaeontology from Jurassic Park to Friends

• Robert Bakker and the “Dinosaur Renaissance”

• Whom should we really call a “doctor”?

• T. rex and the Crater of Doom (1997) by Walter Alvarez

• Bruce Trigger Warning

• Real palaeontologist Dr. David Schwimmer

• Is it this Ted Rigby?

• David Schwimmer didn’t steal beer

• The Felidae of Rancho La Brea (1932) by John Merriam and Chester Stock

• John C. Merriam, Palaeontologist

• Ross Barnett on Ross Geller

• Why does Ross, the largest friend, not simply eat the other five?

• What is Chandler’s Job?