Everyone looks at the past through their own rose-colored glasses, especially when it comes to media that meant a lot to us when we were younger. It’s hard to set aside one’s personal feelings of nostalgia for a beloved TV show you grew up with, even though the internet and online streaming services make it easier to revisit your old favorites anytime.

Just because something meant a lot to you back in the day unfortunately doesn’t mean it’s just as good today. Instead of giving into the nostalgia culture that seems to drive most of the internet, let’s remove our rose-colored glasses and look at a few TV shows that have not stood the test of time.

Friends

For a show about living in Manhattan, Friends was always surprisingly white bread, starring six attractive white twenty-somethings who never really seemed to struggle for cash and spent most of their free time sipping coffee or dating other attractive white twenty-somethings. Today, the most dated part of Friends is unquestionably its archaic approach to gender and sexuality.

Watching Season Three once more — often considered one of the show’s prime years — there are several plot lines that conform to weird gender norms that would inspire a thousand thinkpieces today. First, there’s the strong smart actress who (correctly) believes Joey is too dumb — until she finds out he’s a good kisser. There’s the billionaire (Jon Favreau) who relentlessly pursues Monica using lavish displays of wealth, flying her to Rome for their first date and later offering her a job as head chef of his new restaurant after she’s refused his advances multiple times. He keeps insisting Monica might care for him if she just tried, while Monica thinks less of herself for not immediately swooning over this rich creep — until they kiss, and Monica finally falls for her stalker.

It doesn’t help matters that one of the show’s most ubiquitous sources of humor was implying its male characters might be gay — hilarious, right?