20 Times Al Gore’s Life Could’ve Been A Friends Episode
A Gen Xer’s ode to the president who got away

- The One Where Monica’s Dress Gets Ruined and Al Almost Becomes President
- The One Where Al Wins the Presidential Debate But No One Notices Because His Monotone Has Lulled the Entire Nation to Sleep
- The One Where Al Decides to Show His Fun Side by Wearing Chinos and a Polo Shirt
- The One Where No One Thinks “Al Gore Seems Like Someone I Could Have a Beer With”
- The One Where Al Pretends He Invented the Internet
- The One Where Al Tries to Explain That He Never Actually Said He Invented the Internet, Per Se, But No One Wants to Hear it
- The One Where Al Has a Chino Boner on the Cover of Rolling Stone Magazine
- The One Where Al Is Almost President, Again
- The One Where Al Is in the Extremely Unique and Highly-Unlikely-to-be-Duplicated Position of Having to Live Life as the Person Who Won the Popular Vote but Lost the Electoral College
- The One Where Gen Xers Momentarily Consider Protesting in the Streets Over Al’s Stolen Presidency, But Then Remember That No One Listens to Them Anyway
- The One Where Al Gracefully Fades Away from the Spotlight but Still Gets Made Fun of For Saying He Invented the Internet
- The One Where Al Becomes Accidentally Sexy For a Minute After Deciding “Fuck It. I’m Growing a Lumberjack Beard”
- The One Where Al Decides to Stage a Big Comeback by Releasing a Feature-Length Movie About Science
- The One Where Al Gets Skewered by the Right-Wing Media for Having the Wrong Lightbulbs in His House Even Though Personal Energy Use is Insignificant in the Face of a Potentially World-Ending Crisis
- The One Where Al Wins the Nobel Peace Prize for His Boring Science Movie
- The One Where Al Quietly Makes $35 Million in Apple Stocks in His Retirement Job But Still Gets Made Fun of For Saying He Invented the Internet
- The One Where Al Scolds the World Economic Forum for Using Plastic Bags
- The One Where Al Goes on a Meditation Retreat to Make Peace With the Inconvenient Truth That Even If You Could Rescue a Whale From the Warming Oceans, You’d Have Nowhere to Put It
- The One Where Al Wears the Same Chinos for a Month During Quarantine, Yet Somehow They Never Wrinkle
- The One Where Gen Xers Briefly Consider Re-watching Al’s Boring Science Movie to See If It Mentions Pandemics, But Then Decide They’re Already Depressed Enough
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