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Here are
some interesting Friends facts you may or may not have known about some
episodes or the cast and crew.
(Some may be incorrect.)
TOW George
Stephanopolous...
* When
Phoebe, Monica and Rachel were out on the balcony, Rachel knocks her
pillow over the edge. That wasn't really supposed to happen, but they
left it in anyway.
TOW Five Steaks and
an Eggplant...
* Matt LeBlanc was according to script supposed to grab the
phone when Jade called and say "Bob here!". But when jumped for the phone he
missed and fell and the editors chose to go with that instead of Joey answering the phone.
TOW Phoebe's
Husband...
* A cut line: When
Rachel is jealous of Julie, she says with a phony
voice "Julie's so smart, Julie's so special". Originally she added
"Does she put on a cape and fight crimes at night?"
TOW the Baby
on the Bus...
* Giovanni Ribisi (Frank
Jr) appeared in this
episode as the guy who drops a condom in Phoebe's guitar case.
TO After the
Superbowl Pt 2...
* Monkey and
Katie (the monkeys who played Marcel) actually played the monkey in
"Outbreak".
TOW the Ultimate
Fighting Champion...
* You remember the
appearance Billy Crystal and Robin Williams did in the beginning of "TOW the Ultimate
Fighting Champion"?? That wasn't in the original script. They were by coincidence in
the same building-, or the one across the street from where "Friends" is shot
and the writers asked if they wanted to make a guest appearance. This was apparently the
day of shooting, so it was just quickly thrown in.
TOW Rachel's New
Dress...
* Joshua Bergen's dad was
played by Matthew Perry's dad.
TOW Ross's
Wedding...
* A cut line: It
was the scene when Rachel realized she still loves Ross. Originally it was:
Phoebe: "God, that would be like telling Monica, "Hey, you like things
clean." Or, you know,
hey Joey, you're gay.
Rachel: What!?
Phoebe: Oh, please, she's always got a broom in her hand.
But they just kept
it at:
Phoebe: God, that would be like telling Monica, "Hey, you like things
clean."
TOW Everyone
Finds Out...
* This is what Chandler and
Monica says at the
start when Phoebe sees them through the window:
Ch: Look, we have to talk. Your shirt is really bugging me.
Mon: Wow, that's so weird 'cause your pants are really bugging me.
Ch: Well, let's make each other happy and get rid of them.
* One of the reasons the
audience laughed so much in this episode is when Joey told Phoebe it wasn't the first time
he opened a blouse like that is that it took MLB around twelve times to get it open.
* A Chandler and Monica line
that was never used:
Ch: Why is it so hard to believe that Phoebe is attracted to me?
Mon: It's not. I believe all the girls are attracted to you because you're part bunny.
TO In Vegas...
* The one and only time
they've taken down the Central Perk stage was in "TO
in Vegas" when they needed that part of the stage for Caesar's Palace.
* Phoebe says Joey's
pin number is 5639. If you look at the letters under the numbers on a telephone,
5639 spells out 'Joey'.
TO After Vegas...
*
To commemorate Courteney Cox's marriage to David Arquette, the entire
cast is credited with Arquette after their names.
* In the original script
for "TO After Vegas" Monica's reply to Chandler's "oh my god, is EVERYBODY
getting married?" "I don't know, but we were next!".
* The editor has got laughs on a computer that
he can add to the episodes. This was, for example, used when Rachel said "this is not
a marriage, this is the world's worst hangover". In that case they used it because
the next line was over-laughter. JA continued to speak before the audience quieted. They
changed the laughter into a shorter one because they couldn't use one where JA had waited
because that would take too long.
* After Chandler tells Joey that the waitress
isn't coming 'cause it's a buffet, Joey's reply in the original script wasn't "oh,
here's where I win all my money back!", it was "and it's in trouble".
* The writers and producers
weren't sure weather people would understand that Phoebe had once gotten married
in Vegas and they ended up having to ask the audience.
TOW Ross's
Library Book...
* Australian
swimmer, Ian Thorpe, was an extra in Central Perk. You can clearly see him
sitting at a table near the right of the screen talking to a woman.
TOW
the Stripper Cries...
*
Courteney Cox was pregnant during the filming of this episode so to
prevent her from getting overheated while she was wearing the fat suit,
they had a tube hooked up to an air conditioner that they stuck under
the costume and down her shirt so that she could cool down between
takes.
*
All the names that Ross lists at the start of his and Chandler's reunion
were actual names of friends and family of David Crane and Marta
Kauffman.
Miscellaneous
(Show)...
*
The episode title format ("The One With/Where/etc...") was created
when the producers realized that the episode titles would not be featured in the
opening credits and therefore would be unknown to most of the audience. They
believed that sitcom audiences generally refer to specific episodes of a show by
the most memorable event of the episode (e.g. "Did you see the one where
the monkey gets away?") and decided to name their episodes in that format.
*
Alternate titles to the show were "Across the Hall", "Once Upon a Time in the West Village",
"Six Of One" and "Insomnia Cafe".
* The opening credits pool
clips were shot at the Warner Brothers lot at 5 in the morning.
* The frame around Monica's
peephole was from the beginning a mirror, but a crewmember smashed it.
* The reason why Ross and Emily's marriage
was doomed was because Helen Baxendale was pregnant when she was cast. First she used a
corset, then they only showed her from the neck up.
* A break up scene for Ross and
Julie was written, but the writers decided to skip it, because everyone's hearts would be
with Ross and Julie if they kept it in, instead of with Ross and Rachel.
* Every year five new musical bit is given to
the music-people, so that the music will change every now and then.
*
Throughout the series, 27 episode titles reference Rachel, 23 reference Ross, 15
reference Joey, 10 reference Chandler, 10 reference Phoebe and 8 reference
Monica.
*
The character of Ursula (Phoebe's twin sister) first appeared in the sitcom
"Mad About You" as a waitress. Kudrow played Ursula on both "Mad
About You" and "Friends". The shows creators did not originally
intend for Phoebe to have a twin, but they added the character to explain why
Kudrow was appearing on two different shows on the same network, at one time as
a part of the same Thursday night line-up.
*
Although it seems that most of the action of the series took place in Greenwich
Village in Manhattan, New York City, the series was filmed in California. The
exterior shot of the Friends apartment building is located at Grove and Bedford
streets in the Village. No scenes featuring cast members were filmed in New
York; even the show's opening is shot around a fountain in California.
Miscellaneous
(Actors)...
* Jennifer Aniston says her
favourite
food is mayonnaise on white-bread sandwiches, and that she loves to make
baklava.
* The name Matthew Perry uses when checking into a hotel is 'Abe Flamon'.
* The name Jennifer Aniston and Brad
Pitt use when checking into a hotel is 'Mr. and Mrs. Ross Vegas'.
* The reason Monica cut her hair so short in
season four was because Courteney Cox Arquette had those streaks in her hair from
"Scream 2" and they didn't exactly match Monica's character.
* Courteney Cox actually auditioned for the
part as Rachel, but they asked her to play Monica instead, since Monica's the
"main" character and they wanted a well-known actress for that part.
* Matt LeBlanc's role in
"Lost in Space" was from the beginning offered to Matthew Perry. He declined,
however, but tipped the casting people about MLB. And that's how Matt got the part.
* David Schwimmer was offered
Will Smith's part in "Men in Black" but turned it down.
* Chandler got his first
on-screen kiss by Jill Goodacre Connick. She is married to Harry Connick, who starred in
ID4 as Will Smith's friend who dies in the first air battle
with the aliens. That part was
first offered to Matthew Perry.
* Joey hurting his arm and
having it in a cast was not part of the original storyboard, it was just thrown in. Matt
LeBlanc dislocated his shoulder on the set and that's how Joey ended up falling of the bed
and hurting his arm.
* Carol's obstetrician
in TOW
the Birth was played by David Schwimmer's best friend Jonathan Silverman.
* Terry, Central Perk's
manager, is played by the dad in "Alf".
* Alan, the guy Monica dated and the others
loved, is played by the priest from "Dr. Quinn".
* A funny note is that David Schwimmer played
a student guidance counselor in "Apt. Pupil" and he
mentioned Brad Renfro's character's parents being named Monica and Richard.
* Reese Witherspoon was signed up
for around six episodes, but apparently Jennifer Aniston disliked her and asked
the producers to fire her.
* Jennifer Aniston had a painting
exhibited at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art when she was just 11.
* Matt LeBlanc once won an award
for a tomato sauce (Ketchup) commercial.
* The first female
member of the cast that Matthew Perry ever kissed (as far as we know *wink,
wink* lol) was Jennifer Aniston, and not Courteney Cox Arquette as most seem to
think.
*
David Schwimmer directed several episodes.
Thanks
to: Annie... for sending me interesting facts.
Some interesting facts taken from Wikipedia.
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