Chandler: Stick a fork in me, I'm done.
Phoebe: Stick a fork what?
Chandler: You know, like when you're cooking a steak.
Phoebe: Oh, I don't eat meat.
Chandler: Well how do you tell when vegetables are done?
Phoebe: Well you just, you know, you eat them and you can tell.
Chandler: Okay, then eat me, I'm done.
When Mark is telling Rachel they should get back at Ross right there on the couch, Rachel's hands go in a instant from on her chest to down her sides. See more...
In the series 8 episode where Joey tells Rachel he loves her, the gay waiter in the restaurant is the same as the one in the series 9 episode with Phoebe and Joey's 'evil' plan. His name is Sam Pancake and he has worked in two Friends restaurants. See more...
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In almost every season when the friends are in the coffee shop, it shows a front view of Central Perk; and a lot of times, in different episodes, the same lady with blonde curly hair is walking past the shop. There are also a couple of different episodes where two babies with red hair are being carried past the coffee shop. [Not a mistake to see the same people more than once. After all, the "friends" are there all the time, why should they be the only ones?]
In the episode where Phoebe's grandmother keeps lying to Phoebe about her father, Phoebe goes to visit her father and tells Joey and Chandler that, 'What if he's not this great dad. What if he's still the same guy who ran out on my mom and us before we were born.' But in the episode where Phoebe meets her dad at her grandmother's funeral, her father talks about how he burnt the formula, and put on Phoebe and Ursula's diapers backwards. Thus Phoebe and Ursula must have been born before Frank left. [Phoebe could have easily been told that Frank Sr had left before she and Ursula had been born and not realised he had left when she was a young baby. Her grandmother did tell a lot of lies about Frank so she may have been the one to tell Phoebe this as it may seem less hurtful.]
Rachel had the longest pregnancy ever - she found out she was pregnant at the time of Monica and Chandler's wedding in the season finale in May 2001, but didn't have the baby until season finale in May 2002. I know it was for ratings but as the show tries to keep timelines accurate (e.g. Xmas and Thanksgiving shows air around the actual time) it seems they would have kept the pregnancy to the usual 9 months. [They do not keep the timelines THAT accurate. Obviously the holiday shows are on time for marketing reasons, but how often do you hear them mention specific dates? Yes, her pregnancy went a few weeks over, but not a whole year.]
Throughout the series, the intercom buzzer to get into the apartment building is used sporadically. In some episodes, people have to be let into the building by communicating through the intercom; in others, the visitors suddenly appear knocking at the door. [As was demonstrated by Phoebe in the one where Monica gets shouted at for her review of Allesandros restaurant, if someone is leaving the building they may just hold the door open for someone trying to get in.]
In his apartment from later episodes, Ross' kitchen door is on the same wall as the front door, and it is a long and narrow kitchen, but the hallway outside runs the opposite direction and Ross' apartment is a middle apartment, he has neighbors on both sides. The floor plan doesn't make sense unless the kitchen is only a foot wide, otherwise it would just off into the hallway, it would make sense if he had a end apartment. [Ross has an end apartment, so his floor plan makes sense.]
The outside shot they use of Monica's building is wrong as it shows them to be on a corner block with buildings adjoining on either side. However, Monica's apartment has windows on 3 side - kitchen, living room and bedrooms. [The kitchen window is at an angle and not really on the 3rd side of the building so the the apartment really only has windows on two sides.]
At one point Ross goes out with a girl whose father is played by Bruce Willis. In The One With The Nap Partners, Ross and Joey are really excited because they rented 'Die Hard' which stars, Bruce Willis. Monica's credit card is stolen in the 1st series by a woman who hated the film 'Dead Poet's Society', in a later episode Robin Williams turns up in a cameo role. It would be interesting to see who stars in those films in the Friends 'Universe'. [When Ross is going out with the daughter of "Bruce Willis", he is actually going out with the daughter of a man called Paul Stevenson. Just as in Friends 'Universe' Ross is Ross, not David Schwimmer, Paul Stevenson is Paul Stevenson, not Bruce Willis. Hence Bruce Willis can easily star in Die Hard. And same with Robin Williams and all the other special guests.]
The outside shot they use for Monica's building cannot be their building as on no floor is there a balcony, which Monica's apartment has. [We're never shown a 360 degree view of the building. The balcony could be on the other side. And since Joey and Chandler's apartment didn't have one, the shot of the building could be of their side.]
Matthew Perry was so famous for missing his mark while taping that he developed the backward slide that you see him do in almost every show. He would come bounding into his scene slide backwards looking down for his mark and then hit it. (Per the tour guide at Warner Brothers Studio). [Matthew Perry has never done a backwards slide on Friends.]
Corrected by Brad
In addition to Ross remaining 29 for several years, he also gets younger as the years go by. When he marries Emily he is thirty, but when he divorces her he is twenty-nine. [No, he marries Emily when he is still 29, hence his worry that he will be divorced twice before turning thirty. The only mistake here is that he stays 29 for so long (as mentioned in another entry).]
Corrected by Twotall
In the earlier episodes there was always a window that the friends had to go through to get to Monica's balcony, but toward the end the friends walk off the balcony instead of climbing out of it [Monica may have had the wall rebuild into a doorway since it would be more efficient than a window. Even though we never get to see this we may assume that the characters do stuff between each episode. Like having carpenters work in their apartments.]
During one of the Las Vegas episodes Phoebe insinuates that she has been married in Vegas before. We know she divorced Duncan, the gay ice dancer, but we never hear mention of her divorcing this mystery man she supposedly married in Vegas. In season 10 she marries Mike Hannigan, so this would be an illegal marriage and make Pheebs a bigamist. [She might have gotten a divorce immediately once she found out that Las Vegas marriages are for real.]
In the episode where Chandler takes bubble baths, he claims at first that he has never taken one. But on an earlier season, when he and Monica where starting to date, on one episode Joey comes in the bathroom only to find him and Monica in the bath (with Chandler hiding underwater when he first comes in). [He doesn't say that he's never taken bubble baths, he says he doesn't like them. Monica then says 'you like them with me' to which Chandler replies 'it's not the bath I like, it's the wet naked lady']
Joey and Rachel's address is 495 Grove St. Apt. 19, New York, NY 10001. Monica and Chandler's address is 495 Grove St. Apt 20, New York, NY 10001. Phoebe's address is 5 Morton St. Apt. 14. [495 Grove St. is not a real address. Grove St. only goes up to 99. The apartment is at the corner of Bedford and Grove, and that is in 10014.]
The Spanish subtitles for this show are laughably bad. Across the first seven seasons, the subtitles routinely mistranslate what the actors are saying. In the worst cases, they omit whole sentences. Many times, they use words that don't exist in any Spanish dictionary. [Spanish subtitles don't count as mistakes for the show. It's the fault of the subtitlers used for that particular foreign release, not of the "Friends" production crew.]
In "The One Where Rachel Tells Ross", originally shot before September 11, 2001, Chandler and Monica couldn't get on their flight for their honeymoon because Chandler said the word "bomb" in the airport. After the terrorist attacks on the U.S., the story was rewritten and re-shot. [Actually, the plot of the original episode was supposed to be that Monica was nervous to fly and drove Chandler nuts making sure everything was in order (i.e. showing up early, making sure Ross had their itinerary, etc.). The producers changed it because they didn't want people to think she was nervous due to terrorists (this comes from one of the writers directly).]
Every time, when a shot from outside is shown, showing Monica's building, then turning to show Ross' one, we can see that there's a street in the middle. However, when we see Monica's apartment, inside, and we see the balcony (and being Ross' one in front of this one) we see that there's no street in the middle of these ones, there are more buildings around them. [The buildings you see outside of Monica's balcony are buildings across the street.]
Over time, the fooz ball table in Chandler and Joey's apartment has a glass top. In some episodes, there is a glass top and items are set on top of the table, such as mail - or they even eat meals on it. In other episodes, there is no glass top and they reach into the table to retrieve the ball, move the players, etc. [It is a removable piece of glass/plastic that allows them to use the table as needed, either as a regular table or to play.]
In the early episodes there is a wooden post in front of the door at Monica's apartment. Remember when Monica and Rachel were looking after Ben and Rachel bangs his head - Ross shouts "Monica bang" and runs into it. The post doesn't appear in later series. [Yes it does, the post is not visible in the usual shots of the living room, only from certain angles.]
In the first season, the number of years Ross was married to Carol changes from four to seven, and then over the course of the rest of the show, the number finally lands on six. [Ross never claims to have been married to Carol for seven years, he says they were together for seven years. Three years they dated, four they were married.]
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