Friends is a sitcom that almost everyone has fallen in love with since in aired in the early nineties. I believe it's safe to say most people have seen every episode a million times and could pretty much recite every line from their favorite episodes. In 10 seasons and 236 episodes, the world went head over heels for the amazing friendship that Rachel, Monica, Phoebe, Joey, Chandler, and Ross shared. Everyone thinks they know everything there is to know about Friends, but are you certain you know it all? Here are 38 facts that you might not have known about Friends:
1. Monica + Joey = Perfect Match!--Monica and Joey were originally intended to be love interests.
2. The actor that plays Joshua's father is actually Matthew Perry's father in real life.
3. "The One Where No One's Ready" takes place entirely in Monica and Rachel's apartment because the show was on a budget and they didn't have enough money for additional sets or guest stars at the time.
4. James Michael Taylor scored the role of Gunther because he was the only extra that was able to operate the expresso machine and didn't have a line until the 33rd episode--his line was 'yeah'.
5. In "The One with The Dollhouse" they had to make six different versions because they kept setting on fire while filming.
6. Ellen DeGeneres turned down the offer to play Phoebe.
7. Lisa Kudrow played Ursula on "Mad About You" two years before Friends aired, so the producers made that her twin sister to create a cross-over between the two shows.
8. When Rachel is trying to find someone to officiate Chandler an Monica's wedding, she is seen outside of the Anastassakis wedding, which is Aniston's family name.
9. Both refrigerators in the girl's and boy's apartments actually worked and that is why so many scene start off with someone going in the fridge.
10. Phoebe's brother, Frank Jr. actually appears a few seasons before his character is created, throwing something in her guitar case while playing outside of Central Perk.
11. An average episode of Friends took about five hours to film and David Schwimmer directed 10 episodes himself.
12. Joey, also known as Dr. Drake Ramoray, plays a fictional character in NBC's soap opera Days of Our Lives, and in real life, Aniston's father (John Aniston) plays Victor Kiriakis on the actual soap opera.
13. Every episode was filmed in front of a live studio audience, except for cliffhangers.
14. In the pilot Monica forget the name of the guy she slept with the night before and producers were worried this would give off the wrong impression so they asked the studio audience in a survey if they should change it, but they didn't think so.
15. Joey and Chandler's big white dog actually belonged to Jennifer Aniston--it was a good-luck gift from a friend from when the show first started.
16. Phoebe and Chandler were originally meant to be support characters.
Lisa Kudrow also thought Chandler's character was gay when reading the script for the first time.
17. If you notice the numbers on the apartments changed from 5 and 4 to 20 and 19 because the writers thought that it wouldn't make sense since they were meant to live much higher considering their balcony and view from the window.
18. Friends was almost called a number of different things, but the writers had it down to either Friends or Insomnia Cafe.
I think we all can agree they went with the better choice.
