20 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT F.R.I.E.N.D.S
- No Friend ever made more money doing the show than any others. They started out making $22,500 per episode and ended up making $1,000,000 per episode. All negotiations were done in unison. Kudrow said, "The six of us are far stronger than just one person."
- When Matt LeBlanc auditioned for the role he only had $11 dollars to his name. When the cast got their paychecks, the first thing that Courteney Cox bought was a car. Matt LeBlanc bought a hot dinner.
- In the opening credits to Friends: The One After Vegas (1999), all of the names in the opening (actors and crew) were changed to have "Arquette" at the end of them, a gag on Courteney Cox Arquette who had just recently married David Arquette.
- Because of a bet between Matthew Perry and Bruce Willis on the set of The Whole Nine Yards (2000) (which Perry won), Willis appeared in his three-episode guest role for free.
- Joey's statue of a white dog was originally given to Jennifer Aniston as a good luck present from her best friend when she started acting. She offered to lend it to the show for the episode where Joey became rich and bought a lot of stuff. After that episode, the producers decided to keep it.
- Matt LeBlanc actually speaks French fluently.
- Before the show was cast, the main love interest was intended to be Monica and Joey.
- Courteney Cox was originally asked to play Rachel, but she asked to play Monica instead after reading the parts.
- Matt LeBlanc, who plays Joey in Friends, admitted in the exit interview for the book 'Friends...Til' the End', that he had a crush on Jennifer Aniston who plays Rachel. He said "Now I had a little crush on Jen in the very beginning, but I think the whole world did too, so what are you going to do?"
- The original idea for the show was going to focus on four characters with Phoebe and Chandler in supporting roles. In the early stages the creators toyed with the idea of Chandler being gay. They changed their mind when they met Matthew Perry. They did, however, insert many jokes about Chandler having gay mannerisms (not knowing about sports, loving show tunes, etc.).
- The orange couch used in Central Perk was found in the basement of the Warner Brothers studio.
- Kathleen Turner (Chandler's father in the show) revealed that 'Matthew Perry', "still calls me Dad."
- Giovanni Ribisi plays Phoebe's brother, Frank Jr in later episodes, but he also has a small cameo in the earlier seasons. He plays a boy who accidentally throws a condom into Phoebe's guitar case instead of a coin.
- Monica says the first lines of the series and Chandler says the very last lines of the series.
- Gunther was not originally a speaking part.
- Season Two is the only season of Friends where there is no episode on Thanksgiving Day.
- When Pheobe was pregnant with the triplets, she was actually pregnant in real life with her son.
- In the first couple of episodes Chandler and Joey's apartment number was #4 and Monica and Rachel's apartment number was #5. However, in the later episodes, they are 19 and 20 respectively because the producers noted that 4 and 5 corresponded to apartments on lower floors and the Friends' apartments were higher up the building.
- Out of the six friends, Chandler is the only one to not have any siblings. Rachel has two sisters, Monica and Ross are brother and sister, Phoebe has a twin and a half-brother, and Joey has seven sisters.
- In most episodes, the word "friend" or friends" is said at least once.
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