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American TV series or program Friends Genre Sitcom Created by David Crane Marta
Kauffman Starring Jennifer Aniston Courteney Cox Lisa Kudrow Matt LeBlanc
Matthew Perry David Schwimmer Theme music composer Michael Skloff Allee Willis
Opening theme " I'll Be There for You "
by The Rembrandts Country of origin United States Original language English No.
of seasons 10 No. of episodes 236 ( list of episodes ) Production Executive
producers David Crane Marta Kauffman Kevin S. Bright Michael Borkow (season 4)
Michael Curtis (season 5) Adam Chase (seasons 5–6) Greg Malins (seasons 5–7) Wil
Calhoun (season 7) Scott Silveri (seasons 8–10) Shana Goldberg-Meehan (seasons
8–10) Andrew Reich (seasons 8–10) Ted Cohen (seasons 8–10) Production locations
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time 20–22 minutes (per episode)
22–65 minutes (extended international TV & DVD episodes) Production companies
Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions Warner Bros. Television Release Original
network NBC Picture format NTSC Audio format Dolby Surround Original release
September 22, 1994 ( 1994-09-22 ) –
May 6, 2004 ( 2004-05-06 ) Related Joey (2004–06) Friends: The Reunion (2021)

Friends is an American television sitcom created by David Crane and Marta
Kauffman , which aired on NBC from September 22, 1994, to May 6, 2004, lasting
ten seasons . [1] With an ensemble cast starring Jennifer Aniston , Courteney
Cox , Lisa Kudrow , Matt LeBlanc , Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer , the show
revolves around six friends in their 20s and 30s who live in Manhattan , New
York City. The series was produced by Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions , in
association with Warner Bros. Television . The original executive producers were
Kevin S. Bright , Kauffman, and Crane.

Kauffman and Crane began developing Friends under the working title Insomnia
Cafe between November and December 1993. They presented the idea to Bright, and
together they pitched a seven-page treatment of the show to NBC. After several
script rewrites and changes, including title changes to Six of One [2] and
Friends Like Us , the series was finally named Friends . [3]

Filming took place at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, California . The show
ranked within the top ten of the final television season ratings; it ultimately
reached the number-one spot in its eighth season . The series finale aired on
May 6, 2004, and was watched by around 52.5 million American viewers, making it
the fifth-most-watched series finale in television history [4] [5] [6] and the
most-watched television episode of the 2000s. [7] [8]

Friends received acclaim throughout its run, becoming one of the most popular
television shows of all time. [9] The series was nominated for 62 Primetime Emmy
Awards , winning the Outstanding Comedy Series award in 2002 [10] for its eighth
season. The show ranked no. 21 on TV Guide s 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time ,
[11] and no. 5 on Empire magazine's The 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time. [12]
In 1997, the episode " The One with the Prom Video " was ranked no. 100 on TV
Guide s 100 Greatest Episodes of All-Time . [13] In 2013, Friends ranked no. 24
on the Writers Guild of America 's 101 Best Written TV Series of All Time, [14]
and no. 28 on TV Guide s 60 Best TV Series of All Time. [15] The sitcom's cast
members returned for a reunion special aired on HBO Max on May 27, 2021.


PREMISE

Rachel Green ( Jennifer Aniston ), a sheltered but friendly woman, flees her
wedding day and wealthy yet unfulfilling life and finds childhood friend Monica
Geller ( Courteney Cox ), a tightly wound but caring chef. Rachel becomes a
waitress at West Village coffee house Central Perk after she moves into Monica's
apartment above Central Perk and joins Monica's group of single friends in their
mid-20s: previous roommate Phoebe Buffay ( Lisa Kudrow ), an odd masseuse and
musician; neighbor Joey Tribbiani ( Matt LeBlanc ), a dim-witted yet loyal
struggling actor and womanizer; Joey's roommate Chandler Bing ( Matthew Perry ),
a sarcastic, self-deprecating data processor; and Monica's older brother and
Chandler's college roommate Ross Geller ( David Schwimmer ), a sweet-natured but
insecure paleontologist .

Episodes depict the friends' comedic and romantic adventures and career issues,
such as Joey auditioning for roles or Rachel seeking jobs in the fashion
industry. The six characters each have many dates and serious relationships,
such as Monica with Richard Burke ( Tom Selleck ) and Ross with Emily Waltham (
Helen Baxendale ). Ross and Rachel's intermittent relationship is the most
often-recurring storyline. During the ten seasons of the show, they repeatedly
date and break up.

Over the course of the series, Ross briefly marries Emily, Ross and Rachel have
a child together after a one-night stand , Chandler and Monica date and marry
each other, and Phoebe marries Mike Hannigan ( Paul Rudd ). Other frequently
recurring characters include Ross and Monica's parents Jack and Judy Geller (
Elliott Gould and Christina Pickles ) from Long Island ; Ross's ex-wife Carol
Willick ( Jane Sibbett ), their son Ben Geller ( Cole Sprouse ), and Carol's
lesbian partner Susan Bunch ( Jessica Hecht ); Central Perk barista Gunther (
James Michael Tyler ); Chandler's extremely annoying and obnoxious but
good-natured ex-girlfriend Janice Goralnik ( Maggie Wheeler ); and Phoebe's evil
twin sister Ursula (also played by Kudrow).


CAST AND CHARACTERS

Main article: List of Friends and Joey characters Main cast

Jennifer Aniston as
Rachel Green

Courteney Cox as
Monica Geller

Lisa Kudrow as
Phoebe Buffay

Matt LeBlanc as
Joey Tribbiani

Matthew Perry as
Chandler Bing

David Schwimmer as
Ross Geller

Jennifer Aniston as Rachel Green :
A fashion enthusiast and Monica Geller's best friend from childhood. Rachel
first moves in with Monica in season one after nearly marrying Barry Farber .
Rachel and Ross Geller are later involved in an on-again, off-again relationship
throughout the series. Rachel dates other men during the series, such as Italian
neighbor, Paolo , in season one; Joshua Bergin, a client from Bloomingdale's ,
in season four ; Tag Jones , her assistant, in season seven ; and Joey
Tribbiani, one of her close friends, in season ten . Rachel's first job is as a
waitress at the coffee house Central Perk, but she later becomes an assistant
buyer at Bloomingdale's in season three , and a buyer at Ralph Lauren in season
five . Rachel and Ross have a daughter named Emma in " The One Where Rachel Has
a Baby, Part Two " at the end of season eight . In the final episode of the
series , Ross and Rachel confess their love for each other, and Rachel gives up
a dream fashion job at Louis Vuitton in Paris to be with him. It is heavily
implied in the spin-off series, Joey , that Rachel married Ross after the series
finale. Courteney Cox as Monica Geller :
The "mother hen" of the group and a chef, [16] known for her perfectionist ,
bossy, competitive, and obsessive-compulsive nature. [17] [18] Monica was
overweight as a child. She works as a chef in various restaurants throughout the
show. Monica's first serious relationship is with a long-time family friend
Richard Burke , who is twenty-one years her senior. The two maintain a strong
relationship for some time until Richard expresses that he does not want to have
children. Monica and Chandler, one of her best friends, later start a
relationship after spending a night with each other in London in the season four
finale , leading to their marriage in season seven and the adoption of twins at
the end of the series . Lisa Kudrow as Phoebe Buffay :
A masseuse and self-taught musician. As a child, Phoebe lived in upstate New
York with her mother, until her mother committed suicide and Phoebe took to the
streets. She writes and sings her own strange songs, accompanying herself on the
guitar. She has an identical twin named Ursula , who shares few of Phoebe's
traits. Phoebe has three serious relationships over the show's run: David, a
scientist, in season one , with whom she breaks up when he moves to Minsk on a
research grant ; Gary, a police officer whose badge she finds, in season five ;
and an on-and-off relationship with Mike Hannigan in seasons nine and ten . In
season nine, Phoebe and Mike break up due to his desire not to marry. David
returns from Minsk, leading to the two getting back together, but she eventually
rejects him for Mike when both of them propose to her. Phoebe and Mike marry in
season ten. [19] [20] Matt LeBlanc as Joey Tribbiani :
A struggling actor and food lover who becomes famous for his role on soap opera
Days of Our Lives as Dr. Drake Ramoray. Joey has many short-term girlfriends.
Despite his womanizing, Joey is innocent, caring, and well-intentioned. [21]
Joey often uses the catchphrase pick-up line "How you doin'?" in his attempts to
win over most of the women he meets. Joey rooms with his best friend Chandler
for years, and later with Rachel. He falls in love with Rachel in season eight,
but Rachel politely tells Joey that she does not share his feelings. They
eventually date briefly in season ten, but after realizing it will not work due
to their friendship and Rachel's complicated relationship with Ross, they return
to being friends. At the end of the series, he is the only remaining single
member of the group, and becomes the main protagonist of the sequel series Joey
. Matthew Perry as Chandler Bing :
An executive in statistical analysis and data reconfiguration for a large,
multinational corporation . Chandler hates this job, although it pays well. He
attempts to quit during season one but is lured back with a new office and a pay
raise. He eventually quits this job in season nine due to a transfer to Tulsa .
He becomes a junior copywriter at an advertising agency later that season.
Chandler has a peculiar family history being the son of an erotic novelist
mother and a gay, cross-dressing Las Vegas star father. Chandler is known for
his sarcastic sense of humor and bad luck in relationships. [22] Chandler
marries Monica, one of his best friends, in season seven, and they adopt twins
at the end of the series. Before his relationship with Monica, Chandler dated
Janice Hosenstein in season one and subsequently broke up with her many times.
David Schwimmer as Ross Geller :
Monica's "geeky" older brother, a palaeontologist working at the Museum of
Natural History , and later a tenured professor of palaeontology at New York
University . Ross is involved in an on-again, off-again relationship with Rachel
throughout the series. He has three failed marriages during the series: Carol
Willick , a lesbian who is also the mother of his son, Ben Geller ; Emily
Waltham , who divorces him after he accidentally says Rachel's name instead of
hers during their wedding vows; and Rachel, as the two drunkenly marry in Las
Vegas . His divorces become a running joke within the series. Following a
one-night stand, he and Rachel have a daughter, Emma, by the end of season
eight. They finally confess that they are still in love with each other in the
series finale . It is heavily implied in the spin-off series, Joey , that Ross
married Rachel after the series finale.

James Michael Tyler appears as Gunther , a barista at Central Perk, in every
season of the show, but is only ever credited as a guest star . Gunther has a
mostly secret profound love for Rachel throughout the entire series. At one
point he becomes the manager of the coffee house. It is revealed that Gunther
speaks Dutch in addition to English, as well as being a former soap opera actor.

In their original contracts for the first season, cast members were paid $22,500
per episode. [23] The cast members received different salaries in the second
season, beginning from the $20,000 range to $40,000 per episode. [23] [24]
Before their salary negotiations for the third season, the cast decided to enter
collective negotiations, despite Warner Bros.' preference for individual deals.
[25] The actors were given the salary of the least paid cast member. The stars
were paid $75,000 per episode in season three, $85,000 in season four, $100,000
in season five, $125,000 in season six, $750,000 in seasons seven and eight, and
$1 million in seasons nine and ten, making Aniston, Cox, and Kudrow the
highest-paid TV actresses of all time. [26] [27] [28] The cast also received
syndication royalties beginning in 2000 after renegotiations. At the time, that
financial benefit of a piece of the show's lucrative back-end profits had only
been given out to stars who had ownership rights in a show, like Jerry Seinfeld
and Bill Cosby . [29]

Series creator David Crane wanted all six actors to be equally prominent, [30]
and the series was lauded as being "the first true ' ensemble ' show." [31] The
cast members made efforts to keep the ensemble format and not allow one member
to dominate; [31] they entered themselves in the same acting categories for
awards, [32] opted for collective salary negotiations, [31] and asked to appear
together on magazine cover photos in the first season. [33] The cast members
also became best friends off-screen, [34] so much so that recurring guest star
Tom Selleck reported that he sometimes felt left out. [35]

The cast remained good friends after the series run, most notably Cox and
Aniston, with Aniston being godmother to Cox and David Arquette 's daughter,
Coco. [36] In the official farewell commemorative book Friends 'Til the End ,
each separately acknowledged in interviews that the cast had become their
family. [37] [38]


SEASON SYNOPSIS

Main article: List of Friends episodes Friends in first season. Front: Cox,
Aniston. Back: LeBlanc, Kudrow, Schwimmer, Perry. Season Episodes Originally
aired Rank Rating Viewers (millions) First aired Last aired Network 1 24
September 22, 1994 ( 1994-09-22 ) May 18, 1995 ( 1995-05-18 ) NBC 8 [39] 15.6
24.8 2 24 September 21, 1995 ( 1995-09-21 ) May 16, 1996 ( 1996-05-16 ) 3 [40]
18.7 31.7 3 25 September 19, 1996 ( 1996-09-19 ) May 15, 1997 ( 1997-05-15 ) 4
[41] 16.8 26.1 4 24 September 25, 1997 ( 1997-09-25 ) May 7, 1998 ( 1998-05-07 )
4 [42] 16.1 25.0 5 24 September 24, 1998 ( 1998-09-24 ) May 20, 1999 (
1999-05-20 ) 2 [43] 15.7 24.7 6 25 September 23, 1999 ( 1999-09-23 ) May 18,
2000 ( 2000-05-18 ) 5 [44] 14.0 22.6 7 24 October 12, 2000 ( 2000-10-12 ) May
17, 2001 ( 2001-05-17 ) 5 [45] 12.6 22.1 8 24 September 27, 2001 ( 2001-09-27 )
May 16, 2002 ( 2002-05-16 ) 1 [46] 15.0 26.4 9 24 September 26, 2002 (
2002-09-26 ) May 15, 2003 ( 2003-05-15 ) 2 [47] 13.5 23.9 10 18 September 25,
2003 ( 2003-09-25 ) May 6, 2004 ( 2004-05-06 ) 5 [48] 13.6 24.6 The Reunion May
27, 2021 ( 2021-05-27 ) HBO Max — — —


SEASON 1

Main article: Friends (season 1)

The first season introduces the six main characters who live in New York City:
Rachel Green, a waitress; professional chef Monica Geller; her paleontologist
brother, Ross Geller; free-spirited masseuse Phoebe Buffay; struggling actor
Joey Tribbiani, and Ross's college friend, Chandler Bing, whose precise
occupation at a corporation is unknown. Rachel arrives at Central Perk, wearing
her wedding dress, after leaving her fiancé, Barry , an orthodontist, at the
altar. She moves into her high school friend Monica's apartment, and gets a
waitress job at Central Perk.

Ross, who has had a crush on Rachel since high school, often attempts to declare
his feelings for her. However many obstacles stand in his way, including his
insecurities, Rachel dating an Italian neighbor named Paolo, and the fact that
he is expecting a baby with his lesbian ex-wife, Carol, who gives birth to Ben
later in the season. Joey never has a steady girlfriend and constantly sleeps
with a variety of women. Phoebe is rather odd and complex, mostly due to her
mother's suicide when she was a child and having lived on the streets for a
time. However, the gang loves her regardless.

Chandler breaks up with his girlfriend, Janice ( Maggie Wheeler ), only to find
himself reconnecting with her throughout the series. Near the end of the season,
while Ross is at a paleontology dig in China, Chandler accidentally lets slip
that Ross loves Rachel, who then realizes that she also cares for him. The
season ends with Rachel waiting at the airport for Ross, who is returning from
China.


SEASON 2

Main article: Friends (season 2)

Rachel greets Ross at the airport only to discover that he has returned with
Julie ( Lauren Tom ), someone he knew from graduate school. Rachel's attempts to
tell Ross that she loves him initially mirror his failed attempts in the first
season. After he breaks up with Julie for Rachel, friction between them develops
when Rachel discovers Ross's list of the cons of dating her. They eventually
begin a relationship after Rachel sees an old home video from her and Monica's
prom night and realizes Ross was going to stand in for her prom date who nearly
stood her up.

Monica is promoted to head chef at the Iridium restaurant, then gets fired for
accepting gifts from a supplier, which is against company policy. Needing money,
she is forced to take an embarrassing job as a waitress at a 1950s-style diner.
She begins dating Richard Burke ( Tom Selleck ), a recently divorced family
friend who is 21 years her senior. They eventually break up when Monica realizes
that Richard, already a father, does not want more children. Joey is cast in a
fictional version of the soap opera, Days of Our Lives as neurosurgeon Dr. Drake
Ramoray. He moves out of his and Chandler's apartment, forcing Chandler to get a
new roommate, Eddie ( Adam Goldberg ).

However, Eddie is annoying and somewhat deranged. When Joey claims in a soap
opera magazine interview that he writes many of his own lines, offending the
show's writer, his character is killed off. No longer able to afford his
expensive new apartment, Joey moves back in with Chandler, kicking Eddie out in
the process. In the season finale, Chandler talks to an anonymous woman in an
online chat room. When they agree to meet in person, the woman turns out to be
Janice.


SEASON 3

Main article: Friends (season 3)

Season 3 takes on a significantly more serialized format. Chandler and Janice
date for several episodes until Joey catches Janice kissing her soon-to-be
ex-husband. Not wanting to destroy her family, Chandler urges Janice to go back
to her husband, then becomes depressed over the breakup for several episodes.
Rachel quits her job at Central Perk and begins working at Bloomingdale's , an
upscale department store chain. Ross soon becomes jealous of her colleague Mark
and frustrated by Rachel's long work hours. She is tired of his constant
jealousy and insecurity, and decides they need a relationship break.

Ross, hurt and somewhat drunk, immediately sleeps with Chloe, "the hot girl from
the Xerox place," causing Rachel to break up with him completely. Although
Phoebe initially believes she has no family except her twin sister Ursula ( Lisa
Kudrow ), she learns she has a half-brother, Frank Jr. ( Giovanni Ribisi ) and
discovers her birth mother, Phoebe Abbott ( Teri Garr ) over the course of the
season. Joey falls in love with his acting partner Kate ( Dina Meyer ), but is
jealous of her dating the director of their play. They begin a brief
relationship that ends when she takes an acting job in Los Angeles.

Monica dates millionaire Pete Becker ( Jon Favreau ), despite her initially not
being attracted to him. However, she breaks up with Pete after he is seriously
hurt trying to become the Ultimate Fighting Champion and refuses to quit. Phoebe
sets Ross up on a date with her friend, Bonnie ( Christine Taylor ), inciting
Rachel's jealousy. She tries sabotaging the relationship by coercing Bonnie to
shave her head bald, and eventually admits to Ross that she still has feelings
for him. The season closes with Ross having to choose between Rachel and Bonnie.


SEASON 4

Main article: Friends (season 4)

In the season 4 premiere, after Ross breaks up with Bonnie, he and Rachel
briefly reconcile after Ross pretends to read a long letter that Rachel wrote
for him. However, Ross continues to insist that the two were on a break when he
slept with Chloe, so they break up again. Joey dates Kathy ( Paget Brewster ), a
girl that Chandler has a crush on. Kathy and Chandler later kiss, which causes
drama between Chandler and Joey. Joey only forgives Chandler and allows him to
date Kathy after Chandler spends Thanksgiving in a box as punishment.

Chandler's relationship with Kathy ends after he discovers that she cheated on
him due to an argument. Phoebe loses her job as a masseuse after making out with
one of her clients and she accompanies Monica, who has become a caterer for
hire. They soon start a catering business together but Monica, after negatively
reviewing a restaurant, Allesandro's, is offered the position of head chef.
Despite initially being pressured by the wrath of her co-workers, Monica
eventually asserts her dominance in the kitchen. Phoebe becomes a surrogate for
her brother and his wife, Alice ( Debra Jo Rupp ).

Monica and Rachel are forced to switch apartments with Joey and Chandler after
losing a bet during a quiz game, but manage to switch back by bribing them with
Knicks season tickets and a one-minute kiss (off-screen) between each other.
After her boss dies, Rachel is demoted to personal shopping and meets and later
dates a customer named Joshua ( Tate Donovan ). Ross begins dating an English
woman named Emily ( Helen Baxendale ), and they quickly get engaged. Rachel
struggles to cope and hastily suggests to Joshua that they marry, after which he
rejects her. In the season finale , the group, apart from a heavily pregnant
Phoebe and Rachel, travel to Ross and Emily's wedding in London. Chandler and
Monica sleep together, and Rachel, realizing that she is still in love with
Ross, rushes to London to stop Ross and Emily's wedding, but changes her mind
when she sees them happy together. While saying his vows, Ross accidentally says
Rachel's name at the altar, shocking his bride and the guests.


SEASON 5

Main article: Friends (season 5)

Ross and Emily marry, but an angry and humiliated Emily flees the reception.
Rachel soon admits her love for Ross, but realizing how ridiculous this is,
advises him to work on his marriage to Emily. She develops a crush on her
neighbor Danny and they date briefly, until she realizes that he is too close
with his sister. Monica and Chandler try to keep their new relationship a secret
from their friends. Phoebe gives birth to triplets in the show's 100th episode.
She gives birth to a boy, Frank Jr. Jr., and two girls, Leslie and Chandler, the
latter of whom was supposed to be a boy, but was later revealed to be a girl.

After weeks of trying to contact her, Emily agrees to reconcile with Ross and
move to New York if he breaks off all communication with Rachel. Ross agrees,
but later attends a dinner with all his friends, Rachel included. Emily phones
Ross, discovers Rachel is there, realizes she does not trust him and ends their
marriage. Ross takes out his anger at work, resulting in him being indefinitely
suspended from the museum, and he moves in with Chandler and Joey until
eventually getting a new apartment across the street from them.

Rachel gets a new job at Ralph Lauren. Phoebe has a brief relationship with a
police officer, Gary ( Michael Rapaport ), after finding his badge and using it
as her own. Monica and Chandler go public with their relationship, to the
surprise and delight of their friends. They decide to get married on a trip to
Las Vegas, but change their plans after witnessing Ross and Rachel drunkenly
stumbling out of the wedding chapel.


SEASON 6

Main article: Friends (season 6)

In the season 6 premiere, Ross and Rachel's marriage turns out to be a drunken
mistake that neither remembers until the other friends mention it. Ross promises
Rachel he will get them an annulment, then secretly does nothing because he
cannot face having three failed marriages. By the time Rachel discovers they are
still married, an annulment is impossible due to their history; they are forced
to get a divorce. After ignoring the numerous signs that they should get
married, Monica and Chandler decide to live together, forcing Rachel to move in
with Phoebe. Joey gets a new roommate, Janine ( Elle Macpherson ).

They develop feelings for each other and date briefly until Janine criticizes
Monica and Chandler, ending the relationship. After Janine moves out, Joey
struggles with paying his bills so he takes a job at Central Perk. He soon lands
a role on a cable TV series called Mac and C.H.E.E.S.E. , starring alongside a
crime-fighting robot. Ross gets a teaching job at New York University . He dates
Elizabeth ( Alexandra Holden ), a student, despite it being against university
policy. Elizabeth's father, Paul ( Bruce Willis ), disapproves of Ross but falls
for Rachel, and they start dating.

Both relationships soon end: Elizabeth is too immature for Ross, and previously
reserved Paul opens up emotionally and is more than Rachel can handle. Phoebe
and Rachel's apartment catches fire, and Rachel moves in with Joey, while Phoebe
stays with Chandler and Monica, though they later switch. While at a museum that
has a two-year wait for weddings, Monica puts her name on the reservation list
as a joke. When Chandler intercepts the museum's phone call about a
cancellation, he panics; however, Chandler has been planning to propose while
pretending he may never want to marry.

While dining at a fancy restaurant, Chandler's planned proposal is subverted by
Monica's ex-boyfriend Richard Burke, who unexpectedly shows up. Richard later
tells Monica he wants to marry her and have children. Monica becomes upset at
Chandler, believing his ruse about not wanting to marry. Chandler believes
Monica has left him until he comes home to find their apartment decorated with
candles and her waiting to propose to him. When she becomes too emotional to
continue, Chandler proposes and she accepts.


SEASON 7

Main article: Friends (season 7)

The seventh season mainly follows Monica and Chandler as they plan their wedding
amid various problems. Joey's television series, Mac and C.H.E.E.S.E is
canceled, but he is offered his old role on Days of Our Lives ; the show is
retconned with the revelation that Dr. Drake Ramoray has been in a four-year
coma and is revived with a brain transplant from another character. Phoebe's
repaired apartment now has one large bedroom instead of the original two, so
Rachel permanently stays at Joey's. Rachel is promoted at Ralph Lauren and
impulsively hires a young assistant, Tag Jones ( Eddie Cahill ), based on his
looks, passing over a more qualified woman. Tag discovers her feelings about him
at Thanksgiving dinner, and they begin dating, hiding it from co-workers.
However, on her 30th birthday, Rachel ends their relationship, realizing Tag is
too young and immature, particularly if she intends to follow her marriage
schedule.

Hours before Monica and Chandler's wedding ceremony, Chandler panics and goes
into hiding just as Phoebe and Rachel find a positive pregnancy test in Monica
and Chandler's bathroom. They assume Monica is pregnant. Ross and Phoebe find
Chandler and convince him to return for the ceremony, though he briefly bolts
again after overhearing Phoebe and Rachel discussing the pregnancy test. He
quickly returns, embracing the idea of fatherhood. After the ceremony, Monica
denies she is pregnant; unbeknown to everyone, the positive pregnancy test is
Rachel's.


SEASON 8

Main article: Friends (season 8)

Season 8 begins at Monica and Chandler's wedding reception. Phoebe and Monica
discover Rachel's pregnancy and persuade her to take another test to confirm it.
Phoebe initially claims the test is negative, badly disappointing Rachel, then
reveals it is positive, saying Rachel now knows how she really feels about
having a baby. Ross is eventually revealed to be the father, and the season
revolves around Rachel's pregnancy. Rachel and Ross agree to be co-parents
without resuming their romantic relationship; Ross begins dating Mona ( Bonnie
Somerville ), who is Monica's co-worker from Allesandro's.

Joey takes Rachel out to quell her fears about motherhood, and realizes he has
romantic feelings for her. While suppressing his feelings, he encourages Rachel
to stay at Ross' apartment so he can be involved in the pregnancy. The
arrangement is too much for Mona, and she breaks up with Ross. Joey tells Ross
about his feelings for Rachel. Ross initially is angry, then gives his blessing.
Joey tells Rachel that he loves her, but she realizes she does not feel the same
way, and they remain friends. When Rachel goes into labor, Ross' mother gives
him a family heirloom ring and encourages him to propose to Rachel. Ross
hesitates, and puts the ring in his jacket, which he later leaves in Rachel's
room.

After Monica jokes about having kids, she and Chandler decide to have a baby,
starting while they are still at the hospital. After a prolonged labor, during
which numerous other expectant mothers, including Janice, are taken to the
delivery room, Rachel gives birth to baby Emma. She is left saddened and afraid
after Janice later says that Ross may not always be there for her and the baby.
When Joey comforts Rachel, the ring falls from Ross' jacket to the floor. Joey
kneels to pick it up, and Rachel, believing he is proposing, impulsively says
yes. Meanwhile, Ross intends to ask Rachel if she wants to resume their
relationship.


SEASON 9

Main article: Friends (season 9)

Season nine begins with Ross and Rachel cohabitating with their daughter Emma,
after Joey and Rachel clear up the proposal misunderstanding. Monica and
Chandler run into obstacles as they try for a baby: Chandler unknowingly agrees
to a work transfer to Tulsa just as Monica is offered a head chef job at a new
restaurant, Javu, resulting in Chandler commuting back and forth. After being
apart from Monica during Christmas, Chandler quits to pursue a new career in
advertising, starting as an unpaid intern at an ad agency, and eventually being
hired as a junior copywriter. Monica and Chandler discover they are physically
incompatible to conceive and after considering multiple options, decide to
adopt.

Phoebe begins dating Mike Hannigan ( Paul Rudd ) for most of the season until
Mike says that he never wants to marry again. Phoebe dates her ex-boyfriend from
season 1, David ( Hank Azaria ) who plans on proposing to her, but Mike proposes
first. Phoebe rejects both proposals but gets back together with Mike, only
needing the reassurance that they have a future together. Rachel, believing that
her co-worker Gavin ( Dermot Mulroney ) is trying to steal her job while she is
on maternity leave, returns to Ralph Lauren early. She discovers at her birthday
party that Gavin has feelings for her. They kiss but do not pursue a
relationship due to her history with Ross.

Meanwhile, Ross, having seen the kiss, retaliates by dating other women. After
realizing that her and Ross' living situation is too weird, Rachel and Emma move
in with Joey. Rachel develops a crush on him, only to be disheartened when he
starts dating Charlie ( Aisha Tyler ), a new paleontology professor who Ross is
attracted to. In the finale, the group travels to Barbados for Ross' keynote
speech at a conference. Joey and Charlie break up upon realizing they have
nothing in common. Joey then learns about Rachel's feelings for him, but says
they cannot pursue this because of Ross. However, upon seeing Ross and Charlie
kiss each other, he goes to Rachel's hotel room, and the finale ends with them
kissing.


SEASON 10

Main article: Friends (season 10)

The tenth season brings several long-running story lines to a close. Joey and
Rachel try to contend with Ross' feelings about their relationship, and after
disastrous attempts to consummate, decide it is best they remain friends.
Charlie breaks up with Ross to get back together with her ex-boyfriend.
Mid-season, Joey officiates Phoebe and Mike's wedding outside the Central Perk
coffee house after a snow storm paralyzes the city, preventing them and guests
getting to the wedding venue. Monica and Chandler are chosen by a pregnant woman
named Erica ( Anna Faris ) to adopt her baby.

Following this, Monica and Chandler prepare to move to a house in the suburbs to
raise their family, saddening everyone, particularly Joey, who is coping with
all the changes in his life. In the series finale, Erica gives birth to
fraternal twins, much to Monica and Chandler's surprise. Rachel is fired from
Ralph Lauren after her boss overhears her interviewing for a job at Gucci. She
encounters her former Bloomingdale co-worker Mark, who offers her a new job at
Louis Vuitton in Paris. Ross, believing Rachel wants to stay, tries bribing Mr.
Zelner to rehire her until he realizes Rachel wants to go to Paris. When Rachel
says a tearful personal goodbye to everyone except Ross at her going away party,
a hurt and angry Ross confronts Rachel, and they end up sleeping together.

Rachel leaves, and Ross – realizing how much he loves Rachel – chases her to the
airport. When he reaches her, Rachel says she has to go to Paris. Before the
plane takes off, Rachel calls Ross' home phone and leaves a voice mail,
apologizing for the way it ended. While speaking, she realizes that she loves
him too, and gets off the plane at the last minute. The series ends with all the
friends, plus Monica and Chandler's new babies, leaving the empty apartment
together for a final cup of coffee at Central Perk. The show ends first with a
shot of everyone's keys to Monica and Chandler's apartment left on the counter
top, and then pans to a shot of the apartment's purple door.


PRODUCTION


CONCEPTION

It's about sex, love, relationships, careers, a time in your life when
everything's possible. And it's about friendship because when you're single and
in the city, your friends are your family.

—  The original treatment used by Crane, Kauffman and Bright to pitch the series
to NBC. [49]

David Crane and Marta Kauffman began developing three new television pilots that
would premiere in 1994 after their sitcom Family Album was cancelled by CBS in
1993. [50] Kauffman and Crane decided to pitch the series about "six people in
their 20s making their way in Manhattan" to NBC since they thought it would fit
best there. [51] Crane and Kauffman presented the idea to their production
partner Kevin Bright , who had served as executive producer on their HBO series
Dream On . [52] The idea for the series was conceived when Crane and Kauffman
began thinking about the time when they had finished college and started living
by themselves in New York; Kauffman believed they were looking at a time when
the future was "more of a question mark." [49] They found the concept to be
interesting, as they believed "everybody knows that feeling", [49] and because
it was also how they felt about their own lives at the time. [49] The team
titled the series Insomnia Cafe and pitched the idea as a seven-page treatment
to NBC in December 1993. [49] [51]

At the same time, Warren Littlefield , the then-president of NBC Entertainment ,
was seeking a comedy involving young people living together and sharing
expenses. Littlefield wanted the group to share memorable periods of their lives
with friends, who had become "new, surrogate family members." [19] However,
Littlefield found difficulty in bringing the concept to life and found the
scripts developed by NBC to be terrible. When Kauffman, Crane and Bright pitched
Insomnia Cafe , Littlefield was impressed that they knew who their characters
were. [19] NBC bought the idea as a put pilot , meaning they risked financial
penalties if the pilot was not filmed. [53]

Kauffman and Crane took three days to write the pilot script for a show they
titled Friends Like Us. [49] [54] Littlefield wanted the series to "represent
Generation X and explore a new kind of tribal bonding", but the rest disagreed.
Crane argued that it was not a series for one generation, and wanted to produce
a series that everyone would enjoy watching. [19] NBC liked the script and
ordered the series. They changed the title to Six of One , mainly because they
felt Friends Like Us was too similar to the ABC sitcom These Friends of Mine .
[55]


CASTING

See also: The Pilot (Friends) The producers wanted Courteney Cox ( pictured ) to
portray Rachel; however, Cox wanted to play Monica and co-creator Marta Kauffman
agreed after watching the audition.

Once it became apparent that the series was a favored project at NBC,
Littlefield reported that he was getting calls from every agent in town, wanting
their client to be a part of the series. [19] Auditions for the lead roles took
place in New York and Los Angeles. [56] The casting director shortlisted 1,000
actors who had applied for each role down to 75. Those who received a callback
read in front of Crane, Kauffman and Bright. At the end of March, the number of
potential actors had been reduced to three or four for each part, and these
actors were asked to read for Les Moonves , then president of Warner Bros.
Television . [57]

Having worked with David Schwimmer in the past, [56] the series creators wrote
the character of Ross with him in mind, and he was the first actor cast. [58]
Cox wanted to play the role of Monica because she liked the "strong" character,
but the producers had her in mind to play Rachel because of her "cheery, upbeat
energy", which was not how they envisioned Monica; after Cox's audition, though,
Kauffman agreed with Cox, and she got the role. [49] [59] When Matt LeBlanc
auditioned for Joey, he put a "different spin" on the character. [49] He played
Joey more simple-minded than intended and gave the character heart. Although
Crane and Kauffman did not want LeBlanc for the role at the time, they were told
by the network to cast him. [49] Jennifer Aniston, Matthew Perry and Lisa Kudrow
were cast based on their auditions. [56]

More changes occurred to the series' storylines during the casting process. The
writers found that they had to adjust the characters they had written to suit
the actors, and the discovery process of the characters occurred throughout the
first season. Kauffman acknowledged that Joey's character became "this whole new
being", and that "it wasn't until we did the first Thanksgiving episode that we
realized how much fun Monica's neuroses are." [60]


WRITING

In the weeks after NBC's pick up of Friends , Crane, Kauffman and Bright
reviewed sent-in scripts that writers had originally prepared for other series,
mainly unproduced Seinfeld episodes. [61] Kauffman and Crane hired a team of
seven young writers because "When you're 40, you can't do it anymore. The
networks and studios are looking for young people coming in out of college."
[62] The creators felt that using six equal characters, rather than emphasizing
one or two, would allow for "myriad storylines and give the show legs." [30] The
majority of the storyline ideas came from the writers, although the actors added
ideas. [56] Although the writers originally planned the big love story to be
between Joey and Monica, the idea of a romantic interest between Ross and Rachel
emerged during the period when Kauffman and Crane wrote the pilot script. [49]

During the production of the pilot, NBC requested that the script be changed to
feature one dominant storyline and several minor ones, but the writers refused,
wanting to keep three storylines of equal weight. [55] NBC also wanted the
writers to include an older character to balance out the young ones. Crane and
Kauffman were forced to comply and wrote a draft of an early episode that
featured "Pat the Cop." who would be used to provide advice to the other
characters. Crane found the storyline to be terrible, and Kauffman joked, "You
know the kids [ sic ] book, Pat the Bunny ? We had Pat the Cop." NBC eventually
relented and dropped the idea. [49]

Each summer, the producers would outline the storylines for the subsequent
season. [63] Before an episode went into production, Kauffman and Crane would
revise the script written by another writer, mainly if something concerning
either the series or a character felt foreign. [61] The hardest episodes to
write were always "the first one and the last one of each season." [64] Unlike
other storylines, the idea for a relationship between Joey and Rachel was
decided on halfway through the eighth season. The creators did not want Ross and
Rachel to get back together so soon, and while looking for a romantic
impediment, a writer suggested Joey's romantic interest in Rachel. [63]

The storyline was incorporated into the season; however, when the actors feared
that the storyline would make their characters unlikable, the storyline was
wrapped up, until it again resurfaced in the season's finale. For the ninth
season, the writers were unsure about the amount of storyline to give to
Rachel's baby, as they wanted the show neither to revolve around a baby nor
pretend there to be none. [63] Crane said that it took them a while to accept
the idea of a tenth season, which they decided to do because they had enough
stories left to tell to justify the season. Kauffman and Crane would not have
signed on for an eleventh season, even if all the cast members had wanted to
continue. [60]

The episode title format—"The One " [65] —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. Episode titles
officially begin with "The One " except the title of the pilot episode and the
series finale " The Last One ." The season 5 episode " The One Hundredth " has
the alternative title of "The One With The Triplet".


FILMING

The Greenwich Village building, 90 Bedford Street, used as the friends'
apartment block in establishing shots

The first season was shot on Stage 5 at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank,
California . [66] NBC executives had worried that the coffee house setting was
too hip and asked for the series to be set in a diner, but eventually consented
to the coffee house concept. [49] The opening title sequence was filmed in a
fountain at the Warner Bros. Ranch at 4:00 am, while it was particularly cold
for a Burbank morning. [67] At the beginning of the second season, production
moved to the larger Stage 24, which was renamed The "Friends" Stage after the
series finale. [68]

Filming for the series began during the summer of 1994 in front of a live
audience, who were given a summary of the series to familiarize themselves with
the six main characters. [49] A hired comedian entertained the studio audience
between takes. [33] Each 22-minute episode took six hours to film—twice the
length of most sitcom tapings—mainly due to the several retakes and rewrites of
the script. [33]

Although the producers always wanted to find the right stories to take advantage
of being on location, Friends was never shot in New York. Bright felt that
filming outside the studio made episodes less funny, even when shooting on the
lot outside, and that the live audience was an integral part of the series. [56]
When the series was criticized for incorrectly depicting New York, with the
financially struggling group of friends being able to afford huge apartments,
Bright noted that the set had to be big enough for the cameras, lighting, and
"for the audience to be able to see what's going on". [56] The apartments also
needed to provide a place for the actors to execute the funny scripts. [56]

The fourth-season finale was shot on location in London because the producers
were aware of the series' popularity in the UK. [56] The scenes were shot in a
studio with three audiences each made up of 500 people. These were the show's
largest audiences throughout its run. The fifth-season finale, set in Las Vegas,
was filmed at Warner Bros. Studios, although Bright met people who thought it
was filmed on location. [69]


SERIES FINALE

Main article: The Last One (Friends) The cast became very emotional while
filming the final episode. Jennifer Aniston explained, "We're like very delicate
china right now, and we're speeding toward a brick wall." [70]

The series' creators completed the first draft of the hour-long finale in
January 2004, four months before its original airing. Crane, Kauffman and Bright
watched the finales of other sitcoms to prepare the episode's outline, paying
attention to what worked and what did not. They liked the ones that stayed true
to the series, citing the finale of The Mary Tyler Moore Show as the gold
standard. Crane, Kauffman, and Bright had difficulty writing the finale. They
did not want to do "something high concept, or take the show out of the show."
[71] The most critical parts of the finale were shot without an audience and
with a minimum number of crew members. The main cast enjoyed the finale and were
confident that the fans would react similarly: [71]

It's exactly what I had hoped. We all end up with a sense of a new beginning and
the audience has a sense that it's a new chapter in the lives of all these
characters.

—  David Schwimmer on the series finale. [71]

NBC heavily promoted the series finale, which was preceded by weeks of media
hype. [72] Local NBC affiliates organized viewing parties around the U.S.,
including an event at Universal CityWalk featuring a special broadcast of the
finale on an outdoor Astrovision screen. [73] The finale was the subject of two
episodes of Dateline NBC , one of which ran for two hours. A one-hour
retrospective of clips from previous episodes was shown before to the airing of
the episode. Following the finale, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno was filmed on
the set of the Friends ' Central Perk coffee house, which featured the series'
cast as guests. [74] [75] The advertising rates for the finale averaged $2
million for 30 seconds of commercial time, breaking the record held by the
Seinfeld finale at $1.7 million. [73]

In the U.S., 52.5 million viewers watched the finale on May 6, 2004, making it
the most-watched entertainment telecast since the Seinfeld finale in 1998. [74]
The finale was the fifth most-watched series finale in television history, only
behind the finales of M*A*S*H , Cheers , The Fugitive and Seinfeld , which were
respectively watched by 105, 80.4, 78.0 and 76.3 million viewers. [76] The
retrospective episode was watched by fewer than 36 million viewers, and the
finale was the second most-watched television broadcast of the year in the
United States, only behind the Super Bowl . [74] Following the finales of
Friends and Frasier , media critics speculated about the fate of the sitcom
genre. Opinions varied between a signalling of the end of the sitcom genre, a
small decline in the large history of the genre, [73] and a general reduction of
scripted television in favor of reality shows. [72]


REUNION SPECIAL

Main article: Friends: The Reunion

On November 12, 2019, The Hollywood Reporter announced that Warner Bros TV was
developing a Friends reunion for HBO Max that would feature the whole cast and
creators returning. [77] On February 21, 2020, HBO confirmed that the unscripted
reunion special, tentatively named "The One Where They Got Back Together", was
set to be released in May the same year, along with the 236 original episodes of
the series. [78] [79] On March 18, 2020, it was announced that the special,
which was set to film on the Friends stage on March 23 and 24, had been
postponed indefinitely, due to the COVID-19 pandemic . [80] In November 2020,
Matthew Perry tweeted that the reunion is set to start filming in March 2021.
[81] [82] On May 13, 2021, a teaser trailer was released officially announcing
Friends : The Reunion also known as "The One Where They Get Back Together". The
reunion special was released on HBO Max on May 27, 2021. [83]


RECEPTION


CRITICAL RECEPTION

Early reviews of the series were mixed; the first season holds a Metacritic
score of 65 out of 100, based on 24 sampled reviews, indicating "generally
favourable reviews." [84] Tom Feran of The Plain Dealer wrote that the series
traded "vaguely and less successfully on the hanging-out style of Seinfeld ",
[85] while Ann Hodges of the Houston Chronicle called it "the new Seinfeld
wannabe, but it will never be as funny as Seinfeld ." [86] In the Los Angeles
Daily News , Ray Richmond named the series as "one of the brighter comedies of
the new season", [87] and the Los Angeles Times called it "flat-out the best
comedy series of the new season." [88]

The Chicago Sun-Times Ginny Holbert found Joey and Rachel's characteristics to
be underdeveloped, [89] while Richmond commended the cast as a "likeable youth
ensemble" with "good chemistry." [87] Robert Bianco of USA Today was
complimentary of Schwimmer, calling him "terrific." He also praised the female
leads, but was concerned that Perry's role as Chandler was "undefined" and that
LeBlanc was "relying too much on the same brain-dead stud routine that was
already tired the last two times he tried it." [90] The authors of Friends Like
Us: The Unofficial Guide to Friends thought that the cast was "trying just a
little too hard"; in particular, Perry and Schwimmer. [91]

As the series progressed, reviews became more positive, and Friends became one
of the most popular sitcoms of its time. It is now often ranked among the
all-time best TV shows. [9] [11] [12] Critics commended the series for having
consistently sharp writing and for the chemistry between the main actors. [92]
Noel Holston of Newsday , who had dismissed the pilot as a "so-so Seinfeld
wannabe" in 1994, repudiated his earlier review after rewatching the episode and
felt like writing an apology to the writers. [60] Heather Havrilesky of
Salon.com thought that the series "hit its stride" in the second season.
Havrilesky found the character-specific jokes and situations "could reliably
make you laugh out loud a few times each episode", and the quality of writing
allowed the stories to be "original and innovative." [93]

Bill Carter of The New York Times called the eighth season a "truly stunning
comeback." Carter found that by "generating new hot storylines and high-decibel
laughs", the series made its way "back into the hearts of its fans." [94]
However, Liane Bonin of Entertainment Weekly felt that the direction of the
ninth season was a "disappointing buzzkill", criticizing it for the non-stop
celebrity guest spots and going into jump the shark territory. Although
disappointed with the season, Bonin noted that "the writing [was] still sharp."
[95] Havrilesky thought that the tenth season was "alarmingly awful, far worse
than you would ever imagine a show that was once so good could be." [93] Friends
was featured on Time s list of "The 100 Best TV Shows of All-Time", saying, "the
well-hidden secret of this show was that it called itself Friends , and was
really about family." [96]

Reviews of the series finale were mostly positive. USA Today s Robert Bianco
described the finale as entertaining and satisfying and praised it for deftly
mixing emotion and humor while highlighting each of the stars. [97] Sarah Rodman
of the Boston Herald praised Aniston and Schwimmer for their acting, but felt
that their characters' reunion was "a bit too neat, even if it was what most of
the show's legions of fans wanted." [98] Roger Catlin of the Hartford Courant
felt that newcomers to the series would be "surprised at how laughless the
affair could be, and how nearly every strained gag depends on the sheer
stupidity of its characters." [99] Ken Parish Perkins, writing for Fort Worth
Star-Telegram , pointed out that the finale was "more touching than comical,
more satisfying in terms of closure than knee-slappingly funny." [100]

It may have been impossible for any one episode to live up to the hype and
expectations built up around the Friends finale, but this hour probably came as
close as fans could have reasonably hoped. Ultimately, the two-hour package did
exactly what it was supposed to do. It wrapped up the story while reminding us
why we liked the show and will miss it.

—  Robert Bianco of USA Today on the series finale. [97]

In a 2021 program on ITV , Mr. Bean writer Richard Curtis accused the Friends
writers of stealing the joke which involved Joey getting a turkey stuck on his
head in " The One with All the Thanksgivings " from the 1992 episode " Merry
Christmas, Mr. Bean ". In that episode, Mr Bean got a turkey stuck on his head
after losing his watch while stuffing the turkey and put his head in to try and
retrieve it. Rowan Atkinson , however, argued that jokes are meant to be stolen,
or to inspire. [101]


AWARDS

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Friends

To maintain the series' ensemble format, the main cast members decided to enter
themselves in the same acting categories for awards. [32] Beginning with the
series' eighth season, the actors decided to submit themselves in the lead actor
balloting, rather than in the supporting actor fields. [102] The series was
nominated for 62 Primetime Emmy Awards , [103] winning six.

Aniston and Kudrow are the only main cast members to win an Emmy, while Cox is
the only actor not to be nominated. The series won the Primetime Emmy Award for
Outstanding Comedy Series in 2002, receiving nominations in 1995, 1996, 1999,
2000, and 2003. [104] The series also won an American Comedy Award , [105] one
GLAAD Media Award , [106] one Golden Globe Award , [107] three Logie Awards ,
[108] [109] six People's Choice Awards , [110] [111] one Satellite Award , [112]
and one Screen Actors Guild Award . [113]


RATINGS

The table below shows the ratings of Friends in the United States, where it
consistently ranked within the top ten of the final television season ratings.
[114] "Rank" refers to how well Friends rated compared to other television
series that aired during primetime hours of the corresponding television season.
It is shown in relation to the total number of series airing on the then-six
major English-language networks in a given season. "Viewers" refers to the
average number of viewers for all original episodes, broadcast during the
television season in the series' regular timeslot. The "season premiere" is the
date that the first episode of the season aired, and the "season finale" is the
date that the final episode of the season aired. Following the September 11
attacks , ratings increased 17% over the previous season. [94]

Ratings table Season Timeslot Season premiere Season finale TV season Rank
Viewers
(in millions) Most-watched episode Title Viewers
(in millions) 1 Thursday 8:30 pm
(1–16)
Thursday 9:30 pm
(17–24) September 22, 1994 May 18, 1995 1994–95 8 24.3 [114] " The One Where
Rachel Finds Out " 31.3 [115] 2 Thursday 8:00 pm September 21, 1995 May 16, 1996
1995–96 3 30 [114] " The One After the Superbowl " 52.9 [115] 3 September 19,
1996 May 15, 1997 1996–97 4 24.9 [114] " The One Where Chandler Can't Remember
Which Sister " 29.80 [116] 4 September 25, 1997 May 7, 1998 1997–98 4 24.0 [114]
" The One with Ross's Wedding " 31.61 [117] 5 September 24, 1998 May 20, 1999
1998–99 2 23.5 [114] " The One After Ross Says Rachel " 31.12 [118] 6 September
23, 1999 May 18, 2000 1999–2000 5 20.7 [114] " The One with the Proposal " 30.73
[119] 7 October 12, 2000 May 17, 2001 2000–01 5 20.2 [114] " The One with Monica
and Chandler's Wedding " 30.05 [120] 8 September 27, 2001 May 16, 2002 2001–02 1
24.5 [114] " The One Where Rachel Has a Baby " 34.91 [121] 9 September 26, 2002
May 15, 2003 2002–03 2 21.8 [114] " The One Where No One Proposes " 34.01 [122]
10 September 25, 2003 May 6, 2004 2003–04 4 22.8 [114] " The Last One " 52.46
[123]


SYNDICATION

Because of syndication revenue, Friends continues to generate approximately $1
billion each year for Warner Bros. That translates into about $20 million in
annual residuals each for Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt
LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer, who each get 2% of syndication
income for Friends . [124]

All episodes became available on Netflix on January 1, 2015, introducing a new
generation to the show. UK Friends reruns' ratings in 2015 increased by more
than 10% annually. The 2016 reruns' US weekly audience, not including streaming,
of 16 million would make it a hit on network television were the show still
being produced. [125] In the US, the series has a syndication deal through
multiple networks, including Nick at Nite , TBS , and Paramount Network . In
July 2019, it was announced that from the beginning of 2020, Friends would not
be available on Netflix in the US and instead would be shown on Warner Bros.
Discovery 's video-streaming service HBO Max , [126] which launched in May 2020.
[127]


CULTURAL IMPACT

The set of Central Perk at Warner Bros. Studios

Although the producers thought of Friends as "only a TV show", psychologists
investigated the cultural impact of Friends during the series' run. Aniston's
hairstyle was nicknamed " The Rachel " and copied around the world. [19] Joey's
catchphrase, "How you doin'?", became a popular part of Western English slang,
often used as a pick-up line or when greeting friends. [128] The series also
influenced the English language, according to a study by the University of
Toronto that found that the characters used the emphasized word " so " to modify
adjectives more often than any other intensifier . Although the preference had
already made its way into the American vernacular , usage on the series may have
accelerated the change. [31] Chandler's habit of ending a sentence unfinished
for sarcasm also influenced viewers' speech. [129]

Friends has also been credited in helping non-English speaking students to learn
the language . A 2012 poll by Kaplan International English Colleges found that
more than a quarter (26%) of its students cited the sitcom as the best show for
helping them improve their English. [130] Notable individuals who have also said
that the sitcom helped them learn English include Liverpool F.C. manager Jürgen
Klopp , [131] BTS member RM [132] and Belgian professional golfer Thomas Pieters
. [133]

Friends was parodied in the twelfth season Murder, She Wrote episode "Murder
Among Friends." In the episode, amateur sleuth Jessica Fletcher ( Angela
Lansbury ) investigates the murder of a writer for Buds , a fictional television
series about the daily lives of a group of city friends. The episode was devised
after CBS moved Murder, She Wrote from its regular Sunday night timeslot to a
Thursday night timeslot directly opposite Friends on NBC; Angela Lansbury was
quoted by Bruce Lansbury , her brother and Murder, She Wrote s supervising
producer, as having "a bit of an attitude" about the move to Thursday, but he
saw the plot as "a friendly setup, no mean-spiritedness." [134]

Jerry Ludwig, the writer of the episode, researched the "flavor" of Buds by
watching episodes of Friends . [134] Producers of Married with Children
attempted to create a spinoff series called Enemies , which was intended to act
as an antithesis to Friends in the same way Married with Children had been to
family sitcoms such as The Cosby Show . However, the Fox network declined to
pick up the series. [135]

The Central Perk coffee house, one of the principal settings of the series, is
part of the Warner Bros. Studio Tour Hollywood . People sometimes propose
marriage on the couch, and many tourists cry when they sit on it. [125] The
coffee house has inspired various imitations worldwide. In 2006, Iranian
businessman Mojtaba Asadian started a Central Perk franchise , registering the
name in 32 countries. The decor of the coffee houses is inspired by Friends ,
featuring replica couches, counters, neon signage and bricks. The coffee houses
contain paintings of the various characters from the series, and televisions
playing Friends episodes. James Michael Tyler , who plays the Central Perk
manager in the series, Gunther, attended the grand opening of the Dubai café,
where he worked as a waiter. [136]

Central Perk was rebuilt as part of a museum exhibit at Warner Bros. Studios and
was shown on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in October 2008. Jennifer Aniston visited
the set for the first time since the series finale in 2004. [137] From September
24 to October 7, 2009, a Central Perk replica was based at Broadwick Street,
Soho , London. The coffee house sold coffee to customers and featured a display
of Friends memorabilia and props, such as the Geller Cup from the season three
episode "The One with the Football." [138] In Beijing, business owner Du Xin
opened a coffee shop named Central Perk in March 2010. [139]

After filming on the finale concluded, Stage 24 at Warner Bros Studios, where
Friends had been filmed since Season 2, was renamed "The Friends Stage".

In India, there are six Friends -themed cafes, located in Chandigarh (named
Central Perk); Kolkata ; and West Bengal (named F.R.I.E.N.D.S. Cafe), which
features many icons from the original T.V. series, including Chandler and Joey's
ugly dog statue, the orange sofa, the purple door of Monica and Rachel's
apartment, and Phoebe's pink bicycle. The other three cafes are located in
Delhi, Gurgaon ; Bhubaneswar , Odisha ; and Pune , Maharashtra. [140] [141]

There are two Friends themed cafes in Pakistan—one in Lahore , Punjab known as
"Friends Cafe" and the other in Peshawar , Khyber Pakhtunkhwa called "Central
Perk". Both cafes have an iconic couch, a guitar and foosball table, quotes from
the show on the walls and episode reruns on a projector. They're planning to
have their own Gunther at the bar. [142]

In 2016, a Central Perk replica was opened in Outram , Singapore. It is the only
Central Perk that has been given the intellectual property rights by Warner
Bros. outside of the United States. The café includes feature walls, replicating
the walls of the main characters' apartments and memorabilia and props used on
the show. [143] [144] In August 2019, it was announced that a Central Perk Lego
set would be launched to mark the show's 25 anniversary. [145]

Friends has also developed an alternative family lifestyle by representing young
people who live unconventional domestic lives. It presents the idea that "all
you need are good friends" and can construct families through choice. The
audience is able to identify with the program through the troubles seen on
weekly episodes. It portrays a new way of living life and developing
relationships which are not normally seen in conventional society. [146]
According to a pop-culture expert at the University at Buffalo , Friends is "one
of those rare shows that marked a change in American culture." The images of
youth and the roles they portray are better defined and represent a lifestyle
that centres around creating and sustaining relationships between friends
running their own lives and seeking help from each other. [147]

The Friends Experience exhibit at Yorkdale Shopping Centre in Toronto in 2022
[148]

Vox stated that Friends had an impact on the creation of other conflictless
"hangout sitcoms", with groups of adult friends who are funny and have similar
character traits. One example of this is How I Met Your Mother , which The
Guardian s TV and radio blog notes also shares its setting with Friends ,
Manhattan . Other examples include The Big Bang Theory , New Girl , and Happy
Endings . [149] [150] [151] [152]

Readers of TV Guide voted the cast of Friends their Best Comedy cast of all
time, ranking at 29% of the votes, beating Seinfeld , which registered 18%.
[153] A poll undertaken by 60 Minutes and Vanity Fair named Friends the third
greatest sitcom of all time. [154] In 2014, the series was ranked by Mundo
Estranho the Best TV Series of All Time. [155] A 2015 survey by The Hollywood
Reporter of 2,800 actors, producers, directors, and other industry people named
Friends as their No. 1 favorite show. [156]


DISTRIBUTION


BROADCAST

UNITED STATES

After the produced pilot lived up to NBC's hopes, the series premiered with the
name Friends on September 22, 1994, in the coveted Thursday 8:30 p.m. time slot.
The pilot aired between Mad About You and Seinfeld , [19] and was watched by
almost 22 million American viewers. [3] The series was a huge success throughout
its run and was a staple of NBC's Thursday night line-up, dubbed by the network
as Must See TV . [157] When Crane told reporters in 2001 that the ninth season
was a possibility, critics believed that he was posturing and that at least two
of the cast members would not sign on for another season. [94] When it was
confirmed that Friends would return for a ninth season, the news was mainly
about the amount of money—$7 million per episode—that it took to bring the
series back for another season. [94]

After year-long expectations that the ninth season would be the series' last,
NBC signed a deal in late December 2002 to bring the series back for a final
tenth season. The series' creative team did not want to extend negotiations into
the next year and wanted to start writing the rest of the ninth-season episodes
and a potential series finale. [158] NBC agreed to pay $10 million to Warner
Bros. for the production of each tenth-season episode, the highest price in
television history for a 30-minute series. [92] Although NBC was unable to bring
in enough advertising revenue from commercials to cover the costs, the series
was integral to the Thursday night schedule, which brought high ratings and
profits to the other television series. [158] The cast demanded that the tenth
season be reduced from the usual 24 episodes to 18 episodes to allow them to
work on outside projects. [95]

In fall 2001, Warner Bros. Domestic Cable made a deal with sister network TBS
(both were owned by Time Warner ) to air the series in rerun syndication. Warner
Bros. Domestic Cable announced that it had sold additional cable rights to
Friends to Nick at Nite which began airing in the fall of 2011 (unlike the TBS
and broadcast syndication airings, Nick at Nite broadcasts of the series, which
began airing as part of a seven-night launch marathon on September 5, 2011,
replace the end credit tag scenes with marginalized credits featuring promotions
for the series and other Nick at Nite programs). Warner Bros. was expected to
make $200 million in license fees and advertising from the deal. Nick at Nite
paid $500,000 per episode to air the episodes after 6 pm. ET for six years
through fall 2017. In syndication until 2005, Friends had earned $4 million per
episode in cash license fees for a total of $944 million. [159]

Comedy Central began airing reruns of Friends in October 2019.

INTERNATIONAL

Having already made huge success in the United States, Friends producers decided
to air the show in Europe. It premiered in the UK on April 28, 1995, [160]
Season 1 broadcast until September on Channel 4 at 9:30 PM on Friday nights, and
immediately was a success. The popularity of the show allowed the theme song by
the Rembrandts to hit number 3 in the UK Singles Charts in September 1995. [161]

The popularity of the show in Britain led to an episode being produced in London
at the end of the fourth season, starring British actress Helen Baxendale , who
became a leading character in seasons four and five during her relationship with
Ross. The show has since aired on different channels in the UK in their
original, unedited international versions prior to their being re-edited for US
broadcast and syndication. These versions, with additional footage not seen
domestically, have aired on such stations as Channel 4 , Sky1 , E4 , and Comedy
Central UK . [162] [163] [164] [165] [166]

In September 2011, Friends officially ended on E4 after the channel re-ran the
series since 2004. Comedy Central took over the rights to air the program from
October 2011. Since 2018 Channel 5 started airing the program. In the Republic
of Ireland , each season of the show made its European debut on RTÉ2 . After
2004 RTÉ2 began to repeat the series from the start before moving over to TV3
and its digital channel 3e in 2010. [167] [168] As of February 2015 [update] ,
repeats of the show have returned to RTÉ2 while also broadcasting on Comedy
Central Ireland . [169] [170]

Series 10's finale in the UK, broadcast on May 28, 2004, was on Channel 4. It
was broadcast from 9 pm to 10 pm and attracted Friends' largest UK audiences. It
attracted almost 10 million viewers, and is currently standing at Number 10 in
Channel 4's most-watched shows. Big Brother was moved to 10 pm, which Friends
had beaten. Friends got 9.6 million viewers at 9 pm, while Big Brother 5 s
launch attracted 7.2 million viewers at 10 pm, which is the most-watched
premiere on UK TV ever. However, on January 3, 2007, Celebrity Big Brother 5 s
launch was watched by 7.3 million viewers, and its eviction on January 19, 2007,
was watched by 8.7 million viewers.

Friends has previously aired in Australia on the Seven Network (season 1 only),
Nine Network (season 2–10), Network Ten (2007–09, repeats), Arena , 111 Hits ,
9Gem (2012-2018, repeats) and TVHits . It currently airs on 10 Peach and on pay
TV channel Fox Comedy , who both broadcast the HD remastered version of the
series. [171] [172] The show is broadcast on TV2 in New Zealand. [173]

In Canada, the series was broadcast on Global . In later years, it was
syndicated on several of its cable sibling networks, including Slice , DTour ,
and TVTropolis, its previous incarnation. [174] [175] The series is now
syndicated to Bell Media owned CTV Comedy Channel .

In Latin America, the first seven seasons aired on Sony , and the remaining
seasons on Warner . [176] In Brazil, free-to-air networks RedeTV! and SBT also
aired a few seasons.

In India, the show is broadcast by Comedy Central at various times. It is the
most-watched English language show in the country. [177]

In the Philippines, the show was originally aired on ABC-5 from 1996 to 2005 and
ETC from 2005 to 2014.

In Greece, the show was broadcast on Star Channel . [178] In Cyprus, Friends
aired on CyBC 2 while reruns air on TVOne . [179]

In 2022 versions of Friends re-released by Bilibili , iQiyi , Tencent , and
Youku in China had edited scenes, including edits to remove LBGT content, not
edited in original Chinese airings. Online fans had a negative reaction to these
edits. [180]


REMASTER

Beginning in March 2012, high definition versions of all 236 Friends episodes
were made available to local broadcast stations, starting with the pilot
episode. For the remastered episodes, Warner Bros. restored previously cropped
images on the left and right sides of the screen, using the original 35 mm film
source, to use the entire 16:9 widescreen frame. Because the show was not
originally filmed for widescreen, but rather filmed in 4-perf format and
protected for 4:3, some cropping problems arise in some shots where information
from the top and bottom of the frame is removed, and some expanded shots reveal
unintentional artifacts, including set edges, boom mics and body doubles
replacing some of the main cast. [181]

In early versions of the HD remasters, there were also a few shots, including
chroma effects shots, which were sourced from standard-definition videotape
sources, as not all of the footage had been located in time for the remaster.
The original film sources for these shots were later rescanned for later
broadcast and release. [181] These masters had been airing in New Zealand on TV2
since January 2011 and the earlier HD prints continue to air on Comedy Central
in the United Kingdom as of 2020. [182] Netflix added all ten seasons of Friends
in high definition to its streaming service in the United States in January
2015.


HOME MEDIA


STREAMING

In October 2014, Warner Bros. chairman and chief executive officer, Kevin
Tsujihara , announced that the company had licensed the North American streaming
rights of all ten seasons of Friends to Netflix , [183] [184] in a deal said to
be worth around $500,000 an episode, [185] or about $120 million in total. The
show became available on Netflix from January 1, 2015. [186] The Netflix airings
are the versions aired on NBC rather than the longer international versions, as
discussed below. The series left Netflix in the US on January 1, 2020, as it
began streaming on HBO Max on May 27, 2020. [187] In Canada, the series left
Netflix in Canada for Crave on December 31, 2020. [188]


BLU-RAY AND DVD

All ten seasons have been released on DVD individually and as a box set. Each
Region 1 season release contains special features and are presented in their
aforementioned original international broadcast versions, although Region 2
releases are as originally aired domestically. For the first season, each
episode is updated with color correction and sound enhancement. [56] A wide
range of Friends merchandise has been produced by various companies. In
September 1995, WEA Records released the first album of music from Friends , the
Friends Original TV Soundtrack , containing music featured in previous and
future episodes. The soundtrack debuted on the Billboard 200 at number 46, [189]
and sold 500,000 copies in November 1995. [190]

In 1999, a second soundtrack album entitled Friends Again was released. [191]
Other merchandise includes a Friends version of the DVD game " Scene It? ", and
a quiz video game for PlayStation 2 and PC entitled Friends: The One with All
the Trivia . [192] [193] On September 28, 2009, a box set was released in the UK
celebrating the series' 15th anniversary. The box set contained extended
episodes, an episode guide, and original special features. [194]

Warner Home Video released a complete series collection on Blu-ray on November
13, 2012. [195] The collection does not feature the extra deleted scenes and
jokes that were included on prior DVD releases, and are therefore presented in
their NBC broadcast versions.

In Australia, the original DVD releases were fold out box sets which contained
three discs, and released as follows: Season 1 and Season 2 on March 13, 2002,
Season 3 and Season 4 on July 9, 2002, Season 5, 6 and 7 on July 29, 2002,
Season 8 on March 18, 2003, Season 9 on February 11, 2004, and Season 10 on
November 24, 2004. Repackaged sets, slimmed into regular DVD cases also
containing three discs were released from 2003 to 2004. Collector's Edition sets
were released from September 9, 2003, through to February 1, 2006, these sets
contains 4 discs, in fat DVD cases, with extra bonus material.

On October 4, 2006, the individual seasons were repackaged into regular DVD case
sets and marked as "Including Brand New Bonus Disc". Once again each individual
season were repackaged with new artwork on March 31, 2010. The first complete
series boxset on DVD was released around 2004 or 2005, this was titled 'The One
With All Ten Seasons" and the packaging was a black box with a lift up lid and
contains exclusive packaging for all ten seasons.

The second complete series boxset was released August 21, 2013 and was a red box
which contained the 2010 individual season sets inside. On October 1, 2014, was
the 20th Anniversary boxset, this was a white box and contained the same 2010
individual releases inside. On October 7, 2015, another boxset was released 'The
One With All Ten Seasons", the same name used on the original boxset, however
this time slimmed down and contains the 2010 individual releases inside. The
outer box is open on insert side for the cases to slide in and out, more of a
budget release. In 2016, a repackaged 'The Complete Series' Blu-ray boxset was
issued, containing the same 10 individual seasons in the original set, however
the box is more cut down and is opened on one side, and also does not include
the book that contained the episode guide.

DVD name Eps DVD release dates Blu-ray release dates Region 1 Region 2 Region 4
Region A Region B UK Region B Australia The Complete First Season 24 April 30,
2002 [196] May 29, 2000 [ citation needed ] October 4, 2006 [197] April 30, 2013
The Complete Second Season 24 September 3, 2002 [198] [199] May 29, 2000 [
citation needed ] } October 4, 2006 [200] April 30, 2013 The Complete Third
Season 25 April 1, 2003 [201] May 29, 2000 [ citation needed ] October 4, 2006
[202] The Complete Fourth Season 24 July 15, 2003 [203] May 29, 2000 [ citation
needed ] October 4, 2006 [204] The Complete Fifth Season 24 November 4, 2003
[205] May 29, 2000 [ citation needed ] October 4, 2006 [206] The Complete Sixth
Season 25 January 27, 2004 [207] July 17, 2000 [208] October 4, 2006 [209] The
Complete Seventh Season 24 April 6, 2004 [210] October 25, 2004 [211] October 4,
2006 [212] The Complete Eighth Season 24 November 9, 2004 [213] October 25, 2004
[214] October 4, 2006 [215] The Complete Ninth Season 24 March 8, 2005 [216]
October 25, 2004 [217] October 4, 2006 [218] The Complete Tenth Season 18
November 15, 2005 [219] October 25, 2004 [220] October 4, 2006 [221] The
Complete Series 236 November 15, 2005
November 14, 2006
(re-issue)
April 16, 2013
(re-issue 2013)
September 17, 2019 [222]
(re-issue 2019) October 2, 2006
November 12, 2007
(re-issue)
September 28, 2009
(15th Anniversary Edition) November 13, 2012 November 12, 2012 November 21, 2012
( JB Hi-Fi exclusive)
August 21, 2013


SPIN-OFF

Main article: Joey (TV series) LeBlanc hoped that by having his own show, Joey ,
"probably the least evolved character" on Friends , would become more developed.
[223]

After the series finale in 2004, LeBlanc signed on for the spin-off series, Joey
, following Joey's move to Los Angeles to pursue his acting career. Kauffman and
Crane were not interested in the spin-off, although Bright agreed to executive
produce the series with Scott Silveri and Shana Goldberg-Meehan. [224] NBC
heavily promoted Joey and gave it Friends ' Thursday 8:00 pm timeslot. [225]
[226]

The pilot was watched by 18.6 million American viewers, [227] but ratings
continually decreased throughout the series' two seasons, averaging 10.2 million
viewers in the first season and 7.1 million in the second. [69] The final
broadcast episode on March 7, 2006, was watched by 7.09 million viewers; [228]
NBC cancelled the series on May 15, 2006, after two seasons, leaving eight
episodes unaired. [229] Bright blamed the collaboration between NBC executives,
the studio and other producers for quickly ruining the series: [69]

On Friends , Joey was a womanizer, but we enjoyed his exploits. He was a solid
friend, a guy you knew you could count on. Joey was deconstructed to be a guy
who couldn't get a job, couldn't ask a girl out. He became a pathetic, mopey
character. I felt he was moving in the wrong direction, but I was not heard.

—  Kevin S. Bright on the reason for Joey s cancellation. [69]


SEE ALSO

Friends 'Til the End Music of Friends


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FURTHER READING

Littlefield, Warren (May 2012). "With Friends Like These" . Vanity Fair .
Archived from the original on April 22, 2019 . Retrieved April 22, 2019 . An
oral history. {{ cite magazine }} : CS1 maint: postscript ( link )

Articles concerning the cultural influence of the program:

Allen, Samantha (September 12, 2014). "The Best Reason to Love 'Friends' Is the
One We Never Realized at the Time" . United States: Mic . Ihnat, Gwen (August
18, 2014). "How 'Friends' Changed the Sitcom Landscape" . The A.V. Club . United
States. Harrison, Andrew (September 12, 2014). "The Hunting of the Snark:
Friends , 20 Years On" . New Statesman . United Kingdom.


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Buffay Monica Geller Ross Geller Rachel Green Joey Tribbiani Music " I'll Be
There for You " " Smelly Cat " Related shows Mad About You Hello Friends Joey
Other Awards and nominations 'Til the End The One with All the Trivia The
Reunion Category v t e Friends episodes Season 1 " The Pilot " " The One with
the Sonogram at the End " " The One with the Thumb " " The One with George
Stephanopoulos " " The One with the Blackout " " The One with the Monkey " " The
One Where the Monkey Gets Away " " The One with the Fake Monica " " The One
Where Rachel Finds Out " Season 2 " The One with Ross's New Girlfriend " " The
One with Russ " " The One with the Lesbian Wedding " " The One After the
Superbowl " " The One with the Prom Video " " The One Where Dr. Ramoray Dies " "
The One with Barry and Mindy's Wedding " Season 3 " The One with the Princess
Leia Fantasy " " The One Where No One's Ready " " The One with the Flashback " "
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Beach " Season 4 " The One with the Jellyfish " " The One with the Cat " " The
One with the Embryos " " The One with Ross's Wedding " Season 5 " The One After
Ross Says Rachel " " The One Hundredth " " The One with All the Thanksgivings "
" The One Where Everybody Finds Out " " The One with the Girl Who Hits Joey " "
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Can't Flirt " " The One with the Ride-Along " " The One with Joey's Big Break "
" The One in Vegas " Season 6 " The One After Vegas " " The One Where Ross Got
High " " The One with the Apothecary Table " " The One with Unagi " " The One
with the Proposal " Season 7 " The One with Monica's Thunder " " The One with
All the Candy " " The One with All the Cheesecakes " " The One Where They're Up
All Night " " The One with Ross and Monica's Cousin " " The One with Monica and
Chandler's Wedding " Season 8 " The One After 'I Do' " " The One with Rachel's
Date " " The One with the Halloween Party " " The One with the Rumor " " The One
Where Rachel Has a Baby " Season 9 " The One Where No One Proposes " " The One
with Ross's Inappropriate Song " " The One with Rachel's Dream " " The One in
Barbados " Season 10 " The One After Joey and Rachel Kiss " " The One Where Ross
Is Fine " " The One with Ross's Tan " " The One with Phoebe's Wedding " " The
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Cheers ( season 1 ) 1984 : Cheers ( season 2 ) 1985 : The Cosby Show ( season 1
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Brown 1991 : Cheers ( season 9 ) 1992 : Murphy Brown 1993 : Seinfeld ( season 4
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season 3 ) 1997 : Frasier ( season 4 ) 1998 : Frasier ( season 5 ) 1999 : Ally
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City ( season 3 ) 2002 : Friends ( season 8 ) 2003 : Everybody Loves Raymond (
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Fleabag 2020s 2020 : Schitt's Creek ( season 6 ) 2021 : Ted Lasso (season 1)
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/ Modern Family (2011) Modern Family (2012) The New Normal (2013) Orange Is the
New Black (2014) Transparent (2015) Transparent (2016) Transparent (2017)
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Comfort (1981) Private Benjamin (1982) Cheers (1983) Webster (1984) The Cosby
Show (1985) The Golden Girls (1986) ALF (1987) A Different World / My Two Dads
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(1991) Home Improvement (1992) Mad About You (1993) Frasier / Grace Under Fire
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Broke Girls (2012) The New Normal (2013) Super Fun Night (2014) Jane the Virgin
(2015) Scream Queens (2016) Man with a Plan (2017) v t e Screen Actors Guild
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season 4 ) (2001) Everybody Loves Raymond ( season 6 / season 7 ) (2002) Sex and
the City ( season 6 ) (2003) Desperate Housewives ( season 1 ) (2004) Desperate
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(2008) Glee ( season 1 ) (2009) 2010s Modern Family ( season 1 / season 2 )
(2010) Modern Family ( season 2 / season 3 ) (2011) Modern Family ( season 3 /
season 4 ) (2012) Modern Family ( season 4 / season 5 ) (2013) Orange Is the New
Black ( season 2 ) (2014) Orange Is the New Black ( season 3 ) (2015) Orange Is
the New Black ( season 4 ) (2016) Veep (season 6) (2017) The Marvelous Mrs.
Maisel (season 2) (2018) The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (season 3) (2019) 2020s
Schitt's Creek ( season 6 ) (2020) Ted Lasso (season 2) (2021) Abbott Elementary
( season 1 / season 2 ) (2022) v t e TCA Heritage Award 2000s The Simpsons
(2002) Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2003) 60 Minutes (2004) Nightline (2005) The
West Wing (2006) The Sopranos (2007) The Wire (2008) ER (2009) 2010s M*A*S*H
(2010) The Dick Van Dyke Show (2011) Cheers (2012) All in the Family (2013)
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The Mary Tyler Moore Show (2016) Seinfeld (2017) Friends (2018) Deadwood (2019)
2020s Star Trek (2020) The Golden Girls (2021) I Love Lucy (2022) v t e Teen
Choice Award for Choice Comedy Series Friends (1999-2004) Gilmore Girls (2005)
High School Musical (2006) Hannah Montana (2007-2009) Glee (2010-2013) The Big
Bang Theory (2014-2015) Fuller House (2016-2017) The Big Bang Theory (2018-2019)
v t e Nielsen Media Research top-rated United States network television show
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53–54 , 54–55 : I Love Lucy 55–56 : The $64,000 Question 56–57 : I Love Lucy
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62–63 , 63–64 : The Beverly Hillbillies ( S1 , S2 ) 64–65 , 65–66 , 66–67 :
Bonanza 67–68 : The Andy Griffith Show (S8) 68–69 , 69–70 : Rowan & Martin's
Laugh-In 1970s 70–71 : Marcus Welby, M.D. 71–72 , 72–73 , 73–74 , 74–75 , 75–76
: All in the Family ( S2 , S3 , S4 , S5 , S6 ) 76–77 : Happy Days (S4) 77–78 ,
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Survivor (S2-AO) 01–02 : Friends (S8) 02–03 , 03–04 , 04–05 ,: CSI: Crime Scene
Investigation ( S3 , S4 , S5 ) 05–06 , 06–07 , 07–08 , 08–09 , 09–10 : American
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