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What's your favourite F.R.I.E.N.D.S scene?

226 replies

Bobje · 13/12/2025 12:14

DD is back from uni and she's asked to watch the whole Friends series together over her holidays.
I honestly haven't watched any of them since the first time round, but the one scene that stuck in my mind is this one...

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ScaredSceptic · 14/12/2025 02:28

I love the episode where Ross and Mike hang out at Ross's apartment but find they have nothing to say to each other.

Touty · 14/12/2025 02:31

Couldn’t stand the program at all. Never saw what all the fuss was about.

would rather stick pins in my eyes.

RememberHowYouMadeMeCrazy · 14/12/2025 02:34

Touty · 14/12/2025 02:31

Couldn’t stand the program at all. Never saw what all the fuss was about.

would rather stick pins in my eyes.

Not sure why you’ve felt the need to join the thread then. 😅

bendmeoverbackwards · 14/12/2025 03:03

No one has mentioned the episode where Monica fashioned a range of foreskins for Joey for an audition. It fell off. ‘Well that’s never happened before’ 😂😂😂

EconomyClassRockstar · 14/12/2025 03:06

It's not my favourite but the one where Monica and Chandler are in the delivery suite and find out that they're about to be parents to twins is great!

Almondflour · 14/12/2025 03:17

This thread really made me want to rewatch the series

MerryChristmasFilthyAnimals · 14/12/2025 03:34

The one with the “I hate Rachel club” where she was the hermaphrodite cheerleader from Long Island.

Would that be allowed now? 🤔😂.

The one with Monica’s hair in Barbados “it’s the humidity!”
Then when she gets her beads stuck in the shower curtain.

Joey making friends with Dakota Fanning where he tries to get her to say the house is haunted.

Monica and her locked cupboard “Richard if you are in there can I have my credit card back?”

My fave ever though is when Phoebe has the triplets and the obstetrician is obsessed with Fonzie and they are all so confused and wonder if there is another Dr called Fonzie.
The way he drops it into the first meeting "Hello, I’m going to be delivering your babies. Also, I love Fonzie”
Then when Phoebe asks for another doctor who isn’t Fonzie and he corrects her that he’s not actually Fonzie 😂.

It’s so random and I wonder if there was an in joke or some reason for the storyline or if the writers just loved happy days. There was a “strip happy days” game and I think at one point there is a mention Monica and Ross used to play it as kids.

If Friends is coming off Netflix then I might rewatch it. It makes me nostalgic remembering how many times I watched it with different people or talked about it and everyone quoted lines from episodes.
It was like the background noise when I was growing up and I still can’t believe how long it’s been since the last one aired.

onwardandupwards · 14/12/2025 03:42

The one where chandler breaks all Monica's plates, the cheesecake one and the one where Rachel opens the door in a wedding dress saying " I do"!

suburberphobe · 14/12/2025 03:51

That was so long ago.

Better to talk about why Matthew Perry killed himself.

BrokenWingsCantFly · 14/12/2025 03:53

DevilsIvyy · 13/12/2025 13:58

My sandwich!!!!!

Yes. This was mine. Didn't expect this to get another mention.

The bagpipes was another favourite. Ross for some reason was 1 of my least favourite characters, but he holds my favourite bits

Delphinium20 · 14/12/2025 04:00

Beerlzebub · 13/12/2025 12:36

"They don't know that we know that they know that we know" 😆

Mine too!!!

MeNotMyselfAndI · 14/12/2025 04:19

Baffled by people coming on a thread about a show they profess to hate or “have never watched”.

I will also be sad to see it go - dh and I watched every episode when it first came out, and have rewatched it many times with our now teen DC. It’s my go to if I’ve had a shit day. I still tell everyone that dh is a transponster - he does something in finance that I don’t understand 😂

SheilaFentiman · 14/12/2025 06:59

suburberphobe · 14/12/2025 03:51

That was so long ago.

Better to talk about why Matthew Perry killed himself.

Ah - you’re a bit behind on that one.

Quick update - all five people involved in supplying him with ketamine have pleaded guilty and one was recently sentenced. HTH.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy7v0gpv2pgo.amp

SheilaFentiman · 14/12/2025 07:00

“Unagi” “Salmon skin roll..”

Mumtobabyhavoc · 14/12/2025 07:13

suburberphobe · 14/12/2025 03:51

That was so long ago.

Better to talk about why Matthew Perry killed himself.

What an utterly ignorant post.

TheDandyLion · 14/12/2025 07:14

Oh the cow in the meadow goes moo, oh the cow in the meadow goes moo. Then the farmer hits him on the head and grinds him up and that's how we make hamburgers... Nooow chickens!

Globules · 14/12/2025 07:17

The one with the “I hate Rachel club” where she was the hermaphrodite cheerleader from Long Island.
Would that be allowed now? 🤔😂.

Several scenes wouldn't be written now @MerryChristmasFilthyAnimals

The running joke of Chandler's father's job.
Ross and Elizabeth.
The absence of a gay/non white character in the 6 friends.
The joke that Chandler is so often mistaken as gay.
Fat Monica.
Janine being so hot.
The portrayal of Phoebe's first husband.
Freddie Prince Jr being fired.

But I don't care! I love it! I think most of these things make it hilarious (but as a teacher, I did baulk at Ross and Elizabeth at the time)

ImWearingPantaloons · 14/12/2025 07:18

My favourite scene which always has me crying laughing is when Monica borrows money from Joey but doesn’t want Chandler to know. Joey blabs but tells chandler it’s for a boob job.

’big hands? And massive clown feet????’

SheilaFentiman · 14/12/2025 07:19

TheDandyLion · 14/12/2025 07:14

Oh the cow in the meadow goes moo, oh the cow in the meadow goes moo. Then the farmer hits him on the head and grinds him up and that's how we make hamburgers... Nooow chickens!

Ooh, reminded me of. “That’s a moo point… a cow’s opinion. It’s moo!”

k1233 · 14/12/2025 07:20

Ross and the leather pants
Ross and the tan
Ross and Pivot
Mike and Monica playing table tennis and Chandler saving the day
Mike being a "real" piano player and not letting the lack of piano stop him from playing

Rachel always had lovely outfits

TheDandyLion · 14/12/2025 07:21

Sometimes men love men, sometimes men love women, then there are bisexuals but some just say they're kidding themselves.

TheDandyLion · 14/12/2025 07:25

Now grandma's a person who everyone likes, she bought you a train and a bright shiny bike. But lately she hasn't been coming to dinner and last time you saw her she looked so much thinner. Now you're mom and your dad said she moved to Peru but the truth is she died and someday you will too la la la-la-la la-la la-la

Thesummer · 14/12/2025 07:33

The Brad Pitt episode. Genius to make him hate Rachel when they were married in real life at the time and there were so many funny lines.

Username65 · 14/12/2025 07:57

RoseLavenderBlue · 13/12/2025 21:08

Ross and the leather trousers - ‘it’s turned into a paste!’

Ross and the spray tan - ‘Which are you?’ (Asking the assistant at the spray tan place which number tan he has) and he replies ‘Puerto Rican’.

Ross and the teeth, talking to his date hiding behind a piece of bread.

The one with the cute Drs (not its official name) - the one where Rachel and Monica swap identities so Rachel can claim Monica’s health insurance. All of it is brilliant, but when the phone rings and it’s Rachel’s dad, Monica pretends to be Rachel and ends the call saying she’d slept with a guy on the dad’s bed, it’s so funny.

The way Ross says “mulch”!

Foxpooshampoo · 14/12/2025 08:03

Bobje · 13/12/2025 22:08

Un-Fun Bobby?? 😄

Ridiculously dull Bobby?