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  • Chandler’s 26 Best Burns From ‘Friends’

    Chandler’s 26 Best Burns From ‘Friends’

  • 56 Times Chandler Bing Was the Best Part of ‘Friends’

    56 Times Chandler Bing Was the Best Part of ‘Friends’

  • Lucy Hale Pays Homage to Monica Gellar With ‘Friends’-Style Look

    US-ENTERTAINMENT-BALL-CHARITY-ASPCA“Friends” is somehow always relevant.

    Lucy Hale recently did a photo shoot for Cosmopolitan, and she found herself channeling a character from the iconic sitcom. With her dark bob and the brown plaid pantsuit a stylist put her in, the “Pretty Little Liars” alum looked like she would have fit in at Central Perk. Even Hale thought so, as she made clear in a tweet on Thursday.

    “The most ‘Monica Gellar’ I will ever be,” she wrote.

    The outfit captured Monica’s take-charge attitude, which is fitting considering Hale talked to the magazine about her own success, particularly her decision to star in “Pretty Little Liars.” At the time she was considering signing on, she had also been offered a role in a project that had numerous promising elements, including a bigger names and a bigger studio behind it. She agonized over the decision before landing on “PLL.”

    “My gut just kept telling me to do ‘Pretty Little Liars,’” she told Cosmo.

    Monica would approve.

    [via: Lucy Hale/Twitter]

  • Wait, Ross From ‘Friends’ Invented Netflix’s Emmy-Winning ‘Black Mirror’ Episode?

    Could this BE more mind-blowing?

    “Friends” ended its run in 2004, 12 years before “Black Mirror” Season 3 would create the amazing episode called “San Junipero,” which just earned multiple 2017 Emmys for Netflix. But Netflix itself recently dug up some “Friends” footage that suggests Ross (David Schwimmer) predicted or even invented the storyline of the episode.

    Warning: Part of the “San Junipero” plot will be spoiled for you, by Ross, if you haven’t seen it.

    Check out this casual exchange between Ross and Chandler (Matthew Perry), which played out as the “Friends” credits rolled:

    “By the year 2030, there will be computers that can carry out the same amount of functions as an actual human brain. So, theoretically, you can download your thoughts and memories into this computer and live forever as a machine.”

    The live audience laughed at the idea, as Chandler gave it some deep thought. Then the Netflix video cut to a brief shot of Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Mackenzie Davis dancing in the 2016 “Black Mirror” episode “San Junipero,” which basically played out the scenario Ross predicted.

    Netflix every-so-wittily titled their video “The One Where Ross Invents San Junipero”:
    To Netflix, this is all just a cute way to promote both “Black Mirror” and “Friends,” which are now streaming. But from here, it’s still another sign that “Friends” is the key to EVERYTHING.

    You should watch all of “Black Mirror” before Season 4. The episodes are standalones, so you don’t have to catch up on a continuing storyline, but each episode is a diamond worth treasuring. Season 4 will premiere sometime in 2017, which means in the next two months, on Netflix.

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  • Why Matt LeBlanc Turned Down Playing Phil on ‘Modern Family’

    “Friends” alum “Modern Family” — and from here it definitely seems like the right call.

    LeBlanc just revealed to USA Today that he was offered the lead in ABC’s hit comedy in 2009, during a break in his career after the flop of the “Friends” spinoff “Joey”:

    “I remember reading it thinking, this is a really good script, (but) I’m not the guy for this. I’d be doing the project an injustice to take this. I know what I can do, I know what I can’t do. Plus, I’m having too much fun laying on the couch.”

    2017 PaleyLive LA Summer Season - Premiere Screening And Conversation For Showtime's 'Episodes' - InsideAccording to the USA Today article, LeBlanc not only thought the role of Phil was a bad fit for him, he figured it was written with someone else in mind. And it was, since the producers really wanted to cast Ty Burrell, but the ABC Powers That Be were initially hesitant, probably hoping for a bigger name like LeBlanc. Now it’s hard to imagine anyone by Ty Burrell in that role, for which he’s won two Emmys (so far).

    “Modern Family” will launch its ninth season on September 27. Meanwhile, the final season of LeBlanc’s Showtime comedy “Episodes” just premiered on August 20.

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  • A ‘Friends’ Book Will Be There for You in Time for Its 25th Anniversary

    Friends - Season 1Hit NBC sitcom “Friends” is still ubiquitous more than 13 years after it left the air, living on in perpetual cable reruns. The show found a new audience in young Millennials when it hit Netflix back in 2015, and remains as beloved and relevant as ever. Now, a new book will explore that enduring appeal.

    Seinfeld” history book, “Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything.”

    Here’s a bit more scoop on the title, per THR:

    The book promises a look at the origins of the show, the numerous high-profile guest stars (Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt, Tom Selleck, Reese Witherspoon and many more) and, of course, Jennifer Aniston‘s infamous “Rachel” haircut. Plus, it will explore the show’s afterlife and why it continues to appeal to people too young to have watched it the first time around.

    A specific publication date hasn’t been set yet, but it’s due to debut sometime in 2019, which marks the 25th anniversary of the “Friends” premiere. Could we BE any more excited?

    [via: The Hollywood Reporter]

  • Matt LeBlanc Reveals ‘Friends’ Scene That Led to ‘Exploded’ Shoulder

    ENTERTAINMENT-US-TELEVISION-CBS-TCAThere’s nothing like one of the stars of “Friends” taking us on a walk down memory lane.

    Fans got just that when Matt LeBlanc sat down this week with Jimmy Kimmel. The actor shared a number of gems — including the fact that he’s been asked if he’s “Joey’s dad” — but the best one was the story of how he dislocated his shoulder while shooting “The One Where No One’s Ready.” Painful as the experience sounds, it made for quite the funny story, especially as LeBlanc told it.

    The injury happened in what should have been a simple scene: LeBlanc, in character as Joey, was trying to jump into a chair before Chandler (Matthew Perry) could. Unfortunately, as he was in mid-air, he realized he was going to land on his head and had to put out an arm to break his fall. The awkward landing “just exploded [his] shoulder,” causing a nasty dislocation.

    LeBlanc managed to get backstage, but he became extremely confused when he saw “ER” star Anthony Edwards there. The actor had come over from the neighboring set, but his presence made LeBlanc confused. He told Kimmel he knew Edwards wasn’t a real doctor, but apparently it was still jarring to see him there after a serious injury.

    Watch more of the hilarious interview below.

    “Jimmy Kimmel Live” airs weeknights at 11:35 p.m. ET/PT on ABC.

  • ‘Friends’ Fans Now Sharing Hilarious Theories on That Season 4 DVD Cover

    You know what will always be there for you? Wild “Friends” theories. There’s nothing like them. And even though the NBC series has been off the air since 2004, fan theories never stop popping up online.

    A guy named Ted Fox got the latest conversation going, “Seinfeld”-style, by wondering what the deal is with the “Friends” Season 4 DVD cover. Why is Jennifer Aniston‘s Rachel the only one awake, and staring into the camera?


    He asked for theories, and he got some good ones:

    Never change, “Friends” fanatics!

    By the way, just last month one of the “Friends” creators reacted (not fondly) to that super-dark theory about Phoebe. You may also recall reading a theory connecting “Friends” to “Gilmore Girls.” That one almost works. There are so many others out there, keeping this series alive for future generations of fans to read way.too.much into.

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  • This Is How Much Coffee the ‘Friends’ Drank in 10 Seasons

    The “Friends” sure did love their coffee.

    Of course, since the gang — Rachel, Monica, Phoebe, Joey, Chandler, and Ross — liked to hang out at Central Perk, they naturally consumed a lot of java. But just how much?

    London writer Kit Lovelace tallied up the characters’ coffee intake in a handy chart that he tweeted:

    Not only that, Lovelace broke it down even further, to track the amount of coffee each character consumed over 10 seasons. The results were interesting — all six of them drank less as time went on. Rachel, in particular, jumped a huge amount from seasons 1 to 5, then dropped again — likely following her employment at Central Perk:

    Lovelace even went so far as to tally the cost of all that coffee. And we all wondered how they afforded those giant apartments — clearly, they all had trust funds to pay for them and all that coffee.

  • ‘Friends’ Co-Creator Reacts to That ‘Terrible’ Phoebe Theory

    Weirdly enough, one of the creators of “Friends” is not down with the fan theory that the whole show was a “meth-addled fantasy of a homeless Phoebe as she stared through the window of Central Perk.”

    That alternate series finale theory — that lonely Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow) had to imagine her “Friends” — started making the rounds in August 2015, so it’s not exactly brand new information. The fanfic went viral, but Entertainment Tonight only just got comment from “Friends” co-creator Marta Kauffman at the 2017 ATX Television Festival in Austin.

    “That’s the saddest thing I’ve ever heard! No, I never heard that — that’s a terrible theory. That’s insane! That’s crazy, like, alt-television theory. Wow! I’m fascinated. I just think someone needs a life. Someone needs a life, that’s all I’m saying.”

    Hey, now. Anyone who helped to create a character who sings “Smelly Cat” has no room to tell others to get a life. It’s a decent theory, if a super-depressing one. Kauffman told ET she’s heard many “Friends” theories over the years, but that one was the most unsettling.

    Still, it adds a new layer to your “Friends” experience to re-watch each episode with that theory in mind.

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