Friends (sitcom)

Friends was an American television series created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, originally broadcast by NBC and Warner Bros. Television and produced byBright/Kauffman/Crane Productions. In the United States, the first episode, "The One Where Monica Gets A Roommate", better known as "The One Where It All Began", on 22 september 1994 on the television. The last episode, "The Last One", was broadcast in the United States on 6 May 2004.



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[hide] *1 Content  ==Content[ Edit] == The series revolves around a group of six friends: Rachel Green, Monica Geller, Ross Geller, Joey Tribbiani , Chandler Bing and Phoebe Buffay. The six twenty-somethings living and working in Manhattan, New York. As the story begins, Rachel has just left her fiancé Barry at the altar and she is going to live together with her best friend from her childhood, Monica. The two live in an apartment opposite that of Chandler and Joey and they attract many on with Monica's brother, Ross-who recently separated from his lesbian wife. In addition there is Phoebe, Monica's ex-roommates with fellow. The story takes place in different apartments. Especially in that of Monica is much polite, but also in that of Ross and Chandler and Joey. In addition, they also bring a lot of time in the coffee shop around the corner from their apartments, ' Central Perk '.
 * 1.1 Production
 * 2 Episodes
 * 3 Cast
 * 3.1 main roles
 * 3.2 Main supporting roles
 * 4 cultural impact
 * 5 viewing figures in the US
 * 6 Friends in Netherlands and Belgium
 * 7 spin-off
 * 7.1 Joey
 * 8 Prices
 * 9 Trivia

After moving to the city has moved, gets her first job as a waitress Rachel in the coffee house. Later, she is Assistant to a purchaser and ' personal shopper ' at Bloomingdale's and then buyer for Ralph Lauren. Monica looks for her success in the first seasons, but eventually finds work as a chef in a respected restaurant.Chandler works his way up in the information processing, but in the last two seasons, gets a job in the advertising world, after he has resigned at his previous job. After a successful career, Joey eventually gets a permanent job at a soap opera, of which he was acquitted earlier in the series. He also has many side jobs, including the ' ontklauwen ' of cats. Paleontologist Ross is in season six eventually Professor. Phoebe had work as a masseuse and singer/songwriter. She had, however, just as Joey also many side jobs.

The storyline follows the on-again, off-again relationship between Ross and Rachel and later in the series also a developing relationship between Chandler and Monica.

The series used non-stop humor that usually no relationship with the plot. Some jokes have to do with sexuality, politics and innuendo. The program often focused on serious sides, such as fractions between couples.Irony, mainly the contribution of actor Matthew Perry was often used.

The series gave actors who were active in the past, the chance to get back in the spotlight on a regular basis. Elliott Gould played Monica and Ross ' father. Marlo Thomas (known from That Girl) played Rachels mother. The theme music of the series, "I'll Be There for You" by The Rembrandts, became a big hit after a dj from Tennessee along with The Rembrandts a track of 3 minutes and it was going on the radio. In America it came finally at number 17 in the Billboard Hot 100.

The popularity of the series was so great that the six main characters at the end of the series, paid $ 1 million per episode. Ads during the last episode, which was viewed by 53 million people in the United States, cost 2 million dollars for a 30-second commercial. ====Production[ Edit] ==== Although the series set in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, he is included in California. The exterior of the building is however filmed in Manhattan, on Grove and Bedford Street in the Village. No scene in which the actors to show up, is recorded in New York. Even the opening of the program is included in a fountain on the grounds of Warner bros in California.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">For almost the entire first season, there was no Street outside Central Perk, just a painted background. The crew made the Windows had blurred and had some plants put in front of the Windows to hide this.

<p lang="en" len="339" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">During the filming of the cliffhangers, the audience was out of the studio removed so that the outcome of the Cliffhanger would be not known to the public. ==Episodes<span class="mw-editsection" len="335" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">A number of scenes that were included were his later removed (some of them can be viewed on YouTube). In the episode "The One Where Rachel Tells", where Monica and Chandler go on honeymoon, Monica is jealous of another newly married couple. That piece replaced another scene, which was cut out. In that scene makes a joke about Chandler that he bombs with him, and then he is arrested by the surveillance, etc.That scene is edited out two weeks after september 11, because he would be broadcast. Now he is still to be seen on internet. ==Division Of Roles<span class="mw-editsection" len="335" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Cox was first asked for the role of Rachel, but convinced the producers later that her personality better fitted the character Monica, the role that the producers had selected first for Jennifer Aniston. Aniston, however, also found that she was suitable for Rachel rather than for Monica.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The program series was also known for his unusually cohesive actors team. The six main characters took great pains in making sure that not one of the players was going to dominate. An example of this is that they are all either not, or nominated for the same category of an awards ceremony wanted to be. They also wanted all the same salary. The actors were such good friends that guest star Tom Selleck sometimes even felt shut out.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The character Ursula (Phoebes twin sister) first appeared in the sitcom Mad About You as a waitress. Kudrow played Ursula in both Mad About You as in Friends. The creators of the series were initially not going to for to create a twin sister Phoebe, but they added the character to explain why Kudrow appeared in two episodes on the same network. At one time appeared Mad About You and Friends even both in the United States on Thursday night. ====Leading Roles<span class="mw-editsection" len="334" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== ====Main supporting roles<span class="mw-editsection" len="346" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== ==Cultural impact<span class="mw-editsection" len="339" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Friends has contributed to the culture in some areas, mainly in the field of language and fashion. The use of "so" as the meaning for "very" and "really" (mainly in the US) is not invented by a writer of Friends, but the general use of the word in the series use in everyday life has promoted. In addition, the loud cry out of the sentence "I know!" (in the series mainly by Monica) was often used. The series also had an impact on the fashion and hairstyle. The hairstyle of Jennifer Aniston was much copied. Joey Tribbiani's opening sentence "How you doin '?" became a popular opening sentence in America. The series were also the inspiration for the cultural meme of the laminated list.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The pronunciation "Ross and Rachel" is often used to a flasher relationship with a "history", or in a situation like "are you guys really apart or if Ross and Rachel from each other?". This joke is also used in Scrubs.The cleaner describes J.D. 's relationship with Elliot as "not really Ross and Rachel", which, however, turns out to be about two other workers at the hospital. ==Viewing figures in the US<span class="mw-editsection" len="343" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The 66-minute final episode was called by Entertainment Tonight as the biggest tv moment of the year 2004 and it was the second most watched program. The only program with more viewers was the Super Bowl.However, the defeated the ratings that other final episodes were given, such as M * A * S * H (106 million), Cheers (80.4 million) or Seinfeld (76.3 million). It wasn't even the most viewed episode of Friends. That was an episode from season 2, "The One After the Superbowl", which came out on 28 January 1996 and 52.9 million viewers pulled. During the 2001-2002 season was the bests eason of the Friends program in the United States. ==Friends in Netherlands and Belgium<span class="mw-editsection" len="353" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In Netherlands, the series was broadcast by, among other things, Veronica, NET 5, RTL 5and Yorin . In 2000 won the series a Silver Televizier-Tulip for best foreign program of that year. As of May 2011, the series repeated on Comedy Central .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In Belgium the series broadcast by the Flemish channels FOUR and FIVE. ==Spin-off<span class="mw-editsection" len="332" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ====Joey<span class="mw-editsection" len="328" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">After the end of the series in 2004, the spin-off Joey made. Of the 46 made episodes NBC sent there only 38, and on 15 May 2006 fell the cloth. ==Prices<span class="mw-editsection" len="331" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Emmy Awards

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Golden Globe Awards
 * 2003-Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series- Christina Applegate
 * 2002-Outstanding Comedy Series
 * 2002-Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series- Jennifer Aniston
 * 2000-Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series- Bruce Willis
 * 1998-Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series- Lisa Kudrow
 * 1996-Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series- Michael Lembeck (for "The One After the Super bowl")

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">People's Choice Awards
 * 2003-Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series, Musical or Comedy- Jennifer Aniston

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Screen Actors Guild Awards
 * 2004-Favorite Television Comedy Series
 * 2004-Favorite Female Television Performer- Jennifer Aniston
 * 2003-Favorite Television Comedy Series
 * 2003-Favorite Female Television Performer- Jennifer Aniston
 * 2002-Favorite Television Comedy Series
 * 2002-Favorite Female Television Performer- Jennifer Aniston
 * 2001-Favorite Television Comedy Series
 * 2001-Favorite Female Television Performer- Jennifer Aniston
 * 2000-Favorite Television Comedy Series
 * 2000-Favorite Female Television Performer- Jennifer Aniston
 * 1999-Favorite Television Comedy Series
 * 1995-Favorite New Television Comedy

==Trivia<span class="mw-editsection" len="330" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * 2000-Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series- Lisa Kudrow
 * 1996-Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
 * In The episode "The One With George Stephanopolous" let Rachel kiss her if they accidentally fall from the balcony with Monica and Phoebe is talking. That was actually not in the script, but the take was used.
 * About the same thing happened in The episode "The One With Five Steaks and an Eggplant". When Jade at the end call for Bob and Joey hears her on the answering machine, it was actually intended that Joey would record with: "Bob here!" Actor Matt Leblanc stumbled, however, when he came to the phone jump. The authors found this ultimately funnier and used this take.
 * Monkey and Katie, the two monkeys who previously played in the first season played, even though both the Marcel monkey in the movie Outbreak.
 * John Bennett Perry, who in The episode "The One With Rachel's New Dress", plays the father of Joshua is in really the father of Matthew Perry.
 * The audience laughed so hard in "The One Where They All Find Out" when Joey Phoebes blouse should open jerking off, because actor Matt Leblanc here no less than 12 attempts for needed, while his text was: "It wasn't my first time."
 * The pin of Joey is 5639. On the keys of a telephone is 5639 the name Joey.
 * Because Courteney Cox is so hammered that David Arquette after her marriage to her name as Courteney Cox Arquette had to appear in the title role, the creators made a joking. At the intro of the episode "The One After Vegas", the first episode of season 6, appeared not only behind the name Arquette Courteney's name, but also behind those of the other actors and behind those of creators Crane and Kauffman.
 * In the episode "The One With The Football" appears a Dutch woman (Marga called) on who wants to make both Chandler as Joey impression. If Chandler to Joey asks if he knows where Dutch people come from, he knows it's not. When Chandler says they come from Netherlands, Joey thinks that Peter Pan is the country of Netherlands.
 * When Joey on himself and leave the room where he lived until then with Chandler, the character Eddy Menuek itself as Chandler's momentary because disturbed new roommate. This Menuek is played by Adam Goldberg, who in 2005 also got a reflexive role in Joeys own spin-off series Joey. Goldberg plays not only Menuek again, but Jimmy, the father of the son of Joeys sister Gina.