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* [[Executive Meddling]]: The Season Six episode "The One with the Proposal" was subjected to this. Originally, the episode was supposed to depict a big showdown between Chandler and Richard, ultimately ending in a cliffhanger with Monica deciding who to marry. However, there was last-minute speculation that Season Six would be the final season of ''Friends''. Thus, the writers were forced to retool the episode to end with Monica and Chandler proposing, so that if the series was cancelled, there would be no cliffhanger left dangling.
** To be fair, the writers also changed the 'showdown' ending because they realized it would be obvious that Monica was going to pick Chandler. They didn't like playing the proposal for cheap laughs and drama, so changed it to the more private, romantic proposal we see. They explain it all on the episodes commentary.
** NBC execs forced Marcel on the show, because apparently ''Friends'' needed a monkey for comic relief. Both cast and crew found it to be a pain in the ass and give it a [[Take That]] in Season 6.
* [[Hey, It's That Place!]]: The fountain from the opening credits is the same one used in the number "The Lees of Old Virginia" in the film ''[[1776 (musical)|1776]]''.
* [[Name's the Same]]: Meta-example: Joey is played by Matt Le Blanc, Chandler by Matthew Perry. Directors didn't always catch on to this.
** Lampshaded by Matt Le Blanc in one of the blooper scenes that aired before the final episode.
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** When [[Julia Roberts]] guest starred, her real life sister played her assistant.
*** Roberts guest starred in the first place because she was dating Matthew Perry at the time.
** In one episode, Ross's old friend from high school comes to visit. Turns out he is the president (and only current member) of the Anti-Rachel club. He was played by Jennifer Aniston's then real
* [[The Red Stapler]]: The "Rachel" cut, the flat, straight and square-layered hairstyle worn by [[Jennifer Aniston]] in the first couple of seasons, was so popular with women that it came to be associated with [[The Nineties]] the same way that [[Eighties Hair|big, frizzy, voluminous hair]] came to define [[The Eighties|the preceding decade]]. The funny thing is that this was unintentional. The stylist originally wanted Aniston to have even-length hair, but accidentally cut off a bit too much on the front right; instead of matching all the rest of her hair to it, he just cut off a bit on the other side to make it symmetrical. In an interview, Aniston claimed that she hated the haircut and didn't get what the "big deal" was.
* [[Technology Marches On]]: In "The One with the List", Chandler marvels at his brand new computer: "Twelve megabytes of RAM, five hundred megabyte hard drive, with built-in spreadsheet capabilities and a modem that transmits at over 28,000 bps!", which was quite high tech for 1995. Nowadays there are cellphones running faster than that. Ross is also mentioned several times as having a beeper and one episode even revolves around him getting beeped by people looking for a male prostitute.
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** George Stephanopoulous is a pretty dated reference point but features heavily in a first-season episode (complete with him in the title).
* [[What Could Have Been]]:
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** James Michael Tyler was supposed to be just another extra on the set. However, he was recruited to be a recurring character in the coffeehouse because he was the only extra who knew how to operate a cappuccino machine.
** Joey and Monica were originally supposed to be the main couple focused on over the course of series rather than Ross and Rachel. A couple of episodes seem to have a few nods to this, such as Joey mistakenly thinking that Monica is flirting with him in "The One with the Flashback", and Monica revealing that she'd originally wanted to have sex with Joey right before getting together with Chandler in "The One with the Truth About London". There are also a few hints of this in "The Pilot", as Monica and Joey quibble with each other quite a bit more than they would during the remainder of the series.
** The producers supposedly approached [[REM]], then [[They Might Be Giants]], to perform the show's (already written) theme tune "I'll Be There For You". The Rembrandts were their third choice.
** Early on, Matt LeBlanc and Lisa Kudrow had kicked around the idea that Joey and Phoebe were having casual sex in secret, but the writers were against it.
** Originally, Chandler and Monica's relationship was going to fizzle out (likely about when the others learned about it), but the pairing became popular with viewers.▼
** During the casting process, at one point, [[The King of Queens|Leah Remi]] auditioned for Monica. [[Two and A Half Men|Jon Cryer]] was considered for Chandler. Jessica Hecht (Susan) auditioned for Monica as well.
** Jennifer Aniston auditioned for the role of Monica as well, and Courteney Cox auditioned for that of Rachel. Producers realized that were better suited for the other role.
** An early idea for Chandler was for him to be gay. Then they got Matthew Perry and the idea was abandoned.
▲** Originally, Chandler and Monica's relationship was going to fizzle out (likely about when the others learned about it), but the pairing became popular with viewers.
** The writers considered having Chandler and Monica sleep together in the Season 2 finale. Monica would still have broken up with Richard but Chandler's internet girlfriend would have been a crazy trekkie rather than Janice, and they'd both be so depressed they'd have sex after Barry and Mindy's wedding. This was scrapped, and it wasn't until two seasons later at Ross and Emily's wedding that they got their chance.
** Originally, Monica was the one having a baby in Season 8, but the writers thought it would open more storylines if Rachel did instead. To avoid having another pregnancy story in Season 10, they developed Chandler and Monica's infertility and eventual adoption arc.
** They also thought about revealing Monica was pregnant in the final episode but nixed it in favor of their adopted baby turning out to be twins.
** The opening title scene was originally supposed to show the main cast playing around/goofing off in the water fountain, but this was only used once in the pilot episode and scrapped afterwards due to the producers feeling that the scene showed the cast as a closed group of friends that might snub anyone outside their group (to be fair, sometimes they do). All of the opening title scenes afterwards show a mixture of the fountain scene and scenes from other episodes.
** The writers were, at one point, going to have a throwaway joke about Phoebe being molested as a kid. But this was scrapped after Kudrow refused to make a crack about such a serious subject.
** There was also supposed to be a longer arc involving Rachel's sister Jill, but Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon didn't get along, so it ended up cut short.
* [[Word of God]]: In an interview, Kevin Bright revealed where he thought all the characters ended up: Joey's finally had his big break and is a star, Phoebe's still with Mike and has opened up a holistic spa chain, Ross and Rachel got married and have had another baby, Chandler and Monica managed to have a child naturally and are contently living in the suburbs with their three children as Chandler starts his own number crunching business. So in Kevin's words they're all living [[Happily Ever After]].
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