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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.

* [[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.

** 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.

* [[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.

** 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.

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