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* [[Abandon Shipping]]: Many, ''many'' fans abandoned Ross and Rachel in seasonsSeasons threeThree and fourFour. They still kept a fanbase, but nowhere near as big as the writers believed.

** Also, the "Freud!" song.

* [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop]] : Oh, dear Lord, the episode in which Phoebe thinks a stray cat is her reincarnated mother. After learning the cat belongs to a little girl, Monica, Rachel, Chandler, and Joey all wimp out at telling Phoebe, and Ross alone goes through with it. When Phoebe decides to keep the cat because she has to respect her mother's wish to be with her, her friends all wimp out again, and only Ross insists on putting an end to this. For this, Ross gets chewed out for being a bad friend, because he wasn't supportive of Phoebe, like the others were. The problem with that is that Ross ''was'' supportive of Phoebe, and only stopped humoring her when he found out about the little girl. The only real difference between Ross and the others was that he was unwilling to let Phoebe keep the cat at the little girl's expense. So, apparently, being a good friend means you have to support somebody unconditionally, even when they're totally wrong, when they're being selfish, or when their actions would actually hurt an innocent child.

** By the way, just so the whole thing makes NO sense at all ... After Ross apologizes, Phoebe does a complete 180-degree turn and returns the cat. What happened to respecting her mother's wishes? The episode gives no explanation for Phoebe's abrupt change of heart, nor does it note that if she had just agreed to do that to begin with, her fight with Ross wouldn't have happened at all.

* [[Fanon]] -: The opening credits with the whole cast dancing in a park fountain with strings of lights everywhere is canon, and actually from a photoshootphoto-shoot Joey was modelling in which needed five other good-looking extras in a pinch.

* [[Fetish Fuel Station Attendant]] -: Phoebe, a ditzy blonde whose identical twin sister is a porn star.

* [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]]: In earlier seasons, Chandler makes multiple jokes about not being able to have children...

** A seasonSeason 2 episode showed Monica getting Chandler to get in shape reflecting Matthew Perry's later weight problem.

* [[Harsher in Hindsight]]: In seasonSeason 3, Monica considers getting pregnant from a sperm donor. It's played for laughs and the rest of the cast thinks it's a dumb idea (though largely because she's single). At the end of seasonSeason 9, Chandler and Monica turn out to be incompatible so they have to consider surrogacy or a sperm donor.

** In seasonSeason 8, [[Brad Pitt]] appeared as one of Ross's old high school friends, who ''hated'' Rachel to the point that he was president of an Anti-Rachel club in high school. At the time, it was a funny [[Casting Gag]] over the fact that Brad Pitt was married to [[Jennifer Aniston]] in real life; the joke became a lot less funny after Pitt divorced Aniston. {{spoiler|after apperentlyapparently cheating on her with [[Angelina Jolie]]}}. ohOh the cringe!

** Season 5 ends with Ross and Rachel getting married while drunk in Vegas. Ross promises he'll get it annulled, but he doesn't want to have his third marriage fail as well, so he ends up lying to Rachel about it. Rachel finds out three episodes later that they're still married, and she furiously asks Ross, "When were you going to tell me? After the birth of our first secret child?". Two seasons later, she gets pregnant with Ross's child, and Ross is the last one to find out.

** In "The One Withwith All Thethe Resolutions", Ross says "no divorces in '99!/Just the one divorce in '99!". He ends up Divorcing Rachel less than a year later in "The One with Joey's Porsche" (Whichwhich aired on October 21st, 1999) making his 'resolution' hilarious indeed.

** Joey asked Rachel "How you doin'? You all right?"? in the seasonSeason 2 premiere. Who would have thought that that would be his catchphrase?

** Invoked in universe during the One with the Thanksgiving Flashbacks when Ross brags about Carol playing "for both teams.".

** Those instances are rather minimal when it comes to Monica. Plenty of people see her for how attractive she is. But Ross and Chandler are definitely this. Especially Chandler in the first few seasons where all women seem to treat him like he's repulsive when actually he's quite cute and very funny. It gets better when the writing focuses on how he's socially awkward rather than unattractive.

** Also occasionally between Ross and Joey, especially in ''"The One Withwith the Nap Partners''".

** Phoebe was shown to have [[Les Yay]] tendencies in "The One with Ross Andand Monica's Cousin" where she ends up starring longingly at Cassie and she even thinks "Ask her out! She's not your cousin!"

** The [[Ho Yay]] between Joey and Chandler even continue into the [[What Could Have Been]] episode in seasonSeason 6, where Joey hires Chandler (now a struggling comedy writer) to be his assistant. And then there's this line:

{{quote|'''Joey''': (to Chandler) ''Hey'', [[It Makes Sense in Context|go take off those pants, they look ready!]] }}

** [[ThisPunctuated! IsFor! SpartaEmphasis!|OH...MY...GOD!]] Someone just created a meme!

* [[Retroactive Recognition]]: This trope may just as well be called ''[[Hugh Laurie|House]] on a Plane''.

'''Joey''': Oh, I'm sorry. [[Completely Missing the Point|I forgot you had that whole Rachel thing...]] }}

** And then add in that Ross actually ''did'' kiss Monica once, in a dark bedroom at a college party, where he thought it was Rachel "under a pile of clothes"."

** Don't forget this line from Chandler in "The One Withwith Ross' Tan":

** In the final season, when Monica and Chandler move out of New York and start a family you finally learn ''why'' he was so reluctant to use that money.

** Courteney Cox and Matthew Perry also reportedly couldn't hold back the tears when filming the scene where {{spoiler|Monica proposes.}}.

*** Heck, the part that brought tears to this troper's eyes in the finale was of all things {{spoiler|the destruction of the foosballFoosball table to rescue the ducklings. THE TABLE!}}!

* [[Unintentionally Unsympathetic]]: The former [[Trope Namer]] was "Fat Monica,", referring to the flashbacks that portrayed [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|the earlier years when Monica was fat.]]