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* [[Abandon Shipping]]: Many, ''many'' fans abandoned Ross and Rachel in
* [[Base Breaker]]: Did Ross cheat on Rachel?
** I'm so so sorry for this, but I can't possibly resist. Ahem. [[Running Gag|THEY WERE ON A BREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAK!]]
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* [[Ear Worm]]: Sing the first line to "Smelly Cat" to any ''Friends'' fan. Listen as they sing the next few lines with the emphases in ''just'' the right places.
** Even worse, sing the opening theme "I'll Be There For You". Expect claps.
** Also, the "Freud!" song.
* [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop]]
** By the way, just so the whole thing makes NO sense at all
* [[Fanon]]
** Highly unlikely. If that situation arose, [[Hollywood Homely|they wouldn't have included Chandler.]]
*** They were really, '''really''' desperate for six people for the sake of symmetry.
* [[Fetish Fuel Station Attendant]]
** And given that we learn Phoebe is quite kinky in the sack herself...
* [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]]: In earlier seasons, Chandler makes multiple jokes about not being able to have children...
** Chandler's smoking addiction wasn't very funny later on when Matthew Perry went into rehab to control his drinking.
** A
* [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff]]: James Michael Tyler (Gunther) was so popular in Dubai that he got offered to be the spokesman for a local coffee brand but NBC botched the deal (they wanted more money).
* [[Harsher in Hindsight]]: In
** Related to this. In the episode where they go to the beach, Chandler comments on Rachel's gigantic hat by saying "I was taken aboard that hat! Now I can't have children."
** In
* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]:
** 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?"
** When Joey auditions for the lead of a new detective show, he tells his friends not to get their hopes up, as he isn't sure if he's good enough to carry his own TV show. Turns out he was right.
** When Carol and Susan get married, someone asks who is the most likely to get married last and everyone looks at Chandler. He actually marries Monica a few seasons later, while other main characters are still single.
** The already hilarious couch moving scene ("Pivot!") is even better after you've seen David Schwimmer as [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]] Herbert Sobel in ''[[Band of Brothers (TV series)|Band of Brothers]]''.
** In "The One
** Joey asked Rachel "How you doin'? You all right?"? in the
** Invoked in universe during the One with the Thanksgiving Flashbacks when Ross brags about Carol playing "for both teams
** The episode where Rachel was freaked out that Ross has been planning their future, down to the name of their kids. The first he came up with was ''Emily''.
* [[Hollywood Homely]]: A lot of people give Monica a lot of crap for being ugly, while she is just as attractive, if not more, than Rachel and Phoebe.
** 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.
** On a more notable level, Fat!Monica.
* [[Ho Yay]]: There have been more marriage/romance/infidelity metaphors surrounding Chandler and Joey's relationship as roommates than is possible to count.
** Also occasionally between Ross and Joey, especially in
*** Ross also gave Joey a passionate kiss when he needed to audition for a role that involved having to kiss another man. Joey remarked that Rachel was a lucky woman.
** Phoebe was shown to have [[Les Yay]] tendencies in "The One with Ross
** Chandler once kissed Ross while drunk.
** The [[Ho Yay]] between Joey and Chandler even continue into the [[What Could Have Been]] episode in
{{quote|'''Joey''': (to Chandler) ''Hey'', [[It Makes Sense in Context|go take off those pants, they look ready!]]
** Rachel and Monica have had break-up moments, the most hilarious one being when Monica was spending time with Ross's new girlfriend Julie and Rachel confronted her about it. The conversation sounded like two lovers having a quarrel over cheating.
* [[Memetic Mutation]]: How you doin'?
** [[
** [[It Tastes Like Feet|That dog will lick itself but it will not touch your sandwich,]] [[Lethal Chef|what does that tell you?]]
** [[Perfectly Cromulent Word|It's a moo point anyway. It's like a cow's opinion - it's moo.]]
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** [[Never Live It Down|WE WERE ON A BREEEEAAAAAKKK!!]]
** They don't know that we know that they know that we know that they know [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvaD-29pQBY Exacty]
* [[Retroactive Recognition]]: This trope may just as well be called ''[[Hugh Laurie|House]] on a Plane''.
** [[The Office|Melora Hardin (in the first season) and Craig Robinson (in the last season)]] both had guest spots on the show, though it would take another sitcom years later before anyone knew who they were...
** Phoebe had every right to be intimidated by her future husband Mike's parents, considering they are [[Heroes|Angela Petrelli]] and [[24|President Logan]].
** [[The Suite Life of Zack and Cody|Cole Sprouse]] played Ben in the later seasons.
*** [[What Happened to the Mouse?|Ben was in the later seasons?]]
* [[The Scrappy]]: Ross and Rachel,
* [[Shocking Swerve]]: Rachel's pregnancy.
* [[Squick]]: In "The One with Joey's Big Break":
{{quote|'''Joey''': ''[to Ross]'' So who would you rather sleep with, [[Brother-Sister Incest|Monica]] or Rachel?<br />
'''Ross''': Dude, you are ''sick''!<br />
'''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
{{quote|'''Chandler''': "Dude, stop staring at my wife's legs! ''(beat)'' No, no. Stop staring at ''your sister's'' legs!"}}
** In one Thanksgiving episode, Monica considers dating Richard's son. The two actually do get to this point in the end, but by that point, the others have already been squicked out.
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** The childbirth video, especially for Chandler and Monica.
* [[Straw Man Has a Point]]: When Monica's parents tell her they spent her wedding fund, Chandler confesses he has some money saved up and tells Monica how much. She's immediately excited and makes plans to spend it on the wedding, but Chandler refuses to devote ''all'' of his savings to what he sees as a one-time party. While we're not told exactly how much money is being discussed, Monica says it's enough to pay for her dream wedding. Considering how she can be it's likely that it's a lot of cash Chandler has, and odds are also that a lot of the stuff she has planned are things she doesn't need. To both of their credit though, Chandler eventually relents but Monica agrees with him.
** 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.
* [[Tear Jerker]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjaU8vQo83g This scene] allegedly had everyone in tears during its filming.
** Courteney Cox and Matthew Perry also reportedly couldn't hold back the tears when filming the scene where
** If you don't cry after seeing what Ross did for Rachel on the prom video, and the expression on his face after Rachel leaves, you do not have a soul. A clip can be found [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXhxqQTTwbM&feature=player_embedded here].
** Seeing Phoebe say goodbye to the triplets and just end up quietly rocking them while the camera panned out.
** If you've watched every episode of this show, you WILL cry at the very end.
*** Heck, the part that brought tears to this troper's eyes in the finale was of all things
* [[Take That, Scrappy!]]: [[Hugh Laurie]]'s [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXNd99IhdmA reams out Rachel].
* [[Unintentionally Unsympathetic]]: The former [[Trope Namer]] was "Fat Monica
* [[The Woobie]]: Given Phoebe's past and her wide-eyed look on the world, you know you just wanna give her a hug. The fact that she's played by Lisa Kudrow helps, too.
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