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** Even worse, sing the opening theme "I'll Be There For You". Expect claps.
** 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 photoshoot Joey was modelling in which needed five other good-looking extras in a pinch.
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** Phoebe had every right to be intimidated by her future husband Mike's parents, considering they are [[Heroes|Angela Petrelli]] and [[Twenty Four|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?]]
* [[Shaggy Dog Story]]: Joey and Rachel's feelings for each other for the better part of the last two seasons (including being the big cliffhanger finale for Season 9) is resolved in two episodes. Partially [[Real Life Writes the Plot]] as the final season was six episodes less than the others due to Jennifer Aniston's condition of returning only with a shorter season in order to pursue her film career.
* [[Shocking Swerve]]: Rachel's pregnancy.
* [[Spiritual Predecessor]]: To [[How I Met Your Mother]], also to [[Happy Endings]].
* [[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...]] }}
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** 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 {{spoiler|the destruction of the foosball table to rescue the ducklings. THE TABLE!}}
* [[The Scrappy]]: Ross and Rachel, moreso Rachel, as their [[Will They or Won't They?]] plot eventually became the A-Plot to show in later seasons.
* [[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.]]
* [[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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