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Think you’ve caught every detail in your favorite sitcom? Get ready for a nostalgia-packed trip as we uncover clever set tricks, hilarious running gags, blink-and-you’ll-miss-it cameos, and heartfelt Easter eggs hidden throughout “Friends.” From secret chalkboard menus at Central Perk to surprising actor connections, these subtle touches prove there’s more to Ross, Rachel, and the gang than meets the eye!
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00:00Anastasakis, Papasifakis wedding, excellent!
00:04Welcome to Ms. Mojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the brilliant artfulness that we missed even on our umpteenth rewatch of Friends.
00:12Everyday use, fancy, guest, fancy guest.
00:15Two seconds.
00:16No, 11!
00:19Number 30, a change of address.
00:21But listen, don't ring the buzzer for 19. Ring 20. Geller Green, they'll let you in, okay?
00:34If you buzz our door, there's no tip for you.
00:37Way back in early season 1, you'd have to knock on apartment doors 4 for Joey and Chandler and 5 for Monica and Rachel if you wanted to hang out with your favorite gang.
00:45Perhaps while you were in there, you'd happen to glance out the window and think,
00:49wow, the view from here is surprisingly high up, and you wouldn't be wrong.
00:54Ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew!
00:55What?
00:56Ugly naked guy got a thigh master.
01:01Ooh!
01:02At some point, the production team figured that it probably made more sense for the apartments to be on a higher floor and subsequently moved everyone up a few flights.
01:10From then on, if you wanted to pay the Friends a visit, you'd want apartments 19 and 20.
01:16Oh, big talk!
01:17Huh? Why don't you come over here and say that to me, huh, buddy?
01:20Yeah, my fiancé will kick your ass!
01:24Come on! Apartment 20! Apartment 20!
01:27Number 29, the full apartment.
01:30In Friends, we usually see the sets from the same familiar angles, but every so often, the show breaks its own rules.
01:37Seems smaller somehow.
01:38Has it always been purple?
01:45In Season 5, when Chandler and Monica are in the bathtub and Joey pops in to offer them chicken, look closely.
01:51There's a picture on the wall behind Joey that we'd never seen before.
01:55Uh, no thanks. No chicken. Bye-bye then.
01:58You sure? Some extra crispy? Dirty rice? Bean?
02:01For the last time, no! Get out! Get out, Joey!
02:04Same goes for the episode where Joey offers to fix Monica's bathroom floor.
02:09You suddenly see the room from a whole new angle.
02:12The full layout only pops up in rare shots, like when Chandler discovers Monica's secret closet,
02:17or in the one with the list, where Rachel is filmed from outside the apartment sitting by the window,
02:22revealing the wall we usually never see.
02:24Number 28. Joey's Special Balloons
02:38In Season 5, after an argument with Chandler, Ross picks Joey as his new best man.
02:44And what's one of the best man's jobs?
02:46Plan the bachelor party, of course.
02:47Have fun planning your mellow bachelor party.
02:51Well, there's gonna be strippers there.
02:52He didn't say anything about no strippers.
02:57He just said no strippers.
02:59Oh, I chose not to hear that.
03:02Joey might not be the most wisdomous of the gang,
03:04but no one can say he's not resourceful.
03:07Proof? Check out the decor at Ross's bachelor party.
03:10Those are some pretty interesting balloons,
03:12only they're not actually balloons now, are they?
03:14Thanks, everyone. This was great, okay?
03:17And, hey, I'll see you guys Monday morning.
03:22Thanks, Joey.
03:23Oh, hey, don't forget your shirt.
03:24Oh, thanks.
03:28Knowing Joey, he probably saved a few bucks on decorations
03:31by dipping into his personal stash.
03:33And, well, at least Ross is well prepared for his wedding night.
03:36Although, saying the wrong name at the altar
03:38is probably an even more effective contraception.
03:41I, Ross.
03:43I, Ross.
03:44Take thee, Emily.
03:45Hey, take thee, Rachel.
03:51Number 27.
03:53Boddingtons.
03:53After the gang returns from London,
03:55we learn that, Ross's Freudian slip-aside,
03:58they'd actually had a great time across the pond.
04:00One of their high-five-worthy highlights
04:02was a visit to a classic pub
04:04where they had their first taste of British bitter beer,
04:06Boddingtons.
04:07What was that place, that pub that he took us to?
04:09Oh.
04:10Uh, the weed chief.
04:10Yeah, yeah, yeah, and they had that beer, that, uh...
04:13Boddingtons!
04:14Boddingtons!
04:14Boddingtons!
04:14Boddingtons!
04:15Yes, baby!
04:18Apparently, it's so good,
04:19Joey would have walked on water for another.
04:21Luckily, Ross has a more practical solution.
04:24That was good beer.
04:25You know, I'd walk back to London
04:27for another frosty one of those bad boys.
04:29You know, I think they have those
04:30at that British pub by the Trade Center.
04:32Later!
04:32Anyway, perhaps Joey was true to his word
04:36or maybe that British pub down by the Trade Center
04:38put him in touch with their supplier
04:39because, as we see later that season,
04:42he seems to have gotten his hands
04:43on a whole pack of those bad boys.
04:45How good is that?
04:47Oh, wow.
04:49See?
04:50Mm-hmm.
04:51Number 26.
04:52All the Arquettes.
04:54While in Vegas,
04:55Monica and Chandler decide to literally
04:57gamble with their future.
04:59You roll another hard eight?
05:01And we get married.
05:02We're here tonight.
05:06Come on, come on!
05:09It just got interesting!
05:16And Lady Luck really seems to want them to get married.
05:19Only, no matter how many eights they roll
05:21or how many signs they think they see,
05:23nothing is strong enough to push them down the aisle just yet.
05:27So they decide that moving in together
05:28will do them just fine, for now.
05:31There've been no signs for that.
05:33Me asking is kind of a sign.
05:40Yes, yes!
05:41Okay!
05:41Yes!
05:42However, outside of the Friends universe,
05:44Courtney Cox had just tied the knot with David Arquette,
05:47choosing to double-barrel her name.
05:49Friends had a unique way of celebrating this special occasion,
05:52which you can spot in the opening titles.
05:54Who knew there were so many Arquettes in Friends?
05:57And it hasn't been your day,
05:59week or month,
06:00then you're here,
06:02but I'll be there for you.
06:06Number 25.
06:07Tributes after 9-11.
06:09Friends was mid-production on season 8
06:11when the 9-11 attacks happened.
06:13Like much of the entertainment industry,
06:15the producers wanted to be a source of light during dark times,
06:18but knew they couldn't ignore what had happened,
06:20especially since the show was set in New York.
06:23Because I'm a Tribbiani.
06:25This is what we do.
06:28I mean, we may not be great thinkers
06:29or world leaders.
06:32We don't read a lot or run very fast,
06:34but damn it, we can eat!
06:35So, they planted their acknowledgements throughout the set,
06:39on props and in costume choices.
06:41What? What's going on?
06:43Is it Mom?
06:44Is she sick?
06:46Is it Dad's heart?
06:48Is that a sandwich?
06:52Joe, Mom and Dad are fine.
06:53Is that a sandwich?
06:57For example,
06:58they added flags to their decor,
07:00the magna-doodles in Chandler and Joey's apartment
07:02reflected the mood,
07:03and you can spot FDNY-branded clothing.
07:06Perhaps their most direct nod came in the Season 8 premiere,
07:09which was dedicated to the people of New York City.
07:12Number 24.
07:13Stealing Away in the Background
07:15For 10 seasons,
07:16we tuned in weekly to see what hilarious shenanigans
07:19the friends would get up to.
07:20All right, all right, all right, all right, all right.
07:22If you really want to know how I did it,
07:23I'll share.
07:25When you handed me back the card,
07:27what you didn't see was,
07:28I looked at it so fast,
07:30it was invisible to the naked eye.
07:32While we were focusing on what was happening in the foreground,
07:34we were missing some golden comedic subtleties in the background.
07:38For instance,
07:39what if Phoebe teasing Ross about Rachel
07:40was just a ploy to swipe his coffee and cookie,
07:43as she keeps trying to do throughout the scene?
07:44She is in the same place as me,
07:47because I am not in that place.
07:48Okay, I didn't understand that.
07:53But, you know,
07:54maybe that's because you were speaking the secret language of love.
07:59Then, in the episode where Rachel takes up smoking,
08:02Chandler finds himself tempted too.
08:04At Rachel's surprise birthday party,
08:06as soon as she sets down her purse and turns away,
08:08you can see Chandler sneakily rifling through it.
08:11No prizes for guessing what he's probably looking for.
08:14Wow, this is so great.
08:17Look at all these cups.
08:20This is so weird.
08:22I was in charge of cups.
08:24Oh, okay, not so weird.
08:27Number 23.
08:28The Other Roberts.
08:30Did you know that Julia Roberts
08:31isn't the only Roberts family member to appear on Friends?
08:34It looks like one of her eyebrows fell down.
08:37Now, unless someone convinces her to let me bleach it,
08:40Jean-Claude Van Damme's going to be making out with Gabe Kaplan.
08:42I'll talk to her.
08:45I hate actors.
08:47Her older sister Lisa actually appears in the very same episode as her,
08:51and they even share a scene.
08:53Remember when Joey tries to impress the director's assistant
08:56by taking her out to dinner,
08:57hoping to land a role in Outbreak 2 The Virus Takes Manhattan?
09:00So, assistant to the director.
09:03That's a really exciting job.
09:05I mean, you must have a ton of cool responsibilities.
09:08I have nothing to do with casting.
09:09So what are you guys going to eat?
09:10That assistant is played by Lisa Roberts.
09:14Julia has said her big sis helped her early on in her career
09:17by giving her a place to live when she moved to New York.
09:20Imagine if Julia had repaid her generosity
09:22by securing her a spot on one of TV's biggest hits.
09:25I'm going to the bathroom now.
09:30Number 22.
09:31The Hollywood Dry Cleaner.
09:33There are perks to fame.
09:34And for Joey, one of the best is seeing his headshot
09:37displayed alongside Jim Belushi and Harrison Ford
09:40at the local dry cleaners.
09:41This is so exciting.
09:43You can get your picture back up on the wall of fame.
09:45I know.
09:46It was so cool when I was up there before.
09:48Me and Jim Belushi would just be cracking up about something.
09:52Unfortunately, TV stardom alone doesn't guarantee he gets that spot.
09:56For starters, his show Mac and Cheese hasn't even aired yet.
09:59Plus, it leans on some culturally insensitive stereotypes.
10:02No, you don't go up on the wall.
10:05What?
10:06But you saw the show.
10:07Yes.
10:08It was very offensive to my people.
10:12Dry cleaners?
10:14When Joey argues his case,
10:16mentioning that Air Force One also features Russian villains,
10:19the dry cleaner shrugs him off.
10:20He really should check it out, though.
10:22He's a dead ringer for one of those bad guys he would despise.
10:25It's almost like they're the same person.
10:27P.S. They are.
10:28Actor Ilya Volokh.
10:30But in Air Force One, okay, the Russians were terrorists and evil.
10:35And plus, he kills a bunch of them.
10:36That's offensive to Russians.
10:38I've never seen it.
10:40Oh, you should.
10:40It's great.
10:42Number 21.
10:43The Hidden Friends.
10:45You've probably heard that the word friends is mentioned at least once per episode.
10:49And while we can't say we've gone through and checked them all,
10:51since this is a sitcom about, well, friends,
10:54it certainly makes sense.
10:55Joey had an imaginary childhood friend.
10:58His name was...
10:59Maurice.
10:59Correct.
11:00His profession was...
11:00Space Cowboy.
11:01Correct.
11:03If you're thinking, tell me something I don't know,
11:05your wish is our command, we hope.
11:07In this Season 8 episode,
11:09Ross enters the coffee shop looking for his pink, sorry, salmon shirt.
11:13Has anyone seen my shirt?
11:15It's a button-down, like a faded salmon color.
11:19You mean your pink shirt?
11:20However, we're more interested in the one he's wearing in this scene.
11:24As some ASL-savvy fans spotted, the graphic on his tee is the sign for friends.
11:30Hopefully he's been more careful with this one than he was with his pink,
11:32okay, fine, salmon shirt.
11:35Can I...
11:36to remember you?
11:38No.
11:45Number 20.
11:46Susan Sarandon slapped her daughter.
11:49What are you going to do, kill him?
11:50Like you did Charles?
11:53Oh, my baby!
11:59In the Season 7 episode, The One with Joey's New Brain,
12:02Susan Sarandon guest stars as soap actress Cecilia Munro.
12:05Munro plays Jessica Lockhart on Days of Our Lives,
12:09a woman who often slaps other characters on the show.
12:12In fact, she's so famous for her slaps
12:14that Monica tries to get a slap of her own
12:15when she meets her in Joey's apartment.
12:17Oh, my God.
12:18Can I just ask you to do me...
12:19just one favor?
12:22Certainly.
12:23Would you slap me?
12:24Would you slap me right here in the face?
12:28I'd love to, but my lawyer said I can't do that anymore.
12:31But there's one small, interesting detail.
12:33Sarandon's own daughter,
12:34Eva Amore plays Jessica's daughter, Dina, on Days.
12:38So when Lockhart slaps Dina,
12:40that's actually Sarandon slapping her own daughter.
12:42That was a great scene.
12:44And that slap looks so real.
12:46How do you do that?
12:47Oh, just years of experience.
12:49Can I get some ice here?
12:52Number 19.
12:53Phoebe gave her brother a condom.
12:56Hi.
12:56Uh, did I accidentally drop a condom in your case?
13:03Do you remember the first time Phoebe met her half-brother Frank Jr.?
13:07We don't mean the time she tried to meet her dad,
13:09but wound up meeting Frank Jr. instead.
13:11So you like my big sister?
13:14Yeah.
13:14Well, this is huge.
13:15You can buy me beer.
13:16I'm not gonna.
13:20No, we're talking about a time just before that,
13:22when Phoebe loses her gig at Central Park
13:24and ends up busking on the sidewalk outside the coffee shop.
13:27It happens rather quickly,
13:29but while Rachel is comforting Phoebe,
13:30a guy runs up and asks her for the condom
13:33he had accidentally dropped in her guitar case earlier.
13:35That guy, wouldn't you know it,
13:37is none other than Frank Jr.
13:39Kind of an emergency.
13:41Yeah.
13:42Here you go.
13:43Hey, thanks a lot.
13:44Hey, Christine, I got it!
13:46Number 18.
13:47Rachel's really long pregnancy.
13:49And you're still pregnant.
13:52I'm sorry.
13:54I know how uncomfortable you are.
13:56You know what?
13:56You look great.
13:57Yeah, like 50 bucks.
13:59The longest human pregnancy ever recorded was 375 days
14:04and was carried out by a woman in Los Angeles in the 1940s.
14:07The second longest ever might have been Rachel Greene's.
14:10We know that Rachel gets a positive pregnancy test result
14:13at Monica's wedding on May 15th,
14:15which means she had to have been pregnant
14:17for at least a couple of weeks by that point.
14:19Now, cut to the following February,
14:21the episode before Valentine's Day.
14:23It's nine months later and the baby kicks for the first time.
14:26Wow, she is kicking so much.
14:29Oh, she's like, um,
14:30who's that kind of annoying girl soccer player?
14:33Mia Hamm?
14:34Mia Hamm!
14:35While Emma's date of birth is never mentioned,
14:37given the clothes New Yorkers are wearing
14:39in the episodes leading up to the season finale,
14:41it's got to be springtime.
14:43Fans seem to have concluded that she was born on April 4th,
14:46which comes in at an around 11-month pregnancy.
14:50Wow!
14:50Oh, you!
14:52Oh, thanks for coming out of me.
14:55Bye!
14:57Number 17.
14:58Gunther Speaks.
15:00I fell down an elevator shaft.
15:01That sucks.
15:04I was buried in an avalanche.
15:07What?
15:09I used to be Bryce on All My Children.
15:11As Friends fans can tell you,
15:13Gunther worked at Central Park.
15:14He can speak Dutch.
15:15He once played a character named Bryce on All My Children,
15:18and he's in love with Rachel.
15:20But how many of us realized that Gunther
15:22actually didn't say a word on the show
15:23until almost halfway through the second season?
15:26While he was there in the background
15:27making coffee in season one,
15:28it wasn't until season two, episode nine
15:31that he uttered his first word.
15:32An incredibly simple but effective, yeah.
15:35Hey, Gunther, you got stairs in your place?
15:38Yeah.
15:39Yeah, go nuts.
15:39There we go.
15:41The truth is,
15:42his character didn't even have a name until then either.
15:44He came into work that day,
15:46and reportedly, co-creator Marta Kaufman told him,
15:48quote,
15:48Your name is Gunther now,
15:50and you get to say yeah today.
15:52Number 16,
15:53Marcel's Restaurant.
15:54Ross, he's doing it again.
15:56Marcel, stop humping the lamp.
15:59Stop humping.
16:00Now, Marcel, come back.
16:01Come here, Marcel.
16:02No, no, no, not in my room.
16:03While Ross gave up his monkey at the end of season one,
16:06Marcel made a guest appearance in the big season two episode,
16:09The One After the Super Bowl.
16:11In it, Marcel is back in New York,
16:13this time as an acting monkey on the set of Outbreak 2,
16:16The Virus Takes Manhattan.
16:17Well, I tracked down Marcel and get this.
16:20He's healthy, he's happy,
16:21and he's right here in New York filming Outbreak 2,
16:24The Virus Takes Manhattan.
16:25But if you look really closely,
16:27that actually isn't the only place Marcel appears in the episode.
16:31Okay, well, not the actual monkey, but his name.
16:33We were all obviously paying more attention
16:35to Julia Roberts flirting with Chandler on their date,
16:38but take a second and look at the name of the restaurant on the menus.
16:42Number 15, Matthew Perry's Dad.
16:47I like her, she seems smart.
16:53Obviously, if you were a member of the Perry family or a close friend,
16:57you would have noticed when Matthew Perry's father made a guest appearance on the show.
17:00However, since most of us are not that familiar with the Perry family tree,
17:04allow us to fill you in.
17:06Matthew Perry's Dad, John Bennett Perry,
17:08began his acting career in the 1970s,
17:10and over the decades, has appeared in movies,
17:13loads of television shows,
17:14and was even the Old Spice sailor in a series of commercials.
17:17Come on, wake up to the freshness of the open sea with Old Spice.
17:21Plus, he wasn't just a father in real life,
17:23he also played one on TV.
17:25In the case of Friends,
17:26the elder Perry played Joshua's dad
17:28in one of the show's most memorable episodes.
17:30Oh, Dad, what are you guys doing here?
17:32Oh, well, we cut the trip short.
17:34France sucks.
17:36Number 14, Chandler and Monica's house was a famous movie house.
17:40Thank you for letting us see the house again.
17:42And thank you for explaining to us what escrow means.
17:45I've already forgotten what you said, but thank you.
17:48Take as long as you want.
17:49Just let me know when you're through.
17:51We know that real estate agents are required
17:53to disclose certain things about a house to potential buyers,
17:56but we're not sure if the fact that Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern
17:58attempted to rob the place is one of those things.
18:01Yup.
18:02The house that Monica and Chandler buy
18:04in the final season of Friends
18:05is the same one that Macaulay Culkin defended so brilliantly
18:08in Home Alone almost 15 years prior.
18:13This is my house.
18:15I have to defend it.
18:17Sure, the wallpaper is gone and the furniture is different,
18:19but look a little closer.
18:20The house across the street should probably look familiar
18:23to Home Alone superfans.
18:25It's the Murphy's residence across from the McAllisters.
18:28Now that deserves a classic hands-on-face scream,
18:31don't you think?
18:33Number 13.
18:36The potato cake.
18:38Okay, so this isn't a potato cake
18:40so much as an actual potato in a cake display.
18:44If you don't know what we're talking about,
18:45allow us to take you back to season four, episode eight.
18:48Joey walks into Central Perk looking for Chandler.
18:50He goes up to the counter to ask Gunther if he's seen him.
18:53I thought you were Chandler.
18:57But, um, one of you's over there.
18:59And there, sitting prominently on the counter for all to see,
19:02is a regular old potato in a cake stand.
19:04Why is it there?
19:06Was it supposed to be there?
19:07Is it some kind of inside joke or just a mistake?
19:10Was the budget that tight?
19:11All good questions we unfortunately do not have answers to.
19:15Do you have a hard time remembering the pin for your ATM card?
19:33Well, in the season five finale,
19:35Joey reveals his trick for always having it around when you need it.
19:38Assuming you always use the same ATM,
19:41why not scratch the number onto the machine?
19:42But while this might sound like a Joey being smart moment,
19:46in the end, it's more of a Joey being Joey situation.
19:50Ah, so you're 5639?
19:52That's it, thanks, Phoebe.
19:54You see, his pin, as revealed by Phoebe, is 5639.
19:58Why does that matter, you ask?
19:59Well, do you know what 5639 spells on a dial pad?
20:03You guessed it, Joey.
20:04So, basically, Joey can't remember his own name.
20:07Guys, guys, please, come on, come on.
20:09This is obviously just a big misunderstanding.
20:11Hey, hey, hey, hey, don't look at me.
20:15I'm just working.
20:16Number 11.
20:17Green with an extra E.
20:19It's true, some names are hard to spell.
20:21We'll admit we had to look up Tribbiani to confirm it had two Bs.
20:24But you know what name we don't need help with?
20:27Green.
20:28However, for some reason, Ross did.
20:30Oh, so you invited Rachel, then?
20:34Sure, why not?
20:35In season four, when Ross and Emily send out their wedding invitations, we see Ross dropping
20:40off the one for Rachel in the mailbox.
20:42And on the envelope, clear as day, it says Ms. Rachel Green, with an extra E at the end.
20:47No one seems to know how it's really supposed to be spelled.
20:50But this discrepancy is a lot funnier when you imagine Dan Quayle himself encouraging Ross
20:55to add the extra E on the invitation.
20:57Yeah, that's canon now.
20:58Just ask the folks down at Ralph Lauren.
21:00Who the hell are you?
21:04Who the hell are you?
21:05I'm the hell person whose office this is.
21:09Good one, Rich.
21:11Number 10.
21:12Ode to Jennifer Aniston's family name.
21:14So I'm going to go through the hotel and see if there's any other weddings going on.
21:17Okay.
21:18Oh, but don't tell them Monica's pregnant, because they frown on that.
21:21Jennifer Aniston's father was born Yanis Anastasakis before anglicizing his name to
21:25John Aniston with the move to America.
21:27Why are we telling you this?
21:28Because in the one with Monica,
21:30and Chandler's wedding, Rachel goes looking for someone to officiate the union if Joey
21:34can't get there in time.
21:35And she finds another wedding taking place at the hotel.
21:38None other than the Anastasakis' Papasufakis wedding.
21:41Are they Greek Orthodox?
21:43Yeah, yeah.
21:45They're my friends.
21:46Monica Stephanopoulos.
21:50And Chandler...
21:53Acidophilus.
21:55It's a wonderful nod to Jennifer's dad and their family name.
21:58And her perfect pronunciation of the Greek names is a nice touch to Rachel's character.
22:02The Anastasakis' Papasufakis wedding.
22:06Excellent!
22:08Number 9.
22:08The VD poster keeps showing up.
22:10You know, the asthma guy's really cute.
22:13Oh, yeah.
22:14Do you know which one you're gonna make?
22:15No.
22:16I hear Lyme disease is open, so...
22:18Good luck, man.
22:20I hope you get it.
22:21In season 1, Joey gets very excited when he lands a modeling job for the New York City
22:26Free Clinic.
22:27That is, until he sees that his particular poster is not warning against Lyme disease, as he'd
22:32hoped, but against STDs.
22:34Next thing you know, the city is covered with the posters, and Joey is decidedly less excited
22:39about the opportunity.
22:40Although his friends have a good time with it.
22:42So I guess you all saw it.
22:45Saw what?
22:46No, we're just laughing.
22:47You know how laughter can be infectious.
22:51If you thought the end of the episode was the end of the posters, you'd have been wrong.
22:55It seems these posters would continue to haunt Joey for the next little while, because
22:59a couple of episodes later, as Monica and Phoebe are crossing the street...
23:02Surprise, surprise!
23:03What's that on the wall in the background?
23:06Number 8.
23:07Huggsy reappears.
23:08I got secrets of my own, you know.
23:11You don't have any secrets.
23:13Oh, yeah?
23:14Well, you don't know about Huggsy, my bedtime penguin pal.
23:19In Season 5, the stress of keeping Monica and Chandler's budding relationship a secret
23:23causes Joey to let slip a secret of his own to Rachel and Phoebe.
23:27Huggsy, his bedtime penguin pal.
23:29Now, we all remember Huggsy coming back many seasons later when Joey has to deal with the
23:33fact that baby Emma also loves the stuffed penguin.
23:36Rachel, let's be clear on this, okay?
23:38I do not love Huggsy.
23:41I like him a normal amount.
23:45All right.
23:46Well, Emma loves him.
23:48Yeah, well, why wouldn't she?
23:49He's a wonderful person.
23:51But what many of us missed was all of the appearances by Huggsy in between.
23:55Whether it was on the couch in the background or sitting under the dartboard, Huggsy showed
23:59up in many more episodes than you might remember.
24:02You and I used to hang out all the time.
24:04I was your daddy's girlfriend.
24:06But you're not anymore.
24:10No, I'm not.
24:11Number 7, Monica's yelling jar.
24:14Hey, Phoebe.
24:14Hey.
24:15Hey, have a dinner.
24:16Dinner was good.
24:17Just saying hi.
24:18Now I'm gonna go.
24:18We're all familiar with the concept of a swear jar, but in season 8, we learn that Monica
24:24has a yelling jar at work.
24:26In fact, when Phoebe comes to visit her at the restaurant and is flirting with her sous-chef
24:30Tim, you can see the jar, filled with cash on the shelf behind him.
24:34Although, because it's just indicated as Monica's jar, we don't know it's a yelling jar until
24:39a few seconds later when Monica raises her voice but exclaims that she's not putting
24:43a dollar in the jar.
24:44This works out well because she couldn't if she wanted to.
24:47From one shot to the next, the jar is no longer on the shelf.
24:50I'll give him your number if I could just get one calamari and one Caesar salad.
24:57I did not yell.
24:59I am not putting a dollar in the jar.
25:02Number 6, Estelle was a nurse.
25:04I'm sure they'll be here soon.
25:06Yeah, honey, they wouldn't miss this.
25:07Yeah, relax.
25:08You only got nine centimeters and the baby's at zero station.
25:12Did you know that Joey's longtime agent Estelle was also a nurse?
25:16We know this because she was right there in the delivery room when Carol gave birth to
25:20her and Ross' son Ben in season one.
25:23There's a few too many people in this room.
25:25There's about to be one more.
25:26So anybody who's not an ex-husband or a lesbian life partner, out you go.
25:32Weirdly, that was also 17 episodes after she left Joey her card subsequent to seeing his
25:37play Freud.
25:38After Ben is born, we never see Estelle in a hospital again and her nursing duties are never
25:43mentioned.
25:43So we can only assume that managing Joey's career became so all-consuming that she had
25:49to drop her nursing gig.
25:50She also probably didn't like the fact that as a nurse, she wouldn't be able to smoke at
25:54work.
25:55I'm just going to put in a call here and we'll find out what's going on and straighten
25:59it out.
26:00Yeah.
26:00Hi.
26:02Lori, please.
26:04Number 5, Monica's towels.
26:07All right, Monica categorizes her towels.
26:10How many categories are there?
26:11During the lightning round of the Apartment Bet trivia game, Joey and Chandler are asked
26:15about the number of categories Monica has for her towels.
26:18In the heat of the moment, they can only think of 4, but Joey takes a flyer and correctly
26:22blurts out 11.
26:23Everyday use.
26:24Fancy.
26:25Guest.
26:26Fancy guest.
26:26Two seconds.
26:27No, 11!
26:2911.
26:30Unbelievable.
26:3111 is correct.
26:32But that also begs the question, what are the other categories besides everyday use?
26:37Fancy, guest, and fancy guest.
26:39While we don't know all of the other seven categories, we do know a few, including those
26:44of kitchen, beach, and old.
26:46Keen eyes will have spotted these categories scrawled on the stacked up boxes as the girls
26:50packed up to move across the hall.
26:52This is a girl's apartment!
26:54That is a boy's apartment!
26:56It's dirty and it smells!
26:59It's so pretty!
27:00It's so pretty!
27:02And look, and it's purple!
27:04Number 4, The Disappearing Beam.
27:08Or, we could put a hat on his head.
27:12One of the more memorable moments from the early seasons of the show is when Ross, while
27:20running away from Monica, bangs his head into a wooden beam in the apartment.
27:24Given how prominent the beam is in The Living Quarters, you might be curious as to why no
27:29one else ever smacked into it.
27:30The main reason for that is because the beam totally disappeared.
27:33Actually, it came and went for the first few seasons, until finally being removed for
27:37good.
27:38As Lisa Kudrow and David Schwimmer explained in The Reunion Show,
27:41the beam often got in the way.
27:43This was here in the beginning.
27:45It was here in the beginning.
27:45It kept like...
27:47It got in the way.
27:47It got in the way, yeah.
27:49Sorry, you got lost behind the beam.
27:50As it's probably getting in the way now.
27:52Well, I don't know.
27:53Oh.
27:54Number 3, The Hidden Menu.
27:56For 10 seasons, the gang ordered coffees and cappuccinos at Central Perk.
28:00But not once did we hear them order a Long Island Cream, a movingly rich and creaming
28:06coffee straight from the mutter's udder.
28:08Or a Ms. Liberty blend.
28:09A liberating blend, light and sweet.
28:12You'll be crying freedom when you taste it.
28:14So you guys want coffees?
28:15Yeah, but I don't want to be up too late, so I'll have a decaf.
28:18Yeah, me too.
28:20Actually, can I get some hot water with a little lemon?
28:24The chalkboard menu behind the counter wasn't always visible to us, but it definitely would
28:28have been to them.
28:29How they were never intrigued enough to order a Manhattan mocha is beyond us.
28:33That one would have been perfect the time they were trying to stay awake to party.
28:36Seriously, can I get my coffee?
28:40I'm sorry, Ross.
28:41I'll get it for you right now.
28:42And since I made you wait, I'll toss in a free muffin.
28:46Number 2, Magna Doodles.
28:48Who'd you talk to?
28:54Never mind.
28:56You mean you didn't get it from this?
28:58With so much going on, it's sometimes easy to miss the various Magna Doodle notes and
29:04drawings in the background.
29:05But given how they change and how fun some of them are, it's worth working the pause button
29:09a few times.
29:10The Magna Doodle first appeared in the guy's apartment in Season 3, and featured a pretty
29:14generic shopping list and a Joey Call Your Dad note.
29:17But going forward, there were all kinds of different doodles, from the thank you note,
29:21from the robbers, to another one bites the dust for Ross' bachelor party.
29:24There was also the doodle of a flag planted atop a mountain during the finale, indicating
29:29they had reached the summit.
29:31What's the matter?
29:33I need to say goodbye to the table first.
29:38I understand.
29:39Before we unveil our top pick, here are some honorable mentions.
29:43Jasmine the Waitress.
29:44Anyone else notice that Phoebe's future colleague and Gunther's roommate once worked in Central
29:48Perk?
29:49Oh, God, Monica, hi!
29:51Thank God!
29:52I just went to your building and you weren't there, and then this guy with a big hammer
29:55said that you might be here, and you are!
29:57You are!
29:58Can I get you some coffee?
29:59Decaf.
30:01Like parent, like child.
30:02Looks like the Geller kids inherited their parents' sitting postures.
30:05You know what I love?
30:07They're sweet and lows.
30:09She was always stealing them from restaurants.
30:12Not just restaurants, from our house.
30:14Chandler's soulmate.
30:17Nothing heals all wounds, quite like a Lionel Richie and Diana Ross duet.
30:22I'm sure you know I don't mind.
30:28Oh, you know I don't mind.
30:33Monica's comfy wedding shoes.
30:35Yeah, we wouldn't want to dance the night away in uncomfortable heels either.
30:38Oh, God, let's do the rings.
30:39We good?
30:52Yeah.
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31:07Number one.
31:10Did they reserve their table at the coffee shop?
31:12I don't like sitting up here.
31:15I'm going to go over the way until they got here first.
31:18Do you ever wonder how the gang always got the best table in Central Park?
31:23Why, except for on very rare occasions, were the couch and adjacent chairs always free
31:28at such a popular place?
31:30Well, we've never heard of being able to reserve tables at a coffee shop, but apparently that's
31:34what they did.
31:34It isn't always there, but often enough, you can see a little reserved sign sitting
31:39on the table.
31:40There's a fan theory that the sign was put there by Gunther so as to always allow for
31:43a place of prominence for Rachel.
31:45It's settled.
31:46Every cafe needs a Gunther.
31:48Okay, but the money's good.
31:50Plus, you get to stare at Rachel as much as you want.
31:55What?
31:57Flexible hours.
31:59Did you spot all these small details, or did you spot something we didn't?
32:03Let us know in the comments.
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