Just because I like to share with all my good buddies here.
Season One:
Let’s just get this out of the way at the start - holy crap, big pants! Everyone is wearing pants up to their armpits!
Pilot - Joey’s hair is very, very weird.
Paolo is not that good-looking. He’s kind of weird-looking, actually.
Ross says he’s 26 and divorced, but later Monica says she’s 26 (when inadvertently dating a 17 year old). Somebody’s lying!
Hey, Phoebe was married to Steve Zahn! Season Two:
The One With the Breast Milk - wow, Emily Procter’s original face!
I finally noticed that Matthew Perry is missing the tip of his middle finger on his right hand. I’ve only watched every episode of a ten year run at least once without noticing that. Now I can’t not see it.
Brooke Shields is pretty damned funny as a mentally-unbalanced woman.
Everyone on the show has gorgeous hair. Really, really gorgeous hair. Man, I love their hair.
Will continue updating my musings as I keep on watching.
Is that necessarily a lie? Say they were born a year and a half apart – such that Monica is 25, and Ross about to turn 27, in the pilot – and that Monica only turns 26 “later” (say, “right before dating that 17 year old”). Where’s the contradiction?
Since I just watched this episode and I’m also in the process of re-watching the series, I remember that she tells the guy (Ethan) that she’s 25…and 13 months.
Woman still wore pantyhose in those days. Freak show.
The extras in this show are unbelievable - I recognize so many of them. The latest - Frau Farbissina from “Austin Powers” as the wedding planner in “The One With Barry’s Wedding.”
A little throw-away line that still makes me snort - Chandler in the bathroom wearing Julia Roberts’ underpants. At about 3:10 when Ross comes into the bathroom and tells Joey, who is standing on a toilet, staring into the other cubicle - “Joey, some people don’t like that.” That just tickles my funny bone!
I didn’t kow that about Matthew Perry’s finger. Now that’s *all *Ill be looking at when I watch.
Jennifer Anniston changed quite a bit physically at around the third season, IIRC. Aside form the obvious - aging and weight loss- something happened to her face. I imagine she might have had some work done, but I can’t quite put my finger on what. Her voice and mannerisms also changed.
Ross is my least favorite character but he can be pretty funny when they write him as a goofball. “PiVOTTTTT!”.
I think my favorite episode is Thanksgiving when Ross and Monica’s parents come over and they don’t know Monica and Chandler are dating. At the end, everyones’ secrets are revealed."No, you weren’t supposed to put beef in the trifle. It did *not *taste good.
I don’t care for any of the episodes in the Rachel’s pregnancy story arc.
Whenever I hear anyone talking about something happening in London I have to fight the urge to yell “in LONDON!”, Joey style.
Yes, that’s a great little moment, especially because Mrs Gellar just knocks it outta the park. “I’m sorry, Phoebe, but I’m afraid that Jacques Cousteau is dead. Joey, if you want to leave… just leave!”
Season Three, The One With the Flashbacks, has Marissa Ribisi as Rachel’s old friend - Marissa Ribisi is apparently Giovanni Ribisi’s twin sister. Who knew?
The elder Gellars are amazing throughout the whole series.
One thing I noticed a lot in the early seasons… “unattractive” people regularly appeared and even dated the core cast.
Paulo–already mentioned.
An early episode had Monica with a new boyfriend who she was afraid to introduce to everyone… that dude was off looking (really gangly, long hair and a beard) even for the early 90s. Yet…those weren’t the jokes.
Eventually once the show was an uber-hit, it was all models all the time.
It’s an unpopular opinion but Ross was always my favorite character. The episode where he tries to wear leather pants on a date, only to have it go horribly awry, still makes me howl with laughter.
Monica started out as loveably OCD but became annoyingly uptight and shrill by the end.
