# Kissing on "Friends"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kissing-on-friends/573882>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 8, 2011, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kissing-on-friends/573882 "2011-03-08T03:20:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 13\
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**Author:** ![Yodalicious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yodalicious/32/8195_2.png) [@Yodalicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yodalicious)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2011, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kissing-on-friends/573882/21 "2011-03-08T18:29:13Z")

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> [@ShelliBean](#):
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> I won’t judge you as long as you don’t judge me for sitting around way too late Friday night drinking with my brother extolling the virtues of a well placed Friends quote. by god, but it is permeating.

My brothers and I have moved a lot in the last couple of years. At least once during the move, when 2 of us are carrying something heavy, someone yells, “PIVOT… PIVOT… PIVOT!”

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**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2011, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kissing-on-friends/573882/22 "2011-03-08T19:23:13Z")

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> [@heathen\_earthling](#):
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> I sort of recall seeing an episode where Ross and Monica _did_ kiss on the cheek, in a completely casual non-sexual context like saying goodbye. None of the characters thought this was at all weird, but I did.

😕

I’ve kissed my sisters on the cheek more times than I can count. Likewise my nieces and stepdaughter. Why do you think a brother kissing his sister on the cheek (or the reverse) to be weird, since you said it was clearly non-sexual?

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**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2011, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kissing-on-friends/573882/23 "2011-03-08T19:47:20Z")

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Now we need to plot out if every Friend has seen each other Friend naked. Between actual relationships, the episode with all the showers, and the apartment across the street, I bet there aren’t many missing.

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**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2011, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kissing-on-friends/573882/24 "2011-03-08T20:00:10Z")

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The shower head? I was just… testing it.

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**Author:** ![PeskiPiksi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e495f1/32.png) [@PeskiPiksi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PeskiPiksi)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2011, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kissing-on-friends/573882/25 "2011-03-08T20:05:10Z")

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Okay, I’ll do it! (Instead of folding laundry–I’m the Queen of Procrastination.)

**Rachel**  
Saw Ross (relationship), Saw Monica & Chandler through window from Ross’ apartment, saw Joey (in the shower when she was trying to catch Chandler)  
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Monica\*\*  
Saw Ross (brother, naked photo of him as a child), Saw Chandler (relationship), Saw Joey (flashback when she invites him in for “lemonade”), was roomies with both Rachel and Phoebe, so probably saw something at some point, but I don’t think we ever saw it in the show.

**Phoebe**  
Saw Monica and Chandler through the window (My eyes! My eyes!), Saw Ross (childhood photo)

**Chandler**  
Saw Monica (relationship), saw Rachel (walked in on her shower), Saw Ross (childhood photo, mysterious “thing” on Ross’s behind), saw Joey (sleeping naked)

**Ross**  
Saw Rachel (relationship), saw Monica (I assume as kids, sister), saw Chandler in a thong (Julia Roberts episode, but I don’t know if that counts)

**Joey**  
Saw Ross (everyone saw Ross!), Saw Chandler (thong)

I feel like I’m probably missing some. Also, the word “saw” seems very strange to me now.

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**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2011, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kissing-on-friends/573882/26 "2011-03-08T22:42:56Z")

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Phoebe kissed Gunther

[http://www.friends-tv.org/zz405.html](http://www.friends-tv.org/zz405.html)

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**Author:** ![PeskiPiksi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e495f1/32.png) [@PeskiPiksi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PeskiPiksi)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kissing-on-friends/573882/27 "2011-03-09T01:34:56Z")

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Thought of another one–Phoebe sees Monica’s breasts when M sings at Mike’s karaoke bar.

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**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kissing-on-friends/573882/28 "2011-03-09T02:47:24Z")

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Everyone saw Ross when he went over to ugly naked guy’s apartment and got naked himself.

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**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kissing-on-friends/573882/29 "2011-03-09T02:54:20Z")

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Ross slept with Janice.

Oh. My. God.

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**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kissing-on-friends/573882/30 "2011-03-09T02:54:31Z")

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> [@Terminus\_Est](#):
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> Everyone saw Ross when he went over to ugly naked guy’s apartment and got naked himself.

I think that’s what Peski was referring to.

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**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kissing-on-friends/573882/31 "2011-03-09T02:59:45Z")

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Phoebe also flashed everyone during the football episode.

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**Author:** ![expectopatronum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/expectopatronum/32/173_2.png) [@expectopatronum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/expectopatronum)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kissing-on-friends/573882/32 "2011-03-10T01:06:37Z")

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they have all seen joey naked, during the episode where he throws a party for the cast of days of our lives on the roof and doesn’t tell everyone about it. he makes other plans for the rest of the gang to get rid of them and then pretends to be sick so he can stay for the party. he comes in wearing a bathrobe and they tell him to open it (thinking he’s wearing party clothes underneath) but he’s naked.

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**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kissing-on-friends/573882/33 "2011-03-10T01:32:36Z")

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> [@Daddypants](#):
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> My brothers and I have moved a lot in the last couple of years. At least once during the move, when 2 of us are carrying something heavy, someone yells, “PIVOT… PIVOT… PIVOT!”

We do that from time to time also. Plus “Lift and sliiiide.”

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