# Re-watching Friends **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [February 9, 2015, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-watching-friends/712251 "2015-02-09T20:16:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 73
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2019, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-watching-friends/712251/73 "2019-08-10T00:03:16Z")
> [@epbrown01](#): > > I never saw it, but I’ve heard that Cox fronted a failed sitcom called the Misfits of Science, and she had done a popular turn before that in a recurring role at Alex Keaton’s girlfriend on “Family Ties” (19 episodes), as well as a feature film (“Masters of the Universe”). Aside from Kudrow’s hilarious bit as Ursula, Cox is the only one I’d ever seen. Before it became the Ross and Rachel show (the reason I stopped watching about five seasons in), the A plots were about Monica and the B plots about the others. “Misfits of Science” was a drama! A serious drama about people with bizarre powers working together to fight evil… in some way. In the first episode there’s a monster obsessed with Amelia Earhart, for some reason. There were other episodes with characteristics, too! --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-watching-friends/712251)._