# The Friends ending you WISH they had made **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 7, 2004, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-friends-ending-you-wish-they-had-made/243972 "2004-05-07T07:24:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-friends-ending-you-wish-they-had-made/243972/21 "2004-05-08T07:04:57Z")
> [@](#): > > The 6 friends encounter a mysterious glowing light while talking in Central Perk. They are drawn to walk into it. Suddenly, they awaken in a futuristic laboratory in 2073 . > It is revealed that the 6 friends had signed up as research subjects in a virtual reality experiment. The experiment involved linking the Friends’ minds to a computer, which generated the virtual New York that the show took place in. The various supporting characters were research scientists, who regularly linked into into the virtual world to investigate the long term effects on the friends of being in the virtual world. Apparently, the computer had never heard of non-white people. But so far, I think we’re OK. > [@](#): > > After 10 years, the researchers were satisfied that there were no adverse affects to being in a virtual world, so they ended the experiment. The subjects were taken out, given information on what had changed in the real world during their time in the virtual reality experiment, and paid several billion dollars for their work. They then returned to their normal lives. No no no. After the experiment ends, the evil government scientists decide nobody can know about their work, so they ship them to the salt mine gulag. There, they will be tortured daily while doing slave labor for the rest of their lives, which due to futuristic technology will be quite a long time. Witty banter is prohibited at the gulag, as are comic misunderstandings. But after a few days, the gang tries to escape. Several are killed in the attempt, and those who survive find they are lost in a frozen wasteland. (I guess this sounds a bit like the prison in whichever of the Star Trek movies it was.) The remaining Friends try to kill each other so they can eat the dead for food. After hours of brutal, soul-rending combat, one emerges victorious. But he loses his fork as he prepares to feast on his dead comrades. The last line of the series: “That’s not fair… that’s not very fair at all…” ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-friends-ending-you-wish-they-had-made/243972/22 "2004-05-08T07:39:55Z")
Adding the sci-fi twist got me thinking. I think I would have like to see our “friends” in **The Cube** for the last show. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-friends-ending-you-wish-they-had-made/243972/23 "2004-05-08T13:34:45Z")
Another “it was all a dream” ending: Phoebe wakes up in bed with someone beside her who has the pillow on his head. She says “I just had the craziest dream about five people and someone like me, only it wasn’t me. I think one of them was that girl in the Springsteen video.” A just-waking-up voice says “Huh?” She says “Oh, nothing.” Out pops a hand that grabs the clock on the nightstand. Mystery man says “Oh, crap. I have to get home.” Out pops Paul Reiser (what a twist 😃 ), who says “Jamie’s comning home from her business trip this morning.” Pause "What were you saying, _Ursula_. Lisa Kudrow: Oh, nothing. I have to get to the restaurant anyways. It’s been nice. See you later." Fade to black. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-friends-ending-you-wish-they-had-made/243972/24 "2004-05-08T14:55:18Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > I think one of them was that girl in the Springsteen video. Even yet another dream sequence: Scene fades from black. It’s obviously someone opening their eyes. You are looking up at Bruce Springsteen. He asks, “Are you okay? You fell off the stage while you were dancing.” “How long was I out?” “About a minute.” “It felt like 10 years. I had the strangest dream…” ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-friends-ending-you-wish-they-had-made/243972/25 "2004-05-08T15:54:43Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > But after a few days, the gang tries to escape. Several are killed in the attempt, and those who survive find they are lost in a frozen wasteland. (I guess this sounds a bit like the prison in whichever of the Star Trek movies it was.) _Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country_ ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-friends-ending-you-wish-they-had-made/243972/26 "2004-05-08T16:58:27Z")
Danke. Maybe we can work in a way to ice the Rembrandts too? ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2004, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-friends-ending-you-wish-they-had-made/243972/27 "2004-05-10T04:05:17Z")
You remember the season finale, a couple of years ago, with the camera zooming in on newly-pregnant Rachel’s face at Monica and Chandler’s wedding? I would have ended it then. Well, almost…during the closing credits, I’d probably treat the audience to a brief scene of the Friends, circa 10 years in the future, showing everyone paired up, successful, happy, lots of kids, etc., etc., etc. And Joey and Phoebe would have hooked up. Or, if I were feeling malicious…I’d have ended the _current_ season with Ross finally ending up in a nuthouse. And…I don’t know, Joey and Phoebe roaming around in an old box van, hunting vampires in the bayous and backwaters of the deep south. (Which would become the new spinoff series.) And Chandler and Monica turn out to be Goblins, or something. ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2004, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-friends-ending-you-wish-they-had-made/243972/28 "2004-05-10T04:42:09Z")
Phoebe, Rachel, and Monica getting it tentacle-style. The rest… who gives a rat’s ass? ---
**Author:** ![Already\_in\_Use](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Already\_in\_Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Already_in_Use)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2004, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-friends-ending-you-wish-they-had-made/243972/29 "2004-05-10T05:29:37Z")
How about that monkey that the one dude used to have comes back, but radiation has turned him into a King Kong-sized monster, and he destroys their entire neighborhood as his revenge for not getting paid despite the fact that he was obviously the best actor ever to appear on that God-forsaken pile of crap? BTW, it seems that some of the _Friends_ writers have [beaten us to this game](http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0423041friends1.html). > [@](#): > > Not to mention how several writers spoke of their secret desire to turn the character Joey (played by Matt LeBlanc) into a serial rapist, discussing “full scenes of how he would rape the women.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-friends-ending-you-wish-they-had-made/243972.md?page=1)