But it was okay, he was a virgin! And he was really looking forward to it

Wasn't it Rachel who said 'I even had a crush on you when I first met you' and Joey says that Monica had told him? We never actually saw it though.

Sorry for the multiple posts, I can't multi-quote on my mobile

I may have said this gripe already but watching one of the episodes with Bruce Willis the other day reminded me of it. Women in the audience get so excited by a big (usually male) name making an appearance that, in his first scene particularly, they'll laugh excessively at all his funny lines, like giggling schoolgirls The Brad Pitt episode was the worst for this.

Oh and that reminds me of how we were expected to find it funny that Brad's character Will hated Rachel. Oh, it's so hilariously ironic because they're in fact married in real life. Ha bleedin' ha.

I thought it odd that they could afford their apartments in Manhattan, Ross was perhaps the only one in a reasonably paid job.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_control_in_New_York

Chadler mentioned in the last ever episode that because of rent control (metioned in the post above), the apartment was "a friggin steal"

I was just watching The One That Could Have Been Part 1 on Comedy Central, and I must say that Phoebe is pretty unlikeable in that episode

Oooh the gripe fire has been stoked

I have a new one I think involving Chandler and Janice but its confusing me to write it.

My only gripe with Friends was that Phoebe ditched David for Mike.

It didn't make any sense to me. David was her returning love interest throughout all series, it always seemed fate they'd end up together (when I got over wanting her to end up with Joey) I really liked Mike but I felt they did Her love for David a disservice, wish she'd ended up with him as their scenes were always so emotional.

I've probably already contributed (I can't be bothered to read 22 pages just to find one post ) so I may be repeating myself, but my main gripes were:

- Ross and Rachel. I liked them as characters individually (especially Rachel), but their "will they, won't they" relationship bored me. I just didn't care, I really didn't.

- Joey. He was fine half of the time, but he was really annoying the other half. I just feel they tried to make him too funny, too the point of being ridiculous. One example that springs to mind was Phoebe pretending to be a pigeon, cue Joey looking around surprised, as if he actually believed a pigeon was speaking to them. I found the reactions of the others MUCH funnier, the "What the **** is she doing" looks on their faces.

One thing that bothered me was when Ross started dating his student, everyone including Monica were slagging him about it, but Monica seemed to forget sleeping with that guy from high school, which i thought was much worse.

To be fair Monica didn't know how young Young Ethan was and broke up with him as soon as she found out. And she was 26.

Ross was mid-30s and knew how old Elizabeth was. Plus they were only taking the mick in a friendly way. When Ross asked them seriously what they thought Monica was nice about Elizabeth.

But when Rachel dated Josh - I think that was his name, though not Joshua (Joshwah) - who was really young, Ross was the only one who made fun of them. But then again maybe the others didn't bother because they could see Rachel was only seeing him to make Ross jealous.

I always thought Ross and Monica were a bit too touchy feely.............especially when they would "fight" and he would straddle her and pin her to the ground.

Dont forget Ross perving over his own cousin !

Although to be fair, it was Denise Richards haha !

Yes! Or he'd massage her shoulders and stuff, like a boyfriend would. If my brother tried that he'd get a slap!

She was hot though

I must have missed that! I often wondered this whilst the show was running, thanks.

I can't recall that happening lol

This!

I preferred Mike though. Phoebe and her annoying wackyness would have got a lot worse with David, who is also wacky. Mike was relatively straight, so they balanced each other out a bit.

One thing that annoyed me slightly last night on the ep I watched - Rachel walked in on Monica (presumably) lying naked on her bed, waiting for Chandler, when someone knocks on the door of the apartment. Monica panics thinking it's Chandler, but it's Joey and Ross having been thrown out of the cinema because Ross is on the phone to a relative of Emily's.

Why the hell did they knock? The door is always unlocked and they all have keys. If they thought maybe someone was out why didn't they go straight to Joey and Chandler's? Why did Monica assume Chandler would knock when none of them ever do, and she was waiting for him in her bedroom?

Which then made me think about when Jill visits Rachel and she knocks on the door - Phoebe counts the group to check no one was missing, why would she assume that one of them would knock?
Then I remembered the episode where Monica reviews Alessandro's and Alessandro comes to have it out with her and she won't let him in the building by not buzzing him in with the intercom. If the building uses an intercom how did Jill even get in?

Young siblings would do stuff like that but they grow out of it. Monica and Ross however, because they are both so competitive, never progressed past it as they both wanted to be the winner in every situation - if it was in competition with each other or just in general.

Examples would be Monica going into a lake just to fish out a cruddy Troll doll aka The Geller Cup after their dad threw it away, Chandler trying to appease Monica by giving her the ''Best Bad Massages'' award, Ross going naked with Ugly Naked Guy just to win the apartment etc.

Im glad to hear it lol !

Watch closely! I'll give you one example, but there are more...the episode in Season 1 when she breaks up with Alan - Ross says 'rough day?' and she says 'like you can't imagine' (or words to that effect. Then he gives her a shoulder massage! As Friends would say...ewwwwwww

Actually I'm just watching The One With The Video and Rachel and Ross are flanked by their friends for details of the baby's conception. With Monica being the most vocal " When did it happen and how many times did it happen!?" She excitedly asks. She might as well have asked for positions!!

I mean COME ON I know Rach is her bestie but she really wants the details of their one nighter!?
I'm good friends with my Sister In Law but no way would she ask me that kind of thing

I can understand her wondering what in the world led to them sleeping together out of the blue but the line of questioning was just perverted.

Edit: it gets worse when they all protest at Rachel's attempt to destroy the tape and she asks "you don't really want to see this do you?!" MONICA is the most vocal in answering "HELL YEAH!!!"
And then Phoebe clarifies they don't want to see the sex part. But oh my Monica comes across as a right freak in that scene