I'm the same with Ross. There are instances where he just annoyed the crap out of me, but he's still hilarious

The episode where Phoebe finds the thumb is on now and she's talking about not being able to keep the money in her account because it is dishonest and would bring bad karma.
Maybe mugging people brought her bad karma before?
Its also funny how she tells Rachel she never lies but then teaches Joey how to lie...and at the end of the episode she says "next week stealing"
I kinda feel Rachel could have been the one to teach him how to lie, or Monica with the stealing as she nicks money from Ross's apartment. They needed a character to be less than perfect but they could've had that be Rachel sometimes.

I think people are taking Phoebe the character a whole lot more seriously than she was intended to be taken.

At last, someone speaking sense!

Love the references in Friends to Seinfeld. Courtney Cox played Jerry's fake wife and Mr. Heckles played the role of Kramer when they spoofed Seinfeld on Seinfeld! Ha!

I think Chandler's ATM pin was the same as Jerry's?

He ACTUALLY fell backwards and hurt his hip when he was trying to stand in his rollerboots he was trying to advertise....that fall helped him get the winning slogan for the advertising company!!!!

Not really, the question was asked as to who the most disliked Friends character is and Phoebe seems to be it. Everyone has their favourites and least favourites, she seems to have the most negative characteristics out of the 6 characters.

Yeah, but people seem to be getting really angry about it!

Really not

When Phoebe mugged people she was a child who was homeless, she needed what little money she could get to buy food and survive.
When she found the thumb she was an adult with a home and a job. While she might have liked the money she didn't need it. Plus it was a large sum of money, whereas Ross and other 'pre-teen comic book nerds' would have probably had only a few dollars on them.

Re. the lying, she is capable of lying, but chooses not to (though she obviously has thoughout the ten series). The 'next week: stealing' line was most likely intended as a joke, like she's teaching Joey immoral acts.


One thing that always confuses me is their ages. Monica and Rachel are the same age as they were friends at school in some of the same classes. Rachel is the youngest because she is the last one to turn 30.
Ross is two or three years older than Monica, and therefore Rachel too. Chandler and Ross are the same age because they were at college together.
Joey is at least older than Chandler (and thefore Monica and Rachel) because in TOW They All Turn Thirty he says 'And now Chandler!' after he freaked out at turning thirty on his own birthday.
Phoebe was 14 when she became homeless, and mugged Ross when he was 12 at the oldest (did he ever say what age he was?), so she could have been anything from 14 to 16. But in the Thirty episode she finds out she's a year older than she thought she was. So she must be at least three years older than Ross.

But in series one Monica is 26, but in series three Ross is 29, when he should be 30-31.
Although when Friends was first written Monica was supposed to be older than Ross, so that could explain that.

Hardly.

Phoebe was my favourite character at first but I ended up really disliking her. She certainly went from zany to deeply unpleasant during the life of the show. Ross was probably the most consistent character.

I'm not. That's why I like to use the little

Sometimes it's hard to tell online when a person is angry or when they are just enjoying a debate.

Agreed - who on earth is going to get angry with a fictional character who has not been on screen for almost 10 years, except in repeats??

In TOW the Flashback, Monica and Rachel clearly have not seen each other for years. In fact, it takes Monica a little while to recognise Rachel. But when Chandler and Monica are dating and Rachel sneaks to Chandler's apartment, she overhears Monica telling Chandler that ever since High School, she has told Rachel everything in her life.

I still love the show - I find the glaring continuity errors quite funny.

Anyone think Rachel and Phoebe are really bitchy & unlikeable some of the time? I have noticed it more on rewatching the complete series on DVD.

Phoebe makes some cruel jibes towards Chandler and Rachel is just such a selfish jealous person at times.

Gina Tribbiani in the spinoff ‘Joey’ looks nothing like the actresses that portrayed Joey’s sisters in the episode where one of them fondles about with Chandler. For instance she’s most likely naturally blonde but in ‘Friends’ all the sisters had jet black hair. Also the actress playing Joey’s agent in LA just happens to be the same lady who turned up in ‘Friends’ once as a former neighbour of Monica’s with a dodgy fake British accent to the annoyance and ridicule of Monica & Phoebe.

Anyone remember 'Mad About You' about a couple in New York?

There were a few crossovers between Friends, Seinfeld and Mad About You.

The husband (Paul Reiser) was Seinfeld's friend/neighbour and leased his "bachelor pad" to Kramer.

The wife (Helen Hunt) from this series appeared in an episode (of Friends) at Central Perk with a friend and tried to order drinks from Pheobe, mistaking her for Ursula, Pheobe's 'evil' twin, the nutty waitress in the couple's local bar/restaurant.

In TOW the Blackout (Friends) the blackout was caused by the wife in Mad about You.

Jamie Buchman's friend in that episode, was her Mad About You friend, Fran Devanow, played by Leila Kenzle.

THIS is them in the Mad About You lineup, and THIS is the two of them, just after they've walked into Central Perk.

Oh, and the local bar/restaurant was called Riffs.

ETA: Another bit of Mad About You trivia.

Anne Ramsay, who plays Jamie Buchman's sister, Lisa Stemple, has appeared in two Start Trek TNG episodes.

The other thing about Joeys sisters is in the Chandler episode they all seem similar age and all adults. But then in a much later episode when his youngest sister is pregnant she is meant to be quite young, so how old would she have been in the Chandler episode realistically?

Rachel is very jealous in the way she broke up Ross and Julie and then Ross and Bonnie and in both instances she then proceeded to break up with Ross almost straight away. Then there's the whole thing of her wanting to go to London and wreck things with Emily. But I like to think when she saw her with Ross and didn't say anything that showed how she'd grown as a character.

When did Chandler give up his dislike of Thanksgiving (and particularly the food)?

Don't think he did, in season 8 in the episode with Brad Pitt, Monica says that Chandler won't be having Turkey as he doesn't eat holiday food.

Oh yes, you're right. Ahh well then, don't I feel foolish?

ETA: Although in the season 10 Thanksgiving episode, he makes the cranberry sauce ...

The actress who played Ursula was rubbish.