I was reminiscing the other day about posters I had in my room growing up and one of them was this absolutely unhinged promo photo of the Friends cast all laying in bed together in various head-to-toe configurations. Matthew Perry's head is straight-up resting on Jennifer Aniston's butt! Courtney Cox and David Schwimmer are intimately holding hands even though they play siblings! I loved this poster!
See for yourself: https://www.ebay.com/itm/360951459440 (Might have to add this to our Should I Buy This? thread tbh).
But, really, all of the Friends promo photos from back in the day were so bizarre and so very, very 90s.
Could they BE sitting any more awkwardly on stairs? https://www.tvfanatic.com/slideshows/friends-cast-photos-remember-when/
What time is it? Time for the girls to take off their shoes, evidently: https://entrepreneurshandbook.co/how-team-negotiation-made-a-group-of-friends-each-20-million-a-year-e20a501951d6
WHY: https://i.redd.it/c49gpnh61b121.png
I love all of these, they are RIDICULOUS.
Character actor Mike Hagerty sadly passed away this week at the age of 67: https://deadline.com/2022/05/mike-hagerty-dead-friends-mr-treeger-seinfeld-actor-1235018164/.
While he starred in a variety of movies and TV shows (including Wayne's World, Austin Powers, Seinfeld, Brooklyn Nine-Nine and the wildly underrated HBO dramedy Somebody Somewhere) he was, perhaps, best known as Mr. Treeger on Friends. Hagerty played the curmudgeonly super who almost evicts the girls from their apartment until Joey (and his dance moves) save the day.
It's another side character that the Friends world has lost, as fans said goodbye to James Michael Tyler (aka Gunther) back in October 2021. RIP <3
This opinion even shocks me, as an ardent Ross hater for eons. But in rewatched, Ross always has the best comedic moments:
-Leather pants
-Holiday armadillo
-Bagpipes
-“MY SANDWICH”
It took a few seasons for him to break out of his Eeyore-ness, but once he embraced his chaotic self, he became 10x better as a character.
It’s funny, because I remember hearing he was considered the breakout after season 1 (and they all negotiated salary off of him), but I don’t consider him a star until a few seasons in.