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Friends (1994) - 330 corrections

starring Courteney Cox, David Schwimmer, Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry (add more)

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In the episode where Phoebe's grandmother keeps lying to Phoebe about her father, Phoebe goes to visit her father and tells Joey and Chandler that, 'What if he's not this great dad. What if he's still the same guy who ran out on my mom and us before we were born.' But in the episode where Phoebe meets her dad at her grandmother's funeral, her father talks about how he burnt the formula, and put on Phoebe and Ursula's diapers backwards. Thus Phoebe and Ursula must have been born before Frank left. [Phoebe could have easily been told that Frank Sr had left before she and Ursula had been born and not realised he had left when she was a young baby. Her grandmother did tell a lot of lies about Frank so she may have been the one to tell Phoebe this as it may seem less hurtful.]
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Rachel had the longest pregnancy ever - she found out she was pregnant at the time of Monica and Chandler's wedding in the season finale in May 2001, but didn't have the baby until season finale in May 2002. I know it was for ratings but as the show tries to keep timelines accurate (e.g. Xmas and Thanksgiving shows air around the actual time) it seems they would have kept the pregnancy to the usual 9 months. [They do not keep the timelines THAT accurate. Obviously the holiday shows are on time for marketing reasons, but how often do you hear them mention specific dates? Yes, her pregnancy went a few weeks over, but not a whole year.]
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Throughout the series, the intercom buzzer to get into the apartment building is used sporadically. In some episodes, people have to be let into the building by communicating through the intercom; in others, the visitors suddenly appear knocking at the door. [As was demonstrated by Phoebe in the one where Monica gets shouted at for her review of Allesandros restaurant, if someone is leaving the building they may just hold the door open for someone trying to get in.]
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In his apartment from later episodes, Ross' kitchen door is on the same wall as the front door, and it is a long and narrow kitchen, but the hallway outside runs the opposite direction and Ross' apartment is a middle apartment, he has neighbors on both sides. The floor plan doesn't make sense unless the kitchen is only a foot wide, otherwise it would just off into the hallway, it would make sense if he had a end apartment. [Ross has an end apartment, so his floor plan makes sense.]
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The outside shot they use of Monica's building is wrong as it shows them to be on a corner block with buildings adjoining on either side. However, Monica's apartment has windows on 3 side - kitchen, living room and bedrooms. [The kitchen window is at an angle and not really on the 3rd side of the building so the the apartment really only has windows on two sides.]
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At one point Ross goes out with a girl whose father is played by Bruce Willis. In The One With The Nap Partners, Ross and Joey are really excited because they rented 'Die Hard' which stars, Bruce Willis. Monica's credit card is stolen in the 1st series by a woman who hated the film 'Dead Poet's Society', in a later episode Robin Williams turns up in a cameo role. It would be interesting to see who stars in those films in the Friends 'Universe'. [When Ross is going out with the daughter of "Bruce Willis", he is actually going out with the daughter of a man called Paul Stevenson. Just as in Friends 'Universe' Ross is Ross, not David Schwimmer, Paul Stevenson is Paul Stevenson, not Bruce Willis. Hence Bruce Willis can easily star in Die Hard. And same with Robin Williams and all the other special guests.]
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The outside shot they use for Monica's building cannot be their building as on no floor is there a balcony, which Monica's apartment has. [We're never shown a 360 degree view of the building. The balcony could be on the other side. And since Joey and Chandler's apartment didn't have one, the shot of the building could be of their side.]
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Matthew Perry was so famous for missing his mark while taping that he developed the backward slide that you see him do in almost every show. He would come bounding into his scene slide backwards looking down for his mark and then hit it. (Per the tour guide at Warner Brothers Studio). [Matthew Perry has never done a backwards slide on Friends.]
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In the earlier episodes there was always a window that the friends had to go through to get to Monica's balcony, but toward the end the friends walk off the balcony instead of climbing out of it [Monica may have had the wall rebuild into a doorway since it would be more efficient than a window. Even though we never get to see this we may assume that the characters do stuff between each episode. Like having carpenters work in their apartments.]
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During one of the Las Vegas episodes Phoebe insinuates that she has been married in Vegas before. We know she divorced Duncan, the gay ice dancer, but we never hear mention of her divorcing this mystery man she supposedly married in Vegas. In season 10 she marries Mike Hannigan, so this would be an illegal marriage and make Pheebs a bigamist. [She might have gotten a divorce immediately once she found out that Las Vegas marriages are for real.]
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Joey is shown moving into Chandler's apartment and meeting everyone for the first time approximately one year before Rachel showed up. It is also mentioned that it is a warm time of year, indicating that it is set during the summer months. However in 'The One with All the Thanksgivings' (series 6) Joey is shown living with the Friends by Thanksgiving (i.e. November) 1992. [This entry corrects itself: Joey is shown living there BY Thanksgiving.... so he moved in during the prior summer.]
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The Spanish subtitles for this show are laughably bad. Across the first seven seasons, the subtitles routinely mistranslate what the actors are saying. In the worst cases, they omit whole sentences. Many times, they use words that don't exist in any Spanish dictionary. [Spanish subtitles don't count as mistakes for the show. It's the fault of the subtitlers used for that particular foreign release, not of the "Friends" production crew.]
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Every time, when a shot from outside is shown, showing Monica's building, then turning to show Ross' one, we can see that there's a street in the middle. However, when we see Monica's apartment, inside, and we see the balcony (and being Ross' one in front of this one) we see that there's no street in the middle of these ones, there are more buildings around them. [Monica's windows overlook an alley that shows Ross' building across an alleyway, as evidenced by the fire escape (that also is not visible from the street.) You cannot see Monica's apartment while looking at the building from the street.]
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Over time, the fooz ball table in Chandler and Joey's apartment has a glass top. In some episodes, there is a glass top and items are set on top of the table, such as mail - or they even eat meals on it. In other episodes, there is no glass top and they reach into the table to retrieve the ball, move the players, etc. [It is a removable piece of glass/plastic that allows them to use the table as needed, either as a regular table or to play.]
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In the first season, the number of years Ross was married to Carol changes from four to seven, and then over the course of the rest of the show, the number finally lands on six. [Ross never claims to have been married to Carol for seven years, he says they were together for seven years. Three years they dated, four they were married.]
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Hugsy, Joey's penguin pal, also appears in Boy Meets World season 7 in Cory and Topanga's apartment after it is repainted. See him on the dresser in their bedroom. [It's a mass-produced stuffed animal. Of course it shows up elsewhere in the world.]
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There's an impossibility with the view out of the guys' apartment. Take a look at the hallway set: On the left there's the door to their apartment, then a wall, then the stairwell, which runs on the other side of the guys' kitchen/bathroom/living room. Yet when you go inside and see that same wall, it's got windows that show a direct view of outside. Those windows could only show a view of the stairwell. [The space betwen the stairs and the window is fully valid. Note a few things. These stairs go back and forth, as in they are not one continuous flight. Second, the floors are close together enough that there would be few steps. This allows more then enough room for a window, hence making the view entirely possible.]
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The only time that any apartment doors are locked is when it is important to the episode. For example, Monica's apartment door is always unlocked, even when they go out or she and Chandler are having sex, but in "The One Where Underdog Gets Away" (Series 1), it's locked when there is all the "got the keys?" business. Also, Ross' apartment is never locked, except for in "The One With Phoebe's Birthday Dinner" (series 9), when they lock Emma in, and in "The One With The Engagement Picture" (S7 E4) when Phoebe has the key and unlocks the door then Ross demands it back. [In "The One With the Dozen Lasagnas," Joey and Chandler's apartment is actually locked when they leave Monica and Rachel's apartment with one of the lasagnas. They are standing in the hall talking about babies, and Joey uses the key to enter the apartment.]
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Even in the shows filmed after 2001, you can still see the World Trade Center in certain shots. The producers used a lot of the same footage throughout the whole series. [No, Only the episodes shot prior to September 11, 2001 have the WTC in them. Thus explaining why some of the episodes from that season have them. They are absent for the last few seasons.]
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Throughout the series, the central perk sign in the coffee shop reads the correct way round when they're inside the coffee shop, but in scenes outside the coffe shop the sign still reads the correct way. [It's supposed to. It's painted on both sides of the window. The logo is thick enough that you don't see through it.]
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