Friends reunion

 

   Some recent tv shows back in the 90's are starting to have reunions. Having the old cast come back and talk about their experiences with the show, and how much they miss it. One of those shows...is Friends. I wasn't a huge fan of the show when I was young but loved it for its comedy as well as its actors.

Starting in 1994, Friends was a new show that aired on NBC that stared actors like Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, David Schwimmer, Courtney Cox (sometimes Arquette) and Matthew Perry. Back then, the famous Rachel hairstyle was all the rage. In reality, Jennifer hated that hairstyle. The characters were hilarious, especially who...

    The other characters were Pheobe, Monica, Ross and Chandler. All had their own unique traits. Pheobe was considered funny and a musical talent. Ross was considered the smart one who worked in a museum where someone stole his sandwich. Monica, who was Ross' sister, was great at cooking and organization and Chandler.... he had a hard time getting dates.

  There were other side characters of the show like...

 Gunter: he was there from the first season to the last. He worked at the coffee shop called Central Perk where he never told how he felt about Rachel till the last episode. James Michael Taylor portrayed Gunter, but sadly could not be at the reunion because he had cancer. He sadly passed away a couple of months after the reunion.

Ross and Monica's parents: The first episode they were in was when Nana dies twice. Yep, it seems Ross and Monica's grandmother was sick and dying. She dies, but then survives, only to die again. Elliot Gould and Christina Pickles portrayed the parents throughout the series.

 

Ross' ex-wife Carol: she was played by another actor the first time she was seen but was soon replaced by Jane Sibbet throughout the series. Before divorcing, Ross finds out she is pregnant with his son. She was seen married to a woman, which no one had a problem with (except Pheobe but she believed she was inhabited by a spirit of a dead woman at the time)

Fun Bobby: Many of the characters had dates. Not gonna list all of them. The list would be too GD long. One of them, during the first season, was Bobby. He was dating Monica at the time and well...I don't think I saw much after that one season. He was supposed to be fun, but his grandmother jsut died and wasn't much fun.

David:  Pheobe had some boyfriends at the time, but two of them were the most memorable. One was David played by Hank Azaria who voices almost every character on the Simpsons. He almost got the role of Joey but lost to Matt LeBlanc. He also fell in love with Pheobe, only to have his heart broken by leaving her for Minsk and then later, having his heart broken again when Pheobe chooses somebody else.

Marcel the Monkey: In season one, Ross gets a monkey named Marcel. However, he has to give the monkey up when Marcel...well goes crazy when he starts humping Rachel's toys and Ross realizes he has to give the monkey up. Only to see him again in a later episode.

Mike: Portrayed by Paul Rudd, a newbie at the time of this show, starts falling in love with Pheobe who has had her heart broken many times. Almost lost her to David but proposes marriage to her, and well...he stayed around through the rest of the series. Paul Rudd now is famous for many movies and tv shows. He couldn't make it to the reunion, but still will always be a part of the Friends show

Ben Geller: Known with his twin brother in many shows, Cole was mostly known as Ross' son. He is seen in some episodes, especially when Ross dawns an Armadillo costume during the holiday. He soon ended up doing tv shows, movies and Disney Channel. Now he and his twin brother Dylan are grown up. Sadly, Cole could not make it to the reunion, but was considered a Freind to the Friends cast

 

 Richard: Like Pheobe, Monica also had some boyfriends. One of them being Richard. Portrayed by Tom Selleck of Magnum PI, Richard was dating Monica for the first couple of seasons before leaving the show. Today he's still acting and was seen a little bit on the reunion special. If he keeps the mustache, we'll all know who Tom Selleck is.

Janice: Chandler's first girlfriend who used to date around the first seasons. Chandler would find her annoying yet would not want to hurt her feelings at all. Janice would have nasally voice and high- pitched laugh that almost every one of the friends found annoying. She was one other longest lasting character throughout the series.

  The show ended in 2004, almost twenty years ago. It felt like we just saw the series finale where the characters were making tough decisions on their future. Moving from the apartment, staying together as well as saying goodbye to their friends.  We were their friends, and it was hard to say goodbye, and now...in the reunion bringing back old friends.... it's as if they never left us.