Friends is one of the most popular primetime sitcoms ever, and there is no denying that
it has made a huge impact on pop culture.
It recently had it’s 25th anniversary so I think it’d be fun to take a look back
on the iconic series and check out the celebrities who guest starred on it.
They have a pretty impressive roster that you guys might have forgotten about.
I’m your girl joce, welcome back to top 10 beyond the screen.
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Let’s get into today’s list here is the top 10 celebrities you forgot appeared on
friends.
10) Beginning our list at number 10 is Robin Williams.
The beloved actor and comedian appeared as a guest star in an episode back in 1997.
It was during season 3, the episode called: The One With The Ultimate Fighting Champion.
Considering how big of an actor he was at the time, having him on the show was a huge
deal.
He appears at the start of the episode when Monica is about to tell the rest of the gang
a story at Central Perk.
But she gets interrupted by 2 customers, Tomas and Tim, one being played by Robin Williams.
They ask Monica and the gang to make room for them on the iconic couch and when they
do, they eavesdrop on the men's convo as Robins character breaks out into tears claiming that
his wife is sleeping with another man.
Turns out that other man, was his friend Tim, who’s sitting right next to him.
So they end up fighting and leaving the coffee shop.
Robin’s scene was short but that’s because it wasn’t planned.
He was on a nearby set at the time the episode was being filmed and he wandered onto the
Friends set where the writers asked if he would be up for a quick cameo.
Billy Crystal, who played Tim, was working with him and joined in on the fun.
Their entire scene was improved including the dialogue with the rest of the cast, but
it will forever go down in history.
9) Up next at number 9 is Reese Witherspoon; she played Rachel Green’s spoiled younger
sister Jill, and no one could deny the hilarious chemistry between her and Jennifer Aniston.
But when Reese was asked to make a return to the show, she declined, which is weird
because most actors would have jumped at the opportunity.
Just a few days ago Reese revealed that she turned down the offer because she didn’t
like performing in front of a live audience.
If you didn’t know, Friends films in front of an audience, so all the laughs and reactions
are actually real.
Reese admitted that she was so nervous while filming and that she completely blacked out
during her experience.
Of course, we couldn’t tell, because she naturally did such a good job in her performance.
But that was the one and only time she’s ever filmed with a live audience.
When talking to AP Entertainment she said: I’ve never done it again.
They asked me back and I said I couldn’t do it, I was too scared.
Her co-star Jennifer was with her during the time of the interview and she was a little
disappointed because she had no idea.
But if you want to see them on the screen together again you can find them on the new
TV series called: The Morning Show.
8) Cruising into number 8 is Danny DeVito, the legend.
He appeared in an episode in season 10 called The One Where The Stripper Cries, and it’s
probably the best cameo in the history of television.
He appeared as a man named Roy who showed up to Phoebe’s bachelorette party as a stripper
named Officer Goodbody.
The girls booked him last minute so it was basically all they had left.
He does this hilarious and awful stripping dance number that actually has some of the
cast members laughing during the scene.
But Phoebe can’t keep her disgust to herself and he ends up breaking down into tears and
decides to leave the stripping profession forever.
Now, after all these years, the actor has talked about that legendary episode.
He admitted that he got the cameo in the first place because Jennifer Aniston was his neighbour
at the time and she hooked him up with the gig.
He told People’s TV: I didn’t go down as far as I would like to have gone, but that’s
okay.
How could you pass up a chance to strip for the lovely ladies on Friends?
Wouldn’t miss it for the world.
And we are so glad you didn’t Danny.
7) Sniping the number 7 spot on our list is Paul Rudd.
Nowadays you are probably used to seeing him in the Marvel Universe, taking on the role
of Ant Man.
But there was once a time when he was on Friends and played Phoebe’s husband, Mike Hannigan.
Their relationship was a fan-favourite and that probably came after the episode where
they changed their names to Crapbag and Princess Consuela Banana-Hammock.
We watched their relationship grow from just dating, to being engaged, to saying I Do at
the atler, he played a big part in the final season of the series.
He was first introduced in season 9 and played her love interest for a total of 17 episodes.
And even though he’s huge in the MCU right now, the actor says that people always bring
up his time on Friends.
During an interview with ABC News he admitted that people will go up to him on the streets
and say: How’s Phoebe?
Fun fact though, apparently Mike and Phoebe weren't supposed to end up together originally.
Actor Hank Azaria, who played her ex-boyfriend David, revealed that it was his character
who was supposed to marry her.
He spoke on it and said: the plan was to bring David back.
But I think what happened was Paul Rudd is so awesome that they sort of found a groove
with him.
No hard feelings though, he also said that Paul Rudd was comedically deserving of Phoebe’s
love, so.
6) In spot number 6 is Julia Roberts.
For pretty much an entire generation, she was the most famous woman on the planet.
That’s why it was such a big deal to Friends fans when she made her way onto the show.
She played the role of a girl named Susie, that Chandler once tormented, but then goes
on a date with her many years later after seeing that she looks like Julia Roberts.
A total babe.
But her time on the show ends with an epic scene where she tricks him into going to a
restaurant bathroom for him to put her panties on, she tells him it’s just something kinky
that she’s into.
But when he does, she takes all of his clothes and runs away, as payback for when he used
to torment her as a kid.
The reason behind the cameo later came to surface and they actually asked Julia to be
on the show because of the Super Bowl in 1996.
Part 1 and 2 of episode 13 was scheduled to air after the Super Bowl so NBC knew they
needed something big to keep the viewers watching.
What better way than to hire Julia Roberts as a guest star?
Good call on their end.
5) Half way through the list at number 5 is Charlie Sheen.
Phoebe had a handful of love interests throughout the series and Charlie Sheen was one of them,
a military man named Ryan.
He appeared in season 2 on the episode called: The One with the Chicken Pox, where he and
Phoebe both get the chicken pox during what was supposed to be a romantic weekend together.
After spending months being submerged inside of a submarine, he resurfaces and asks Phoebe
on a date even though she had the chicken pox.
How romantic.
But he ended up getting screwed over because he got them from her and then they were both
infected, uncomfortable, itchy, and couldn’t even enjoy their time together.
The cocreator of the show, Marta Kauffman sat down for an interview and was asked if
she regrets anything from the show.
She revealed that there were 2 episodes and this one was one of them.
She said: it’s much harder for me to enjoy the good moments when there are moments in
it where i’m going, oh my god, we let that happen?
We did that?
Nothing against Sheen’s performance, but the episode wasn’t really anything special
in my opinion.
It kind of gets overshadowed by all the other really good ones.
4) In spot number 4 is George Clooney, he played one of the handsome doctors during
a season 1 episode called: the one with 2 parts.
In the episode he teams up with actor Noah Wyle to play the two hot doctors that end
up flirting with Monica and Rachel.
The girls end up in the emergency room after Rachel hurts her ankle and they switch names
so that she can use Monica’s health insurance.
But while they are there, they run into the two doctors, and they ask to go out on a double
date.
What’s funny about this cameo is that it was kind of a crossover to the TV series ER,
where both the actors played doctors.
The whole episode is basically everyone deceiving each other.
Monica and Rachel change names and don’t tell the doctors, and Clooney and Wyle change
the names of their E.R characters to other handsome doctor names.
It’s not actually some big elaborate crossover, but it’s pretty cool that it worked out
that way.
And I'm not going to lie, when I first watched the episode, I didn’t even recognize that
it was George Clooney.
It went right over my head; he looks so young!
No offence man.
3) Alright guys, in the third spot is the hilarious Christina Applegate.
Her character is actually one of my favourites.
She took on the role of Rachel’s sister Amy, a really rude and shallow girl, but absolutely
hilarious.
She appeared in a few different episodes throughout the series but from one of them came one of
the most memorable jokes of the show.
It’s when Amy refuses to remember that Phoebe’s name isn’t Emma and doesn’t understand
why Phoebe keeps saying Phoebe!
That’s when Amy asks: why does she keep making that noise?
Applegate later revealed while talking to Today.com that the famous line almost didn’t
happen.
She said: that was written as a rewrite in front of the live audience.
But it seemed to pay off because she actually won an Emmy for her guest appearance and if
it wasn’t the actual line itself, it’s the way she delivers it that won her that
award.
It was perfect.
2) Here we are at number 2 with Bruce Willis.
He showed up in 3 episodes during season 6 and his guest appearance was also a huge fan-favourite,
because the overall storyline was hysterical.
He took on the role of Paul Stevens, who happened to be the father of Elizabeth Stevens, Ross’
girlfriend.
Seeing as Ross was Elizabeth’s professor, her dad wasn’t too pleased with their relationship.
Throughout the few episodes he starts to date Rachel so it’s this incredibly awkward double-dating
situation.
Bruce also won an Emmy for his performance on the series.
But the story of how he got his cameo is the best part of everything.
It was later revealed that he ended up on the show because of a bet.
Bruce Willis and Matthew Perry (Chandler) met while filming the movie: The Whole Nine
Yards.
Bruce didn’t think it would do well at the box office but Matthew thought it would.
So they made a bet that if the movie was number 1 at the box office, he had to appear on Matthews
show Friends.
I’d also like to point out that Bruce donated the money that he earned for the guest appearance,
to 5 different charities.
So he deserves more than an Emmy award in my opinion.
1)In our number 1 spot is the legendary hottie: Brad Pitt.
It was back in 2001 when he appeared on a season 8 episode titled The One with the Rumour.
He took on the role of Will Colberft, a man who was holding a grudge towards Rachel who
he went to high school with and said that she wasn’t nice to him.
Yes, Jennifer Anisto and Brad Pitt were once married so this cameo goes down in history.
But his character Will is so angry because he lost 150lbs since high school and Rachel
started to flirt with him because she didn’t even recognize him.
He was invited over by Monica for thanksgiving, because she was friends with him in school,
seeing as they were both the fat kids.
So the whole episode is Brad Pitt making fun of his ex-wife, when we look back at it now.
Brad recently took a trip down memory lane and talked about his experience on the show
at years later.
Apparently he messed up his first line when he went for the audition.
He told US Weekly: I remember it.
It’s a great cast, man.
I mean, they laugh and really have a great time with each other.
But I flubbed my first line.
We had to stop and start again.
We can forgive him for that though, nothing is more iconic than the pairing of Brad Pitt
and Jennifer Aniston; it’s genius.
Well, there you have it guys, that is our top 10 friends countdown.
Give it a thumbs up if you enjoyed it and share your thoughts and feelings with me down
in the comments.
In the meantime, let’s check out some comments from my last Friends list.
Christina Dunbar says: i love the show friends my favourite is joey - - I think he’s the
favourite for a lot of people.
My favourite is Ross.
Tiffany V says: I watched it growing up, but I agree don’t do a reboot or reunion.
Leave the show on a high note, sorry - - don’t be sorry I totally get that.
I just feel like no matter what they do now, it wont affect what has already happened,
so where’s the harm.
The show is over and it was a huge success so who cares.
Mihlali Charlieman says: I miss the old Matthew Perry - - same.
There’s still hope you guys.
Candace P says: anyone remember the epic fail that was Gilmore Girls reunion?
No?
Lol that’s why they shouldn't - - HEYY NOW WAIT A MINUTE?
I loved that reunion?
Was
that a fail?