Friends might be one of the most popular sitcoms to ever grace TV, but it's absolutely littered
with continuity errors.
From wacky editing choices to glaring prop mistakes, these are the mistakes that are
hard to ignore in Friends.
Typically, accessories don't just magically disappear…but anything is possible in the
wild and wacky world of Friends.
In the Season Two episode "The One Where Ross Finds Out," Rachel's necklace randomly appears
and disappears across cuts.
The gaffe occurs in the scene while she's finding out that Ross and his girlfriend are
getting a cat.
"Together?"
"Uh-huh."
"Both of you?
Together?"
"Yeah we figure it'll live with Ross half the time and with me half the time."
"Ohhh."
This particular goof is emphasized by the fact that Rachel is wearing a white V-neck
shirt, which makes the necklace a distinct focal point.
How the crew missed this one is anyone's guess.
It's either a minor mistake, or a major miracle.
In the Season Nine episode, "The One with the Mugging," the props in Matt LeBlanc's
hand dramatically transform, and right in the middle of a scene.
The scene in question involves Joey raiding Monica and Rachel's fridge for drinks.
First, he's seen holding two bottles of juice…See them in his right hand?
But after the cut, he's suddenly holding two cans of Coca-Cola:
With his knack for sleight-of-hand trickery, perhaps Joey should've abandoned his actorly
ambitions and pursued a career as a professional magician instead.
Introducing the gift that wraps itself, no mess, no fuss.
In "The One with the Red Sweater," Monica just can't wait to open her wedding gifts…and
so she ends up opening them all without Chandler.
First, the gift appears to magically shed all of its wrapping paper in a matter of seconds:
"Hi."
"Hey, how you feeling?"
Later, this remarkable parcel suddenly appears to be wrapped up again, a modern-day wedding-present
miracle!
Well, we feel great about this magical box.
It's literally the gift that keeps on giving.
Friends' pilot episode features a remarkable bit of exposition: Phoebe is evidently highly
adept at the black arts.
In "The One Where Monica Gets a Roommate," we see Phoebe magically teleport herself:
At one point, she's standing in the kitchen…and then she's sipping from a mug in the living
room, all in the blink of an eye.
Witch!
"Oh, I just pulled out four eyelashes.
That can't be good."
Hey, if pulling out four eyelashes is what it takes for a sorceress to teleport, we think
that's pretty great, actually.
Witch!
The first season of Friends is a goofy graveyard of continuity errors, and one of the most
obvious ones can be seen in "The One with George Stephanopoulos."
The scene in question finds Ross, Joey, and Chandler attending a New York Rangers game.
Ross is clearly shown with a Rangers-branded foam finger…but it disappears mere seconds
later.
"Him, get him!
You're not laughing now, are you, pal?"
We have absolutely no idea where that foam finger could've gone.
By the time we make it to the Season 6 episode "The One Where Ross Dates a Student," Rachel
has moved in with Lisa Kudrow's Phoebe, but Phoebe accidentally starts a fire in their
apartment with a candle, destroying their bedrooms.
"Oh it's bad.
It's really bad.
The only thing there that isn't burned is an ax which I do not remember buying."
While they're trying to decide who should move into Monica's guest room, you'll catch
a glimpse of the actual sound stage…and you can clearly see that the part of the set
that makes up the kitchen and living room are in the shot.
This mistake is likely noticeable, or is at least far more so, because of the conversion
to widescreen for HD broadcast.
Remember The Magna Doodle hanging on the back of Chandler and Joey's door?
Well, it's the source of one major continuity error that's really rather tough to miss.
About twelve minutes into the Season Four episode, "The One with the Wedding Dresses,"
the words on The Doodle shift from "get out!" to "poop" to "get out!"
again.
Continuity error, or proof that a mischievous poltergeist lurks on the premises?
That's ultimately up to you to decide.
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