OK, so maybe your ringtone is "Smelly Cat," and, we get it: Your Chandler impression couldn't
be more dead-on.
You love Friends, but these are a few hidden details that even the biggest Friends fanatic
might have missed.
The one with Joey's PIN number
Oh, Joey, he's such a loveable oaf.
His innocence is endearing, and it makes for a lot of hilarious moments.
Remember the time he thought his Adam's apple was called a Joey's apple?
"Would you put that back on?
Monica's gonna be here any minute!"
"But it hurts my Joey's apple."
Or the time he thought there were 56 states?
It kind of makes you wonder how Joey manages to remember all his lines for his acting jobs.
The guy can't even remember his own pin number!
When he's in Las Vegas for an acting gig that falls through, he has to ask Phoebe to go
to the ATM near his apartment and look for his pin number, which he had scratched into
the machine.
"Listen uh can you do me a favor?
I forgot the pin number to my ATM card.
Can you get it for me?"
"Sure, where is it?"
"Um, I scratched it on the ATM machine down on the corner."
The pin number, 5639, holds special significance for Joey, which makes it even funnier that
he can't remember it.
When you punch the numbers into a phone, the digits actually spell out Joey.
All Joey has to do to type in his PIN number is literally spell his name, and he can't
even remember that!
The one with the never-ending pregnancy
Depending on who you ask, the on-again-off-again relationship between Ross and Rachel is either
one of the show's best qualities, or its most obnoxious.
Whether or not you believe the two were on a break, you probably didn't notice that Rachel's
pregnancy goes on for a really, really long time.
Like, an impossibly long time.
Rachel and Ross briefly rekindle their romance before Monica and Chandler get married, and
things get pretty hot and heavy.
"Did you do it on our invitations?"
"Not on the ones we sent out."
This is the part where we need to do some math.
Even assuming that Rachel is only a couple weeks pregnant when she takes the pregnancy
test, she's seemingly pregnant for almost a whole year.
We know that Monica's wedding date is May 15, which means Rachel was pregnant by early
May at the latest.
You'd think that by the time Valentine's Day rolled around nine months later, she'd be
ready to give birth, but Ross mentions that the baby recently started kicking, something
that usually happens much earlier in a pregnancy.
Rachel doesn't give birth until the season finale, which, judging by the lightweight
clothes everyone is wearing, takes place in the spring.
That's one long pregnancy!
The one with the silent Gunther
The quirky, deadpan barista Gunther may not be a main character, but he brings a whole
lot of laughs whenever he pops up on screen.
"Hey, so, what is this, some kind of snake or something?"
Fun fact: James Michael Tyler, the actor who played Gunther, was a real-life barista when
he was hired to be an extra on Friends to help Central Perk look more "authentic" by
pretending to work the espresso machine.
Tyler had been an extra on the show for a while, without any lines, of course, when
one of the creators, Marta Kauffman, asked if he had acting experience.
In 2014, Tyler recounted the experience to BuzzFeed, explaining:
"I said, 'Yeah, I have a Master of Fine Arts in acting, actually.'
'I've done a lot of stage, theater stuff, and things like that.'
And she said, 'That's really good to know.'"
And then…
"Midway through the second season, they said: "Your name is Gunther, and you are now a character,
and you have a line in the show, and it is: 'Yeah.'
That one line turned out to be the start of bigger things to come, and Gunther ended up
becoming a memorable part of the series.
"Hey, Gunther.
Be a good little boy and bring me a whisky."
The one with the familiar nurse
Estelle Leonard, Joey's talent agent, might not be a huge character on Friends, but she
is certainly unforgettable.
"Have you ever seen me ecstatic?"
"'No."
"Well, here it is!"
While we love her, we can't help but blame her for the rough state of Joey's acting career.
She isn't exactly the most professional of agents, and you can't help but wonder just
how successful Joey could have been with an agent who actually cared.
"I'm gonna tell you the same thing I told Al Minzer and his pyramid of dogs: 'Take any
job you can get and don't make on the floor.'"
Even Phoebe, who has no experience in the industry, does a better job getting Joey acting
gigs when she briefly acts as his agent.
If you look closely, there's actually a reason Estelle is such a lousy agent: she's working
two jobs!
Or at least, the actress who played her is.
June Gable, the actress who played Estelle, appears in a Season 1 episode as a nurse in
the hospital where Ross' son, Ben, is born.
"Alright, honey, time to start pushin'."
The one with "Condom Guy"
It's hard to forget Frank Buffay Jr., Phoebe's half-brother.
Phoebe grew up not knowing about her little brother, as her dad abandoned her family.
"Hey lady!
Hey, wait up.
How do you know my dad?"
Once the two finally meet, in Season 2, Episode 21, Frank is close to graduating from high
school.
The two get off to an awkward start, but eventually develop an affectionate sibling relationship.
After Frank graduates from high school, he marries his former teacher.
Phoebe acts as a surrogate for the couple, giving birth to triplets in the show's one
hundredth episode.
"I wanna do this.
I wanna carry your baby."
"Oh, oh, oh, thank you so much!"
Even if you're the most dedicated fan, you probably didn't realize that you actually
saw Giovanni Ribisi, the actor who played Frank, in an earlier episode.
Ribisi appears in Season 2, Episode 6, as the guy who accidentally drops a condom in
Phoebe's guitar case when she's performing on the sidewalk outside of Central Perk.
"Uhh, did I accidentally drop a condom in your case?
It's kind of an emergency."
Alas, the condom guy was not actually intended to be Phoebe's brother.
Ribisi was initially supposed to be an extra on the show, but the producers liked him so
much that they decided to write him into the supporting cast.
Now, that's what we call being in the right place at the right time!