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About Friends
Friends was one of the longest-running and most popular sitcoms in American television history while managing to instantly gain millions of fans all over the world. The show was centered on the lives of a group of six twenty-somethings (eventually thirty-somethings) consisting of three men and three women living in Greenwich Village, New York City.

The program was produced by Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television for NBC in the US, and was first broadcasted on that network. It was followed by a host of other broadcast networks in numerous countries throughout the globe. In the US, the first episode was aired on September 22, 1994, and the last on May 6, 2004.

Overview
The popularity of the show was such that, by the end of the series, the six main cast members were each paid US$ 1,000,000 per episode. Advertisements during the series finale, which attracted an audience of over 52 million viewers, cost $2,000,000 for a 30-second spot in the United States and CAD$190,000 in Canada. The last episode was released on DVD 5 days after its broadcast.

The show focused on the lives of a group of six friends: spoiled daddy's girl Rachel Green, learning to make it on her own; compulsively clean chef Monica Geller; wise-cracking, perennially unlucky-in-love, underconfident office drone Chandler Bing; oversexed, uneducated actor Joey Tribbiani; paleontologist nerd Ross Geller who goes through three failed marriages; and quirky, positive masseuse and aspiring folk singer-songwriter Phoebe Buffay.

Joey (left) and Chandler in their appartmentAs the plot begins, Rachel has just left her fiancé Barry at the altar and moves in with her childhood best friend, Monica. The pair live across the hall from Chandler and Joey and hang out with Monica's brother, Ross – who recently divorced his lesbian wife. Then there is Phoebe - the "free spirit" of the bunch and Monica's old roommate. The settings for the show include Monica's apartment, Chandler and Joey's apartment, Ross's apartment, Phoebe's apartment and the local coffee shop, Central Perk (a flash back episode later reveals that the coffee shop was originally a bar that was also frequented by Chandler, Monica, Phoebe and Ross before Joey and Rachel joined the group).

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After cutting herself off from her father's money, Rachel got her first job as a waitress in the coffee shop. She later became an assistant and personal shopper at Bloomingdale's, and later a buyer for Ralph Lauren. Monica struggled for the first several seasons for success but later became head chef at a well-respected restaurant. Chandler worked his way up in data processing and eventually switched to a career in advertising (by the last few seasons) after a mid-life crisis. After on-and-off success as a soap opera actor, Joey's career eventually stabilized with a regular part on a soap opera from which he had been fired earlier in the series' run. Palaeontologist Ross eventually became a college professor. Phoebe made a living as a singer-songwriter and a masseuse.

Rachel and RossConstant story lines throughout the series are the on/off romance between Ross and Rachel and, later in the series, the developing relationship between Chandler and Monica.

The show uses non-stop exaggerated, deadpan humor. Some jokes are related to sexual activity and innuendo, sometimes non-sequiturs. The show also occasionally developed on serious angles such as relationship breakups.

The show has provided an opportunity for consistent work by actors who were more active in the past. Elliott Gould played Monica's and Ross' father. Marlo Thomas (the star of That Girl) played Rachel's mother.

The show's theme song, "I'll Be There For You" by The Rembrandts, became a major hit after a Tennessee disc jockey looped it into a full length track and played it on the radio. The band's record label required them to write additional material and re-record the track as a full-length song, which peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 chart at #17.

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External links
Official Friends site
Friends at TV.com
Negative 1994 NBC research report about the pilot
Friends at the Open Directory Project