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1. The opening sequence of Friends was filmed on the Warner Bros. lot at 5 o'clock in the morning.
2. During first season Mon, Rach, Chandler and Joey mysteriously moved up a couple of floors in their apartment building.
3-During the 6th season, Ross and Rachel, Monica and Chandler, Rachel and Joey, Phoebe and Joey, Ross and Phoebe, Chandler and Rachel, Chandler and Phoebe, Rachel and Monica, Chandler and Joey and Joey and Ross shared kisses!
4.Friends received a lot of guest star over the years including: Noah Wyle, George Clooney, Jonathan Silverman, Billy Crystal, Jon Lovitz, Isabella Rosellini, Chris Isaak, Hank Azaria, Soleil Moon Frye, Jennifer Grey, Ralph Lauren, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Marcel The Monkey, Ben Stiller, David Arquette,
Brooke Shields, Julia Roberts, Charlie Sheen, Tom Selleck, Elle Macpherson, Giovanni Ribsi and more recently, Bruce Willis and Reese Witherspoon, just to name a few.
5. Matthew Perry co-wrote a sitcom called 'Maxwell House' about a group of twenty-something. NBC turned it down because they had a similar project in mind..Friends !
6. When they were young and struggling actors, Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry hunged out together!
7. At the age of 13 Matthew Perry was ranked No. 2 in Canada for junior tennis.
8. Monica, Chandler & Joey live in a six storey apartment building on West 14th Street.
10. Other titles were considered for Friends: Six of One, Friends Like Us, Across the Hall and Insomnia Cafe.
11. David Schwimmer apparently turned down Will Smith's part in Men In Black.
12. Jennifer Aniston's real last name is actually Anistonopoulos.
13. Playgirl readers voted David Schwimmer one of 1995's 10 sexiest men.
14. Friends cast have a pact; if one of them leave, they all do.
15. Courteney Cox Arquette was originally casted for the part of Rachel but she thought she was more a Monica. The producers finally agreed and she got the part!
16. Lisa Kudrow's sister, Helene Sherman doubles for Ursula's (Phoebe's twin sister) shoulder shots.
17. David Schwimmer attended Beverly Hills High School, the school where the show Beverly Hills 90 210 was based on.
18. Rachel's middle name is Karen, Monica's starts with 'E', Ross's is Eustance.
19. The art in Central Perk is changed for every episode and is sometimes made by the crew.
20. According to Jennifer Aniston, her famous "Rachel" hairdo was created by accident when her "friend" Chris cut her hair with a razor.
21. Courteney was the first person to say "period" on American TV when she made a Tempax commercial.
22. Courteney was on the cover of People magazine's 50 most beautiful people issue.
23. Matthew Perry dated Julia Roberts not long after she guest-starred on Friends. Apparently, it didn't last.
24. Lisa Kudrow has a major in Biology.
25. Courteney is the girl pulled on stage in Bruce Springsteen "Dancing in the Dark" video.
26. Marcel the monkey was in the movie Outbreak with Dustin Hoffmann.
27. David Schwimmer hosted Montreal's Just For Laugh Festival
28.In the earlier episodes the friends live in apartments 4 and 5 but in the later episodes their same apartments strangely change into numbers 19 and 20.
29.The Pilot- Rachel calls her ex-fiancee Barry Finkel but in all other episode he is known as Barry Farber.
30.The Pilot- Monica introduces Rachel to Chandler and they act like they've never met before but we later find out that this is not true.
31.TWO The Butt- Joey plays Al Pacino's butt double in a movie. When he is doing his scene in the shower you can see in his shadow that he is actually wearing shorts.
32.TOW Mrs Bing- Joeys says that his mother had delivered 7 children. In another episode we find out that Joey has seven sisters. That means she really had delivered eight children.
33.TOW The Dozen Lasagnes- Chandler said that Kip (his ex-roomate) moved out because he got married but in TOW all the Kips Chandler told Rachel that he moved out after he and Monica broke up and they couldn't stand each other anymore.
34.TOW Two Parts- Monica talked to Ross and Chandler on the phone from the hospital but when Ross and Chandler saw them in the hospital later they were suprised they were there.
35.TOW The Bullies- When the dog jumps up the side of the car we see that there is a hand holding the dog up.
36.TWO No One's Ready- Pheobe's stain on her dress continously changes sizes.
37.TOW The Metaphorical Tunnel- When Joey goes into Central Perk Chandler says "Hi Matt."
38.TOW Frank Junior- Joey moves Monica's clothes hamper into the middle of the bathroom floor. In the next scene the hamper isn't even there anymore.
39.TOW the Screamer- Pheobe says she moved Monica's stuff to Rachel's room and vice versa. Both Rachel and Monica go to bed in each others room (where there stuff is). But the next morning they wake up in their own rooms.
40.In the episode where they show the prom video we are told that Chandler didn't know Monica back in highschool because he sees her swimming costume & she tells him she was 'a little bigger back then' and then he says 'Oh! I thought that was what they used to cover Connecticut when it rained.' He also said the same thing about Rachel's nose which meant he didn't know her either. But in the episode where they tell each other about their worst thanksgivings ever we find out that he did actually know them back then.
41.The woman who plays Joeys agent (Estelle) also plays a nurse when Carol is giving birth to Ben.
42.In the episode where they remember when whom they'd almost had sex with (Janice asks that) it seems that Rachel and Monica weren't very close friends in highschool but, in the episode with the worst thanksgiving ever, they are really good friends in highschool.
43.In the episode in Vegas, Ross and Rachel have pen all over their faces and tried everything they could to get it off. They even rang the pen company who could not even help! Then the next morning at breakfast they both had clean faces!
44.In TOW George Stephonapoulas- Ross said that Carol was the first person he ever slept with. Then in TOW Rachel's Assistant we are told that Ross slept with the cleaning lady in college. Unless he cheated on Carol, he had been with the cleaning lady before Carol and this means that Carol was not his first.
45.In TOW with two parties Rachel's mom arrives with a coat and Chandler says he'll take it for her but he really hides it in a cupboard and Mrs Green doesn't see that. Then at the end of the episode we see her putting on her coat as she is leaving.
46.In the episode where that guy is trying to sell Joey encyclopedias- Joey had the $50 in his hand then they switched cameras to the guy selling them and he had the money in his hand but Joey hadn't even given him the money yet!!
47.In the episode where Rachel got all those scratches on her arms from the cat they miraculously disappeared in the following scenes.
48.In the episode where Phoebe was driven out of Central Perk and played on the sidewalk, someone dropped a condom in her guitar case. That person later played Phoebs's stepbrother, Frank Jr.
49.In TOW-Worst Thanksgiving Ever, when Chandler goes to the hospital, because Monica cut off his toe, the doctor has gloves on, but then they switch the camera and then switch it back again and the gloves are gone... the happens consistantly throughout the scene.
50.In TOW George Stephanopoulus(season 1), when the girls were out on the balcony, Phoebe tells Monica that she slept with Jason Hurley a couple of hours after he and Monica broke up. Later, in TOW Eddie Won't Go (season 3, Rachel and Monica were fighting and Phoebe says "it looks like i'll have to go to the goddess meeting alone." Rachel then says, "Not when they find out you slept with Jason Hurley an hour after he broke up with monica" Monica, acting surprised, says "one hour? You're such a leafblower!"
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