this was your first home. and it was a happy place, filled with love and laughter. but more important, because of rent control, it was a frigging steal. i think marta and david, from the very first time they pitched the show, they had a sense of where they were going. this is harder than i thought it would be. oh, it s going to be okay. they knew what the audience wanted. and they delivered in a wonderfully satisfying way. should we get some coffee? oh, my god. ten seasons? our goal was not to get canceled. what was the key to having a smash hit for ten years? it starts with the cast and with the writing. hey! hey. hey. oh, the food smells great. we told universal stories that everybody could relate to. happy thanksgiving, everybody. well, this has been great.
wedding. i was on another show at the time. jennifer aniston was in first position to another series called muddling through. if that show had succeeded we d already shot, like, four or five episodes, we would have had to re-shoot the first five episodes of friends with another actress. are you going to eat that steak or argue with it? we re going forward and we ll do everything in our power to kill muddling through . tell me something, how often do we have steak on the menu? hardly ever. that s right. so what you have there is a rare steak. and we said, all right. danielle steel movies up against muddling through, beale take the audience that s probably watching that sitcom on a saturday night, and it worked. saturday night, the big night, date night. saturday night! and now you re choking.
wasn t funny, and then he came in and when matt read it, suddenly it was really funny. oh, ross. you get me so hot. i want your lips on me now. eh? about 3,000 people per day, that s more than half a million per year, take the warner brothers studio tour, and when they do they come to this iconic couch in central perk. that s how big of a phenomenon friends still is. so what happens to the cast members when a show becomes that type of smash success? well, it turns out some dealt with their fame better than others. that part of the story when we come back. i ll be there for you banjo?
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watching this particular thing all at the same time. if you d all please join me in raising a glass. it doesn t really exist anymore. so in that sense i really see friends as being the last of its kind. netflix was willing to pay either 80 or 100 million dollars, depending on who you ask, to keep it streaming for one year. okay, okay, okay. fine, you win. the run on netflix, are you surprised by that? shocked. shocked and so grateful. it s given the show such a resurgence, not only here, but around the world. check this out, huh? that s the stuff. i always thought my only legacy would be my children. and there is something so humbling and yet thrilling about knowing that this has lived on. how is you drinking helping the kids? because the more i drink, the less there is for the kids to