go ahead. go ahead. go ahead. ooh. oh, no, no don t. stop cleansing my aura. pilots are difficult because your job is to give a lot of exposition and background. everybody, this is rachel. another lincoln high survivor. this is everybody. chandler, phoebe, joey. you remember my brother ross? sure. hi. and you re also doing kind of a sell job on an audience about why they re supposed to like these people and possibly tune in next week. you okay, sweetie? i just feel like someone reached down my throat, grabbed my small intestine, pulled it out of my mouth, and tied it around my neck. cookie? you come up with ideas, characters. you don t know what s going to hit. you just the dream was let s not get canceled after six episodes. that was our goal. you re the only person i know who lived here in the city who wasn t invited to the wedding.
and not as ethereal and quirky. oh, my gosh! look, look, look! my first paycheck! look at the window. there s my name. hi, me! latte? and an iced tea. getting pretty good. excellent. good for me. rachel is a really difficult part. because on the face of it, it could be really unlikable character. well, maybe that s my decision. well, maybe i don t need your money. wait. wait. i said maybe. she is selfish, spoiled, just walked out on a guy during her wedding. i was on another show at the time. jennifer aniston was in first position to another series
okay. so i m responsible. i m organized. but, hey. i can be a kook. pretty good, you know? nice. we re having fun. when do we get to meet the guy? today is monday. never. come on. score! you suck. this story is that courtney cox was cast as the rachel character. we asked her to do the rachel character. she said no. she wanted to play monica. we re thinking you are more of a rachel because she is pretty and there is a warmth. she said, no, no. i totally see myself doing monica. we re like, all right. give it a shot. she did and we re like, yeah. she s monica. great. i just connected with her in a certain way and i was going to play very neurotic
see ya. the show itself was about a time in your life where you leave the home for the first time, your friends become your family. if nobody tags rachel, isn t the play still going? it s a time in everybody s life that we share in common. over 75 million americans, which was a third of the country, would come to watch our network on thursday. so friends was a monster hit in ways that it s hard to imagine today. there s no half-hour comedy that s ever been more successful throughout the world for 25 years. we were on a break! oh, my god. what about the impact that it s had on television? smelly cat smelly cat a phenomenon like friends can t really be replicated. that sense of everyone is
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