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Friends fans, here are the 11 glaringly obvious mistakes you never noticed (until now)

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With Friends: The Reunion due to hit our screens any 24-hour interval now, we decided to take a look back over the surprising Friends bloopers, continuity errors, and other mistakes we never noticed until now. Anyone else wish someone had told them life was gonna be this style?

Updated on 20 May 2021: It'south a fact well established that literally every single person on the world has seen Friends. At least twice, just more than probable some 1000000 times over. And yet, despite the fact that the offset episode aired fashion back in 1994, Friends is still as funny equally ever – and, thanks to being quote-perfect, we never have to worry about whatsoever unwelcome surprises.

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Over 17 years since the final episode of Friends fabricated its fashion to our screens, Friends: The Reunion volition finally be released afterwards this month in the US (a UK date has nevertheless to be announced). And, with all eyes back on the sitcom, information technology makes sense that people are noticing…

Well, that they're noticing a few mistakes in the mix. More than a few, quite honestly.

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Information technology'south no wonder, to be honest, as a written report by My Lotto recently revealed that Friends has more mistakes per season (149) than any TV testify in history, beating Buffy The Vampire Slayer (90) and Red Dwarf (81).

And so, to celebrate this dubious honour, nosotros've gathered up all of the moments that made us question everything we thought we knew about Friends – but, exist warned: once seen, they can never be unseen.

Are you prepared to be bewitched forever more? So scroll on…

The one with two Phoebes

As reported on 20 September 2019: When Friends finally dropped on Netflix Britain, many people began watching it again in earnest. And, during one binge-watching session, Aine Maloney noticed that Phoebe had somehow managed to be in two places at in one case.

The scene in question comes from the bear witness'south very first episode, and sees Phoebe declaring that she had "simply pulled out four eyelashes" – much to the bemusement of those effectually her.

However, as Maloney points out to Her, Phoebe can besides be seen sipping a cup of coffee behind Monica'due south date Paul, and seems to actually be listening to her telling anybody about her eyelashes.

Mayhap it's best to pretend that her twin sis Ursula had just popped over for a brief chinwag, eh?

The one where they inverse Monica

Remember when Monica mysteriously transformed into someone completely different? We exercise.

In the episode, Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow) can exist seen sitting on the Central Perk sofa with Courteney Cox's character; the pair are chatting, laughing, and sipping on ginormous cups of java. So far, then normal.

Just, all suddenly, the camera changes bending – and a woman that is clearly NOT Cox is saturday in her place.

We guess producers thought that, if Phoebe didn't notice the switch, viewers at dwelling wouldn't either.  And, technically, they were correct; the error has only just come up to lite now.

But it's still unsettling, isn't it?

Thankfully, later on a few seconds, the photographic camera switches angle once more, and all is blissfully normal again. Phew.

The one where Monica moves to a new flat

Die-hard fans of the show will confidently inform you that Monica and Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) lived in apartment number twenty, thank you very much. The number is clearly visible on their door in most episodes…

Except for the showtime series of the show, that is. When they lived at number v.

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That's right, the writers changed it when they realised that a number 5 would mean that the apartment was on the outset flooring of the building. And, as the cast members were frequently shown walking upward stairs to become to their floor, this was conspicuously not the case – and then they changed information technology to apartment xx.

Of class, this meant that Chandler and Joey's apartment had to be inverse, too, taking them from apartment 4 to 19.

Does this hateful that the gang moved upstairs and decorated their apartments in the verbal aforementioned mode as their previous ground-floor rentals? Or did the janitor brand a mistake when he was nailing the numbers to the door the first fourth dimension round?

We gauge we'll never know…

The one where Ugly Naked Guy's home was destroyed

Retrieve Ugly Naked Guy? He was the aptly named man who lived in the building facing Monica and Rachel's apartment – and he used to sit about in the buff, eating things, and, mostly, grossing out the entire Central Perk gang.

But, if they were paying that much attending to him, why didn't they notice that his edifice completely transformed throughout the serial?

The one where Brad Pitt lost his pie

Brad Pitt is a seasoned actor, and then you'd exist forgiven for thinking he'due south allowed to making mistakes on gear up. Merely, equally it turns out, he's but human – just similar the rest of us.

In the evidence, his character Will Colbert (call back him? He hates Rachel Green) brings a pie along to the gathering, and graciously hands it to his hostess afterward explaining how gosh-darn healthy information technology is.

Monica puts it on the tabular array, and doesn't appear to bear on it for the balance of the scene. But when Joey arrives later, the pie has gone – and, when the camera zooms out to reveal a group of pies on the kitchen table, Will's pie is still noticeably absent.

We guess the pie wasn't just non-fat, non-dairy, and non-gluten – it was too non-existent.

The ane with the Fake Rachel

Y'all'd call back there'd have been an outcry over Aniston being replaced mid-testify, but (as e'er) nobody noticed a affair.

In The Ane with the Mugging, we watch as Rachel excitedly bursts into Monica's apartment to tell Joey (Matt le Blanc) that he's scored an audition with Leonard Hayes (aka Jeff Goldblum).

Joey joins her in the doorway to talk about the news, before turning to face up the rest of the gang – and, bam! Over his shoulder, a adult female who is patently not Aniston stands at that place grin happily (no doubt glad to have infiltrated the Central Perk gang).

The stand-in is fifty-fifty wearing a different outfit. Madness.

The one where New York shifted position

Ever noticed anything weird about the view from Monica's window? Like, say, the fact that her apartment keeps moving, a la Inception?

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It makes sense, we guess; after all, door numbers have no significant in the Friends world – why should infinite and time?

The one where Monica'south evil boots magically respawn in her apartment

We all remember the evil loftier-heeled boots that sought to destroy Monica'due south feet dorsum in the 8 season, don't we?

After walking in them for hours, she was forced to admit that buying the expensive footwear had been a massive mistake. Cue Chandler gallantly piggy-backing his wife across NYC, to give her bare and bleeding anxiety a suspension.

Disaster struck when Monica realised that she'd left her boots lying in the street miles abroad – and that they were lost forever.

She never got a adventure to say goodbye, you lot guys.

Not that it mattered because, come up the 9th season, the boots had mysteriously reappeared in her flat. And, weirder still, Monica was wearing them. On her anxiety. Without crying, or limping, or begging for mercy.

We'd always suspected that the devil himself was to blame for those boots – and at present, after learning that they are imbued with magical powers, we know for certain that they were crafted in Satan's workshop.

The one where Chandler and Rachel meet for the first fourth dimension always – on three separate occasions

In the very get-go Friends episode, Monica introduces Rachel to all of the gang – including Chandler (Matthew Perry). Who has never always met the runaway helpmate before, plainly – relieve for the fact he has. Twice.

There's the fourth dimension they met – once again, for the first time ever, according to the characters - in The One with the Flashback.

And they met way back in their high school days, too, as seen in The One with all the Thanksgivings.

Are Rachel and Chandler actually so forgetful?

Nosotros're starting to worry that they've all been exposed to unsafe levels of carbon monoxide in Monica's constantly shifting flat…

The one where Ross forgets literally everything about himself

Ross is, without a uncertainty, the most confused Friends character of them all.

Firstly, in that location'due south the fact that he has no idea when his birthday is; in 1 episode, he celebrate his big day in March. In another, he tells Joey that it'southward in Dec. And, later, he claims it's on 18 October.

Ross also remains 29-years-old for 3 whole seasons (3, 4, and v) – which we estimate could exist explained away by the simple fact that he's a large fat liar.

But what about the fact that he happily chows downwards on crab cakes after being stood upwardly on a date in Season nine? Non so unusual, we suppose, save for the fact that Ross has e'er professed to exist allergic to shellfish.

Ross, you OK hun?

The one where Chandler tells Monica he loves for the first time ever (twice)

In that location's nothing more memorable than someone saying 'I love you' for the first time – or is there?

We all call back the moment that Chandler declares his love for Monica - in forepart of Rachel, Joey, and Phoebe, no less. His grand voice communication went something along the lines of: "I'm in love with Monica. Yes, I love her. I honey her. I honey yous Monica."

Cue Monica'southward shocked simply delighted face (it's the get-go time he's ever said the 'Fifty word', you guys), and an impassioned kiss for the audience to scream well-nigh.

Besides bad he'd already bloody said he loves her, every bit is made articulate in a flashback from The I with all the Thanksgivings.

It'south a wonder they ever fabricated it upward the alley really.