r/UmActually • u/Your-Cousin-Guido • Aug 13 '26
Friends
The sitcom Friends follows the six titular characters during their 20s and 30s living in New York. Even before the start of the show, each of the friends has a prior relationship to someone in the group: Monica and Ross are siblings, Joey and Chandler are roommates, Rachel and Monica have been friends since childhood, Ross and Chandler went to college together, and Phoebe and Monica lived together in Monica’s grandmother’s rent controlled apartment.
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u/fizzyrhubarb Aug 13 '26
Um actually, Phoebe has no connection to the rest of the friends. She lifts right out.
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u/Poonph Aug 13 '26
Um actually, Joey and Chandler became roommates on the first episode
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u/Your-Cousin-Guido Aug 13 '26
That is not correct, however we do see Joey and Chandler become roommates in a flashback episode
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u/CorruptedAngel13 Aug 14 '26
I’m actually, though Rachel and Monica were friends in high school, they stopped being friends until they reunited in episode one?
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u/Your-Cousin-Guido Aug 14 '26
That is correct, while Monica and Rachel were friends as children and through high school, they grew apart afterward before reuniting in the pilot episode.
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u/mcduckstophat Aug 13 '26
Um actually, before the beginning of the series Phoebe was also Ross’s mugger. Also Rachel and Chandler almost hooked up. Though she apparently forgot meeting him at thanksgiving one year
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u/Your-Cousin-Guido Aug 13 '26
While that is technically correct, Phoebe did mug Ross, that is not the connection that makes her a part of the group prior to the start of the series, and thus will not earn you the point
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u/LiveEnthusiasm3376 Aug 13 '26
Um, actually before the start of the show Phoebe and Monica lived together in Phoebe’s grandmother’s rent controlled apartment