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What Really Happened That Night: The Scandalous Premiere-Day Crisis That Almost Destroyed Friends
2025/11/16 Report

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What if I told you that one of television’s most beloved sitcoms almost never made it past the starting gate? On September 22, 1994, the pilot of Friends — originally titled “The Pilot” and later “The One Where Monica Gets a Roommate” — aired on NBC, ranking a respectable 15th for the week with nearly 22 million viewers.


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Yet behind that showing lay a story of test-screen backlash, network discomfort and a cast and crew who had to fight for what the show could become. If that fight had ended differently, the world may never have met Ross, Rachel, Monica, Chandler, Joey and Phoebe.

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