If You Love Friends, You Have To Take This Quiz
- by Ben Sherlock
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Everybody likes Friends. Even people who say they don’t like Friends like Friends, at least a little bit. Most people love Friends. Even people who weren’t alive when it first aired love Friends. Hell, even people who weren’t alive when it last aired love Friends. It was a little like magic that this cast could be brought together at the right exact time to strike a chord in the zeitgeist that would continue to echo through popular culture and the mainstream for decades afterward. Friends is still aired in primetime slots to this day, and even though everyone in the world has literally seen every episode at least twenty times, they continue to stick it on and watch them again. Something about the combination of Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe, paired with the lighthearted jokes, sarcastic wit, and easygoing storytelling, as well as the balance between comedy and drama, just sort of clicked and gave the world what is by far the most popular TV series to ever hit the airwaves. There are literally tens of millions of Friends fans worldwide, so the chances that you are the biggest fan are very slim, but if you think you really are, then take this quiz to prove it!
Whose butt double was Joey?
In one of the early episodes of Friends, Joey got his first part in a major Hollywood movie by playing the butt double of one of the greatest actors of all time. This actor did not personally guest star in the episode, since Friends was not yet popular enough to get the A-list guest stars that it would get later on down the line, when it was the biggest show on the air. However, the actor is Joey’s idol and the whole reason he started acting. Who is it?
Which of these is NOT one of Monica’s boyfriends?
Naturally, with any sitcom, the lead characters are going to get involved in a lot of romantic situations over the years. In Seinfeld, since the characters never felt any emotions or learned any lessons or did anything good in the world, a long term relationship was very rare, but dating stories were common, so the characters had new boyfriends and girlfriends every episode. Since Friends was a more emotional show, there were more multi-episode romantic storylines. Which of these is NOT one of Monica’s boyfriends?
Which rock star has a kid at the same school as Ben?
What often got forgotten over the years when Friends was on the air is that pretty much the entire time, Ross is a father. He has a son named Ben. But he rarely sees him. In fact, he pretty much never sees him. In fact, in the later seasons, Ben was all but forgotten about. There’s a chance he doesn’t even remember who his dad is. But in one episode, Phoebe becomes interested when she finds out that one of the kids at Ben’s school has a famous rock star dad. Who is he?
What coffee shop is frequented by the gang?
One of the lingering questions that fans have about Friends is how the main six characters managed to have so much spare time on their hands. It looks like they have every single day off and go into work about once a month for a couple of hours where they do next to nothing. They seem to spend all of their time in a coffee shop that’s downstairs from Rachel and Monica’s apartment and across the street from Ross’. What is the name of that coffee shop?
What did Mike change his name to?
There’s a classic episode of Friends where Phoebe realized there is a legal process by which you can officially change your name. Of course, she changed hers to Princess Consuela Bananahammock and made television history in the process. This all came as she and Mike Hannigan, her on and off boyfriend played by the great Paul Rudd, were planning their wedding. He didn’t approve of Phoebe’s name change and thought it was ridiculous, and he proved this by changing his own name. What did he change it to?
What name is Joey saving for his son?
When Phoebe was impregnated with her brother’s triplets, it first of all made way for the writers to slip an incest joke into every episode for an entire season of the show. But it also covered up Lisa Kudrow’s actual pregnancy and gave the writers a chance to explore many themes and rituals associated with pregnancy. One of them is the baby naming process, which Joey joins when he reveals the comic book character’s name that he’s saving for his own son. What is it?
What is Rachel’s favorite movie?
In the Friends episode “The One with the Embryos,” Ross creates a quiz for Rachel and Monica to compete against Chandler and Joey for the big apartment. Over the course of this quiz (which Chandler and Joey win in the end), we learn a lot of new things about the characters, like how Chandler’s TV Guide is addressed to Miss Chanandler Bong. Among these things, we find out that Rachel claims that her favorite movie is the historical drama Dangerous Liaisons, but according to Ross, her real favorite movie is a dumb, juvenile comedy, a staple of the 1980s. What movie is it?
How many seasons of Friends were there?
Throughout its run on NBC, Friends was consistently one of the most popular and highly rated shows on the air. It was the star show of the network’s Must See TV lineup. The critical reception is a different story entirely. That was always up and down, particularly in the season where the writers ran out of ideas and had a romantic story arc where Rachel and Joey got together. Where the hell did that come from? Anyway, if they resorted to that, there was clearly a few seasons too many of Friends. But how many exactly were there?
What field of science does Ross study?
Ross Geller will not waste any time in reminding you that he is a doctor and that he has a PhD. But he’s not a medical doctor. The reason that he gets to go around calling himself Dr. Geller is because he studies a particular field of science. In the beginning of the series, he works at a museum, but then later on, he gets a job as a college professor where he tries out interesting accents on his students. But what field of science is it that Ross studies?
Who played Phoebe?
The actress who played Phoebe Buffay will always be remembered as the actress who played Phoebe Buffay, but she has had a lot of other projects over the years. She has starred in two other series of her own, Web Therapy and The Comeback, where she was the top dog. She’s also starred in the cult teen classic Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion, and had a small role as the dean of the college in the Seth Rogen/Zac Efron movie Neighbors. Who is she?
Which character got their own spinoff?
Friends actually had a spinoff series that moved the location from New York to Los Angeles and failed pretty miserably. The actor who plays the character cited them as “probably the least evolved character” on the show and hoped that having their own spinoff series would give the character a chance to grow and develop. But you can’t develop much over two seasons before getting very swiftly canned. This show is now the first word in the discussion of why spinoffs fail. Which character was it?
What is the title of the Friends series finale?
The series finale of Friends was very divisive among fans – some were satisfied with the ending, while others expected more than they could’ve possibly gotten. But everyone involved in the show was happy with it. The writers’ plan was to avoid doing “something high concept, or take the show out of the show,” while David Schwimmer said of the finale, “It’s exactly what I had hoped. We all end up with a sense of a new beginning and the audience has a sense that it’s a new chapter in the lives of all these characters.” What is the episode’s title?
Which of these words refers to “a state of total awareness?”
In a particularly beloved fan favorite episode of Friends, Ross takes up a new martial art and brags about how great it is and how amazing he will be now that he’s learning it. He tells Rachel and Phoebe that it is “a state of total awareness,” and they proceed to make him look stupid a whole bunch of times by showing just how unaware he is. Then Ross goes full psycho as he tries to attack them. What is the martial art?
What soap opera did Joey have a recurring role on?
Joey’s acting career offered plenty in the way of material for the writers. He could have embarrassing auditions and appear in terrible plays when he was struggling, and have run-ins with big movie stars, although sometimes he did this and the movie stars weren’t even playing themselves, you know? They get Gary Oldman to play the role of a dramatic actor, but he’s not playing Gary Oldman. It’s weird. Anyway, Joey’s big break was a recurring role in a soap opera. Which one was it?
What year did Friends first premiere?
The process of bringing Friends to the screen took forever. It started out under the title Insomnia Café and then it underwent massive script changes, with the title being switched to Six of One and then Friends Like Us and then eventually simply Friends. As is usual with TV shows, the characters and overall premise and settings changed a great deal over the course of the development stages. And then, when it premiered on NBC in its first season, it took off as a massive ratings success. What year was that?
Which number erogenous zone brought Monica to climax?
There’s an episode of Friends where the girls try to teach the guys about the seven erogenous spots on a woman’s body. Monica labels them all with numbers and does a rundown of what guys should do in bed, listing all the numbers they should use in the order they should use them. She says, “You could, uh, start out with a little 1, a 2, a 1-2-3, a 3, a 5, a 4, a 3-2, 2, a 2-4-6, 2-4-6, 4, 2, 2,” and then finishes on one particular number. Which one?
What word did Ross keep saying while they lifted the couch up the stairs?
This is quite possibly the funniest moment in the history of Friends. Ross buys a couch from a furniture store and decides that he’ll save himself a few bucks on the delivery charges by taking the couch a few blocks down the street to his apartment building and carrying it up the stairwell to his floor. It sounds pretty simple. But when he ropes Rachel and Chandler into helping him and the couch gets stuck, Ross continually yells one particular word. What is it?
Who performed the theme song for Friends?
The theme song of Friends, the iconic track “I’ll Be There For You,” was performed by a pop rock duo that consists of Phil Solem and Danny Wilde. The style of the song was influenced by the Beatles, particularly the guitar riff in “I Feel Fine,” and the Monkees, particularly their track “Pleasant Valley Sunday.” As a TV theme song, it was under a minute long, but the popularity of Friends meant that the label forced the performers to extend it to a full three minute song. Which band was it?
How did Ross confirm he was the father of Rachel’s baby?
One of the most commonly used story arcs in the situation comedy genre is one of the characters getting pregnant. This is either to give the writers something to write about for a few episodes or a way to cover up an actual pregnancy that the actress has. In Friends, when Rachel got pregnant, the rest of the friends went crazy. They spent hours trying to figure out who the father was, and then Ross went and revealed it himself. How did he do it?
Who played Chandler?
The actor who played Chandler Bing on Friends is now starring in a new sitcom on CBS, where he stars alongside Thomas Lennon in an adaptation of the Neil Simon play The Odd Couple. He was also in a couple of movies with Bruce Willis and he starred alongside Leslie Mann as the older counterpart of Zac Efron in the movie 17 Again. He was apparently high for most of the production of Friends. So, who is the actor who played Chandler Bing?
Why did Ross and Carol get a divorce?
During the run of Friends, Ross had a lot of awkward run-ins with the institution of marriage. When the series begins, he’s really mopey, because his wife has just left him. And then later on, he elopes with Rachel in Las Vegas and they have to get that annulled (and he didn’t want to), plus there was that whole thing with Emily where he said Rachel’s name and screwed everything up. So, why did Ross and Carol get a divorce in the first place?
Which of these animals did the friends NOT own as a pet?
There were some weird animals that passed through the New York apartments of Rachel, Phoebe, Ross, Joey, Monica, and Chandler over the years on Friends. For example, there was that ugly cat without hair that Rachel owned that no one liked and had cost her a lot of money. And then there was the family of rats that lived in Phoebe’s apartment and then died. But of all those animals, which of these animals did the friends NOT own as a pet?
Which of these actors did NOT guest star on an episode of Friends?
Friends had many great guest stars appear on it over the years. In fact, there were too many of them in the later seasons – that was one of the main criticisms to come from the reviewers as the show moved closer and closer toward its ending. But long before that, there were some great guest stars on the show who gave memorable performances during their brief appearances. Which of these actors did NOT guest star on an episode of Friends?
What is Danny DeVito’s stripper name in Friends?
Among the many guest stars that were on Friends over the years, one of the most memorable is Danny DeVito – the man behind the characters of Frank Reynolds, Harry Wormwood, and George Shapiro – who played the stripper at Phoebe’s bachelorette party. He borrows a Halloween costume from his nephew so that he can dress up as a cop to fit his persona and struggles up the stairs to Rachel and Monica’s apartment. He introduces himself with a stripper name. What is it?
Who was Monica’s first kiss?
Late in the run of Friends, they started to run out of ideas for things to do in the present day, and therefore did an episode that was riddled with flashbacks (flashbacks that actually contradicted a lot of the earlier flashbacks and home videos that had come before). In this episode, Monica’s first kiss was revealed to have happened during a party when she went to visit Ross at college. It’s a pretty shocking revelation. Who was Monica’s first kiss?
Why is this moment notable?
The Friends moment in which Monica comes into Joey and Chandler’s apartment with a raw turkey on her head and a pair of novelty yellow sunglasses on it is a surprisingly notable moment. She does a little dance around the doorway, doing a little shimmy from side to side and so on, and then what stopped her dead in her tracks is one of the most significant moments in Friends history. But what exactly happened at the moment in the show?
Who played Ross?
The actor who played Ross has become notable during the time of the Weinstein effect taking hold of popular culture, because a reporter remembered one incident where the actor considerately asked if she would like to bring a third party to their interview to feel more comfortable. Good guy. The actor has worked with Simon Pegg on a couple of projects and he also played Robert Kardashian in The People vs OJ Simpson: American Crime Story. Who is the actor?
What did Ross call his sandwich?
In Friends, Ross had Monica make him a sandwich out of the leftovers from Thanksgiving dinner. It was so delicious that when someone from work ate it, it sent him into a fit of rage that landed him in therapy. It was so amazing that he gave it its own name. As Ross later explained to his therapist, “Yeah, yeah. You see, my sister makes these amazing turkey sandwiches. Her secret is, she puts an extra slice of gravy-soaked bread in the middle; I call it the...” what?
Who proposed to who?
Monica and Chandler had one of the most endearing and lovable relationships on television for many years. They were one of the first examples of #RelationshipGoals on a TV series. But when they first got together in London, it was shocking to the audience. The general consensus was: ‘What?! Chandler and Monica sleeping together?! That’s crazy!’ But over the years, they realized what a perfect match it was. Eventually they got married and had kids. But who proposed to who?
What language did Phoebe try to teach Joey?
Like in The IT Crowd episode “Italian for Beginners,” where Jen claims that she is able to speak fluent Italian in order to get ahead at work and be recognized as a valuable team player, there’s an episode of Friends where Joey has claimed that he can speak a foreign language fluently in order to secure a part, but of course, he can’t. So, he seeks out the aid of Phoebe, who actually can speak this language, to help him learn it. What language is it?
What game show did Joey audition to host?
Among the many auditions that Joey did over the years in his career as a struggling actor, one of the most memorable is the one where he was auditioning to host a game show. In preparation of the audition, he did a practice round of the game with Chandler and Ross. Although it was a very confusing game and none of them at any point understood the rules, they were immediately hooked, declaring, “This is the best game ever!!” What game show was it?
What is Monica’s job?
The job that Monica has throughout the series – at various different workplaces, but always the same job – leans into the character’s leading traits. For starters, it’s a hectic business that she’s in, because you’re constantly under a lot of stress and there’s a lot to do and not enough time to do it. And she also likes to host gatherings for friends and be showered with compliments, and this occupation lends itself to that. So, what job does she have?
Besides the main six, which character appeared in the most episodes?
Over the decade or so that Friends was on the air, there were a total of 236 episodes. Every season ranked within the top ten of the final television season ratings – one of them even made the number one spot. Obviously all six of the main cast appear in every single one of those 236 episodes. But there were many supporting characters – Jack and Judy Geller, Gunther, Janice, Mike, Carol, Emily – who appeared in plenty of episodes themselves. Which of them appeared in the most?
Which fashion designer did Phoebe think she made out with?
When Rachel got a job working for a major fashion design company – her dream job – she could finally give up waitressing and personal shopping and move on with her life. There was a time when Phoebe came up to see her in the office and thought she had made out with the famous fashion designer that Rachel was working for in the copy room, when in fact she had just made out with some ugly copy room guy who claimed to be him. Who did he claim to be?
Where did Chandler meet Ross?
Obviously the friendship group at the heart of Friends consists of Rachel, Monica, Phoebe, Joey, Chandler, and Ross. But you could whittle that down to a pair of smaller groups – the males and the females. And even then, it’s fair to say that while Ross and Chandler are very good friends with Joey, and Chandler even lives with him, Ross and Chandler are each other’s best friends. We see through flashbacks throughout the series where the two met. Where was it?