The One That Could Have Been: Part 1
- Episode aired Feb 17, 2000
- TV-PG
- 30m
IMDb RATING
8.3/10
5.4K
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Barry and Mindy's impending divorce prompts the gang to fantasize about what their lives might be like if they'd all taken different courses.Barry and Mindy's impending divorce prompts the gang to fantasize about what their lives might be like if they'd all taken different courses.Barry and Mindy's impending divorce prompts the gang to fantasize about what their lives might be like if they'd all taken different courses.
Courteney Cox
- Monica Geller
- (as Courteney Cox Arquette)
Matt LeBlanc
- Joey Tribbiani
- (as Matt Le Blanc)
Mitchell Whitfield
- Barry Farber
- (credit only)
Jessica Hecht
- Susan Bunch
- (credit only)
Cole Sprouse
- Ben Geller
- (as Cole Mitchell Sprouse)
Cacey Kirshner
- The Nurse
- (as Cacey Riggan)
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Discusting episode with full of fatphobia. As it has nothing common with whole story, should be deleted and adandoned pernamently.
It's the alternate-universe episode! What would happen if Rachel never left Barry, Ross never got divorced from Carol, Monica was still fat, Joey never was never fired from Days of Our Lives, Chandler quit his job to write comics, and Phoebe took a job at as a stock broker at Merrill Lynch? In this two-part episode, we learn that the gang, for the most part, end up in the exact same place their present-day counterparts: Monica and Chandler find their way back to each other; Ross and Rachel's first marriages both fall apart (presumably so they can find each other, too), the revised opening credits sequence depicting the alt version of the Friends is still pretty amusing. Alison Weinflash
10donserry
I know during lockdown friends got a lot of younger people watching it (born within the last 20 years). This episode is about if they didn't make the choices that they did. Something in the early 2000's we laughed when watched it (still do to this day). As being an avid friends fan as I remember watching it for the first time it aired on terrestrial tv. This show is about one of the best. It will make you laugh, cry and scream with excitement all at the same time. So the bad reviews in this channel are of ones who were babies or not born yet when friends was massive on tv. If you were already born before 80's/90's you found Seinfeld funny. This was a time before social media was invented and internet in everyone's homes (dial up). So wee ones give it a break. Calm down and talk to people in person, you never know they could be your best friends for life one day. That is what the show is about how friends from different paths become a family. Give it a try 😀
1. Why would Monica be fat? She wasn't fat when Rachel and Barry got married.
Did you know
- TriviaThis is one of the few times in season 6 where Lisa Kudrow is not wearing a wig or hairpiece. Producers thought her real-life hair was too short for the character of Phoebe.
- GoofsDr. Roger says that a hazelnut isn't a nut, but a seed. A hazelnut is a nut.
- Quotes
Monica: Phoebe, having a heart attack is nature's way of telling you to slow down
Chandler Bing: I always thought having a heart attack is nature's way of telling you to die.
[to Phoebe]
Chandler Bing: But you're not gonna die. Well, you are gonna die. But you're not gonna die today. I wish I was dead.
- Crazy creditsThe title songs have all characters in their "could have been" avatar, even during the dance-in-fountain sequence.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The 52nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (2000)
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