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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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Jennifer Aniston in Friends (1994)
ComedyRomance

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.

  • Director
    • Michael Lembeck
  • Writers
    • David Crane
    • Marta Kauffman
    • Greg Malins
  • Stars
    • Jennifer Aniston
    • Courteney Cox
    • Lisa Kudrow
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  • IMDb RATING
    8.3/10
    5.4K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Michael Lembeck
    • Writers
      • David Crane
      • Marta Kauffman
      • Greg Malins
    • Stars
      • Jennifer Aniston
      • Courteney Cox
      • Lisa Kudrow
    • 13User reviews
    • 3Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Jennifer Aniston
    Jennifer Aniston
    • Rachel Green
    Courteney Cox
    Courteney Cox
    • Monica Geller
    • (as Courteney Cox Arquette)
    Lisa Kudrow
    Lisa Kudrow
    • Phoebe Buffay
    Matt LeBlanc
    Matt LeBlanc
    • Joey Tribbiani
    • (as Matt Le Blanc)
    Matthew Perry
    Matthew Perry
    • Chandler Bing
    David Schwimmer
    David Schwimmer
    • Dr. Ross Geller
    Kevin Spirtas
    Kevin Spirtas
    • Dr. Wesley
    Kristian Alfonso
    Kristian Alfonso
    • Hope Brady
    Jane Sibbett
    Jane Sibbett
    • Carol Willick
    Mitchell Whitfield
    Mitchell Whitfield
    • Barry Farber
    • (credit only)
    Pat Finn
    Pat Finn
    • Dr. Roger
    Jessica Hecht
    Jessica Hecht
    • Susan Bunch
    • (credit only)
    James Michael Tyler
    James Michael Tyler
    • Gunther
    Cole Sprouse
    Cole Sprouse
    • Ben Geller
    • (as Cole Mitchell Sprouse)
    Cacey Kirshner
    • The Nurse
    • (as Cacey Riggan)
    Marisa Brown
    Marisa Brown
    • Joey's Fan
    • Director
      • Michael Lembeck
    • Writers
      • David Crane
      • Marta Kauffman
      • Greg Malins
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    1toranshadow

    Discusting

    Discusting episode with full of fatphobia. As it has nothing common with whole story, should be deleted and adandoned pernamently.
    9fayezkw-90687

    The One That Could Have Been

    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

    One of the funniest

    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 😀
    3mgersten63

    Questions I have.

    1. Why would Monica be fat? She wasn't fat when Rachel and Barry got married.
    5samui-986-870453

    Boring

    Kinda lame episode, not funny and it just didn't work

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    • Trivia
      This 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.
    • Goofs
      Dr. 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 credits
      The title songs have all characters in their "could have been" avatar, even during the dance-in-fountain sequence.
    • Connections
      Featured in The 52nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (2000)
    • Soundtracks
      Nocturne in E Flat, Opus 9, Number 2
      (uncredited)

      By Frédéric Chopin

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    • Release date
      • February 17, 2000 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
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    • Language
      • English
    • Filming locations
      • Dijon Street, Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA
    • Production companies
      • Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions
      • Warner Bros. Television
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    • Runtime
      • 30m
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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