"Friends" The One That Could Have Been: Part 1 (2000)

User Rating:

8.2/10   

Director:

Michael Lembeck

Writers:

David Crane (creator) and
Marta Kauffman (creator) ...

TV Series:

"Friends" (1994)

Original Air Date:

17 February 2000 (Season 6, Episode 15)

Genre:

Comedy | Romance

Plot:

After Rachel finds our that Barry (her ex-fiancé) & Mindy (her ex-best friend) were getting divorced...

Plot Keywords:

Alternative Reality | Actor | Paleontologist | Roommate | Musician

Cast

Jennifer Aniston	...	Rachel Green
Courteney Cox	...	Monica Geller (as Courteney Cox Arquette)
Lisa Kudrow	...	Phoebe Buffay
Matt LeBlanc	...	Joey Tribbiani
Matthew Perry	...	Chandler Bing
David Schwimmer	...	Dr. Ross Geller
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Kristian Alfonso	...	Hope Brady
Pat Finn	...	Dr. Roger
Paul Gleason	...	Jack
Jane Sibbett	...	Carol Willick
Kevin Spirtas	...	Dr. Wesley
Cole Sprouse	...	Ben Geller
James Michael Tyler	...	Gunther
Mitchell Whitfield	...	Barry Farber

Runtime:

22 min | 22 min (approx.) | Argentina:30 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Netherlands:AL | Mexico:B | USA:TV-PG | Argentina:Atp

Filming Locations:

Dijon Street, Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA

Company:

Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions

Trivia:

When Ross bumps into Rachel in front of the newsstand, a large number of the magazines on display are actual issues of the time with "F·r·i·e·n·d·s" cast members on the cover.

Goofs:

Continuity: In "The One That Could Have Been" when Chandler is trying to tell Monica that he likes her, his hair is sometimes sticking through his hat and other times it is smoothed out under his hat.

Quotes:

Monica: [Chandler is hired as Joey's assistant] You realize what you are now, don't you?
Chandler Bing: What?
Monica: You're his bitch!

Soundtrack:

Nocturne in E Flat, Opus 9, Number 2

How the Friends would be in other situations?

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

Barry and Mindy are going to divorce. Mindy discovered that Barry had affairs with other person while they were married. Rachel stays happy to know that and starts to imagine how her life would be if she was married to Barry. The entire episode shows how the Friends ' life would be if different things happened:

Ross still is married to Carol, doing Karate and extremely tense without any sex life; Rachel still would be a rich spoiled woman, married to Barry and wanting Joey, since she loves Soap Operas; Joey would be a celebrity, very rich, going out with a lots of women and working in the Soap Opera as one of the main stars; Monica would be a fat, virgin woman, who dates only annoying guys; Phoebe would work with actions and would be stressed,serious and a heavily smoker (eventually having a heart attack); and Chandler would be a poor comedian writer, without any money and asking Joey to help him with his bills.