Friends fans celebrate show's 24th anniversary

From Digital Spy

Believe it or not, cult classic comedy Friends celebrated its 24th anniversary yesterday (September 22).

The first of 236 episodes aired on that momentous night during 1994 on NBC in the US, changing the televisual landscape forever and introducing arguably the most quotable show in existence.

Fronted by Jennifer Aniston, David Schwimmer, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, Lisa Kudrow and Courteney Cox, Friends turned these performers into international superstars.

Naturally, fans of the show were extremely active on social media yesterday, with many posts dedicated to Friends' anniversary floating around Twitter.

But like all the cast members have over the years, Joey Tribbiani actor LeBlanc recently dismissed the notion of revisiting the iconic series, admitting it would be "a different show".

"Nobody wants to see Joey at his colonoscopy," he elaborated. "That show was about a finite period in your life, after school and before your life really gets started. And if you think about the end of Friends, now their lives are starting – Ross and Rachel go off, Monica and Chandler move to the suburbs with the babies, Phoebe and Mike are married, Joey goes off.

"It was that time prior to that where they were each other's emotional support system – that's what that show was about. After that? It's a different show."

Still, that doesn't mean we can't keep asking them, right?

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