We’re such massive pals with Friends we once ranked EVERY SINGLE EPISODE.
So, we definitely want a revival season, if only so we can filter in the new episodes into our definitive rankings. And if Roseanne and Will & Grace can get sequel seasons, why not the greatest sitcom of all time? Just look at the reaction a (fake) trailer got. And it’s not as though the cast are averse to working together.
Okay, here’s why not.
Matt LeBlanc – May, 2012
Our first sign that there probably won’t ever be a revival season of Friends came six years ago when we asked Matt LeBlanc directly if there would ever be another season.
“Yeah, that’s probably won’t happen. There’s no plans for anything like that. Everyone seems to be talking about that these days, but nope, no irons in the fire there,” LeBlanc told Digital Spy.
When asked whether he thought a reunion was a “bad idea”, he added: “Personally I do. I think that show was all about a finite amount of time in six people’s lives. They were out of college, but they hadn’t settled down with their lives yet.
“Once they have moved on from that phase, that family unit has broken down a little bit. I’m sure they’d keep in touch a bit, but it wouldn’t be the same.”
On the subject of a Friends movie, he added: “I think it’s a bit of a case of ‘the book is better than the movie’. Do you know what I mean?
“Everyone identifies with those characters in their own way and everyone in their own mind imagines what has become of those characters. I just think it’s best to leave it at that.”
Courtney Cox – April, 2014
Monica! Monica will save the day with her can-do attitude and supreme organisational skills. If Monica can’t do sort this out, no-one can!
“Let me tell you something, there are six Friends and I’ve been trying to put together a cast dinner for ten years,” Courtney Cox said. “It doesn’t happen. I can get the girls, maybe Matthew Perry, Matt LeBlanc cancelled last time right at the last minute, Schwimmer lives here. So it’s never going to happen.”
Oh.
Matthew Perry – April, 2016
Surely Joey’s best mate will help convince him to say ‘How you doin’?’ to a revival?
Or convince his wife Monica that he’ll help organise the next Thanksgiving party if she takes part in a reunion show?
Um, no.
“We had done ten years; 237 episodes and the stories were kind of finished. I don’t think there is going to be a reunion,” Perry said.
“People talk about that all the time but I don’t think that’s going to happen, because we ended on such a high note that I don’t want to risk doing something bad and ruining, tarnishing the image of it.”
Jennifer Aniston – May, 2017
Jennifer Aniston seems to be more open than most to the idea of a Friends revival, but her main reason for not doing it does sound a little bit like something a mum would say at Christmas.
“We were jokingly saying that if Friends was created today, you would have a coffee shop full of people that were just staring into iPhones. There would be no actual episodes or conversations,” Aniston explained.
“There was something about a time when our faces weren’t shoved into cellphones and we weren’t checking Facebook and Instagram. We were in a room together, or in a coffee shop together and we’ve lost that,” she said.
David Schwimmer – May, 2017
Good old Ross, he has our back. He made the following announcement via David Schwimmer’s Facebook page.
“It has just been made official! All 6 cast members have signed on and we’re back for ONE more season!”
Only, here’s the thing – it wasn’t Ross. It was Russ. Or some other fake Ross, because that wasn’t even Schwimmer’s account (first clue, they misspelled the actor’s name).
Lisa Kudrow – January, 2018
And if you thought that was depressing, wait until you hear what Phoebe has to say about the situation. She basically thinks a movie would be more miserable than the lyrics to ‘Smelly Cat.’
“I don’t know what, they’re rebooting everything, but how does that work with Friends though?”
“That was about people in their twenties, thirties, the show isn’t about people in their forties and fifties. And if we have the same problems, then that’s just sad. That’s not fun, ‘Wheeeeey’.”
Jennifer Aniston – February, 2018
Despite Kudrow’s downbeat attitude, Jennifer Aniston was asked by Ellen DeGeneres if a Friends reunion would be “even in the realm of possibility” by Ellen amd Aniston said: “Anything is a possibility, Ellen. Anything! I mean, George Clooney got married!
“That’s like, anything can happen! I think it’s wonderful.”
OH. MY. GAWWWD. There’s hope, actual hope!
Matt LeBlanc – March, 2018
Okay, so Aniston’s in – and enough time’s passed for Matt Leblanc to change his mind, right? Like, he’s clearly thought about possible plots…
“I don’t want to do it,” he told the Daily Mail’s Weekend magazine, reiterating his point from 2012 in almost the same words.
“People want to know what happened to them. But it was about a finite period in a person’s life after college, before you settle down and start a family.
“To go back and revisit all these years later, well I don’t know what the story would be now. They would all have moved on from that period so it just wouldn’t be the same.”
“Put bluntly, I don’t think anybody wants to see an old Joey having a colonoscopy. Fine when he was drinking coffee in Central Perk, or auditioning for a job. Not so much fun if he’s undergoing a medical procedure.
“We were a lot younger then and I think that’s how the characters should stay. Normally I’d never say never, but in the case of Friends I would say definitely never.”
Matt LeBlanc – June, 2018
Boy, does Matt Leblanc love that colonoscopy line.
“Nobody wants to see Joey at his colonoscopy,” he told The Hollywood Reporter.
“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.”
Jennifer Aniston – August, 2018
All of which takes us up to the present – and the most positive quote in six years of revival talk.
“Before that show ended, people were asking if we were coming back,” Aniston said. “Courteney [Cox] and Lisa [Kudrow] and I talk about it. I fantasise about it.”
“It really was the greatest job I ever had. I don’t know what it would look like today, but you never know. So many shows are being successfully rebooted.”
But, going by the rest of this article can you possibly guess which Friend is holding up further negotiations…
“I know Matt LeBlanc doesn’t want to be asked that question any more,” Aniston continued. “But maybe we could talk him into it.”
So, that’s official, it’s definitely, definitely happening. We’ll book a sofa at Central Perk if you buy the coffee. All together now, “They’ll be there for youuuuu…”
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