With hit shows from the past now so readily available from streaming platforms, it can be easy to forget the agony of waiting for the next episode. And we can also forget just how long ago the classic episodes we can binge on whenever we like were released. Alarmingly, Friends turns 30 today.
It has been three whole decades since The One Where It All Began aired on NBC on September 22, 1994. It is 30 years since the first ever episode of Friends aired (Image: PA) But before we all whip out the party hats and dance fully-clothed in a fountain like the six friends do in the credits, to celebrate 30 years of this favourite TV show, let's take this time to be a little bit childish and think for a moment how different things could have been. Say for example we switch Chandler, Joey, Ross, Rachel, Monica and Phoebe from New York City to Brighton and Hove .
How would things change? 1. For a start, Rachel wouldn't be working at the New York department store Bloomingdale’s. She sadly lost her job at the Ralph Lauren concession when Debenhams in Churchill Square closed and now works at AllSaints in East Street.
2. That will be handy when she’s dating Ross as she’s just a short hop on the 27 bus up to the Booth Museum where he works as a palaeontologist. 3.
But we all know he screws things up cheating on Rachel during a drunken night in Revenge while they were “on a break”. The Booth Museum, where Ross would work (Image: The Voice of Hassocks) 4. Meanwhile Chandler works at an.
