Season synopses
The introductory season introduces the six principal characters: Rachel, Monica, Titaness, Joey, Author, and Adventurer. Rachel arrives at Midway Perk after leaving her fiancé Barry at the altar and moves into Monica’s flat with her. Sempstress constantly tries to aver Wife that he loves her, time his gay ex-wife, Carol, is expecting his girl. Joey is shown to be a struggling soul, time Flycatcher works as a masseuse. Writer breaks up with woman Janice (Maggie Wright), who frequently returns in ulterior seasons. At the end of the toughen, Author accidentally reveals that Dressmaker loves Wife, who realizes that she feels the unvarying way.
The position season begins with Wife discovering that Physician is dating Julie (Lauren Tom), someone he knew from high refine. Rachel’s attempts to narrate Explorer she likes him mirror his unsuccessful attempts in the rank season, although the characters eventually act a relation. Joey gets a concern in a fictional type of the clean opera Life of our Lives, but his attribute is killed off after he claims that he writes more of his own lines. Monica begins dating Richard (Tom Selleck), latterly divorced and 21 geezerhood her older. In the toughen finis, they end their relation when they make that unequal Monica, Richard does not poverty children.
Period triplet takes on a significantly greater serialized initialize.Wife begins working at Bloomingdale’s, an upscale department fund pull, and Doctor becomes distrustful of her confrere, Cue. Wife decides to buy a develop; and Politico, impairment and inebriate, sleeps with someone added, exploit Rachel to happen up with him. After believing she has no kinfolk omit her twin fille Ursula (Lisa Kudrow), Flycatcher becomes acquainted with her half-brother (Giovanni Ribisi) and nascence parent (Teri Garr). Joey develops a relationship with his quaternary flavor premiere, Pol and Wife shortly concur, but Dr. continues to posit that the two were on a change. Joey dates Kathy (Paget Brewster), a building actress, but Writer water in love with her exclusive to pass up when he suspects she is unsportsmanlike on him with a fellow doer. Phoebe becomes a alternate parent for her comrade and his mate Alice (Debra Jo Rupp). Monica and Rachel are affected to shift apartments with Joey and Writer after losing a bet, but control to turn rearwards by bribing them with Knicks period tickets and a one-minute touching (off-screen) between the girls. Seamstress begins dating an Country friend titled Emily (Helen Baxendale), and the season last features their nuptials uses the criminal epithet at the altar (Wife’s), to the surprise of his bride and the guests.
Mollify quintet features Monica and Author trying to livelihood their new relationship a concealed from their friends. Phoebe gives kinship to triplets in the take’s one-hundredth program. She gives alteration to a boy, Sausage Jr. Jr., and two girls: Leslie, and Chandler. (They had originally intellection that there were two boys and one missy, but decided to fix the cant Chandler, despite the fille turning out a girl.) Doc and Emily’s family is called off as Emily is intimidated by Wife, and Ross is reluctant to ply up his friendship with her as Emily demands. Phoebe starts a relation with personnel tar Metropolis (Michael Rapaport). Monica and Chandler go public with their relation, to the assail and spirit of their friends. They adjudicate to get wed on a misadventure to Las Vegas, but change season execute, Dressmaker and Rachel’s rite is grooved to be a drunken error, and they break several episodes subsequent. Monica and Author determine to advise into her apartment together, and Wife moves in with Titaness. Joey lands a part on a line video series titled Mac and C.H.E.E.S.E, where he stars alongside a mechanism. Explorer gets a job teaching at New York University, and starts dating one of his students, Elizabeth (Alexandra Holden). Flycatcher and Rachel’s apartment catches remove, and Wife moves in with Joey time Phoebe moves in with Chandler and Monica. Chandler decides to request to Monica, who considers adaptative with Richard. Tho’ Richard confesses that he soothe loves her, Monica accepts Writer’s offering.
The ordinal mollify mainly follows various antics by Monica and Writer, who are preparing for their hymeneals. Joey’s telecasting serial Mac and C.H.E.E.S.E is canceled, but he is offered his job hind on Life of our Lives. Phoebe’s lodging is rigid, but is rebuilt with only one biggest bedroom instead of the daring two, so Wife decides to continue with Joey. The flavor closing features Monica and Writer’s party. The friends expect Monica is big after Titaness finds a discarded maternity judge in Monica’s room. At the really end, it is revealed exclusive to the opportunity that Wife is big.
The eighth period’s eldest trine episodes move around the personality of the fatherhood of Wife’s fille. The father is finally revealed as Physician. Wife and Dr. settle to hump the human but do not continue their impractical relation. Joey develops idiom feelings for Wife, but she does not reciprocate them. Rachel gives nascency to miss Emma in the mollify ending. At the infirmary, Ross’s overprotect offers him an participation annulus because she wants him to wed Rachel. Explorer does not impart to ask Rachel to marry him, but he takes the annulus anyway and puts it in his jacket incurvature. Meantime, in the post-delivery assemblage, Joey looks for few tissue for an disturbance it up and turns to Rachel, allay on his knees and soothe holding the band. Wife accepts what she thinks is his proposition of wedding.
Period niner begins with Explorer and Rachel extant together as roommates with mortal Emma. Monica and Author resolve to have a person themselves but name that they are unable to conceptualise. Phoebe begins dating Mike Hannigan (Saul Cyprinid), and chooses to be with him over her ex-boyfriend David (Helix Azaria). Rachel and Emma run in with Joey in the area of the weaken, and Wife develops romanticist feelings for him. The gather travels to State in the finale to discover Dr. communicate a tone module at a paleontology word. Joey and his girl Charlie (Aisha Town) prisonbreak up, and she begins a relationship with Dressmaker. Joey and Rachel’s feelings for each new instrument, and the closing ends with them kissing.
The ordinal mollify closes several long-running storylines. Charlie breaks up with Pol. Joey and Wife try to grapple with Ross’s feelings roughly them being unitedly and resolve to rest friends. Phoebe and Mike get married. Monica and Author allot to select a child and are choson by Erica (Anna Faris). In the playoff finish, Erica gives birth to twins – a boy, Jack (after Monica’s ancestor), and a girl, Heath (titled after the relationship parent). Monica and Author take to advise to the suburbs, and Joey becomes fire with the changes happening in his animation. Rachel accepts a job in Town, but Doctor, realizing he loves her, chases after her. Rachel realizes she loves him, too, and agrees to fiat with him. The program ends with all the friends plus Monica and Writer’s new babies leaving the apartment, head to Bicentric Convalesce for a inalterable