Friends ( stylized as F • R • I • E • N • D • S ) is an American sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which aired on the National Broadcasting Company ( NBC ) from September 22, 1994 to May 6, 2004.

Aniston gained worldwide recognition in the 1990s for portraying Rachel Green on the television sitcom Friends, a role which earned her an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

Aniston's plans changed, however, after auditioning for Friends, a sitcom that was set to debut on NBC's 1994 – 1995 fall lineup.

The American sitcom Friends has used shots of Madison Square Garden several times.

* In the Season 9 finale of the sitcom Friends, Rachel Green is tuned into The Weather Channel in her hotel room in Barbados, as Melissa Barrington says it is sunny in New York, and Rachel as a result calls her a weather bitch.

When the writers of the sitcom Friends were about to create their series finale, they watched several other sitcom finales.

* Cap ' n Crunch is mentioned in the sitcom Friends in season 2 episode 16.

For example, the character of Ursula Buffay from American sitcom Mad About You was also a recurring guest star in Friends, despite the two series having little else in common.

* James Michael Tyler: actor who portrayed Gunther on the NBC sitcom Friends, alumnus of Anderson University

They are best known for " I'll Be There for You ", the theme from the long-running sitcom Friends.

In 1996, Whitman guest starred in the episode " The One Where Rachel Quits " of the sitcom Friends.

In an episode of the popular sitcom Friends TOW the Butt, Joey, when offered a movie role to play Al Pacino's butt double, references this movie by saying the lines " I'm out of order?

She gained worldwide recognition for her ten season run as Phoebe Buffay in the television sitcom Friends, for which she received many accolades including an Emmy Award and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Kudrow would reprise the character on the NBC sitcom Friends, in which Kudrow co-starred as massage therapist Phoebe Buffay, Ursula's twin sister.

Schwimmer later gained worldwide recognition for playing Ross Geller in the sitcom Friends.

Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote, " Fans of the sitcom Friends may be surprised by David Schwimmer in Kissing a Fool.

* There are two references to the band in the sitcom Friends, one overt, the other implied.

More specifically, Murder, She Wrote would be facing off against NBC's comedy Friends, which was entering its second season on the network and was given the 8 PM timeslot for the fall, and The Single Guy, a brand-new sitcom that NBC gave the coveted 8: 30 timeslot between Friends and Seinfeld.

This situation was exacerbated further by the success of The Single Guy ( which many attributed to piggybacking off of Friends ), as well as another freshman sitcom, Boston Common, which debuted in March 1996 against the second half of Murder, She Wrote.

He is well known for his Emmy-nominated role as Chandler Bing on the popular, long-running NBC television sitcom Friends.

Goodacre, billed as " Jill Connick ", appeared as herself in an episode (" The One With the Blackout ") of the popular sitcom, Friends, in 1994.

In the pilot episode of the sitcom Friends, Jennifer Aniston's character, Rachel Green explains to the gang how her ex-fiance looked just like Mr. Potato Head

She also made guest appearances on the hit sitcom Friends ( as Chandler Bing's mother, Nora ) and was a recurring guest star on the sitcom Cybill as Andrea, a rival of Cybill Shepherd's character.

Chandler Muriel Bing is a fictional character from the NBC sitcom Friends, portrayed by Matthew Perry.

In the TV sitcom Friends, " Space Oddity " is referenced in " The One Where Ross Can't Flirt ", where Chandler is seen performing the opening lines on a home video, and also in " The One After Vegas ", in which Joey sings it to Phoebe after they have argued with each other.

He was also the original choice for the character of Chandler Bing on the sitcom Friends but turned it down.

Victor Meldrew ( Richard Wilson ) – Victor is the main protagonist of the sitcom and finds himself constantly battling against all that life throws at him as he becomes entangled, like the pawn he is, in machiavellian plots.

* Season one of the Channel 4 sitcom Peep Show, features an episode in which Jeremy becomes involved in a pyramid scheme after being ignorantly drawn into it by his neighbor Toni, whom he's trying to sleep with.

In 1992, after two years off the air, the sitcom returned for the sixth and final series of seven episodes in which Alf discovers a ton of banknotes and becomes very rich.

Doug becomes friends with Ray, which results in a few crossover episodes with Ray's sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond.

George becomes engaged to Susan Biddle Ross, a wealthy executive at NBC who approved Jerry and George's show-within-a-show sitcom pilot.

A spin-off of the sitcom Diff ' rent Strokes, the series ' premise focused on Edna Garrett ( Charlotte Rae ) as she becomes a housemother ( and after the second season, dietitian as well ) at the fictional Eastland School, an all-female boarding school in Peekskill, New York.

In the Game was a proposed sitcom that was to have been produced for ABC by Touchstone Television and was to star Jennifer Love Hewitt as an up-and-coming sports producer and single mum who unwillingly becomes an on-camera reporter.

PTV becomes a huge success, and Brian and Stewie, impressed by the hits, join in to help Peter expand his television programming, as well as performing their own show " Cheeky Bastard " sitcom on PTV.

Clyde once guest-starred in an episode of the American sitcom My Three Sons, when Chip Douglas is excited that someone from Liverpool was coming to visit and expected him to be a talented musician, implying the success of The Beatles.

Valerie wins the role over former sitcom stars Marilu Henner and Kim Fields ( who also had reality show cameras following them in case either had received the role ), neither of whom seem particularly excited to shoot either the sitcom or the reality show.

" Connick, Jr. admitted fans of sitcom Will & Grace gave him a hard time when his character on that show cheated on Debra Messing's character, Grace Adler.

The group broke up 1976 when Lander and McKean left to perform in the sitcom Laverne & Shirley.

The remaining Mouseketeers, consisting of the White or Blue Teams, were Don Agrati ( later known as Don Grady when starring as " Robbie " on the long running sitcom My Three Sons ), Sherry Alberoni, Billie Jean Beanblossom, Johnny Crawford, Jonathan A. Kahn ( a. k. a. Tio Juan ), Eileen Diamond, Dickie Dodd ( not related to Jimmie Dodd ), Mary Espinosa, Bonnie Lynn Fields, Judy Harriet, Linda Hughes, Dallas Johann, John Lee Johann, Bonni Lou Kern, Charlie Laney, Larry Larsen, Paul Petersen, Lynn Ready, Mickey Rooney Jr., Tim Rooney, Mary Lynn Sartori, Bronson Scott, Michael Smith, Margene Storey, Ronnie Steiner, Mark Sutherland and Don Underhill.

The bass synthesizer music eventually replaced the original standard sitcom music by Jep Epstein when it was played again after the first broadcast " The Seinfeld Chronicles ".

According to the jacket bio for the first edition of his scriptwriting text ( see Print below ), Straczynski had a play produced when he was 17, a sitcom produced when he was 21, and sold his first movie script when he was 24.

He said that even when the film played for sitcom laughs, it did so with " unexpected nuance ".

Usage of " naff " increased in the 1970s when television sitcom Porridge employed it as an alternative to expletives which were not considered broadcastable at the time.

Rayburn later landed the lead in the Broadway musical Bye Bye Birdie when Dick Van Dyke left the production to star in his eponymous classic sitcom.

In the American sitcom Scrubs, the character Turk once said when replying to Dr. Cox, " I don't disdain you!

In 1997, when US comedian Ellen DeGeneres came out of the closet on her popular sitcom, many sponsors, such as the Wendy's fast food chain, pulled their advertising.

The sitcom name is an idiom for being " saved " by a school bell ringing, when a student is unprepared to answer a question asked near the end of a classroom period.

The sitcom Two and a Half Men made references to it when the character Alan has a nervous breakdown in a bookstore.

After a lengthy hiatus that saw the end of the Moesha sitcom, and a flurry of tabloid headlines discussing her long-term battle with dehydration, Norwood returned to music in 2001 when she and brother Ray-J were asked to record a cover version of Phil Collins ' 1980s hit " Another Day in Paradise " for the tribute album Urban Renewal: A Tribute to Phil Collins.

She made her breakthrough when she was cast as Ashley Banks for the television sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air in 1990.

He first came to prominence as George Starling in Marriage Lines in the 1960s, but it was in the following decade when he played Tom Good in the BBC sitcom The Good Life that he became a household name.

She started her career as a 4-year-old, appearing in a hot dog commercial Her debut role was in the sitcom Valerie in 1987 when she played Pamela, the niece of Mrs. Poole ( Edie McClurg ).

Born in London, he made his first film appearance in 1944 but did not achieve lasting fame until the 1970s, when he took the starring role of Compo Simmonite in the long-running British sitcom Last of the Summer Wine.

His stint on General Hospital got him noticed with daytime viewers, but by 1984 Stamos decided to move on when he auditioned for, and got the lead role, in a short-lived CBS sitcom called Dreams, in which he played an aspiring musician in a band of the same name.

This almost caused Smith to go bankrupt when, in 1990, he was approached by the television network NBC, who signed him on to a contract and created a sitcom focused on him.

Its original success has been reinforced by its regular repetition worldwide ( PBS in the US ; BBC One and Gold in the UK ) and when, in 2004, the sitcom was ranked 12th in the countdown of Britain's Best Sitcom.

Williams gained further notoriety when Bill Cosby cast him as Heathcliff Huxtable's father-in-law " Grandpa Al " Hanks in a recurring role on the hit 1980s sitcom The Cosby Show.