Also... in latter seasons Monica was EASILY the worst character, they made her ridiculous.

Monica was easily the worst. She went from being a mellow person with a pretty calming nature to an absolute monster and I actually really liked her up until series 5 or so. In the last couple of series she was an unbearable, screechy mess.

The latter seasons have aged worse than the earlier ones imo.

1, 2, 9 & 10 are pretty poor by Friends standards. 3 through to 6 was the show at its peak.

Rachel and Joshua romance storyline was one of the worst on Friends.

The real, perhaps unpalatable, elephant in the room is that Ross, Chandler and Joey were much funnier than the 3 girls

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Tbh, yes.

hmm Phoebe is probably the funniest for me

either her or Ross

1. Chander
2. Ross
3. Joey
4. Phoebe
5. Rachel
6. Monica

They turned her too much of a biatch during the series which lowered her stock for me.

how when she's literally the most consistent out of the six :suspect:

along with our chandler

Phoebe and Chandler are the best.
Monica is the worst

Chandler and Joey were the funniest and also, at their best in scenes together but while Ross had his moments he was at his funniest when they weren't making him funny (I.e. Playing it straight) and, oddly enough, Ross and Phoebe were both at their funniest in scenes together when they were played off each other (like arguing about evolution).

Ross I think is an underappreciated character but not the funniest. He's actually one of the best developed characters on the show (along with Chandler) and I sometimes think that people - when talking about him being a horrible character - maybe don't realise that the humour of the character IS how broken / affected he is.

He was the awkward unpopular guy at school who finally got a girlfriend in college and she turned out to be a lesbian making him distrustful in relationships... He finally "got the girl" and then his paranoia and insecurity wrecked that relationship too and yes from then on the character is a sad, insecure, slightly misogynistic wreck... But that's the dark humour of Ross :shrug:

Joey was great but they way he went from being a bit dim to completely thick in the space of 10 years was a gripe.

I agree they turned him into special needs for lsughs and that is wrong

How so?

I can name you about 10 that are 100 times worse.

Ross > Monica > Chandler > Phoebe > Rachel > Joey

Ross was educated, he’d be a remainer

Phoebe singing along to Ross on the bagpipes is funnier than anything Joey did in the last 4 or 5 seasons. :hmph:

Joey's dancing still gets me

Chandler > Phoebe > Ross > Joey > Monica > Rachel

Lisa Kudrow didn't even have to be the focus of a scene to be the funniest one in it. :love:

I think Phoebe is my favourite :skull:

Phoebe is the second best after Miss Rachel!

#funfact

They were engaged in real life and were in the midst of breaking up when he was asked to join Friends so I think that’s a pretty big testament to both actors!