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Friends cast chose The One With The Jellyfish for their reunion table read
Some Friends fans were disappointed when it was announced that the cast’s long-awaited reunion would be unscripted, rather than a new episode.
However, we will get to see the gang in character once more as they recreate a memorable episode.
It has been confirmed that Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer, Matthew Perry and Matt LeBlanc filmed a table read of the season four Friends episode The One With The Jellyfish.
The first episode from season four sees Ross breaking up with Bonnie and getting back together with Rachel after she gives him a letter about their relationship, but he falls asleep before finishing it because it was, memorably, ‘eighteen pages, front and back!’
Meanwhile, Monica gets stung by a jellyfish at the beach, and Chandler ends up peeing on her wound to relieve the pain after Joey gets ‘stage fright’.
It is unclear if the stars are acting out the whole episode or just key scenes, but we’re sure fans will be over the moon to see Ross criticising Rachel’s grammar during their break up all over again.
As well as The One With The Jellyfish, the cast also filmed a ‘reimagining’ of the trivia game where Joey and Chandler won Monica and Rachel’s apartment in season four episode The One With The Embryos – the scene which gave us ‘Miss Chanandler Bong’ and ‘transponster’.
The core six will also be joined by special celebrity guests during the show, including Reese Witherspoon, who played Rachel’s sister Amy.
Ahead of Friends: The Reunion airing on HBO next week, the Friends cast have appeared on the cover of People, and the stars teased that the reunion will be ‘emotional.
LeBlanc said: ‘It’s funny, when we do get together, it’s like no time has passed. We pick up right where we left off.’
Aniston added that when they first reunited, they thought: ‘Oh God, how are we going to get through this alive, without just crying our faces off.’
The reunion had been scheduled to air last year, but was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Friends – a sitcom which followed six mates in New York City – premiered in 1994 and went on to become one of the most popular sitcoms of all time, with new generations still discovering it today due to repeats and Netflix.
The last episode of its 10th and final season – where Rachel got off the plane – aired in May 2004 and was watched by over 52 million Americans.
Friends: The Reunion airs on May 27 on HBO Max in the US, and will air later on Sky in the UK.
