Posted on 08/19/2015 9:55:16 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Are you a “Friends” fan? Well you might be interested to know that a scene where Chandler (Mathew Perry) and Monica (Courtney Cox) were on their way to their honeymoon was actually meant to be play out differently.
The original scene, where Chandler makes a joke about bombs at airport security, was actually going to air on October 11, 2001 but was removed after 9/11 “due to material that could be considered insensitive” according to a note that plays before the deleted scene.
The clip was initially uploaded in 2007, but has reemerged this week online and is being widely shared on social media, possibly because reruns of the show are now available to stream on Netflix, Life and Style Magazine reported on Tuesday.
"As part of the history of the show, we hope that the scenes can now be viewed in the spirit which they were originally intended," the note in the opening of the deleted scene also reads.
Clip of the deleted scene below:
I lost all interest in this show when they refused to have Ross and Monica get together.
Nobody was laughing about airport security in October, 2011. Living in downtown Denver at the time, I was still paranoid walking under skyscrapers.
Chandler: “handle” is my middle name.
“I lost all interest in this show when they refused to have Ross and Monica get together.”
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I am a huge fan of Friends and have seen every episode many times.
Please tell me you are joking. ?
“I just watched the complete scene and fully understand why they chose not to air it two weeks after 9/11. It wouldn’t have gone over well at all.
Nobody was laughing about airport security in October, 2011. Living in downtown Denver at the time, I was still paranoid walking under skyscrapers. “
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My family and I had moved away to Canada from Denver just a year or so before 9-11.
That is neither here nor there, what I mean was, no, that would NOT have been funny... and I actually think the rewrite was funnier.
“We’re you! Just ten seconds later!” LOL. “We want the stuff!” LOL. :)
It says a lot about the writers that they were able to switch gears and change that and actually make it even funnier.
If 9-11 hadn’t happened, people might think that scene is funny. And of course, it is, but not really. It would have been if those events hadn’t happened.
And the writers or producers dedicated one of the shows to the people of New York City not long after 9=11. It probably was even that one.
And there are many pro-NYC, pro-US references, in the clothes they wear, in posters, what have you, maybe even in the scribbles on the door for messages, etc.... all right after 9-11.
I love “Friends” and watch the reruns all the time!!
Yes, that would've definitely been an episode that people talked about.
“I lost all interest in this show when they refused to have Ross and Monica get together.
Yes, that would’ve definitely been an episode that people talked about.”
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LOL!!! Yep, that would have been one for the ages. :)
I thought you might be interested in this thread, Friend. :)
Actually, given the way this country is going, they should have had Ross and Marcel get together to celebrate their love. In a Supreme Court-sanctioned marriage. ;)
“Now I’ve seen everything”! :)
Always been a fan and started watching from the beginning when the episodes were first put up on Netflix. They still make me laugh out loud! (I seriously do not think Matt LeBlanc gets enough credit for his work on the show. He was stellar.) And after watching all of season 1 twenty years later, I think they should rename that whole season “The One with the Gigantic Telephones.”
I lost all interest in this show when they refused to have Ross and Monica get together.
Yes, perhaps with the present Obama paradigm, this will be the focus of a upcoming 'reunion' show. ;)
I think he’s being sarcastic. You know, surprised that Hollywood didn’t have brother and sister get together.
I find Friends to be disgusting
All the women are sluts and all the men are idiots.
My wife watches an occasional rerun of it but I can’t be in the room.
In real life everyone of the characters would have had incurable venereal disease
Al Arabiya? They must be proud that Team Islam was able to force Friends into altering a scene.
It wasn’t funny even if 9/11 didn’t occur. People watched this stuff??
I see whut you did there.
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