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  • 2022-04-01 (xsd:date)
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  • Did the Famous 'Friends' Wedding Gaffe Result from a Real Mistake? (en)
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  • The sitcom Friends was one of the most popular, most watched shows in television history. It is also one of the small screen's most mythologized artifacts, especially among those who came of age during the late 1990s and early 2000s. The availability of the show on online streaming platforms has only attracted more new cohorts of fanatical viewers. In recent years, one of the intriguing anecdotes to have entered Friends-lore is the origin story of Take thee, Rachel — one of the show's most memorable moments, in which Ross (David Schwimmer), while exchanging wedding vows with Emily (Helen Baxendale), commits a dramatic Freudian slip and utters the name of his ex-girlfriend and grand amour Rachel (Jennifer Aniston). That moment, from the Season 4/5 cliffhanger in 1998, can be relived below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L81XWiDgmTkOne might assume that such a significant plot twist and watercooler moment was carefully planned out long in advance, but according to one online rumor, it was the result of a happy accident, as outlined on the website PetsReporter.com: A similar account was posted in 2020 by a Brazilian Friends fan page on Facebook, and the yarn also formed the basis of articles published by The Sun, ScreenRant, Yahoo! and KoiMoi.com, among others. Those accounts were accurate, and our rating is True. In a 2013 episode of the POP TV show The Story Behind, Friends co-executive producer Greg Malins explained how the Freudian slip came about: In his 2019 book Generation Friends, pop culture historian Saul Austerlitz provided a similar account, based on interviews he conducted with Malins and Crane: (en)
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