Friends: The first version of the credits was not what you know!

Before the iconic group of friends were filmed dancing around television’s most famous fountain, before the producers came out with the song “I’ll Be There For You” and before they chose the title. Friends For the series, the show’s opening credits looked different than what we know today.

Actually, earlier Friends, was “Friends Like Us” or even “Six Of One”, two titles considered for the name of the program that would become one of the most famous sitcoms on the small screen and of all time. And before “I’ll Be There For You” was REM’s title track “Shiny Happy People”, which was supposed to accompany the credits of the series.

And there’s no need to imagine what that might have been like, because the credits have rolled and we have the video to prove it! Simply put together from images from the show, presented with a slower tempo of “Shiny Happy People” – and a Disney-style font – we definitely find our favorite group of friends, but the atmosphere just isn’t the same…

We let you discover this first version in the video below:

Finally, the idea of ​​filming the legendary Rachel, Monica, Phoebe, Ross, Joey and Chandler around this fountain, played by the equally legendary Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, David Schwimmer, Matt LeBlanc and the much-missed Matthew Perry. This mythical orange chair that danced, poured water on itself and played with colorful umbrellas – all accompanied by images of the show that changed every season – was perfect and made the titles more original and, above all, more dynamic, thanks to the title flagship of the Rembrandts. whose words and gloves are now inseparable from the series and also a part of pop culture!

Friends, with its credits, the real thing, can be re-watched, over and over again, in its entirety on Netflix.

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