Friends: How does it end?

Warning, spoilers. The following article outlines the main plot of Friends and its ending.

10 years, 10 seasons, 236 episodes, an immeasurable number of lines and iconic situations, Friends is a series for all generations that has never left our screens. Reruns and constant streaming for several years: the sitcom is still relevant. It was on May 6, 2004, when he stopped in front of 52.5 million viewers glued behind their small screens.

A number that made “The Last One” the most-watched entertainment telecast of the past 6 years, the 5th-most-watched series finale in US history, and the most-watched episode of any series. The 2000s of American television. The finale, which was episodes 17 and 18 of the show’s 10th season, was split into two parts, divided into two separate chapters.

And no, Joey and Phoebe didn’t end up together, unlike the other characters in the series! In the final season, Phoebe found happiness in the arms of her lover Mike Hannigan (Paul Rudd), to whom she became engaged and later married. In Mike’s final scene, he and Phoebe talk about starting a family. “Don’t you want one?” ; “Not one, I want the whole package!Phoebe calls out. “We teach them to sing and we can create a kind of Von Trapp family!” he continues.

This is just a glimpse of what could be in store for the Buffay-Hannigans, perhaps a future of babies and surreal and (singing) adventures. Phoebe then spends the rest of the episode helping Ross make his big announcement…

While the rest of his friends go through major life changes, Joey ends the series in the same apartment…but with a chick and a duckling as new companions! While he plans to give them to Chandler and Monica as a gift, the two little beasts find themselves stuck in Chandler and Joey’s legendary foosball table, which must now be destroyed to save them.

It’s the end of an era… but a new era begins for Joey, who as we know moves to Los Angeles for his short-lived spin-off.

After several years of marriage and a heartbreaking battle with infertility, Monica and Chandler finally decided to adopt. During season 10, a couple prepares to pick up the baby of Erica (Anna Faris), a pregnant teenager from Ohio, and move to the suburbs. In the series finale, the latter goes into labor prematurely: rush to the hospital!

And surprise: while they thought they would only inherit one child, they inherited two! After the birth of the first, the doctor actually announces that the second is coming: shock! No one clearly explained to the very young Erica that she was going to have twins. “They should have been told that there were two heartbeats. I thought it was my baby’s sister. They often repeated that the blows were very strong and I said to myself: “It’s better because I’m expecting a baby!”‘”

Monica and Chandler then return to the apartment, where they surprise their friends with two new babies in their arms: Jack (named after Monica and Ross’ father) and Erica (named after her biological mother).

After years of conflicted romances, but we broke up, love and friendship, co-parenting and I love you neither, Ross and Rachel spend their last night together in New York. Indeed, the young woman is about to move to Paris to work for Louis Vuitton. But while Ross thinks they’re back together, and this time for good, Rachel talks about their night as “the best way to say goodbye”.

Ross finally realizes it’s time to tell him how he really feels. But time is running out: Rachel has already left for the airport after meeting Monica and Chandler’s babies.

Ross then embarks on a journey to catch up with Rachel and can count on valuable help from Phoebe and her crazy schemes. He calls Rachel, who has already boarded, and manages to intimidate some of the other passengers with her advice. :”You need to get off the plane, I have a feeling that there is something suspicious at the level of the left phalanx!“.

Typical Phoebe delirium that delays the plane’s departure and gives Ross time to run to the first airport, then cross town again to the correct airport this time and confess his love. And as he does, Rachel…gets on a plane.

Disappointed, Ross returns home to find a message on his phone: it’s from Rachel, in which he starts apologizing before she also realizes that he loves her. We hear him asking to get off the plane… and the message cuts out. did he stay he left?

Ross yells at his car:Was he able to exit the device?“. And there we hear Rachel’s voice, off-screen, uttering the iconic line: “I exited the machine“. There it is: a couple kissing and finally reunited… this time for good. An exciting scene that we will definitely not forget.

But it is not finished! In the final scene, the six friends reunite at Monique and Chandler’s apartment as the movers pack up their last belongings. They cry, kiss, leave the key on the counter and say goodbye to this mythical place that has hosted most of their crazy adventures.

Rachel suggests we go get one last cup of coffee before Monica and Chandler hit the road. “where” Chandler innocently asks: the last line of the series, and it may be the best, both funny and heartbreaking, full of meaning and vivid memories.

We all know where they go, on their favorite Central Perk couches. The audience laughs at the end. Before the final departure, the series offers a final plan of the apartment – unfortunately empty – which ends in a purple door, decorated with a bright yellow frame. The end of friends.