Friends' Best Supporting Characters Were In The Show Less Than You Think
Friends left the audience with a bunch of memorable scenes, jokes, and characters, but its best supporting characters actually had less screen time than many might think, showing that they didn’t need to feature prominently to leave a permanent mark on the show. The 1990s saw a bunch of sitcoms that went on to become TV classics, but one that to this day is still regarded as one of the greatest TV shows ever (and continues to have a solid fanbase) is Friends, which aired from 1994 to 2004 for a total of ten seasons.
Set in New York City, Friends followed the lives of a group of six young adults doing their best every day to juggle their social, personal, and professional lives while also dealing with everything adulthood threw at them, all of this with a lot of humor. Over the course of 10 seasons, viewers got to know Monica, Chandler, Phoebe, Joey, Rachel, and Ross quite well and followed them through many ups and downs in all areas of their lives, and through them, they also met a variety of supporting characters, of which many became fan-favorites, such as Chandler’s ex-girlfriend Janice (Maggie Wheeler) and Phoebe’s husband Mike Hannigan (Paul Rudd).
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Some of Friends’ most popular supporting characters had a big influence on the main characters’ lives and, in some cases, they pushed their arcs forward, but to the surprise of the audience, Friends' best supporting characters didn’t have that big of a presence in the show, and they were in less than 10% of it.
Friends has a total of 236 episodes, and its most popular supporting characters were in less than 30 episodes, as are the cases of Ross and Monica’s father Jack Geller (22 episodes), Janice (19
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