Friends Used The Same Phoebe Boyfriend Story Twice (& It Was Very Creepy)
The main characters in Friends dated a variety of people before they settled down with their “lobsters”, but in Phoebe Buffay’s case, the writers used the same story in two of her relationships, and both were very creepy. The 1990s saw a bunch of sitcoms that went on to become classics, but the one that continues to be regarded as one of the greatest TV shows of all time is Friends, created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman. Friends continues to have a solid fanbase (that has expanded thanks to its arrival in the world of steaming), but the constant rewatches have brought to light some of the show’s biggest problems.
Friends took the audience to New York City to follow 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. Over the course of 10 seasons, viewers followed Monica, Chandler, Phoebe, Joey, Rachel, and Ross through many ups and downs and saw them deal with a number of problems, with a special focus on their personal lives. Each of them dated various people throughout Friends, and while most of them weren’t bad people or toxic relationships, in some cases there were certain patterns that shouldn’t have been repeated.
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Such is the case of Phoebe, who before she met her husband, Mike Hannigan (Paul Rudd), dated a variety of guys, but the writers of Friends repeated the same story in two of her relationships, and it was a controversial one: Phoebe’s stalker boyfriends, Malcolm (David Arquette) and Eric (Sean Penn), who were both in love with her twin sister, Ursula.
Out of the main characters in Friends, Phoebe was the
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