10 Biggest Friends Urban Legends

10. Ross & Rachel Weren't Originally Going To Get Back Together

The show's series finale of course concluded with Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) getting off the plane headed to Paris and deciding to reunite with Ross (David Schwimmer), seemingly for keeps.

It was a classically happy ending, yet ever since the episode aired in 2004, rumours have swirled that this wasn't actually the original intended outcome, and that another ending where Ross and Rachel didn't get together had also been shot.

But in a more recent interview, co-creators Marta Kauffman and David Crane confirmed that though they briefly mulled over a scenario where Ross and Rachel's future was left ambiguous, they never seriously considered - let alone shot - any other ending for the show:

"It's not a show about grays. Let's deliver not just what the audience wants, but what we want, which was to see them finally together."

As for the whole alternate ending myth? The duo revealed on the finale's DVD commentary that they actually instigated this one themselves, for fear that the live studio audience present for the shoot would leak the ending and spoil it for everyone else.

So no, there isn't a bleaker ending sat on a dusty studio hard drive somewhere.