Friends: 10 Most Messed Up Episodes

10. The One With The Free Porn (S4 E17)

Chandler and Joey never made it a secret how much they enjoyed pornography over the years. They were both adults, and perfectly within their rights to enjoy such material, but there is a time and a place for this, and one episode threw all that out the window.

During the short time the pair lived in Apartment 20, one day saw porn randomly turn up on their TV. They hadn’t paid for it, it was just there. Mr. Treager told them it happened to him once, and seeing the regret on his face from turning it off and losing it forever, Joey and Chandler vowed never to do the same.

For the next few days there was porn on the TV 24/7. Regardless of who came round, whether they were eating dinner, or any other occasion. If you were round Joey and Chandler’s, you were watching porn. It was even on in the background when Emily told Ross that she loved him.

Yes, this episode was back in a time when there weren’t literally countless websites to peruse at their fingertips, but were these two truly so desperate and so obsessed with porn that they would let it warp their realities and let it control their lives so much?