2. Lisa Kudrow As Ursula Buffay In Friends And Mad About You
Lisa Kudrow is well known for playing both her own character Phoebe Buffay and her character's evil (kind of... well, definitely) twin sister Ursula Buffay. But the character of Ursula Buffay had an older story that Phoebe was unaware of. In the early seasons of TV sitcom Mad About You, Lisa Kudrow played the role of a waitress in New York named Ursula... who happened to be the exact same age as Phoebe. Both Mad About You and Friends shared the Thursday night slots and were both produced by NBC. Furthermore, although reportedly never intended from the beginning, the characters of Ursula and Phoebe eventually meet and are shown to be identical twins in Friends. But the crossovers don't stop there. As part of a special night of NBC sitcom crossovers, characters Jamie and Fran from Mad About You visit Central Perk and mistake Phoebe for Ursula. Were that not enough, Jamie causes a blackout later in season three of Mad About You across New York, a blackout which is experienced in the Friends episode "The One With The Blackout". The blackout continued into another NBC sitcom Madman Of The People, tying the three shows to the same universe, as they all aired on the third of November 1994. The only NBC sitcom to not take part was Seinfeld, which ignored the blackout premise completely. Spoilsports. Other Friends stars Ross Geller (David Schwimmer) and Chandler Bing ("Could I BE any more Matthew Perry?") had their own stints in wandering across the spectrum of TV sitcoms, with Schwimmer taking Ross Geller over to an episode of Single Guy and Perry taking Chandler Bing over to an episode of Caroline In The City. The more you know.
