10 Scrapped Friends Storylines That Would Have Changed The Show Forever
5. Phoebe & Joey Get Together
By the end of Friends’ run, Chandler and Monica were married and Ross and Rachel had finally got back together after years of being off and on. This left Phoebe and Joey as the odd ones out in the group.
David Crane, one of the show’s creators, once explained that all the friends coupling up would have felt ‘too tidy’. But that didn’t stop Matt LeBlanc and Lisa Kudrow pitching the idea of Phoebe and Joey getting together to the producers.
LeBlanc has been quoted as saying:
“Towards the end, we actually pitched the idea that Joey and Phoebe had been having casual sex the whole time”.
While this would have arguably been consistent with the two characters’ free-spirited nature, explicitly revealing that this was the case could have potentially tarnished the unique relationship that had been created between them over the series. Maybe it’s better that it has been left as a fun fan theory.