10 Ways Friends Was Almost Completely Different

Famously, Friends' six main characters bounced around from one living arrangement to another throughout the show's ten seasons. So many times, new roommates and flatmates were on the horizon, as a certain character left one apartment to move into another.

One such flat move that didn't happen, though, was Rachel moving in with Gunther.

While rumours of just such a story had rumbled for a fair few years, Gunther actor James Michael Tyler confirmed to Metro in 2017 that there was indeed a time when his character and Rachel would become an item and move in together.

Explaining how neither he nor Jennifer Aniston thought this plot twist made any sense, Tyler said:

"Nothing was contrived – let's put these two people together for no reason - [and] everything happened naturally, and I think it's for that reason it's still loved to this day. I remember looking at Jen, too, and we didn't think it was right. Whatever it was for, we didn't need that storyline."

Rachel had several love interests during Friends' run, and that run certainly saw Gunther forever making goo-goo eyes at Aniston's character, but it was likely for the best that one of those love interests didn't actually become Gunther.