20 Mind-Blowing Facts You Never Knew About Friends
3. Monica And Chandler's Relationship Extended The Show's Shelf Life
Much as the will they, wont they? between Ross and Rachel may have dominated the early seasons of Friends, a different relationship took centre stage after that. Chandler and Monica wound up in bed together when the gang travelled to England for Ross' ill-fated wedding, but there were no long-term plans in place for their relationship to develop beyond that.
Scott Silveri worked as a writer and producer on the show for many years, and he has revealed that discussions about whether or not it was a viable relationship took place when the writers returned to map out Season 5.
The largely positive fan reaction to the unexpected hook-up and the chemistry between Matthew Perry and Courteney Cox pushed the relationship and show forward, and Silveri believes Friends might have finished a few years earlier had they not taken that chance.