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All 236 half-hour episodes from 10 seasons in a collector's box
Commemorative 60-page book with behind-the-scenes photos and the original pilot pitch
Includes all the original bonus material from the single season DVD releases:
Over 25 commentaries
Over 25 documentaries and behind-the-scenes featurettes
Gag reels
Trivia quizzes
From the moment that we first heard The Rembrandts’ jangling, Byrds-y intro to "I’ll Be There for You," Friends has kept us totally engaged -- and not just with the eternal question of how six semi-employed twentysomethings could afford such palatial Manhattan digs. Developed by NBC as a Thursday-night companion to the then-growing Seinfeld, Friends is that rare breed of situation comedy that is much more than the sum of its considerable and carefully assembled parts. Early in this first season, Friends establishes itself as the time-capsule collection for unfocused Generation X’ers, swimming in Seinfeld's creative wake, shining brilliantly with threadbare plotlines. Consider "The One with the Boobies," in which Chandler (Matthew Perry) catches an accidental glimpse of Rachel’s breasts, which sets her off on a fairness crusade to see his ‘thing.’ And who doesn't crack up throughout "The One With the Butt," wherein aspiring thespian Joey (Matt LeBlanc) is called upon to play the enviable role of Al Pacino’s "butt double." The nostalgia factor is high in this 24-episode collection, and revisiting such gems as "The One With Two Parts" -- during which Monica (Courteney Cox) and Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) double-date ER docs George Clooney and Noah Wyle -- will no doubt bring the early ‘90s back like a shot from the defibrillator. The DVD editon of this box set is chock-full of extra features, including an interactive tour of the set and the "How Well Do You Know Your Friends" trivia challenge. After a few sleepless nights spent devouring the entire first season, the quiz should be a breeze. Episodes are as follows:
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February 10, 2009: I bought the complete set in 2006. I love the show. But I did not like the way they were shown on these DVD's. So, I sold them back to Best Buy and bought the DVD's season to season and I'm enjoy them better that way. But I would recommend either set if you are a "Friends" fan.
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February 10, 2009: I absolutely love this show. I have wanted this complete series for two years now and even borrowed it from a friend when I had surgery. I finally got it in December 2008 and couldn't be happier with it. And the price I got it at made it even that much better! It was on sale and I had a 20% off coupon! I definitely recommend this to anyone that wants some laughs.
From the moment that we first heard The Rembrandts’ jangling, Byrds-y intro to "I’ll Be There for You," Friends has kept us totally engaged -- and not just with the eternal question of how six semi-employed twentysomethings could afford such palatial Manhattan digs. Developed by NBC as a Thursday-night companion to the then-growing Seinfeld, Friends is that rare breed of situation comedy that is much more than the sum of its considerable and carefully assembled parts. Early in this first season, Friends establishes itself as the time-capsule collection for unfocused Generation X’ers, swimming in Seinfeld's creative wake, shining brilliantly with threadbare plotlines. Consider "The One with the Boobies," in which Chandler (Matthew Perry) catches an accidental glimpse of Rachel’s breasts, which sets her off on a fairness crusade to see his ‘thing.’ And who doesn't crack up throughout "The One With the Butt," wherein aspiring thespian Joey (Matt LeBlanc) is called upon to play the enviable role of Al Pacino’s "butt double." The nostalgia factor is high in this 24-episode collection, and revisiting such gems as "The One With Two Parts" -- during which Monica (Courteney Cox) and Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) double-date ER docs George Clooney and Noah Wyle -- will no doubt bring the early ‘90s back like a shot from the defibrillator. The DVD editon of this box set is chock-full of extra features, including an interactive tour of the set and the "How Well Do You Know Your Friends" trivia challenge. After a few sleepless nights spent devouring the entire first season, the quiz should be a breeze. Episodes are as follows:
In the second season, Friends became family. It was a year of funky bachelor pads and lesbian weddings; inappropriate tailors and soap-opera doctors; smelly cats and movie star monkeys. The sophomore season captured our imagination, established the affairs that aroused our subconscious desires, and cemented our relationship with the gang of Friends. The sexual tension between Ross and Rachel is the season’s centerpiece, as they clumsily volley the onus of love and commitment. From Rachel’s delight in "The One With Phoebe's Husband," wherein she discovers that Ross has yet to consummate an already lengthy relationship with his girlfriend, to "The One With The List," when Ross’ hysterical list of Rachel’s pros and cons falls into the wrong hands, we’re carried through the polar highs and lows of an atypical courtship. Just as it seems their love will remain forever unrequited, Ross and Rachel are united in perhaps the greatest Friends episode, "The One With The Prom Video." Flashbacks from home video horrors resurface as we watch a portly Monica and hook-nosed Rachel prepare for the Prom, while Ross, a poster boy for '80s fads, looks on. The DVD version of Friends: The Complete Season Two is loaded with special features, including commentary from the show’s producers, an interactive tour of Monica and Rachel’s "to-die-for" apartment, a video guide to season two’s special guest appearances, a "How Well Do You Know Your Friends?" video trivia challenge, and more. Episodes are as follows:
Once upon a time, the big question wasn't whether or not NBC could lure the stars of Friends back for another season, but rather how the program would stay vaguely interesting. With Ross (David Schwimmer) and Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) finally together, would the magic that made Season 2 sizzle, just fizzle? Season 3 found the answer -- and the twist -- around which at least six more years would ultimately revolve. Yes, the third time around is chock-full of great episodes, including "The One with the Flashback," which backtracks to a year before the pilot, when Central Perk is a bar, Chandler (Matthew Perry) meets Joey (Matt LeBlanc), Joey hits on Monica (Courtney Cox), Chandler makes a move on Rachel, and Ross and Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow) make out. There are a gaggle of memorable guest stints, including one by Courtney Cox's future hubby, David Arquette (as Phoebe's stalker/stalkee in "The One with the Jam") and a hilarious Ben Stiller (as Rachel's violence-prone date in "The One with the Screamer"). But the jewel is the two-episode tandem of "The One Where Ross and Rachel Take a Break," wherein Ross hooks up with the girl from the photocopy shop, and "The One the Morning After," when Rachel finds out and they break up. The finale, "The One at the Beach," may be less intriguing for its cliff-hanger (will Ross sleep with his new girlfriend or Rachel?) than for its foreshadowing of events to come in Season 7: Monica says Chandler's not "boyfriend material"? Maybe not. But how about husband material? Peter Marchand
From the moment Chandler christened the opening episode by peeing on Monica's jellyfish sting, Friends hit the ground running in its fourth -- and quite possibly best season. With its six young Manhattanites firmly established in America's living rooms, the show's creators were free to improvise variations on the extended-family theme, with often hilarious (and occasionally poignant) results. Not only does Phoebe channel her dead mother through a stray cat, she serves as a surrogate mom, mood-swinging her way through the second half of the season while pregnant with triplets. Both Chandler and Joey get caught with their pants down -- the latter by guest star Charlton Heston, who barks "put some pants on kid, so I can kick your butt" when he catches Joey in his dressing room shower. The show's trademark physical comedy shines in episodes like "The One with Chandler in the Box" and "The One with All the Rugby," in which Ross pratfalls his way across the field to impress his British girlfriend, Emily. A labyrinthine series of mating dances produces numerous strange bedfellows, as per Friends tradition. This season also finds star-crossed ex-spouses Ross and Rachel at the zenith of their will-they-won't-they dynamic -- capped by the classic final episode, in which he seals his wedding vows with Emily by calling her "Rachel." Oops! Cree McCree
"The One After Ross Says 'Rachel' " launched Season 5 of NBC's perennial Thursday night ratings giant, Friends, referencing in the title the shocking final moment from Season 4's cliff-hanger ending. To refresh memories, Ross (David Schwimmer) -- in London, at the altar, marrying Emily (Helen Baxendale) -- had blurted out his true love's name at precisely the wrong moment, setting the scene for some serious explaining down the road. The episode's September 24th premiere ranks among the show's all-time ratings peaks and launched a season with strikingly few low points, as this 24-episode collection demonstrates. Highlights along the way include: "The One with All the Thanksgivings," featuring hilarious recollections of turkey days past; "The One with Chandler's Work Laugh"; "The One Where Everyone Finds Out," wherein Monica and Chandler's secret affair is revealed; and the season-closing two-parter, "The One in Vegas 1 & 2," which culminates with Monica and Chandler encountering Rachel and Ross at a Sin City wedding chapel.
Friends crosses the midseries hump in this sixth of its ten seasons, shuffling the deck a bit as Chandler moves in with Monica and Rachel moves in with Phoebe. Joey, on the hunt for a new roommate, finds a fine one: supermodel Elle MacPherson, as Janine. Ross and Rachel, married at the close of Season 5, seek annulment and, eventually, divorce with their typically hilarious amicable acrimony. One of the season's high points comes in "The One Where Ross Got High," a Thanksgiving-themed episode featuring Elliott Gould and Christina Pickles in their occasional roles as Ross and Monica's parents. "The One with Rachel's Sister" finds Reese Witherspoon in the title role, hooking up with Ross and sending Rachel into a tizzy. "The One That Could Have Been," -- an hour-long NBC episode that became a two-parter in syndication -- is fondly recalled for many reasons, not the least of which are the scenes in which Monica appears as her "fat" self (an image from the episode appears on the back of this box). The multiple-story arc wherein Ross dates a student, Elizabeth (Alexandra Holden), develops into one of the show's all-time celebrity coups, with Bruce Willis joining the cast for a three-episode run as Elizabeth's father, who woos a willing Rachel. "The One with the Proposal, Parts 1 & 2" closes the proceedings and features Tom Selleck's return as Monica's former beau, Richard, who confesses his lingering love for her. There is no cliff-hanger this time, though, as Monica and Chandler wind up agreeing to tie the knot just in time to drop the curtain on Season 6.
The pending Geller-Bing nuptials dominate this seventh Friends season (2000-01), as Monica and Chandler (Courteney Cox-Arquette and Matthew Perry) prepare to tie the knot on the two-part, season-closing wedding episode. Elliot Gould and Christina Pickles make the first of several appearances as Monica's parents in the season's second episode, "The One with Rachel's Book," which gets its title from Joey's (Matt LeBlanc) discovery that Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) is reading a trashy romance novel. There is also a story arc in the early part of the season that follows Rachel's hiring of, and eventual relationship with, her assistant Tag (Eddie Cahill). Additional season highlights include: "The One with All the Cheesecakes," in which Chandler and Rachel scarf down cheesecake delivered to his door by mistake; "The One Where Rosita Dies," featuring a guest turn by Jason Alexander; "The One Where They All Turn Thirty," wherein Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow) discovers that she's actually 31; "The One with Joey's New Brain," for which Susan Sarandon earned an Outstanding Guest Actress Emmy nomination; "The One with Ross and Monica's Cousin" features Denise Richards in the title role as a visiting relative to whom Ross (David Schwimmer) develops a discomfiting attraction; and "The One with Rachel's Big Kiss," which finds Winona Ryder turning up as Rachel's college friend Melissa, with whom she once shared a smooch. Also worth noting is the episode leading into the wedding finale, "The One with Chandler's Dad," which introduces not only Kathleen Turner as the cross-dressing Bin père but also Gary Oldman as Joey's spit-spewing costar.
The 2001-2 season picks up exactly where the previous one left off: at the wedding of Monica (Courteney Cox-Arquette) and Chandler (Matthew Perry), where the Friends are engaging in their usual hilarious antics. But the euphoria surrounding this year's opener, "The One After 'I Do,' " quickly gives way to a plot twist that dominates Season 8 -- Rachel’s (Jennifer Aniston) unexpected pregnancy. The father, of course, is Ross (David Schwimmer), and there's a great deal of hoopla generated before the blessed event occurs in a two-part, season-ending extravaganza, "The One Where Rachel Has a Baby." In between, there are some memorable episodes and the predictable cameo appearances. Alec Baldwin turns up in "The One with the Tea Leaves," which turns the spotlight on Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow); Sean Penn guests as a brokenhearted boyfriend in "The One with the Stain"; and Trudie Styler (Sting's wife) plays herself in "The One with Monica's Boots." Aniston's real-life husband, big-screen heartthrob Brad Pitt, makes an uncredited appearance in "The One with the Rumor," playing a former classmate (and, with Chandler, a co-founder of the high school's "I Hate Rachel" club) who turns up for Monica's Thanksgiving dinner. These 22 episodes are quite remarkable, in that they reveal almost none of the weariness or dearth of ideas that usually encumber series having run this long. There are, to be sure, a few clinkers in the group, but by and large Season 8 is an exceptionally strong one -- and a must for devotees of this much-beloved sitcom. Ed Hulse
The penultimate season of this long-running favorite proved to be a fairly tumultuous one -- and a very funny one as well. It kicks off with "The One Where No One Proposes," the aftermath of the accidental proposal made by Joey (Matt LeBlanc) to new mother Rachel (Jennifer Aniston), and includes a hilarious scene in which Monica's father (Elliott Gould) catches his darling daughter (Courteney Cox) and her beau, Chandler (Matthew Perry), making whoopee in a closet. The show's writers inject some new elements into the 2002-3 season, most notably the addition of recurring characters played by Paul Rudd, Dermot Mulroney, and especially Aisha Tyler, who plays Joey's girlfriend, Charlie. One story thread finds Chandler and Monica struggling with his weekly business commute to Tulsa, beginning with the episode "The One Where Emma Cries," and includes her marriage-straining inability to conceive in "The One with Phoebe's Birthday Dinner." And there's another great Thanksgiving episode, "The One with Rachel's Other Sister," featuring guest star Christina Applegate as Amy, the titular sis. Season 9 ends on a cliff-hanger in the two-part "The One in Barbados," as Charlie breaks up with Joey and turns to Ross (David Schwimmer) for comfort -- which sends Joey back into Rachel's arms. We all know how things worked out, but in reviewing the show's ninth year it becomes quite evident that writers, directors, and cast members alike were working overtime to make this group of episodes special. And they succeeded admirably. Ed Hulse
Okay, we might as well admit it: We never really thought Friends would end without a Ross-Rachel reconciliation. But that doesn't mean Season 10 didn't give us some anxious moments along with the comedy. Not content to rest on its laurels and coast to a vaguely satisfying but unsurprising conclusion, this outstanding sitcom continued to break new ground and wove genuinely dramatic situations into the final year's narrative fabric. The season opener, "The One After Joey and Rachel Kiss," finds Joey (Matt LeBlanc) and Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) uneasy about revealing their newfound attraction at a time when Ross's (David Schwimmer) relationship with Charlie Wheeler (recurring guest star Aisha Tyler) is headed for trouble. Indeed, Charlie dumps Ross for old boyfriend Benjamin in "The One with Ross's Grant." What makes this episode unique in an in-jokey way is that Benjamin is played by Greg Kinnear -- who, like Tyler, was a former host of E!’s Talk Soup. Other plot threads running through this year's episodes include the increasingly frustrating efforts of newlyweds Chandler (Matthew Perry) and Monica (Courteney Cox) to adopt a baby, and the continued involvement of Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow) in the lives of the triplets she bore as a surrogate mother. An outstanding episode -- indeed, one of the undisputed fan favorites of the entire run -- is "The One Where the Stripper Cries," which features a hysterical flashback to the 1987 prom, where we see Rachel with her old nose and a considerably heavier Monica. "The One with Rachel's Going-Away Party" sets up the long-awaited reconciliation wherein Rachel prepares to leave for Paris and falls into bed with Ross on her last night in town. The two-part series finale "The Last One," ties up the loose ends most satisfactorily -- but then, unless you were living on another planet in the spring of 2004, you know that already. Ed Hulse
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| Jennifer Aniston (Films) | Actress | |
| Courteney Cox Arquette (Films) | Actress | |
| Lisa Kudrow (Films)(Biography) | Actress | |
| David Schwimmer (Films)(Biography) | Actor | |
| Matt LeBlanc | Actor | |
| Matthew Perry | Actor | |
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