If it wasn’t for all the Friends fans during its run, Monica and Chandler may have not gotten married.
According to Mashable, Marta Kauffman – the shows co-creator – spoke in Austin, Texas at the ATK Television Festival and she admitted that the friendship that turned into one of the greatest love stories was not originally meant to happen.
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"We had no idea what response that was going get," she said about the couple’s surprise hookup in London in the Season 4 finale. "We had to stop [taping] the show because people were screaming."
Kauffman added that the couple’s random plot had to change their original plan after the reaction of the Friends fans was so intense.
"We thought it was going to be funny and we were going to get rid of it," Kauffman said. "Suddenly the audience told us they had been waiting for that and we had to rethink how we were going to keep going and change the relationship. But that wasn't a person — it was an entire, immediate expression of joy."
People reports a few of the other moments from Friends that were mentioned at the panel, including how Rachel’s sexy Italian neighbor, Paolo, was originally meant to be an eskimo.
Kauffman took initiative over the writer who wanted Paolo to not be the sultry Italian love interest that he was by saying, “What’s sexy about an eskimo?”
The creator also admitted that the network originally believed that nobody would want to watch a show about a group of 20-something-year-olds living in Manhattan.
"We were told by the network, 'No one's going to watch a show about people in their 20s. You have to have an older person,’” she said.
The show even after 12 years later is still a hit with constant re-runs along with its latest addition to Netflix.