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- The popular NBC series “Friends” was full of series regulars and guests who were quotable.
- The main friends have their first and last lines in the same scenes on the pilot and finale.
- Some characters, like Janice, introduce catchphrases or characteristic tones in their first lines.
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Last appearance: Season 10, “The Last One, Part 2”
Monica and the main friend group all say their last lines in Monica’s empty apartment on the series finale. The group reminisces and says goodbye as Monica and Chandler are moving out of the city with their adopted twins.
When Rachel asks the couple if they have time before they have to be at the house, Monica responds with her final line, “We’ve got some time.”
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Last appearance: Season 10, “The Last One, Part 2”
While everyone is standing in Monica’s apartment, they place their keys on her front table to return them to the building manager.
Joey’s last line is “Yeah. I guess so,” in response to Phoebe saying “I guess this is it.”
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Last appearance: Season 10, “The Last One, Part 2”
After Rachel asks if they have time to do something and suggests they go for coffee, Chandler makes one last sarcastic comment in his final line, “Sure. Where?”
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Last appearance: Season 10, “The Last One, Part 2”
Phoebe says her last line in Monica’s apartment — which she also lived in before the start of season one.
After everyone gives up their apartment keys, Phoebe says, “So, I guess this is it.”
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Last appearance: Season 10, “The Last One, Part 2”
After Phoebe comments that each of them lived in Monica’s apartment at some point, Ross says that he hasn’t.
Monica corrects him by reminding him that he spent a summer living there with their grandmother while he was trying to make it as a dancer.
In Ross’ final line he says, “Do you realize we almost made it 10 years without that coming up?”
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Last appearance: Season 10, “The Last One, Part 2”
During the show’s final scene, Rachel has a hard time keeping it together.
She frequently ducks her head behind her hair and leans into Ross to hide her tears, but it’s clear that she’s crying when she says her last line, “OK, should we get some coffee?”
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Last appearance: Season seven, “The One With the Truth About London”
After Rachel babysits for Ben, he starts pranking his parents, Ross and Carol (Jane Sibbett).
Rachel then visits Carol to try to convince Ben to forget all of the tricks she taught him.
During the visit, Carol says her last line of the series off-screen, “Rach, do you want some sugar in your coffee?”
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Last appearance: Season 10, “The One With the Cake”
Judy appears throughout the series to visit her kids.
Her last appearance is at a birthday party for Emma (Noelle Sheldon), Ross and Rachel’s daughter.
As she leaves she says her last line, “Nighty-night!”
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Last appearance: Season 10, “The One With the Cake”
Jack also goes to Emma’s birthday party on the final season of “Friends.”
In his last line, he explains why he no longer drives at night, saying, “Last winter I went up on a church lawn and drove right through a manger scene. The papers thought it was a hate crime.”
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Last appearance: Season six, “The One That Could Have Been, Part 2”
Susan’s last appearance was on an episode where Ross imagines what his life would be like if he and Carol had stayed together.
In that alternate universe, Susan is introduced after Ross suggests that he and Carol have a threesome to reignite their sex life.
Susan says her last line while walking into Ross and Carol’s apartment, “Hello Ross. I love what you’ve done with this space.”
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Last appearance: Season six, “The One That Could Have Been, Part 1”
As the main friends imagine what their lives would’ve been like if some things had gone differently, Rachel thinks of an alternate universe where she married Barry.
She also meets Joey, who’s a successful soap-opera star, and considers cheating on Barry with him. She can’t bring herself to cheat on her husband, but when she gets home, she finds Barry in bed with another woman.
Barry’s last line is, “You said you were gonna be away all weekend!”
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Last appearance: Season 10, “The One Where Estelle Dies”
Janice last appears on season 10, when Monica and Chandler are looking for a house.
Janice is looking at the house next door with her husband, so to stop her from moving there, Chandler kisses her and convinces her he still has feelings for her.
Her final line is “Goodbye, Chandler Bing.”
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Last appearance: Season nine, “The One in Barbados, Part 1”
After returning sporadically throughout the series, David last appears on the episode where the group goes to Barbados.
He plans on proposing to Phoebe there, but she chooses Mike in the end.
David’s last line is about the work trip to Minsk that originally broke him and Phoebe up. He sarcastically says, “It was a good trip.”
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Last appearance: Season eight, “The One After I Do”
Nora appears a handful of times during the series, frequently embarrassing Chandler with her inappropriate remarks.
She’s last shown at Monica and Chandler’s wedding, and her final line is “Well, it’s a funny story.”
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Last appearance: Season eight, “The One With the Halloween Party”
During her last episode, Ursula brings her fiancé to a Halloween party at Monica’s.
Phoebe realizes that he thinks Ursula is far nicer than she is, and that Ursula lied to him about her life.
Ursula’s last line, said off-screen, is “Hurry up, I gotta pray!”
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Last appearance: Season two, “The One With Russ”
Julie and Ross break up when Ross realizes that Rachel is in love with him.
While at Central Perk after the breakup, Julie meets Russ (Schwimmer), a man incredibly similar to Ross who Rachel briefly dated.
She’s speaking to Phoebe and Chandler about Ross in her last line, “Actually, I’ve got some of his stuff that he, um …” but she trails off when she locks eyes with Russ.
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Last appearance: Season 10, “The Last One, Part 1”
Throughout the series, Gunther pines over Rachel.
In his last lines, he finally tells Rachel how he feels before she plans to leave for Paris, saying, “Rachel? I know you’re leaving tonight, I just have to tell you. I love you. Now, I don’t know if that changes your plans at all, but I thought you should know.”
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Last appearance: Season 10, “The One With the Cake”
In her last scene, Estelle talks on the phone with Joey about an audition she forgot to tell him about.
Her side of the conversation ends with, “And you need to have a monologue prepared.”
Estelle dies shortly after this, but Phoebe pretends to be her on a later episode.
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Last appearance: Season six, “The One With the Proposal, Part 2”
Richard’s last scene is a conversation with Chandler, who confronts him for trying to win Monica back while she’s dating him.
After a brief argument, Richard decides to leave the couple alone, and Chandler says he’s a nice guy, to which Richard replies, “I know. I hate that!”
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Last appearance: Season eight, “The One Where Joey Dates Rachel”
Ben (Cole Sprouse) appears often throughout the show, but he doesn’t always have lines, which is the case on his final episode.
His last line came a few episodes earlier on “The One With Monica’s Boots.” He says, “I have to go. My friend Doug is waiting for me over there.”
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Last appearance: Season 10, “The One Where Ross is Fine”
At one point on the series, Frank and his wife, Alice, use Phoebe as their surrogate, and she gives birth to triplets.
On his last episode, Frank desperately asks Phoebe to take one of his kids because of how overwhelmed he is. But he realizes he loves them all too much to give any of them up.
His last line is, “Oh crap. Don’t wake up, don’t wake up!” when his kids start waking up from their nap.
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Last appearance: Season three, “The One With the Ultimate Fighting Champion”
Monica and Pete only date for a few episodes before he decides to follow his dream of becoming an Ultimate Fighting Champion.
Pete continues to get injured in fights but refuses to give up his new hobby, so Monica breaks up with him.
He’s a bit out of it during their last conversation, but in his final line, he asks Monica to leave a note about their breakup since he’s on a lot of painkillers and may not remember anything by the next day.
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Last appearance: Season four, “The One With Rachel’s Crush”
Chandler and Kathy aren’t able to ignore their chemistry and end up kissing while Kathy is still with Joey, which puts a strain on the men’s friendship.
Chandler and Kathy don’t date for long, though, because Kathy ends up sleeping with a coworker.
Her last line is “Yeah,” when Chandler finds a pair of men’s pants at her place and asks if they belong to the coworker.
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Last appearance: Season five, “The One With the Ride-Along”
After Ross says Rachel’s name at the altar instead of Emily’s, Emily is mortified and unsure whether or not she can stay with Ross.
She realizes she can’t trust him enough to be with him and the two get divorced.
Emily ends up getting married to someone else, but she leaves a voicemail for Ross saying she’s thinking of him and might want to get together.
The last part of her message is her final line. She says “Are you thinking about me? Of course you’re not, but if you are, call me tonight. OK, bye.”
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Last appearance: Season six, “The One With the Proposal, Part 1”
Ross breaks up with Elizabeth after realizing that she’s too immature for him.
After their breakup, he stands by the entrance to her dorm building wondering whether he made the right decision, and Elizabeth throws a water balloon at him and yells, “You suck!”
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Last appearance: Season eight, “The One With the Red Sweater”
When the group finds out that Rachel is pregnant, Phoebe mistakenly assumes that Tag is the father after finding a sweater that looks like his.
Around the same time, Tag wants to get back together with Rachel, until he finds out that she’s pregnant.
He later runs into Ross, who’s wearing the same sweater as him, and asks whose baby it is. But Ross thinks he’s asking about the sweater label and not Rachel’s child.
His last line is “Yeah,” in response to Ross.
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Last appearance: Season 10, “The Last One, Part 2”
Mike is last shown when Monica and Chandler bring home the twins they adopted.
By this point, Mike and Phoebe are married, and he tells Phoebe that he wants to have children. When she agrees, he says, “Really?”
This story was originally published in August 2021 and most recently updated on September 18, 2024.
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