Friends fans are still arguing about one of the biggest blunders 27 years later

Friends fans are inactive up successful arms over a mystery that has been puzzling them for astir 3 decades.

Over the years, viewers of the US sitcom person pointed retired a immense inconsistency relating to hairstyle icon Rachel (Jennifer Aniston).

And, no, it’s got thing to bash with her on/off narration with the hapless Ross (David Schwimmer).

On Reddit, users person noticed that her surname has been spelt some arsenic Green and Greene, starring to wide confusion implicit the close spelling of her name.

For example, successful 1998 occurrence The One with the Invitation, Rachel’s sanction is spelt Greene connected her invitation to Ross’s wedding to Emily (Helen Baxendale).

Five years aboriginal successful The One Where Rachel Goes Back to Work her sanction is spelt Greene connected her bureau doorway astatine Ralph Lauren.

However, that aforesaid twelvemonth successful The One With The Cake, the accidentally erotic barroom for Rachel and Ross’s girl Emma was addressed to Rachel Green.

On Reddit, RobbieArnott mused: ‘They spell backwards and forwards passim the amusement connected whether it’s Green oregon Greene. It could precise good beryllium Grean for each we know.’

_lucabeth pointed out: ‘IMDb has it arsenic “Green”. I don’t deliberation anybody really truly knows. 🤣 (Kinda off-topic, but on the aforesaid lines-Aaron Tveit’s quality connected Gossip Girl’s sanction is ever spelled otherwise among the fandom. The amusement has it arsenic “Trip”, but truthful galore others spell it “Tripp”, truthful w/e. 😂).’

Sunfl0werfields said: ‘Both spellings person been used, interestingly enough. I wonderment if they conscionable didn’t support way of however they spelt it, oregon if they messed up determination and stuck with it, oregon if they actively decided astatine immoderate constituent to alteration it?’

It’s unclear what the close spelling of Rachel’s sanction is – but they did astatine slightest get Jennifer Aniston’s household sanction close successful an Easter Egg nestled successful Friends.

In the play 7 finale, The One With Chandler and Monica’s Wedding, Rachel is tasked with uncovering a replacement curate aft Chandler (Matthew Perry) and Monica’s (Courteney Cox) wedding hits a snag.

She manages to find 1 astatine a Greek Orthodox wedding, celebrating the national of the Anastassakis and Papasifakis families.

Turns retired Anastassakis is simply a motion to the 55-year-old Hollywood prima – arsenic it’s her archetypal household name.

However, Jennifer astir missed retired connected playing waitress-turned-fashionista Rachel Green(e) owed to a scheduling conflict, according to publication Generation Friends, written by Saul Austerlitz.

The We’re The Miller prima was already connected to a drama called Muddling Through for different web astatine the time.

Austerlitz claimed that the amusement astir had to recast Rachel aft Jen auditioned for the amusement successful 1994 due to the fact that producers were anxious astir losing her during the archetypal play if Muddling Through was picked up aft the pilot.

Muddling Through, however, was cancelled meaning Jennifer could give her clip to Friends.

Friends is disposable to watercourse connected Netflix successful the UK.

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