The Friends storylines that were scrapped before they made it to air – Chandler’s shock betrayal to Ross’ abrupt split

IT has go the runaway occurrence communicative of the sitcom satellite with fans often being capable to recount the scenes successful Friends line-by-line.

It introduced america to immoderate of the comedy genre's astir loveable characters arsenic good arsenic proving a immense springboard for its stars to person acclaimed and lengthy careers. But what would person happened if the amusement went successful a precise antithetic direction? The Sun takes a look astatine immoderate of the shows scrapped storylines.

Chandler cheats connected Monica

In a storyline that could person wholly wrecked his reputation, Chandler, played by Matthew Perry, was acceptable to cheat connected his existent love, Monica (Courteney Cox).

Although they yet lived successful bliss with 1 another, amusement bosses primitively had thing wholly antithetic up their sleeves.

The archetypal program was to spot Chandler cheat connected Monica and the fallout this would origin for their marriage.

It was really acknowledgment to Matthew himself that the storyline was axed.

He insisted to bosses that audiences would ne'er forgive his quality for acting abhorrently arsenic good arsenic it ruining the beardown couple.

Taking his words connected board, bosses rapidly scrapped their plans and near the mates arsenic they were.

Rachel's improbable housemate - Gunther

Rachel was ever the 1 that got distant for Gunther with the unrequited emotion helium felt for the quality moving deep.

However, she was really expected to beryllium overmuch person to the fashionable broadside quality arsenic per archetypal communicative plans.

Whilst being unfastened astir his emotion for her, bosses thought that it would beryllium a bully thought for the brace to unrecorded unneurotic amid the confusing friendship.

However, Gunther histrion James Michael Tyler was enactment disconnected by the thought aft admitting it felt "unnatural" and "contrived".

Speaking to Metro astir the plans, James said: "I retrieve speechmaking the archetypal draught of that publication and thinking, 'Oh man, they’re ne'er going to marque this work'.

"It conscionable didn’t read, adjacent to me. I was not ungrateful that it didn’t work. Through nary responsibility of Jennifer oregon myself oregon the writing, it conscionable felt contrived and everything other that happened successful the series, and continues to be, was rather organic.

"Nothing was contrived – let’s enactment these 2 radical unneurotic for nary reason. Everything happened people and I deliberation it’s for that crushed it’s inactive loved to this day."

Emily's Early Exit

Ross' 2nd woman Emily was primitively intended to beryllium a overmuch bigger portion of the show.

Although she appeared for conscionable 1 series, determination were primitively plans to person the quality look arsenic portion of the main cast.

However, the idiosyncratic beingness of UK-based histrion Helen Baxendale enactment a halt to this.

Helen was large astatine the clip and could not alert backmost and distant betwixt England and the USA for filming.

As such, bosses opted to constitute her retired astatine the decision of the 4th series.

During their London wedding, Ross accidentally said Rachel's sanction astatine the altar alternatively of Emily.

Awkward!

Goodbye to New York

Although Friends is beauteous overmuch synonymous with New York, it astir headed to a wholly antithetic absorption altogether.

At 1 point, determination were plans to relocate Chandler each the mode to Minnesota.

In draught scripts, the remainder of the pack would person followed him earlier they each searched for caller lives successful the state.

But it would person meant the extremity of Central Perk - with the pack having to find a caller java to support them satisfied.