The tenth and final season of Friends, an American sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, premiered on NBC on September 25, 2003. Friends was produced by Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions, in association with Warner Bros. Television. The season contains 17 episodes (with 5 double-length episodes, including the premiere and finale) and concluded airing on May 6, 2004.
Friends - Season 10
The season premiere opens in Barbados, where the season 9 finale ended: Joey sees Ross, his best friend, and Charlie, his ex-girlfriend, kissing in the hotel lobby, then goes to Rachel's room, where the two of them also kiss. However, before going further, they decide to seek Ross' approval, but Ross finds them kissing, back in Manhattan, before they can approach him. Ross tries to hide his hurt, to no avail. Joey eventually talks to Ross about the situation and Ross seems to give his blessings. After several obstacles prevent Joey and Rachel from consummating their relationship (including Joey unable to untie Rachel's bra and Rachel accidentally kneeing Joey in the crotch), they decide to remain platonic. By the sixth episode, Ross is single again when Charlie reunites with her ex-boyfriend.
Mike proposes to Phoebe and they marry mid-season. Monica and Chandler decide to adopt a child, after discovering they are infertile. They are eventually paired with a young, expecting mother named Erica (Anna Faris) and buy a house in Westchester county. Rachel is scouted for a fashion buyer job with Gucci, but her current boss (Mr. Zelner) is seated at the next table, in the restaurant where she is being interviewed. She is fired by Ralph Lauren and rejected by Gucci, which leaves her unemployed. While cleaning out her office at Ralph Lauren, she runs into Mark, her former Bloomingdale's colleague (from Season 3), who offers her a job with Louis Vuitton in Paris. Ross, unaware and still in love with her, secures her job at Ralph Lauren, even convincing her former boss to increase her salary. However, Rachel chooses Louis Vuitton and Paris. Saying her goodbyes to everyone, Rachel goes to Ross' apartment last, where they spend the night together. Expecting Rachel to now cancel her plans for Paris, he is devastated when she does not.
In the season's (and series') final episode, Joey and Phoebe help pack up Monica and Chandler's belongings, while Erica delivers; to their surprise, she has twins, a boy (Jack) and a girl (Erica). Rachel leaves Ross' apartment. Gunther declares his love for Rachel (at Central Perk). Rachel has to leave for the airport, immediately after meeting the twins.
Collider ranked it #6 on their ranking of the ten Friends seasons, and picked "The Last One" as its highlight.[1] The final episode was watched by over 52.46 million people and is the 4th most watched episode in TV history.
Joey's agent Estelle dies, but the group doesn't want to tell him as it could push him over the edge after all the recent changes he's witnessed. Phoebe impersonates Estelle's voice and pretends to still be alive to try to get Joey to fire her, but Joey ends up terrified when he gets a phone call from 'Estelle' after learning about her death. While being shown their new home by their realtor (Jane Lynch), Monica and Chandler are horrified to find that Janice (Maggie Wheeler) is considering buying the house next door to them, leading Chandler to take drastic measures to ensure she doesn't move in. Ross tries to get Rachel her old job back so she won't have to move to Paris. However, when he succeeds, Rachel becomes upset that, although she won't have to leave her friends, she won't be able to visit the 'Fashion Capital of the World'. In the end, Ross persuades her to do what she wants to do.
The tenth season of Friends aired from September 25, 2003 to May 6, 2004 on NBC in the US and is the last of the series. It is the shortest season of Friends, only having 17 episodes as opposed to the usual 24.
Joey and Rachel decide to begin a relationship and, although initially upset, Ross gives the two his blessing. However the budding romance is cut short when they find they are unable to consummate the relationship. The two decide they were better off being friends and break up. Ross also begins dating Charlie, but this relationship is also short lived and she returns to an ex-boyfriend, Benjamin Hobart, unceremoniously dumping him.
After nine amazing years, countless romantic ordeals, new additions to the group, heartbreak, and endless laughter, the final installment of Friends premiered in late 2003. Season 10 would be the final one for Ross, Rachel, Phoebe, Monica, and Chandler, the most unique group of friends ever shown on television, who made a home in the hearts of the audiences.
The six people who were once singletons in their 20s trying to figure out love, career, and life in general in New York City, were now married, employed at jobs they loved, and on their way to start building an adult life. It was the end of an era that brought tears to the eyes of fans that had been accompanying the six members of the gang for almost a decade. Let's make a toast to what was an amazing series, iconic to this very day, and revisit the best episodes of its final season.
Joey goes on a date with Phoebe's friends, but when she takes food from his plate, Joey goes ballistic. After giving Ross fashion advice for his date, Rachel accidentally gives him a bag of her clothes instead of a bag with his.
In the meantime, Rachel and Joey decide that they are ready to take the next step and sleep together. However, the transition from friends to lovers doesn't seem to work out as well as they hoped and their bodies refuse to do what they want.
With a guest appearance by none other than the iconic Danny DeVito as a stripper, "The One Where the Stripper Cries" marked the eleventh episode of the season, and featured a hilarious set of flashbacks.
Nor surprises here, with the final episode of the series being the highest-rated of the season and the entire show alike. After running towards the airport to stop Rachel from leaving, Ross finally ends up with the girl of his dreams.
Monica and Chandler are done packing up the apartment, and Joey buys them a new chick and duck as a present. The audience said goodbye alongside those six fictional characters who became friends of their own in a very sentimental moment.
Just months before she made her debut as Meredith Grey on Grey's Anatomy, Ellen Pompeo played Missy Goldberg in a season 10 episode of Friends. Appearing in "The One Where the Stripper Cries," she was featured as a former college classmate of Ross (David Schwimmer) and Chandler's (Matthew Perry), who secretly made out with Chandler despite the two pals' pact not to fight over women they both liked.
Sean Penn appeared in two episodes of Friends during the show's eighth season. He played Eric, a man who is engaged to Phoebe's (Lisa Kudrow) sister Ursula but doesn't know that she's been lying to him about her life.
When she was just 10 years old, Dakota Fanning played Mackenzie in the season 10 episode "The One With Princess Consuela." Her character bonded with Joey (Matt LeBlanc) when Monica (Courteney Cox) and Chandler came by to look at her house in an attempt to move to the suburbs.
Julia Roberts stopped by Friends' second season as Susie Moss. Appearing in "The One After the Superbowl: Part 2," she played a childhood acquaintance of Chandler's who finally gets her revenge on him after years of teasing.
Jeff Goldblum played Leonard Hayes, a serious theater director, in season 9's "The One With the Mugging." After a rocky start, Joey stumbles on some talents and goes to great lengths to impress Leonard in his audition for the play.
Brooke Shields was featured in one episode of Friends, playing a woman named Erika Ford in the season 2 installment "The One After the Superbowl: Part 1". A slightly out-of-touch woman, Erika could not understand that Joey the actor was not Dr. Drake Ramoray the TV doctor in real life. Thanks to a little acting from the gang, their short-lived affair comes to a close.
In a brief Mad About You crossover bit, Helen Hunt played Jamie Buchman, her character from the famed sitcom, in a season 1 episode of Friends. Appearing in "The One With Two Parts: Part 1," she steps into Central Perk and tries to order coffee from Phoebe, mistaking her for her server twin Ursula.
In her very first onscreen role, Rebecca Romijn played Cheryl in Friends' season 4 episode, "The One With the Dirty Girl." Cheryl is the dirty girl in question, a new girlfriend of Ross' who is messy past the point of forgiveness.
In the season 5 episode "The One With the Girl Who Hits Joey," Soleil Moon Frye is said girl who hits Joey. She plays Katie, a spunky woman who playfully punches Joey on the arm without realizing just how much it hurts.
In a rare acting gig, Richard Branson played a character named the Vendor in "The One With Ross's Wedding: Part 1." In the season 4 episode, the British businessman played a street vendor who meets Joey and Chandler while they're seeing the sights in London.
Gabrielle Union became the person of Ross and Joey's affections as Kristen Lang. The actress played a recent New York transplant in season 7's "The One With the Cheap Wedding Dress," going on competing dates with both men.
Before his co-workers struggled to keep his name straight on Parks and Recreation, Jim O'Heir played an unnamed character in Friends' final season. In "The One With the Birth Mother," he introduces Chandler and Monica to the woman who eventually gives birth to their babies.
Playing a pregnant woman named Lydia, Leah Remini met the Friends gang at the hospital in the season 1 episode "The One With the Birth." Joey gets to know the expectant mother as Carol is giving birth, and eventually stands by Lydia as she welcomes her own baby.
Charlie Sheen's character Ryan caught a bad case of chicken pox from Phoebe in season 2's "The One With the Chicken Pox." He played a military man who had spent recent months in a submarine, but surfaced for an extended date with Phoebe. Their limited time together is so important that Ryan throws caution to the wind and contracts chicken pox from an ill Phoebe.
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