'I'l be there for you': Friends memes to go back to the 90's and move back in with Rachel and Monica

Giuliana Tiscioni • Writer

Sep 9, 2026 7:00 AM EDT

How many episodes of Friends can you repeat from memory? I bet most of them.

My parents and I have seen Friends just like a million times, and we keep rewatching it over and over again. We laugh at the same jokes, and we can recite the dialogue from memory. Do we ever get bored of it? No. Will we ever stop watching the same show again and again? Probably not. We're already too deep into it to stop now.

It's almost a weekend ritual to stay in the living room and watch friends while we eat some snacks and my mom bakes. Really, we don't even need to watch TV anymore; we just know what's going on. It's one of our comfort shows, like The Big Bang Theory. It's the one you turn to when you're bored out of your mind, and nothing on TV or on Netflix looks remotely interesting or entertaining. You already know you're going to have a good time seeing Chandler's ability for sarcastic jokes and Joey saying he's on Days of Our Lives only a hundred times per episode. And let's not forget all the drama with Ross and Rachel's "we were on a break" thing. For real, I think I am on Rachel's side here… They had only been broken up for fifteen minutes! But everybody has a different opinion about this one, so I'll just leave it there. The whole storyline about Phoebe with her lost brother, and the babies, and the teacher was just bananas, but that was part of the charm, I guess. And Monica's endless obsession with control still cracks me up. Especially because I am a bit of a Monica myself (don't tell anyone), so I get to pretty much see myself on screen every time I watch the show… It's not any kind of wake-up call at all. I'm just kidding, obviously, Monica is my favourite, and I don't have to explain why.

There are so many iconic lines and references to make. I still say "Joey doesn't share food" when my brother tries to steal one of my French fries. And there are so many memes! I swear, their facial expressions were so crazy that you could make a meme out of every shot, so here we have a nice collection of them to enjoy and remember why we love this show so much.