A Friends Reunion Could 'Only Disappoint' According To Its Co-Creator

With all of the revivals and reboots floating around airborne today, you may still be secretly hoping for a Friends revival.


Well, according to the show's co-creator Marta Kauffman, you have got to just give up. Friends is over, and its never coming back.


Kauffman, who also served because the show's executive producer, saw fit to kill everyone's hopes and dreams in a recent interview with Rolling Stone, where she mentioned once and for all that a reunion or revival just isn't going to happen. Why? Kauffman went into that, too.


"One, the show is about a time in your life once companions are your family members she explained. "It’s not that time anymore. All we’d be doing is putting those six actors back with each other, yet the heart of the show could be gone. Two, I don’t know what good it does us."


She joked about a potential name for a reunion episode, which could follow the classic sitcom's usual title naming conventions, proposed "The One Where Everyone's Disappointed." We happen to know legions of fans who would potentially disagree with that train of thought, thank you very much.


The show's "doing just fine" right now, she continued. "A reunion could only disappoint." Obviously, she's referring to the several reruns airing at any given time and the legions of viewers who tune in through the Netflix to stream the show, 25 years soon after it originally debuted in 1994.


"It’s a comfort-food show," she mentioned of the classic series. "These are trying times, and certain people want the comfort food rather than the complicated, mean-spirited sort of show. It’s warm, it’s cozy, (the characters) love each other. What’s not to love about that?"


That's our point! More of Friends could only be a good thing if it were written the correct way, right considering that. Yet unfortunately, it looks like Kauffman is more concerned about her work as co-creator on Netflix's Grace and Frankie at the moment. And while stars like Jennifer Aniston (Rachel Green) and Matt LeBlanc (Joey Tribbiani) have joked about possible revivals in the past, revealing that they're possibly interested in returning, it looks like it's finally time to move on.


Friends will constantly be there for us, though. And we'll be there for it too.