Friends's David Schwimmer Flubbed A Key Line, Changing The Show's Course

Ever wonder how they came up with some of your preference plot threads from Friends?


as an example, we know how Monica ended up landing her date in the pilot, for instance, yet how the did the writers determine where to go with, mention, "The One with Ross's Wedding," given its significance in the storyline?


Thanks to Saul Austerlitz's Generation Friends: An Indoors Look at the Show That Defined a Television Era, we can stop guessing and begin marveling over how an eas mistake changed the course of the show forever. The book, comprised of a wide number of interviews with the show's various creatives (writers, cast members, and more), has the indoors scoop.


you could might not believe that the way that episode ended up playing out was actually due to a mistake by Ross himself, David Schwimmer. Any time the complete cast heads to London for Ross's impending wedding to Emily (Helen Baxdale), something feels off. Ross isn't supposed to be with Emily! He's supposed to be with Rachel (Jennifer Aniston), right?


Well, according to Austerlitz, no one was initially sure how to end that episode. It wasn't definitive from the begin that the wedding would actually go through successfully. However it wasn't up until the team was rehearsing their lines one day that they would finally figure out how to approach this storyline's resolution. Schwimmer was supposed to mention "Emily, the taxi's here," however ended up saying "Rachel, the taxi's here" instead.


"At that moment, "[producer] Greg Malins turned to [creator] David Crane and mentioned, ‘That’s what occurs wrote Austerlitz. This simple mistake lead to Schwimmer changing the course of the show, with Ross ending up vowing to take Rachel at his wedding alternatively opposed to Emily. You probably know how things played out from there on, yet it's crazy how one simple slip like this ended up being such a pivotal move for the series and Ross and Rachel shippers.


So, if you are a hardcore Ross and Rachel fan, you could thank David Schwimmer for getting things kicked off on the correct foot there. Who knew?