- The set wasn't exactly the same since the cast took home props when the show first ended. Matthew Perry gifted Lisa Kudrow the original Cookie Time cookie jar, which he got permission to take from the set. The reason Matt LeBlanc took a ball from the foosball table instead of the table itself was because the table had to be smashed in an episode to save the new chick and duck. As for Jennifer Aniston, who actually owned the white dog statue seen on the show, she took home the neon coffee mug sign from Central Perk.
- Courtney Cox would write her lines on the kitchen table. To remember important lines, Cox kept a script in the sink of Monica's kitchen and would write them down on both the apartment kitchen table and apples. LeBlanc once asked what the words were and Cox responded, "Mind your own business." He later erased them from the table before a scene. "I had so much of my dialogue within these apples," Cox replied. "I have memory issues."
- David Schwimmer absolutely hated filming with Marcel. When asked if there was anything they didn't like on set, Schwimmer didn't miss a beat before bringing up Ross's pet monkey, Marcel. "What inevitably began to happen was we would all have choreographed bits kind of timed out, and it would get messed up, because the monkey didn't do its job right. So we would have to reset, we'd have to go again, because the monkey didn't get it right," an exasperated Schwimmer explained. In between takes, the monkey's trainer would feed it live bugs while it rested on Schwimmer's shoulder, resulting in them getting all over the actor. Eventually, Schwimmer felt that "it was time for Marcel to . . . f*ck off."
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