I've seen every episode of Friends more times than any human should, so I think that gives me the right to criticize it from time to time.
I get that Friends was on the air for a super long time, but there's really no excuse for these frustrating inconsistencies.
In one episode, Phoebe discovers that she can speak Italian after she is introduced to Joey's grandma.
This would be totally fine, but Phoebe had multiple interactions with Rachel's Italian ex-boyfriend and couldn't understand him.
This has always bothered me because it makes no sense.
Phoebe's biological family was repeatedly portrayed as very important to her. She worked hard to have a relationship with her brother and mom, and she even acted as a surrogate for her brother's triplets.
Ross is the most fairweather father in television history.
He rarely sees Ben in the later seasons, and he didn't even question the fact that Rachel was relocating his daughter to Paris.
Monica and Chandler literally bond over the fact that they both don't believe in soulmates, but then, she talks about how Chandler is her soulmate in her wedding vows.
Come on, Monica. Get it together.
Any dutiful Friends watcher knows that Chandler and Rachel have both appear to have suffered from some serious memory loss because they can't seem to remember meeting each other.
Ross happily shares an ice cream cone with his pet monkey and eats ice cream again while on a date with Elizabeth.
We've seen Chandler cry, like, a million times.
It's honestly weird that they would write an episode about how one character can't cry when we've seen that character cry on the regular.
Ross's birthday changes twice over the course of the show, and it's seriously frustrating.
Ross might have a Ph.D., but for some reason, he can't remember when his own birthday is.
Later in the show, he tells a story about getting drunk and sleeping with the cleaning lady from his college dorm.
Honestly, this is just another reason why Ross is the worst.
We all laughed when Joey referred to his Adam's apple as his "Joey's apple" in Season 7, but that actually made zero sense.
Back in Season 2, Joey complained about kissing a woman with a large Adam's apple, so he knows what they're called.
Yeah, that didn't make sense because Chandler literally knew Monica at that age. He used to spend Thanksgiving with Monica and Ross's family!
In the episode "The One With Rachel’s Date," a sous-chef has to explain to Phoebe that "sous" is French for "under."
Chandler reveals that he is planning to propose to Monica after she put their names down on the museum's wait list.
It's super adorable but totally pointless because they don't even get married there.
Richard taught Chandler and Joey how to palm money in Season 2, and the boys were obsessed with the trick for an episode.
You two don't deserve Joey.
Instead of keeping their promise, they named their first child Jack after Monica's dad.
It was way too big to have fit through that window, and I need answers because this has been driving me crazy for years.
