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1、沪江网，收获的不只是外语： 第 1 页 共 17 页双语：老友记粉丝该知道的 101件事1. The first line of dialogue in the very first pilot episode of Friends was Theres nothing to tell.2. A 30-second commercial during the break in the show in America cost advertisers 500,000.3. Other titles considered for the series included Once upon a t
2、ime in the West Village, Insomnia Caf and Across the Hall. The original title, Friends like Us, was shortened to the current one-worder.4. The six characters full names are Rachel Green (Jennifer Aniston), Monica Geller (Courteney Cox), Phoebe Buffay (Lisa Kudrow), JoeyTribbiani (Matt le Blanc), Cha
3、ndler Bing (Matthew Perry) and Ross Geller(David Schwimmer).5. According to Aniston, her famous Rachel hairdo was created by accident when her friend Chris cut her hair with a razor.6. Courteney Cox, who was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, is known as CC to friends and family.沪江网，收获的不只是外语：
4、第 2 页 共 17 页7. David Schwimmer attended Beverly Hills High, the school on which the series Beverly Hills: 90210 was based.8. Matthew Perry appeared in Beverly Hills: 90210 earlier in his career. He said of his role: Its kind of a blur, but I remember playing the most popular kid in school who ends u
5、p with a gun in his mouth because his Dad is so overbearing.9. Perrys wit is so legendary that the scriptwriters have often incorporated his gags into the show.10. Cox had the honour of being the first person to say period on American TV, making a commercial for Tampax.11. Aniston attended the New Y
6、ork High School for the Performing Arts, the school that Fame was modelled on.12. Central Perk, the caf in which they all hang out, is based on the Manhattan Caf in New Yorks West Village.13. Cox was a cover girl for People Magazines 50 most beautiful people in the world issue.14. She was also dubbe
7、d TVs hottest babe by American Playboy magazine.15. Director Hames Burrows, responsible for many of the early episodes of Friends, also directed Taxi, Cheers and The Mary Tyler Moore Show.16. Matt le Blanc loves dogs and has a mutt called Lady that he rescued from a dog pound, and a Doberman called
8、Shadow.17. Kudrow is married to a French advertising executive Michel Stern, and has a baby daughter.18. Schwimmer is the son of two Los Angeles lawyers. His mother, Arlene, handled Roseannes first divorce.19. Le Blanc, son of a mechanic and a circuit-board maker, originally studies carpentry. I am
9、not a dumb guy, he says. I just play one on TV.沪江网，收获的不只是外语： 第 3 页 共 17 页20. Famous guest stars on the show have included ERs George Clooney and Noah Wyle, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Robin Williams, Billy Crystal, Chris Isaak and Julia Roberts.21. Perry dated Roberts after her appearance on the show. H
10、is verdict? She does leave toothpaste all over the sink and shes always wanting to borrow money.22. The whole cast huddle together before each episode to wish each other luck. This made frequent guest star Tom Selleck feel a bit left out.23. Perrys Dad was an actor who starred in the Old Spice after
11、shave ads, his mother was Press Secretary to Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.24. Kudrow has made appearances on several worst dressed lists in American magazines, but because of her characters clothes rather than her own.25. Perry is very fond of female vocalists. He says, If youre a woman an
12、d in any kind of emotional duress and you sing a song about it, I will buy your album. Favourites include Shawn Colvin, the Indigo Girls and Tori Amos.26. When the pilot show was approved by the network, and a series comissioned, the entire cast was sent on a free trip to Las Vegas.27. Cox dated Bat
13、man actor Michael Keaton for five and a half years, and they are still reportedly good friends.28. After graduating from speech and theatre from Chicagos Northwestern University, Schwimmer founded a theatre company, Lookinglass, with 17 classmates.29. Anistons Dad was an actor, John Aniston, who sta
14、rred in top US soap Days of our Lives. He divorced her mother when Aniston was nine.30. Kudrow gets fed up with being considered in real life to be as dippy as her on-screen character, Phoebe. People talk slower to me, as if I were a ten year old, she reveals.沪江网，收获的不只是外语： 第 4 页 共 17 页31. Kudrow gr
15、aduated from exclusive American college Vassar, where she gained a major in biology.32. Cox has been known to bleach her teeth.33. Like Ross, le Blanc has simian friends, he starred with an animatronic chimp in the baseball movie Ed.34. Aniston, real name Anistropolus, used to be 30lb heavier, until her agent told her to lose weight. She gave up mayonnaise, pre-meal snacking, white bread, post-meal snacking and butter to reach her current trim size.35. Cox, who weighs 7st 3lbs (101lbs) and wears a British size six, is terrified of being fat. She says, My ideal weight would be 100lbs. My
