Over its 10 seasons and 236 episodes, there were plenty of continuity errors.
Most of the mistakes found are easy to explain.
Television shows do multiple takes of scenes.
That can lead to continuity errors with props, wardrobe or characters' placements.
However, mistakes like that shouldn’t be in the final product.
In at least one instance, it could simply be things change after the pilot episode.
Some of these errors are easy to catch upon a second or third viewing of an episode.
They were often too minor to catch viewers' eyes right away.
Here are the30 Mistakes Fans Completely Missed InFriends.
Rachel, Chandler and Joey watched her say goodbye to him in the doorway.
As she turned to walk back inside, he walked off to the right.
However, he should have walked to the left to get to the stairs and leave the building.
The simple explanation is this was the pilot, and they didn’t realize the building’s layout yet.
Rachel was upset that Paolo played her and grabbed a paper towel from the roll hanging in the kitchen.
The two women both apologized before realizing Paolo was the one at fault.
However, the paper towels went from being unrolled to rolled behind her in the kitchen.
As she told Ross what happened, fans saw the monkey was outside on the terrace.
However, when animal control showed up about a minute later, Rachel let the woman into the apartment.
They wouldn’t have had timeor reasonto move it.
He and Julie hadn’t been intimate yet.
However, as Rachel gave him advice, the mugs changed positions on the counter.
The red and green mugs switched places as Rachel advised him to wait to be with Julie.
She had it on as she spoke with Monica, Chandler and Joey about Ross and Julie.
Ross and Julie then joined the others and announced they were getting a cat.
Rachel wasn’t wearing a necklace during her initial reaction to the news.
However, the necklace reappeared as she continued to question the couple getting a pet.
It then disappeared again after Julie explained how she and Ross would split custody.
It didn’t reappear again during the scene.
Behind him and over his right shoulder, you could see the door.
That means to his left, the apartment should have continued.
However, as the camera panned as he asked, “could that shot be any prettier?
“the fact that it was a set was obvious.
That was the part of the apartment you pretty much never sawand obviously was never built.
Throughout the episode, the stain changed sizes.
At times, it looked like she cleaned off the hummus or tried to, at least.
It was significantly smaller as Monica checked her message on Richard’s machine.
However, it then reverted back to the giant stain it was when it first happened immediately after.
Richard got tomato on his shirt, and Monica helped him start to clean it off.
Both doors were still wide open.
However, suddenly Monica’s door was closed as they realized they were in each other’s personal space.
It remained closed as Monica backed away and alerted him to the tomato on his pants.
He showed his two options a blue suit or a brown suit to Joey and Chandler.
It would’ve been impossible for him to juggle the suits in such a short period of time.
The Guitar Disappeared
Ross offered Phoebe musical advice while she played guitar in season 4 episode 7.
She held her guitar in her hands as she listened to him.
She was still holding her guitar as he spoke about his musical past and finding his “sound.”
Phoebe asked him to play for her, and he refused.
Suddenly, her guitar was gone as she encouraged him to play.
He again protested briefly, but then he agreed to and Phoebe was once again holding her guitar.
She didn’t have enough time to put it down and pick it up again.