Why would I want to spend the holidays with the "Friends" clique?

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  Today, Anne is imagining a New Year's Eve with the "Friends" clique.

Like countless series fans,

is my cuddly series.

The one I watch when I'm sick or when I'm feeling down.

Since its launch in 1994,

sitcom

par excellence, especially during the holiday season.

The most memorable moments on NBC's cult series often revolve around celebrations, whether it's Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukah, or New Year's. spend New Year's Eve, I would dream of celebrating with the clique formed by Monica, Chandler, Ross, Rachel, Phoebe and Rachel.

Who hasn't dreamed of sitting in Monica's kitchen or on the famous Central Perk sofa?

As proof, twenty-six years after its launch, "The Friends experience", the immersive exhibition which allows you to invite yourself into the sets of the sitcom, installed until January 22 at the Porte de Versailles in Paris, is making a cardboard.

Warner still makes $1 billion a year every year from reruns and merchandise from the show.

According to information from the

, Netflix has thus paid some 100 million dollars to keep the show in its catalog in 2019.

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You're welcome.

♥️

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Monica's Perfect Christmas Tree

No more gift stress!

My girlfriend Rachel,

at Bloomingdale's since “The One Who Made Rachel Quit,” would give me her shopping tips.

I'm sure she'll give me the benefit of her staff discounts at this beautiful

New York

And if really, I was out of inspiration, with Rachel, Phoebe and Chandler, we would try to find the presents that Monica stashed in her apartment, like in the episode “The one who wished a happy new year”.

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As in "He who mimicked", I would find the clique to decorate the tree in Monica and Rachel's apartment.

And even if our decoration wasn't perfect, Monica would turn the tree around so that her perfectly decorated side was visible, like in "The One Who Wished Happy New Year." ".

Experienced chef Monica would also take care of the Christmas menu and sweets.

With Joey, we would steal the delicious cookies she bakes in "He who broke the radiators".

She would also teach me how to fold the napkins into a swan shape to set a pretty table.

Ross' disguise

I'll do my Christmas BA with Phoebe by volunteering for the Salvation Army like in “The One With a Special Sister”.

Then we would all go listen to him sing his famous Christmas carol at Central Perk. 

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Above all, we wouldn't stop laughing all together.

We would watch the Gros Tout Nu decorate his tree by making valves on the size of his balls.

At the table, Chandler would recount a hilariously traumatic childhood Christmas memory, Ross would show up dressed as an armadillo and we would winnow him.

A little later in the evening, after a few glasses of Californian wine, Ross and Monica would give us a demo of La Routine…

They will be there for me

If

shines by the quality of its writing and the acting of its interpreters, it is not for all that the most revolutionary or the most intelligent of sitcoms.

But if

is still in the peloton of the most watched series, if the special show

broke audience records around the world, it's because sometimes it's good to take refuge in the within a group of loved ones who know how to comfort and support us.

Until Friends, in sitcoms, this group was the family… Since then, we have been able to count on the band of

or even that of

.

The world of

offers a sort of eternal adolescence far from family constraints and the brutalities of the world, a universe based on one of the most comforting human feelings, friendship.

"

 " ("I'll be there for you/When the rain starts to fall/I'll ​​be there for you/As I've always been/I'll ​​be there for you/Because you're there for me too"), sing the Rembrandts in the

credits .

It's an almost infantile chorus, but it's in this heartwarming message that the series' everlasting success probably lies.

A nice message for the end of the year celebrations, right?

In the meantime, if Santa Claus could place the biography of the interpreter of Chandler, Matthew Perry,

that would already be not bad!

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