Top 30 Most Hilarious Friends Bloopers

Many of us will remember playing the “Operation” game when we were kids and feeling that shock every time we made a mistake and the whole thing vibrated obnoxiously. However, the key word there is “playing” the game. Because in this blooper, there is no playing. Lisa Kudrow has only just picked up the box and started her dialogue when the contents inside make a very familiar noise. This not only interrupts her line but totally cracks her up and - from the sound of it - those in the studio audience as well.

You’d have to be made of stone to be able to keep a straight face around the wonderfully funny Jennifer Coolidge. With that said, we don’t blame Lisa Kudrow for breaking multiple times when trying to film this scene with her, especially given Coolidge’s hilarious accent and impeccable delivery. You know how sometimes things get less funny the more you say them? Well, this isn’t one of those times as Kudrow just seems to laugh harder with each subsequent take. We bet she felt like a… well, we’ll let Coolidge do the honors.

We should caveat this by saying you definitely shouldn’t do this to your co-workers. This scene has a written joke where Joey pats down Monica’s chest for too long under the guise of her chef’s uniform being on fire. Courteney Cox calls for a redo and while LeBlanc’s response is very funny, the reason this blooper made the list is Matthew Perry. He isn’t in the scene at all but that didn’t stop him from jumping in on the chest-patting action to elicit a smile from Cox and a big laugh from everyone else.

As Ross taught us at his wedding, saying the right name isn’t always easy. However, sometimes it isn’t scripted that way. When Jennifer Aniston said the wrong character name in this scene, it would’ve been very easy to just reset, go again and move on. Well, it would’ve been very easy if you were anyone but Matthew Perry. As the funniest guy on set and the resident class clown, he was never one to let something like this slide, especially if he could get a few laughs out of it. And we’d say he got more than just a few here.

Self-fulfilling prophecy or psychicness? We’ll let you be the judge. In this scene, Monica was supposed to tell Ross that, when they were kids, he slept through a trip to the Grand Canyon. Once Courteney Cox messes up her first take, though, she’s sure the line will be cursed from here on out. And, wouldn’t you know it, that’s exactly what happens. We have no idea how many tries it actually took but something tells us she was right on with her estimate if the few outtakes are anything to go by.

In the version of this scene that made it to air, Phoebe starts laughing after seeing Chandler making what Monica refers to as his sex face. However, the problem with the multiple takes prior to it is that Kudrow wasn’t the only one laughing. Perry and David Schwimmer were having some major issues making it through the scene without cracking up. Schwimmer is having such a hard time that he, at one point, asks Perry not to make any face for a moment so he can regain his composure…. It doesn’t work.

When Joey gets a hernia in season 6 he has to delay a visit to the doctor because his health insurance has lapsed. The tremendous amount of pain he is in makes even little things - like carrying cups of coffee - immensely difficult (and immensely funny). Matt LeBlanc sells it beautifully and Matthew Perry can barely hold it together as a hunched over Joey moans and groans his way from counter to couch. Even LeBlanc has trouble taking himself seriously at some points. We’re honestly impressed these two ever made it through any scene together, let alone this one.

First off, if anyone can explain the rules of “Bamboozled” to us we’d really appreciate it. Okay, now onto the blooper. This one took place during the scene where Joey enlists Chandler and Ross to help him practice for an audition to host the aforementioned “Bamboozled”. The moment in question focuses on the contestant introductions and Matthew Perry is having a hard time getting through the description of his fake job. The miss after miss is funny for sure, but the perfect cherry on top is, after a lot of frustration, Perry finally gets it right… only for LeBlanc to jump in with his line too early, sending Perry literally to his knees.

We love Chandler, but one aspect of his character we can never get behind is his hatred of dogs. Even his friends don’t understand it when he makes the shocking revelation in season 7. He gives him a - frankly silly - ultimatum that he probably should’ve expected the outcome of. In one outtake, Matt LeBlanc took things to hysterical heights with a mimed gag that just kept going. This led to a different ultimatum courtesy of Perry where, once again, we bet the dog comes out on top.

Babies and young children are often played by sets of twins, so they can swap if one needs a break or is being uncooperative. With that said, babies are babies and they’re going to make noise, as can be seen in the blooper reels of “Friends’” last three seasons. We can’t know for sure exactly which twin is responsible for the blunder but it’s all so adorable it doesn’t even matter. In a few different outtakes, baby Emma interrupts with laughing or cooing and, each time, the whole scene falls apart. These are by far the cutest “Friends” bloopers!

While a lot of great bloopers come when the cast of a show lose their cool during filming and end up laughing or forgetting their lines, others are amazing because we get to see some of the behind the scenes pranks that the actors liked to play. In this instance, Matthew Perry and Matt LeBlanc made the audience howl with laughter when Ross whisked Monica out of a London hotel room, and the two emerged from the room’s en suite with their pants around their ankles.

One of the plotlines of the season two episode “The One Where Old Yeller Dies” revolves around the fact that Ross feels he’s missing out on some of the important moments in Ben’s life because he’s not around full time. In one scene, he’s at Central Perk and trying to coax Ben into saying “dada”. Child actor Cole Sprouse is obviously supposed to stay mum and not actually utter the word in this scene, but he’s clearly too obedient and says it anyway, making the audience break out in “awwws”.

In one of the most devastating episodes for “Friends” fans, we learned that Monica and Chandler had secretly been house hunting in the suburb of Westchester and plan to leave their Manhattan apartment. When their friends find out, they’re understandably rattled, and considering this episode takes place partway through the final season, we can imagine that the cast would be getting pretty wistful. But David Schwimmer didn’t miss an opportunity to make a joke about watching Chandler “going to town” on himself through the window.

In this season seven episode, it’s revealed that Chandler doesn’t like dogs. As hard as this is to wrap our heads around, it’s a reality for him. But Joey understands exactly how it’s going to look to the rest of the group. He yells out “don’t do it!” to Chandler when he is about to tell the others about his loathing of canines. But Matt LeBlanc finds it so hilarious that he can’t keep it together. He covers his face and laughs, then delivers an exaggerated impersonation of himself and the line.

In one of the most memorable storylines in “Friends” history, Monica, Chandler and Joey are enjoying a walk on the beach when Monica is stung by a jellyfish. The three of them have to figure out how to alleviate her pain, but the embarrassing situation is something they want to keep private. Back at Central Perk, Ross asks Joey and Chandler what exactly happened at the beach but all three of them have a hard time keeping straight faces. Through multiple takes, someone always cracks up, making shooting the scene seem impossible.

In the second season, the three girls discover a self help book called “Be Your Own Windkeeper” which encourages them to practice self empowerment, especially when it comes to the men in their lives. Rachel in particular embraces the book and uses the lessons from it to assert herself in her relationship with Ross. She has to deliver the hilarious line, “how am I supposed to grow if you won’t let me blow?” but can’t take herself seriously and keeps breaking character and openly laughing. David Schwimmer as Ross certainly isn’t making it any easier for her.

There’s something so great about how meta these bloopers are. In season nine, Phoebe needs some money so Joey helps her get a gig as an extra on his soap opera, “Days of our Lives”. She is supposed to play a nurse but she keeps messing up the scene over and over again, in a variety of different ways. It seems like actress Lisa Kudrow has a lot in common with the character she plays, because she repeatedly laughs in this scene within a scene while Joey is trying to give her a pep talk.

When the gang heads to Barbados for Ross’s conference, it seems like hilarity ensues around every corner. Monica’s hair reacts poorly with the humidity on the Caribbean island, which makes every scene she’s in even funnier. Her competitive nature takes over when she challenges Mike to table tennis, but clearly shooting this scene was even harder than the game itself. With physical comedy like this, there’s so much that can go wrong, including Courteney Cox inadvertently flinging her paddle across the room and trying to explain the accident in a completely incoherent way.

In “The One With The Late Thanksgiving”, Rachel, Phoebe, Ross and Joey are all late for Monica’s Thanksgiving dinner and are terrified of the consequences. They can’t decide who’s going to walk in the door first, so Rachel suggests a game of rock, paper, scissors. But Joey, of course, plays by different rules than everyone else. When he tries to use “fire”, David Schwimmer cracks a foul mouthed joke about it. Not one to let someone else have the last laugh, Matt LeBlanc retaliates in the next take, making this all the funnier.

Ross’s son Ben appeared a lot as a baby and then largely disappeared for stretches of many episodes. In season seven, Cole Sprouse was back in the role and clearly he did his homework before actually showing up on set. In a couple of clips from the episodes “The One with the Truth About London” and “The One With the Holiday Armadillo” we see Sprouse schooling Jennifer Aniston and David Schwimmer, who play his parents Rachel and Ross on the show by remembering their lines even when they’ve forgotten them.

After sitting down to yet another screening of Joey’s favorite movie – “Die Hard” – Joey and Ross accidently fall asleep and end up cuddling. Joey considers it the best nap he’s ever had and keeps trying to convince or even trick Ross into napping with him again. Silly premise? Yes, but watching it unfold still gets us giggling. Turns out that was the case for Matt LeBlanc and David Schwimmer too, because the actors could barely get through this season seven scene without breaking… No matter how many times they shot it. It even came back later in the episode – and again resulted in gales of laughter.

By the time “Friends” had reached its tenth season, the cast had grown very close – which means that, on occasion, they’d poke fun at each other’s on set slipups. As you can expect, two of the biggest players in this game were Matthew Perry and Matt LeBlanc. In a season ten episode where the gang is trapped at Emma’s first birthday party because she won’t wake up from her nap, Courteney Cox accidentally looks straight into the camera lens. Obviously, the boys jump at the opportunity to mock her. What follows are a couple of ruined takes and – of course – some memorable bloopers.

The episode where Ross and Rachel break up is pretty somber. To make sure things aren’t too dark, the other friends keep the comedy flowing. Monica and Phoebe are attempting to wax their legs, and it’s more painful than they anticipated. Their screams attract Chandler and Joey, who race into Monica’s bedroom in an over-the-top fashion. An outtake of this scene sees the boys asked to try again, as they’ve apparently been told their acting is “too big.” Perry and LeBlanc poke fun at this piece of direction, entering the room as sedately as possible on the next take. In this case, we’re fine with the boys sabotaging yet another take for a great blooper.

It’s Thanksgiving, and Rachel’s been put in charge of dessert. Unfortunately, due to some sticky magazine pages, she mistakenly messes up the recipe. Since Ross and Joey want to spare Rachel’s feelings and are dying to leave to hang out with some hot models, they decide not to tell her. But that means eating the meat pie-slash-custardy dessert with a straight face. After Ross scarfs his entire piece – which is tough enough in itself – David Schwimmer delivers his next line in such a way that he erupts in laughter. Matt LeBlanc doesn’t even notice his costar has broken and continues eating his pie. But ultimately, he’s unable to fight off the giggles.

Early in the show’s run, Ross gets a capuchin monkey as a pet, and names it Marcel – much to the cast’s dismay. They say never work with children or animals, and here’s why: apparently the monkey, who was actually named Katie, sometimes had trouble following instructions and disrupted takes. In a Marcel-centric season one episode, Rachel’s babysitting Marcel and trying to explain a soap opera to him. But, as you can see in the blooper, Jennifer Aniston has a difficult time predicting what Katie’s going to do. This makes for a hilarious and quite frankly adorable outtake that neither we, nor Jennifer, will likely ever forget.

Nothing sends the “Friends” cast into fits of glee quite like Lisa Kudrow’s infectious laugh. In a season six episode after Phoebe and Rachel’s apartment burns down, the girls are arguing over who has to live with Monica and her strict house rules and who gets to have fun at Joey’s. But once Kudrow starts laughing – for no apparent reason – it’s hard for her to stop, and even harder for the rest of the cast and crew to get back on track. This begs the question: which is funnier, the final version of the scene or the blooper filled with endless laughter? We’ll let you decide.

Another staple of the “Friends” blooper library is cast members deliberately ruining takes by inserting new – and often bluer – jokes. In a season four episode where Monica’s trying to lure the group over to her new apartment by baking cookies, Matt LeBlanc decides to add an unexpected line. Well, this one word derails the entire scene for takes to come: the cast continually cracks up and cannot make it through their lines. After watching this series of hilarious bloopers, we wonder how they ended up recording the final version at all.

In this season two “Friends” episode, Joey’s character on “Days of our Lives” is written off the show because of an interview Joey did with Soap Opera Digest. Before it hits the fans, Joey excitedly runs into the coffeehouse to show Phoebe the article. However, in one take, Matt LeBlanc trips and falls on his way in, prompting gut busting laughter from the cast, crew and audience. Despite earnest attempts to get the scene right, this particular blooper proves difficult to get past. To make things funnier, Matthew Perry eventually disrupts a clean take by running into the scene that his character is not even in.

This classic “Friends” scene finds Ross, Chandler and Rachel moving a large couch through a small staircase. Ross, who’s adamant about getting his new couch up to his apartment without hiring a moving crew, starts to yell “Pivot” over and over again to direct his friends – much to our amusement. The finished product is funny enough, but the outtakes of this scene are guaranteed hilarity. Honestly, we totally understand how difficult it must have been for the cast to get through this moment: it’s arguably one of the most iconic and funniest scenes in the entire series. And the bloopers are all the funnier.

It’s season seven, and Ross is planning a special surprise for Monica and Chandler’s wedding: he wants to play the bagpipes. Well, when Ross finally debuts his newfound “talent,” the group cannot hold back. Though some of the laughing is left in the final edit of the scene, the blooper reel of this moment is even more riotous – especially once Phoebe starts to sing along with Ross’ bagpipes. Jennifer Aniston’s the first to go, but pretty soon everyone’s lost it. This has everything we’re looking for in a “Friends” blooper: it’s funny, it’s ridiculous and it reminds us of how much fun this cast must’ve had on set.

Which of these “Friends” bloopers gets you rolling on the floor every single time? Let us know in the comments.