Eleanor stood, adjusting her Patek. “Closure. I’ve been carrying that scene for 28 years. Now you can carry it for me.” She paused at the door. “Oh, and one more thing: the ‘joke too far’ in the Thanksgiving episode? It wasn’t a joke. It was a pie recipe. The censor just had a vendetta against nutmeg.”
However, when Warner Bros. began licensing Friends for syndication (reruns on local channels and cable networks like TBS and Nick at Nite), they needed to squeeze more commercials into each half-hour time slot. Their solution? watch friends uncut episodes