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Friends Forever

''Friends'' exclusive: Six members of the Central Perk gang talk about their favorite episodes, their future plans, and saying goodbye
| Feb 24, 2004
''Friends'' exclusive: EW interviews the cast | 131316__phoebe_l
'THE ONE HUNDREDTH' Kudrow gives birth to a triple threat
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Friends

Lisa Kudrow

Phoebe Buffay

Favorite episode Season 5's ''The One Hundredth,'' in which Phoebe gives birth to triplets. ''There's the Ross-Rachel story and Monica-Chandler and Joey-Rachel, but Phoebe usually isn't that instrumental in driving the main story, so it was nice that Phoebe could play such a big part in something as momentous as the 100th episode.... Phoebe had a line, 'I don't see three kids coming out of your vagina!' And everyone was like, 'Eh, vagina, I don't know, isn't there anything else?' One of the girls is like, 'Well, I say hoo hoo,' and LeBlanc goes, 'What about [insert inappropriate slang here]?' That's awful, but it made me laugh so hard. Then just as a joke, Matthew was like, 'I dare you to say it!' and I said, 'I will!' and he goes, 'You can't say it. There's an audience.' And then Jennifer's like, 'Oh, say it, I'll give you 200 dollars.' There's five of them pledging 200 dollars. And then Matthew was just like, 'You can't just do it.' And I'm like, 'What, am I going to get fired? Uh-uh.' He was, like, panicked. Leading up to it I couldn't get the line out because I kept cracking up. Finally I said it. It was so satisfying because the audience just shrieked. That was one thing that I'm the most proud of because it just took so much nerve.''

Stock quote about saying goodbye ''I don't know when I've cried that much. Yeah, I can talk to Courteney, Jennifer, Matt, Matthew, and David, but it's still not Monica and Rachel, and Joey, Chandler, and Ross. I just bawled -- just heaved because they're just gone and there's no getting 'em back.''

On doing a reunion show ''No, I don't think so. I don't know how it could be any good at all.''

Last time you went into a coffeehouse ''Oh, God...10 years. Does Starbucks count? Then it's been like two years.''

Keepsake prop ''All the rings Phoebe ever wore, I've got 'em.''

Worst thing about making a million dollars per episode ''Here's the worst thing: that we're done.''

Next ''Happy Endings,'' directed by Don Roos (''The Opposite of Sex'')

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