Rachel Could Have Had a Totally Different Lobster on Friends, But Everyone Hated It

What could be more satisfying than binge-watching a beloved show that makes you feel nostalgic? Well, an excellent choice for that would be Friends, an iconic 90s show that has it all. The main storyline of the series focuses on six friends who try to survive in this cold world, but still make mistakes.

Fans all over the world are still obsessed with Monica, Ross, Joey, Chandler, Rachel, and Phoebe. Over the course of ten seasons, they all had a lot going on in their lives. And even the storylines that seemed unimportant at first played a big role in making the show the masterpiece that it really was.

One such storyline actually involves Rachel and Gunther, the manager of Central Perk. Although he was a supporting character, Gunther appeared in most of the episodes of the show, as the main group of six spent a lot of time in that coffee shop.

We didn't know much about him, but we certainly knew that he had a huge crush on Rachel. The comments he made about it while no one was listening were super funny, but also sad at times.

Poor lovesick Gunther witnessed every failed romance Rachel had and was always there to offer her his love, but unfortunately for him, the opportunity never came.

Things could have gone in a different direction if the show's writers had decided to push a storyline that was later cut from the script. The thing is, at some point, Gunther and Rachel would have moved in together. And we know what that would have done to their relationship...

Hopefully the fans never saw that. The thing is, even Jennifer Aniston, who played Rachel, and James Michael Tyler, who was a hit on the show as Gunther, were not keen on the idea of their characters moving in together.

They said it felt forced and not as organic and natural as the rest of what happened in the show. And the writers agreed to skip that part of the script. That left us free to just speculate on "what ifs.”

Source: Metro