This Iconic Friends Scene Was Much Funnier as a Blooper, Ironically

Throughout its brilliant 10-year-long run, Friends cemented its status as one of the best sitcoms ever with hilarious one-liners, unexpected plot twists, and great chemistry between the main characters. The show boasts numerous iconic moments that have fans laughing out loud even twenty years after Friends’ finale in 2004.

Among them all, the “Pivot” scene stands out as one of the most hysterical — both for the cast and the audience…and it took quite a while to film since the actors themselves couldn’t stop their convulsive laughter and get their bearings.

In case you don’t remember, “Pivot” is the scene where Ross employs Rachel and Chandler on the quest to get his brand-new sofa up the stairs after refusing to pay the furniture shop for delivery. Friends being Friends, the sofa gets stuck in the stairwell — even despite Ross’s best attempts to control and coordinate the efforts.

The two words Ross uses the most during the scene are “Up!” and “Pivot!” and that’s where the nickname comes from. After the sofa gets stuck, Ross keeps yelling the latter, and Chandler’s patience runs out — he yells “Shut up!” in return. This exchange ends with Ross admitting defeat in the show — but on the set, it took a while.

Perry, Schwimmer, and Aniston absolutely lost it after the former cried his line, and the trio broke into contagious laughter together with the live audience. Both the actors and the fans kept laughing for a few minutes and couldn’t stop since each other’s red faces only made them lose it even more. Here’s this blooper scene.

Sadly, while Friends is known to use off-the-script scenes like this one in the final cut, the show just couldn’t utilize this one since it defeated the purpose of the exchange and went off the rails too far. But at least, we have this brilliant and utterly hysterical blooper, so that’s something, right?