The one with Marta Kauffman’s regrets.
During a 25th anniversary panel of “Friends” at the Tribeca TV Festival on Friday, the show’s co-creator admitted there are two plot lines she isn’t too thrilled with.
“The stalker,” Kauffman said, referring to an episode from Season 3 of the beloved sitcom in which Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow) ends up falling for a guy named Malcolm (David Arquette) who’s been stalking her twin sister Ursula.
“We did a lot of rewriting on that to make that work,” she revealed.
Kauffman also wasn’t thrilled with a plot line from Season 2, where Phoebe gets the chicken pox and gives them to someone in the Navy named Ryan (Charlie Sheen), who she sometimes dates when he’s in town.
While co-creator David Crane didn’t call out any specific moments, he commented, “It’s one of those things where, I don’t watch the show at home, but occasionally if we’re traveling or whatever, it will be on and sometimes I’ll see something … and it will be like, ‘Wow, that actually holds up,’ and then there are definitely times where I’ll go, ‘Really? We went with that?'”
Executive producer Kevin Bright was also on the panel while one of the series’ stars, David Schwimmer, was also spotted in the audience trying to go unseen.