BritishBrownie

You should upgrade him to permanent. The rest of Reddit has.

This is aside from the AMA's context, but I feel like as Friends went on, the idea of the 'we were on a break!' gag shifted from the semantics of what 'on a break' meant (as it was originally) to whether or not they were on a break (which they were). For example, in one episode, Rachel tells Ben something along the lines of 'no matter what Daddy tells you, we were definitely not on a break'. In the original episode though, she is the one to tell Ross 'I think we should take a break' at which point he goes to the bar and the crazy nympho copy girl decides she wants to sleep with him, and so she badgers him.

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I'm not saying it wasn't Ross's fault, and I'm not saying it was Rachel's, but as time went on there was a lot of extra blame put on Ross (yes he shouldn't have slept with the copy girl, and yes he should have told her immediately instead of covering it up, but he should also have explained the copy girl's incessant nympho badgering of him), and the whole concept got distorted. One of the reasons it was such an important thing, I felt, was that it showed how different Ross and Rachel were, to have that different understanding of what 'on a break' meant - Ross was heartbroken and he thought Rachel had completely ended it, but she just wanted some space to think.

TL;DR: Friends fucked up.

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Oh my god I just had a look at that and it's bloody hilarious.

would've been one of those situations where you don't know if you can laugh because you don't know if it's real or not, and then one person laughs and everyone else then does