'Friends' Actor Matthew Perry Refused To Shoot An Episode Where Chandler Had To Go To A Gay Bar

He's sarcastic, he is the only one with a real job and he has a third nipple. Despite his shortcomings, he also happens to be our favourite. Chandler Bing is an evergreen character who we love to LOVE.

The show and its seasons can be watched over and over again. But now in a book,? Generation Friends: An Inside Look at the Show That Defined a Television Era, writer Saul Austerlitz recalls the moment Perry was pitched the storyline, reported Digital Spy.

Matthew Perry wasn’t on board about his fan favourite Friends character Chandler hitting a gay bar.

As per the author, the episode would have seen Chandler sneak into a gay bar because he loved the chef’s tuna melts. “Perry said no, and the story was shelved,” Austerlitz wrote.

This is the just one of the episodes that has been brought to our notice. But there were other episodes that never made it to the hit NBC sitcom, including the one which would have seen Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) move in with Gunther (James Michael Tyler) and one which would have seen Chandler apprehended by airport security for making a joke about a sign telling people not make jokes about hijacking or bombs on an aircraft.

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The latter was dropped in the wake of the 9/11 terror attack.

Friends received acclaim throughout its run, becoming one of the most popular television shows of all time. The series was nominated for 62 Primetime Emmy Awards, winning the Outstanding Comedy Series award in 2002 for its eighth season. The show ranked no. 21 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time, and no. 7 on Empire magazine's The 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.

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Despite the love the show received, there were points where the show faced retrospective criticism by viewers who notice that many of the show’s jokes were homophobic in nature.