Start Friends Episode At 11.48pm Tonight And You'll Get Chandler Telling You It's 2020

Remember Friends? Specifically, the one with Chandler's 2020 message? Well, here's how you can get to experience that message all over again - just in time to ring in that very year. Let's remind ourselves of the moment first:

No doubt you've all been thinking about how you want to bring in the new year - which also happens to coincide with a brand new decade. Popping open a bottle of bubbly seems apt, or maybe you could put on an elaborate fireworks display in your back garden.

But realistically many of us are just going to be sat on our sofas, grumbling about how New Year's Eve is overrated anyway.

If that's you, why not mark the occasion with an episode of Friends? The fourth episode of season 10, to be precise.

Here's why:

Yep, if you get the episode all cued up for 11.48pm tonight, you can start 2020 with Chandler saying: "Hi Emma. It's the year 2020. Are you still enjoying your nap?"

The moment falls two minutes in to 'The One with the Cake', in which Ross and Rachel throw their daughter Emma a birthday and wanted everyone to be there for it - but the rest of the gang already have plans.

Chandler and Monica want to head off on a romantic weekend, so when they're asked to film a special message to Emma for her 18th birthday, they're less than overjoyed.

Monica follows Chandler's quip with: "We're Aunt Monica and Uncle Chandler, by the way - you may not recognise us because we haven't spoken to your parents in 17 years."

Chandler adds: "We used to be married but then we missed a weekend away together and things kind of unravelled... Because of you."

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It's the perfect way for any self-respecting Friends fan to see 2020 in - not least because the sitcom is being removed from Netflix US on 1 January, so perhaps a New Year's Eve binge might be in order while you still have the chance.

Naturally, viewers aren't happy, and are already mourning the loss on Twitter.

One wrote: "How is 2020 suppose to be my year when @netflix is removing Friends? My fave show ever... no one talk to me."

Another commented: "Super upset w you @netflix, Friends cannot leave tomorrow. This is a nightmare."

A third added: "Petition for @netflix not to take Friends off in 2020."

Topics: Entertainment, TV and Film, Friends

Jess Hardiman

Jess is a journalist at LADbible who graduated from Manchester University with a degree in Film Studies, English Language and Linguistics - indecisiveness at its finest, right there. She also works for FOODbible and its sister page Seitanists, which are both a safe haven for her to channel a love for homemade pasta, fennel and everything else in between. You can contact Jess at [email protected].

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