People missed their Friends during the pandemic,
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and thanks to HBO Max it’s reunion time, and new “friend,” Lady Gaga and her acoustic guitar joined Lisa Kudrow, who played Phoebe Buffay, for a version of “Smelly Cat.”
Kudrow’s beloved blonde character first sang “Smelly Cat” on a 1995 episode of Friends, and the song made a few appearances on the show, achieving oddball icon status. Kudrow and Taylor Swift sang it together at one of Swift’s 2015 concerts in Los Angeles’ Staples Center.
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The special has James Corden interviewing the show’s cast on a recreated version of the Friends set. Guests popped by; BTS, for instance, joined to wax ecstatic about their Friends fandom, while Justin Bieber wordlessly modeled Ross’ Spudnik costume during a fashion-show segment.
Other fun news is emerging from the reunion, including that “Ross and Rachel,” aka David Schwimmer and Jennifer Aniston had real-life crushes on each other.
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