Following its ten-season run starting in September 1994, "Friends" became one of the most popular and highly-rated sitcoms in television history. The careers of six actors and actresses at the core of the ensemble cast were forever changed and elements of the show influenced popular hairstyles and cultural vocabulary.
How might things have been different if the story of those so prominently occupying the couches at "Central Perk" had not been a television phenomenon? Could it have been any different?