F.R.I.E.N.D.S was our go-to feel-good sitcom for years growing up and the adorable set of six misfits like family. And what made the show even more endearing was a generous dose of familiar faces thrown in to create the most hilarious of characters – ’cause everyone who appeared on the show, in all technicality, was a F.R.I.E.N.D amirite? We, of course, speak of the countless celebrity cameos that made so many episodes that much more memorable!
We’ve complied for you a list of our top 33 cameos that featured in F.R.I.E.N.D.S over the ten glorious years of the timeless comedy. Feast your eyes on these memories of utter hilarity.
#33 Ellen Pompeo
Season 10, “The One Where The Stripper Cries”
Or Meredith Grey as she’s better known. Pompeo played Missy Goldberg a.k.a the very girl Ross and Chandler made a pact over in college. A pact both of them also broke.
#32 Kristin Davis
Season 7, “The One With Ross’s Library Book”
The Sex And The City star was the cool beer-drinking, four-language-speaking girl that Phoebe and Rachel adored and egged Joey on to date seriously… Only to have his heart broken by the “loner”.
#31 Dakota Fanning
Season 10,”The One With Princess Consuela”
Monica and Chandler were looking to buy a house, and Joey was just not okay with it. Fanning was the little girl who lived there that imparted letting-go wisdom to ‘ol Joey. Or, as Chandler suspected, maybe she was a little-girl ghost that haunted the house!
#30 Craig Robinson
Season 10,”The One With Princess Consuela”
Short as his appearance may have been, us The Office fans remember Robinson as the impassive clerk that helped Phoebe change her name, officially, to ‘Princess Consuela Bananahammock’ after she married Mike.
#29 David Arquette
Season 3, “The One With All The Jam”
Ursula’s harmless stalker, Malcom that Phoebe befriended and had a crush on! Remember him? Yes, he was the real life husband of Monica, I mean Courtney Cox.
#28 Steve Zahn
Season 2, “The One With Phoebe’s Husband”
Phoebe’s Canadian, ice-dancing, supposedly-gay greencard husband that she had a mega-crush on. Which was crushed, btw, when he asked for a divorce so he could marry someone new as he revealed that “on some level I always knew I was… straight.”
#27 Anna Faris
Season 10, “The One With The Birth Mother” and others.
The dim-witted but well-meaning birth mother of Monica and Chandler’s babies, Erica. Yes, twins that she didn’t even know she was having! “They kept saying both heartbeats are really strong, and I thought well that’s good ’cause I’m havin’ a baby!”
#26 Sean Penn
Season 8, “The One With The Halloween Party” and others
Penn played the grade school teacher dating Ursula, that she blatantly lied to. Phoebe, kinda sweet on him, revealed the truth about her to him. But dating an evil twin’s ex can’t be easy, can it? It wasn’t.
#25 Reese Witherspoon
Season 6, “The One With Rachel’s Sister” and others
The first Green sister, Jill. She loved shopping and we loved her! She came to Rachel for help after she was cut off by Daddy and her twisted interest in Ross led to a bit of conflict for Rachel.
#24 Goerge Clooney and Noah Wyle
Season 1, “The One With Two Parts: Part 2”
The McDreamys of the episode in which Rachel twists her ankle – These two ER stars were the doctors and unassuming victims, I mean dates to Monica and Rachel in the middle of a fight while the girls pretended to be each other.
#23 Charlie Sheen
Season 2, “The One With The Chicken Pox”
Charlie Sheen played Navy man and Phoebe’s long-distance boyfriend, Ryan. Bent on making the most of the week they had together, he didn’t care that she had chicken pox. He kissed Phoebe, got the pox, and they spent all week resisting the urge to itch – not always succeeding.
#22 Winona Ryder
Season 7, “The One With Rachel’s Big Kiss”
Rachel did one crazy thing in college and that was makin’ out with her sorority sister Melissa. It was a drunken night, years ago – one that, turned out, Melissa never stopped thinking about!
#21 Jean-Claude Van Damme
Season 2, “The One After The Superbowl: Part 2”
Rachel: “My friend over there, who cooks by the way, she thinks you’re cute.”
Yep. The age-old roommates-fighting-over-the-same-guy twist. Except, the guy was no other than the Time Cop himself!
#20 Jeff Goldblum
Season 9, “The One With The Mugging”
Goldblum played himself and took an audition in which he “brought out” Joey’s best performance (even though he just made himself really need to pee) before the poor dude had a little accident.
“I plant the seeds.” *gestures growing shoot* “I can’t explain!”
#19 Selma Blair
Season 9, “The One With Christmas In Tulsa”
The ham-stealing, adultering temptress Wendy that Chandler worked with in Tulsa, Selma Blair was actually the woman that finally pushed Chandler to quit his job ’cause, “If what you and your wife have is so great, then why are you spending Christmas with me?”
#18 Danny DeVito
Season 10, “The One Where The Stripper Cries”
Phoebe’s bachelorette party was kind of spiced up and weirded out and then spiced up again by the 50 year-old stripper that had lost hope and cried – before Phoebe inspired him to pass on the torch!
#17 Denise Richards
Season 7, “The One With Ross And Monica’s Cousin”
Cassie Geller, Monica and Ross’s cousin. In case, you too were hypnotised by her slo-mo cascading hair like most of us, let me remind you of the embarrassing position Ross found himself in blinded by her beauty. He tried to KISS HIS COUSIN!
#16 John Stamos
Season 9, “The One With The Donor”
Uncle Jessie played the unsuspecting Zack – Chandler’s co-worker that he and Monica decided to check out as a prospective sperm donor. He was confused as hell with their endless questions about his medical history, and he looked gorgeous throughout. Haaaave merrrcyyyy!
#15 Susan Sarandon
Season 7, “The One With Joey’s New Brain”
Sarandon played the drink-splashing, bitch-slapping actress who played Jessica Lockhart on Days Of Our Lives – and she was to undergo surgery only to have Joey coming back as her… umm… him.
#14 Freddie Prinze Jr.
Season 9, “The One With The Male Nanny”
Emma’s male nanny, or her manny that bothered Ross to no end – Sandy was the most sensitive and wise man the guys of the gang had ever met. Or as Joey would put it, “Cheapest college ever.”
#13 Christina Applegate
Season 9, “The One With Rachel’s Other Sister” and others
The other, (and bitchier) Green sister. Amy Green was shallow to a point of hilarity and somehow found herself coming back to Rachel for help again and again, even though she thought her child was a boy called Emmett.
#12 Hugh Laurie
Season 4, “The One With Ross’s Wedding: Part 2”
Dr. House’s dry wit could not hide itself even in this little appearance he made as the man Rachel was travelling to London with. And he was the only one to call her out on her bullshit, “You are a horrible, horrible person.”
#11 Adam Goldberg
Season 2, “The One Where Eddie Moves In” and others
Eddie moved in with Chandler – along with his fish, Buddy – when Joey decided to get his own place in Season 2. He was hilariously freaky with his dehydrated fruit, accusing Chandler of killing his Buddy and watching him sleep! Who can forget Eddie! *nervous laughter*
#10 Billy Crystal and Robin Williams
Season 3, “The One With The Ultimate Fighting Champion”
They may have been one of the shortest, yet most memorable of cameos the show saw. As Monica tried to tell a story at Central Perk, the two men’s drama just took over the entire situation! One suspected his wife was cheating on him, the other confessed it was him she was cheating with. Monica didn’t even remember what she was talking about by the end, and neither did we!
#9 Alec Baldwin
Season 8, “The One With The Tea Leaves” and others
Baldwin as Phoebe’s ever-enthusiastic date, Parker just blew everybody’s mind. Was he a fairy disguised as a human, or just on cocaine? We’ll never know! But even when he and Phoebe fought, all he could say was, “Isn’t this the most incredible fight you’ve ever had in your entire life?”