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  • That was garbage....

  • They wanted a title beginning with "Friends" and a band that began with "Rem"

  • The first season of friends I loved but stopped watching after that.

  • nessa opening tem epis que eu numca vi na waner channel = D QUE FODA

  • Lol did anyone see that the coffee house wasn't called the central perk? Thank god they didnt make it like it was gonna be. I'll be there for you is way better aswell

  • "Friends Like Us" and REM ... so weird!

  • Thank God they changed their minds!

  • Thank god they switched it!!!!!

  • Gosh am i glad they switched it!

  • They shouldve gone with "Everybody Hurts"...

  • some awful audio editing in this, whats going on ? :S

  • I think that this is more like New York than Friends. The other tune is better because it sums up the Friends better. Thums up if you agree!

  • did anyone else notice the clips are all from the pilot or is it just me

  • @jwman2016 It's not just you. They are all clips from the pilot because they hadn't filmed any episodes yet.

  • Thumbs up if you think this opening gives the show more of an 80's feel lol.

  • is this the original opening?!?!

  • @Eysteinnkjuuuul

    It's not fake you ignorant idiot. Google it.

  • I love REM, but this was not right for the theme song, so glad they changed it.

  • serously, is this was the theme song nobody would watched it!!

    or skip this part to go to the toilet

    or sue them...

  • I'LL BE THERE 4 U!!!!!! THAT FTW!!!! FRIENDS 4 LIFE!!!! So glad they didn't use this........all i heard was something like 'beh beh beh beh'........

  • @xavier19522 All I know is IM SO glad they changed both the name of the show and the theme!!!! Could this song BE more boring?!

  • Fake.

  • What's this?

  • shiny, happy, people? SO glad they changed it....

  • No ...no....no...simply no ... :D

  • Thank God they changed it! :D

  • Glad they didn't do this. Or else good old Friends would be called "Friends Like Us." And it would have this song, and that HORRID coffee shop. Central Perk all the way.

    I'm sorry, but "I'll Be There For You" fits Friends more than "Shiny Happy People." It sets the mood much better.

  • source?

  • all i can say is "umm..."

  • omg sorry but this is so horrible

  • I think that the song 'i'll be there for you' fits in so much better with the show. Whenever i hear it i automatically think of friends. I think i'm slightly addicted to it. Friends has to be by the the best show ever made. I never get sick of it. Couldn't imagine the show any different or with this song; just wouldn't be the same. Don't know how anyone can not like friends. Just saying :)

  • originaly it was supposed ross monica rachel and joey to be the main characters, while phoebe and chandler would play two of their friends as secontary roles..they wanted to name the show "Friends like Us" or "Across the hall"...I swear, i could never imagine more fitted pairs, more beautiful sitcom, more amazing storyline than this....LOVEEEEEE Friends.. miss them so much even though i watch at least 2-3 episodes per day since 1997... :)

  • @elmiss86 <3

  • did this make it to tv? because i have the seasons, i didnt watch it live cas i was really young, and they might have edited it for the seasons

  • "Shinny Happy People" by REM & B52s

  • thank God this wasn't the opening

  • Ew, this isn't F.R.I.E.N.D.S, it's Friends Like Us

  • I know this is only a small difference but there is no Central Perk sign on the window, does this mean it originally had a different name. (the series was originally gonna be called Insomnia cafe)

  • @PPKproductions3 'Insomnia Cafe' WHF!!????? Central Perk Rules all.........

  • Não dá pra imaginar Friends sem I'll Be There For You.

  • This song is about the massacre in Tiananmen Square. There is no way this was going to be used as the theme song.

  • Its quite good but it hasnt got the thrill and excitment as il be there for you

  • Thumbs up if you prefere il be there for you

  • OH GOOD GOD, It was gonna be boring liike How I Met Your Mother! Good thing they changed it

  • @joshuaneilherbert thanks for telling me :')

  • is this the opening to the ep b4 the pilot

  • cool. :) liked it.

  • shiney happy people is awesome!!!!

  • Whats the music called?

  • @ObviouslyUltraCool shiny happy people by REM

  • I would have still loved the show

  • God, this is terrible. All you can focus on is the music!  Sounds like hippy music for the 90s.

  • if they had put this you guys would like this one better... so stop saying the other one is better ( although i prefer the other one xD) btw...this one is great too :)

  • tht 1 is crap the other is better xx

  • I totally prefer the really "orginal" opening, but if this one had been deceided as the one, i would like as well

  • This one sucks haha

  • Graças a Deus q mudaram ;D

  • Although i like very much R.E.M (specially this song), i'm glad they changed the opening...the show wouldn't have been that succesfull with this opening, and frankly, having been almost 15 years since we first heard about F.R.I.E.N.D.S. , we can tell this opening doesn't fit to the show

  • Wow, can you say early 90s sitcom? This doesn't do the show justice, and it really would have dated it.

  • cadê o CENTRAL PERK ? :o

  • Great song from REM, but not for this opening. This show would really have gone down.

  • great song, it's just not as snappy as the show's humour

  • I think i just died inside O.O

  • Love REM <3

  • Damn....good thing they changed it.

  • yes is original opennig,project of the first openning

  • LIE! Fake, since they didn't have the outside scenery toCentral perk until the second season! Until then, the window was always frosted or covered woth props.

    And now I feel depressed from watching Friends too much :(

  • shiny happy peopleee

  • This Was Back When EVERYTHING Was Meant To Be Different In Friends. Joey And Monica Were Brother and Sister, Ross was A Strict Jew, Rachel and Chandler Were Origionally Meant To End Up Together Like Ross And Rachel.. and Monica And Ross Married Like Chandler and Monica.

  • @ScarlettPerry ah how do you know all this stuff! is there like videos on it??

    and strict jew? thats so weird

  • @ScarlettPerry Where did you hear that? I heard that it was Joey who was supposed to end up with Monica, although I think I have heard the Monica and Ross pairing too. I never heard of the Chandler/Rachel pairing though, just that they toyed with the idea of Chandler being gay and changed it when they met Perry.

  • @Sshelly34213 I remember on the finale episode in 2004 there was a programme celebrating it all, this woman was talking about it when this intro was shown. It was really interesting! It was six years ago though, I only remember bits.

  • @ScarlettPerry Yea I remember watching that too, but I don't remember hearing about the Rachel/Chandler pairing. It's been so long since they've shown it though, I mean wow I can't believe it's been 7 years since Friends ended.

  • @Sshelly34213 Monica and Ross?? They're brother and sister.

  • @GoingMad166 Well in the early planning stages Ross and Monica were not meant to be brother and sister. 

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  • glad they have changed it<3

    thumbs up if you agree'?x

  • no way that this is the original opening.. fake

  • Would not have watched friends....THIS IS HORRIBLE!!!!!

  • this sounds exactly like fireflies by owl city!

  • I hate the song I'll be there for you I like this better

  • friends like us??

    naah.. i just cant image friends with this opening

  • They had to shorten it because the owner of the Central perk was a cooler guy that the owner of that one ^ :D:D:D :) F.R.I.E.N.D.S is AWESOME!

  • Thats really crappy, it makes me laugh out loud

  • I love chandlers dancing at the start :L

  • for some reason, i find this opening rather depressing.

  • @Zhaquiri well it is based on a massacre

  • @Zhaquiri yeah me too :/

  • mhmm...yeah im not feeling it

  • Its just not right

  • It works, but nothing would ever beat the greatness of I'll Be There For You <3. Definately not the same.

  • LOL wtf is this crap.

  • fcuk off you idiots

    was the show only about the song ?and if this had been the song you would have all loved it the same.... ill be there for you vs a classic rem song????????????

    erm get a grip ffs

  • Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad!

  • "I'll be there for you" is much much much better!

  • Guys, this is in 1994 ... things were kinda differente that time.

  • I didn't think it was possible, but they ALMOST srewed up Friends..... *gasps*

  • OH...MY...GOD.....they were that close to screwing up friends...lucky they didnt

    Could this show BE any better???

  • rubbish i like the normal i'll be there for you

  • This is horrible!

  • the rembrandts version has more energy and "oomph" it really plays the show in well

  • I never saw the first season did joey look like a douche in that too?

  • Man This Sucks. 

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  • Yeah...I like The Rembrandts version better..and the name "Friends" hehe

  • i luv this

  • This version sucks... ; /

  • my life would have been so much different with this theme song

  • omg zum glück haben die ddie titelmudik noch geändert..das macht doch voll viel aus!! =)

  • God, this sucks ass! I'm soo glad they changed it cuz the song in this one is weird. Is it Saturday Night People or what??? Who cares, it sucks, the Rembrandts rock, and that's it!

  • @1901mrme dude REM is awesome if you dont think so you suck

  • not very catchy...

    i'll be there for you is wayyy better

    go friends :)

  • @pixiPassion08

    totaly... even kids know that tune... even if they didn't know the words or was born after the FRIENDS era... it's so catchy , it make me sing everytime i hear it... i always have it on my playlist...

  • this is so fake n not the "origional opening song" lmfao who the hell believed that.  people are retardddddded

  • @Rtre5899 and how do you know can you prove but yeah ill be there for you is amazing this sucks

  • @Rtre5899 Whether or not this as the original opening, they were planning to call the show "Friends Like Us."

  • @Rtre5899

    but i read it's ture, that they were suppose to call it "FRIENDS Like US"

    but they did changed it to Friends before they actually started shooting...

  • Central Perk seems to have changed a bit. Like the song and does make me think of mates, but don't think it would have suited friends :P

  • I prefer the other version

  • this looks retro, and very much like the 80's and we all know it werent in the 80's haha

    they made the right decision not to use this lol

  • i dont think its fake...the rembrandts version apeared only in '95

  • i checked the wikipedia page and its NOT Fake.This is for real.They changed it immediately though.

  • thank god they did.

  • @themop08 It is supposed to do that if you knew what music really was...

  • this opening would really ruin the show!

  • totally

  • thanks for putting it on

    but sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­ooooooooooooo glad they changed it

  • Show rape alert! That was horrid. I'm really glad they choose the other one :D

  • I seriously think that FRIENDS wouldn't have been as successful without the "I'll Be There For You" opening song. It would still be successful, but not AS successful.

  • is this for real? im glad they changed it !!!

  • I preffer the music I'l be there for you

  • Thats gota be a joke nobody ever listened to REM did they???, moodyblues and AC/DC YEH!!!!!

  • Was this version ever aired ?

    I only know the other version, beginning with episode 1.

  • BUUUU.. NOT CENTRAL PERK

  • wtf?!! if this was the theme song i would nt have watch it! Glad they changed it

  • Wow this was really a suckey opening clip... Glad they changed it. FRIENDS RULE!

  • @tal280691 Yeah, the song is too long to be in an opening for a show.

  • No Central Perk??

  • clearly wasent lol if it was why is it showing all of the episodes wouldn the theme tune it aleady has played on those episodes lol

  • sheesh, well that music sux-ass >.> too 80`s and generic the opening looked like a bad soft-core video or something...gud thing they scrapped this $hit

  • i dont think this is the '80s. the eighties actually rocked. this made me want to curl up on a couch and fall asleep with earpluggs.

  • Glad they changed it i gotta say!

  • sooo glad they changed it

  • ohh god thank for choosing the other one...this one doesnt suck but it isnt hipper or anything...it doesnt make want to sing along....

  • These people don't AGE!

  • oh yh good thing they changed it..this sucked

  • ok, yes they did have other races featured on the show. yes they did work. no, they did not have all the toys they wanted. several times they showed the friends struggling with money or at their careers. yes, they were at central perk a lot, but that was the whole show! i don't understand why people have something bad to say about everything...

  • Yeah it rly sucks but i think that if this was the opening they used we would have loved it because of FRIENDS

  • what the heck was thaat?? that suuucked!!!! friends forevaa <3

  • yeah,this one sucks soooo bad!!!!!

  • i dont like it...too boring...yawn...=O

  • You know, a little hile back everyone said this was fake. I believed them. Now I'm looking at it again and I have to say... If it was fake it would've been made damn good... Videotaping-lines and everything... This can't be made by some easy video-editting software...

    I actually believe it's real now. So does Wikipedia, it allready says it is real, so... By the way, after the intro you see the episode start in some strange way. I wish the complete ep in THIS edit was on YT so we could see it.

  • if people saw this one, then maybe they would appreciate the one they kept. i dont think ill watch the show if this was the theme song

  • its all right not as good as it is now

  • IMO the opening and song fits the show for when it first started, but that was in the early 90's. I do like I'll be there soo much better, but still it does kinda fit for a show in the early 90's.

  • Habby Birthday Matt LeBlanc! ;D

  • I love this song + original video so much, but it really doesn't fit very well. The adopted version of intro is more dynamic. Thanks for put it on youtube, it's rare.

  • This is really awful ^_^ Thank goodness they changed the song to "I'll be there for you" and the title to "Friends" instead of Friends Like Us.

  • this is shit!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Haha, doesn't sound anything like an intro song. It's not even happy.

  • Haha it's like puking on a pile of shit. It doesn't get worse!

  • GACK! Sorry, I almost gagged on the massive amount of corny.

    I love the other opening, imagine how horrible the show would even be like if it started out like this. My opinion is that the opening reflects the mood of the entire show, so this opening would be, urgh, I don't even want to think about it.

    Notice how they even say "shining, happy people!" *twitch twitch*

  • caca

  • Central Perk wasn't even on the outside of the coffee shop lol... imagine if this was the theme... would the show have been as successful as it was... lol

  • I really wouldn't believe if somebody was telling me a show couldnt be as successful as with a GOOD intro- but when I saw that I totally believe it now; with that intro FRIENDS didn't last for 10 years- never :D

  • i preffer I'll be there for you ;pp