Favorites:

Fools Rush In (Perry)
Lost In Space (LeBlanc)
The Good Girl (Aniston)
The Scream Trilogy (Cox, with a fake Stab 2 theatrical trialer in the box set that features Schwimmer. Really funny.)
Commandments (Cox)
The 1st Ace Ventura flick (Cox)
Romy & Michelle's High School Reunion (guilty pleasure, Kudrow)\
Apt Pupil (Schwimmer)

Least Favorites (i.e. I didn't like them):

Till There Was You (Aniston)
Picture Perfect (Aniston)
Ed (LeBlanc)
Six Days, Seven Nights (Schwimmer)
The Pallbearer (Scwhimmer)
The Whole Nine Yards (Perry. I'm fully aware that I'm in the minority here, but I don't care).


Oh, for the above list I forgot to include Three To Tango with Matthew Perry. Yeah, it's kinda dumb, but in a good way.

I thought the depiction of the way in which Perry and Hayek hooked up in Fools Rush In was utterly awful.

What, no Leprechaun? (Aniston)

Office Space. 'Nuff said.

Sparrow: D'oh! I love that movie, how could I forget it! •••••• Brian, real ••••••.

OFFICE SPACE!!!!!!!!

Ace Ventura

Need to see Bruce Almighty, but I'm sure I'll love it.

Nothing else comes to mind....

Ooh. Schwimmer. MTV's The State (TV, but...)

Who here remembers the 1994 Jack Nicholson/Michelle Pfeiffer movie Wolf? Do you remember the appearance of the member of the Friends gang in it?

Don't forget that Cox was the first Friends star to parlay her success on the TV show into a role in a successful film (Scream), by appearing as a supporting player in a quality film instead of as the star of a piece of generic junk.

Schwimmer also did an HBO film called Breast Men where he and Chris Cooper played the inventers of breast implants. Interesting comedy-drama if for no other reason than how they dealt with the social impact of the invention.

and who could forget Courteny Cox in "Masters Of The Universe"!! (heh heh- I know many try to, but it's a good kids flick and seeing as I still have the action figures from my childhood....)

My all-time fav is "Romy and Michelle". The soundtrack is great and Janeane Garafalo is brilliant (would love to quote my favourite line of hers, but I will be censored).

Also, Kudrow's appearance in the two "analyze" films are very good. Her best "Un-Phoebe" role is in "The Opposite Of Sex".

The cast of Friends make horrible decisions in regards to movies. The only one that's halfway good was Bark. And it looks like no one here has even heard of it.

Rodney, if you want to quote the line, just censor one or two letters of the offensive word with asteriks.

Rodney Hrvatin: and who could forget Courteny Cox in "Masters Of The Universe"!!
Luigi Novi: Right alongside Robert Duncan McNeil, who played Tom Paris on Star Trek Voyager.

Part of the storyline of HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm this season was that Larry David was doing The Producers on Broadway with David Schwimmer.
Spoiler Alert:
The plotline of the season finale of Curb was lifted right from The Producers movie. Larry David was chosen by Mel Brooks to close the play. Brooks was tired of the play, and wanted to end it. So, Larry David was hired to be the fall guy. However, the audience loved David, especially his ad-libbing when he forgot his lines, and the show was a hit all over again. Of course, Brooks was miserable over this. Some of Brooks' and Anne Bancroft's lines were taken right from the movie.

There's a 2002 movie titled The Good Girl, which frequently turns up on one of the many HBO channels. It stars Jennifer Aniston and John C. Reilly (Oscar nominee for Chicago.) Aniston plays a Texas white trash cheatin' wife, who has an affair with her co-worker at the K-Mart type store she works at.
Spoiler Alert:
Aniston's husband (Reilly) is sterile, and she gets pregnant by her co-worker (or maybe her one-act stand with her husband's partner-the film doesn't say.) She never fully comes clean about the affair(s), lies through her teeth about it, and, unlike Michael Douglas' cheating husband in Fatal Attraction, Aniston's character suffers no consequences for her actions.

The Whole Ten Yards, the sequel to The Whole Nine Yards, comes out soon! I hope they do a good job on it. I loved the first one!

And then there are the other TV shows that the cast members went on to do (not including "Joey")

I recently watched the complete series "The Comeback" which ran for a single season on HBO in 2005 and starred Lisa Kudrow as a washed-up actress who had a hit show in the late 80s-early 90s and wanted to become a star again. I thought it was all right, and it was one of Swedish-Canadian actress Malin Ackerman's first U.S. TV roles. I like her in almost everything she's done, plus she and I have the exact same birthday.

Also, there was another cable series called "Dirt", which was on the FX network and aired from 2007-2008 and starred Courtney Cox in a decidedly non-Monica Geller role as the EIC of a sleazy tabloid. I never saw it, so I cannot comment on it.

Some of you may know about the NBC series "Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip" starring Matthew Perry that ran from 2006-2007 and was created and mainly written by Aaron Sorkin. It was one of those "Too Good For TV" kind of series that could never find an audience, but it was given positive reviews when it debuted. However, it tanked in the ratings and then got cancelled. I never saw this one either.

And then there's David "Don't Call Me Ross" Schwimmer. He has been one of the more vocal former sitcom actors who does not want to be associated with the hit show they were on at one time any longer. He once said that it was important to him that he not continue to be known as Ross when he reaches the age of 60. Well, that's fine, I suppose. Anyway, he has had other TV roles since Friends ended, such as portraying himself in three episodes of "Curb Your Enthusiasm", portraying himself on an episode of "Entourage", and her also portrayed a militant environmentally-conscious superhero named Greenzo on "30 Rock", a series I have recently discovered as it in syndication on my FOX affiliate. And the one thing Schwimmer did that surprised me was that he directed various episodes of "Joey", just like he had done for "Friends". That was pretty cool, I thought. Not "Joey" itself, but that Schwimmer was directing for both of them.

As for Jennifer Aniston, she has stuck to films after "Friends" ended, but she did do the short-lived "Ferris Bueller" series in 1990 opposite Charlie Schlatter (I remember seeing this one) and before her career took off like a rocket in 1994, she was in the lame "horror" film "Leprechaun" in 1993 (the Nostalgia Critic and the Cinema Snob reviewed this one for Halloween 2010) as well as the short-lived FOX series "The Edge" with Wayne Knight, also in 1993.(Now that one I would have liked to have seen!)

Anyway, this is what I thought I would contribute to the board this time. Thanks for letting me post again, Rodney!

Don't forget Matthew Perry's eyecandy guest spot on "The West Wing", where he (accidentally) brings down the VP.

Loved him in WW- a shame they didn't keep him on.

Matt LeBlanc now stars in the Showtime cable series Episodes.

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He (David Schwimmer) once said that it was important to him that he not continue to be known as Ross when he reaches the age of 60.

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Yeah, I forgot about "Episodes". He plays an exaggerated caricature of himself, same thing Wil Wheaton's been doing on "Big Bang Theory" for years now.

Maybe Schwimmer is just sick of the association with the character. It's his right. As for Hagman, well, I've never seen "Dallas" but I know basically what happened on it. No further comment on that.

I saw both of those movies, Adam. Didnt care for either one. "Polly" was pretty stupid, I thought. And did anyone one else notice that Ben Stiller pretty much plays the exact same character in all of his movies now? And he even has the same exasperated and annoyed expression on his face for the posters. BTW, dont bother with "The Watch". It's just the SOS, according to my local critic. And this time, I'm inclined to believe him!

Lisa Kudrow is now in the Showtime series Web Therapy. Which, I believe, started out as an internet series, before Showtime bought it. (Are ex-Friends stars now required to do series for Showtime? )
I kinda liked Along Came Polly, probably because of the plot (a man's wife cheats on him - on their honeymoon.) As most readers of this site know, I had a wife who cheated on me. This probably accounts for my being drawn to movies and TV shows with infidelity as a main plot or a subplot. That includes Derailed.

BTW, one of Jennifer Aniston's more wretched flicks was the 2005 atrocity Rumor Has It. Aniston plays a woman who believes her family was the basis for the movie The Graduate. I was subjected to it on my flight to Paris in April 2006. I still wanted to walk out.

I was subjected to it on my flight to Paris in April 2006. I still wanted to walk out

Now, *THAT* would have been interesting.... :P

Adam Bomb: Aniston was fun in the comedy Along Came Polly...
Luigi Novi: Ugh. I thought that movie was awful. I thought she was far better in Derailed, which was a great departure for her.

I can't believe I forgot to mention the *other* Matthew Perry post-Friends show. It was called "Mr. Sunshine" and it ran from February 2011 to April 2011. This one was really quite pitiful. I watched the pilot and it was really grating on my nerves how unfunny it was.

Apparently Perry has been making some effort to avoid being typecast as Chandler. He took roles in two indie films "Numb" and "Birds Of America" as seriously depressed misanthropes, but he is definetly better suited to comedy. At least I think so. However, he will usually end up portraying watered-down versions of Chandler in films like "Three To Tango" and "Serving Sara". Perhaps that is simply his lot in life, who knows?

Aniston was more fun in Horrible Bosses. She played a vampy, raunchy dentist who constantly sexually harassed her assistant, played by Charlie Day. She'd squirt water at his private parts and even (IIRC) knocked him out so she could pose him in compromising positions, and take photos to try and blackmail him into having sex with her.

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Apparently Perry has been making some effort to avoid being typecast as Chandler. He took roles in two indie films...but he is definitely better suited to comedy.

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And then there's the currently-in-hiatus "Cougar Town" which debuted in 2009. Courtney Cox is a divorced mother of a teenager and hangs out with her ex-husband and her friends and their husbands. It takes place in Florida, I forget exactly where.

Now, I am not really a fan of this show, but I know that it does have a devoted fanbase. And it doesn't make sense to me why ABC has had this show's new season on hold for so long. Above, I already mentioned "Mr. Sunshine" and how it only lasted two months in early 2011, and many people were wondering why "Town" wasn't brought back instead of debuting a totally new show with a former Friends actor. Also, another sitcom, "Man Up" debuted and was promoted by the network around the same time, which made people wonder what the executives were thinking even more.

I just looked it up on Wikipedia, and it appears that the show was not renewed by ABC, and has been picked up by TBS, which will begin airing at the beginning of 2013. The move was not triggered by ABC canceling the show, but by the possibility of receiving more episodes and publicity than had the show remained on ABC.

In May 2010, it was reported that the show's producers were considering a name change because the plot had strayed so far from its initial premise. Alternate titles such as "Family Jules" and "Wine Time" (as Cox' character is an avid drinker of it) were considered, but the original title remained. When it debuts on TBS next year, they do have the option of changing the title, which remains to be seen.

Like I said, Cox is still a funny woman on this show, but isnt anal retentive and obsessed with cleanliness like Monica was. And apparently this show found an audience that really likes it, as opposed to the short-lived "Dirt" where Cox played a pretty nasty character.

I dont care for it, so I dont watch it. Simple as that!

I watched about half of the "Go On" pilot, it did nothing for me at all. Nothing else to say about it, really.

As for Matthew Perry's other sitcom work, I just saw an episode of "Scrubs" he did where he was *very* Chandler-esque. I didnt know until today that he was ever on that show. It's kinda like Jason Alexander doing a "Friends" show after "Seinfeld" ended. And yes, he was on "VGR" as Kurros, leader of the Think Tank. His Star Trek CCG card said that "he often did the exact opposite of what his adversary expected". Clever little in-joke there!