Well known to everyone, “Friends” is a series that we still talk about today. And, this Friday, January 12, one of the scripts for the series was put up for auction and sold for no less than €25,000.
Friends is a sitcom from the 1990s well known to the general public. For no less than ten seasons, viewers followed the adventures of Ross, Phoebe, Rachel, Monica and Chandler. An adventure made up of love stories, which don’t always work out, and friendship. A series that we watch over and over again until we know the dialogue by heart. So when we learn that a script for the series has been found and put up for auction, nothing more is needed to arouse our curiosity. Pages that were found in a trash can, by a employee of Foutain Studioseven as he was tidying up his office, after having slept there, in 1998.
We remember season 4 of Friends, and more precisely its end. At this point in the series, Emily and Ross are due to get married in London. A moment of happiness that nothing can taint. This was without counting on the presence of Rachel, Ross’s ex-girlfriend, at the ceremony, and the latter’s blunder by getting the wrong first name at the altar. After finding this piece of history from the series, this employee emptied his desk, and simply forgot that this scenario was on it: “When I cleared out my desk, I swept everything into a large cardboard box. I forgot there was a scenario there. I could very well have thrown them away, but this script deserves to belong to a big fan of the series.” He therefore decided to put this scenario up for auction, and buyers from all over the world did not fail to come forward.
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A script for €25,000
According to Hanson Ross, which handled the sale, 219 offers were made for the pages. Note that these should not have been released to the general public, because the producers would have requested that each version of the script be destroyed after filming. So these few pages, which should never have landed in the hands of a Fountain Studios employee, were priced at €930. The auctions then continued to follow one another, finally reach the price of €25,000. It seems that Ross’s blunder was finally overturned at a high price.