How did we never notice!
Hands up if you remember the Friends episode ‘The One Where Ross Got High’.
Okay, for those of you who did the awkward, ‘hand sort of up, sort of down’ thing, it’s the one where Rachel makes half English trifle half shepherd’s pie.
“First there’s a layer of ladyfingers, then a layer of jam, then custard, which I made from scratch, then raspberries, more ladyfingers, then beef sauteed with peas and onions …”
Now that we’ve jogged your memory, we’ve got a little goss to share courtesy of The Graham Norton Show.
Matt LeBlanc, who played Joey, shared a funny incident from the set while on the show.
While the fictional version of the doomed dessert is undeniably foul, Matt revealed to Graham Norton that the trifle the actors ate was just made up of bananas and whipped cream.
At first.
“There was too much on his [David Schwimmer’s] plate,” LeBlanc explained.
“So he starts to eat it all and he can’t finish it and he starts laughing, so we cut. As we’re cutting, he kind of spits it back on his plate. I’m sitting right next to him, and I’m looking the other way. I didn’t see him spit it back on his plate.”
And here’s where things get a bit… yuck.
Not knowing his co-star’s plate had been sullied, LeBlanc scooped some of the regurgitated trifle onto his own plate and called for the cameras to start rolling.
“I go, ‘Here, let’s go again.’ And we go again. And I’m eating it and we finished the take. No one says anything to me,” he explained.
In fact, it wasn’t until the wrap party that he discovered the truth.
“We’re watching the blooper reel and I go, ‘Oh, I love this. This is funny,’” LeBlanc recalls, as his grin turns to horror. “I go, ‘Nobody ever told me that?!’”
TBH we’re still going to love that scene, but… with a little reservation.
Spit/Reguritated slop?
Not good.
Image: Friends
Written by Ally Parker
