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`The Last One': Long-running `Friends' ends its final season.
Byline: Ed Bark
Cavorting in their newfound fountain of youth, the six struggling actors of "Friends" first splish-splashed into view on Sept. 22, 1994. They ended the show's trademark opening segment with a group flex, not certain whether their coming-of-age comedy really would show any muscle.
All had been bruised by previous sitcom failures, and who knew whether "Friends" would be just another 90-pound weakling on a then-struggling NBC?
A decade and 235 episodes later, Courteney Cox Arquette, Matthew Perry, Jennifer Aniston, David Schwimmer, Lisa Kudrow and Matt LeBlanc are famed names with big money and a signature sitcom in the bank. The fountain also remains in play, but now it's soaking the rich _ and not so young and restless.
They'll be there for the last time on Thursday's one-hour end of "Friends." Should it be called "The One Where America Gathers to Laugh, Cry and Bid Them All Goodbye?" That's the long and short of it, but this episode is simply titled "The Last One."
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