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'Friends' took over the world -- and the show's superfans aren't ready to say goodbye
CNN
For 17 long years, television's six closest "Friends" and their die-hard fans around the world were on a break.
That ended Thursday, when the sitcom's six cast members returned for a one-off special -- a reunion millions of viewers had been feverishly demanding ever since the group turned off the lights and strolled out of their preposterously spacious Manhattan apartment for the last time. But "Friends" had never really gone away. All one needs to do to understand the staggering global impact the show has had over the past three decades is to check in with its legion of obsessed, line-quoting fanatics. And OH. MY. GOD. Could there be any more of them?![](/newspic/picid-6252001-20250215004209.jpg)
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