{"id":119393,"date":"2024-08-18T14:25:40","date_gmt":"2024-08-18T14:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/18\/friends-co-creators-recall-standing-up-to-nbc-executive\/"},"modified":"2024-08-18T14:25:40","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T14:25:40","slug":"friends-co-creators-recall-standing-up-to-nbc-executive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/18\/friends-co-creators-recall-standing-up-to-nbc-executive\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Friends\u2019 Co-Creators Recall Standing Up to NBC Executive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2018Friends\u2019 Co-Creators Recall Standing Up to NBC Executive Who Objected To Monica Sleeping With Someone On A First Date <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jpZTAg0Qn9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/jpZTAg0Qn9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DEADLINE\/status\/1824992461112148161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">August 18, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>NBC executive wanted to change Monica\u2019s pilot plot, which featured her sleeping with someone on a first date.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cThe guy who was in charge said: \u2018We\u2019re not going to like Monica because [in the pilot] she sleeps with a guy on the first date.\u2019 We made the argument that it makes her sympathetic. The network, in trying to prove that the audience wouldn\u2019t like Monica if she sleeps with a guy on the first date, distributed a little questionnaire to the audience at our dress rehearsal. And it was so skewed. The question was like: \u2018When Monica sleeps with a guy on her first date, is she a) a slut or b) a harlot?\u2019\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p>However, the audience chose a third, unlisted, none of the above option. <i>\u201cPeople wrote in saying: \u2018No, it\u2019s fine\u2019,\u201d<\/i> <\/p>\n<p>Another instance where the audience helped shape the sitcom\u2019s plotlines \u2014 that of Monica and Chandler\u2019s relationship.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cWe thought it would be a one-night stand. But they received such a strong reaction from the audience in London that it actually altered where we were going with the storyline.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DEADLINE\/status\/1824992461112148161\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">source<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/129003267.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Friends\u2019 Co-Creators Recall Standing Up to NBC Executive Who Objected To Monica Sleeping With Someone On A First Date https:\/\/t.co\/jpZTAg0Qn9 \u2014 Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) August 18, 2024 NBC executive wanted to change Monica\u2019s pilot plot, which featured her sleeping with someone on a first date. \u201cThe guy who was in charge said: \u2018We\u2019re not going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":119394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-119393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}