The Making of the Best-Ever Episode of ‘Friends’

‘The One with the Embryos’ serves as a template for all that Friends did best

Saul Austerlitz
GEN
Published in
9 min readSep 17, 2019

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A still from Friends episode 12 of season 4.
Photo: NBC/Getty Images

InIn 2009, when TV Guide named the 100 greatest television episodes of all time, it settled on a single Friends episode to inhabit the 21st slot: “The One with the Embryos,” from the show’s fourth season. Fanatics might differ about which Friends episode…

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Saul Austerlitz
GEN
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Author of Generation Friends: An Inside Look at the Show That Defined a Television Era +4 more. Work published in the NY Times and many others. Teacher at NYU.