Here's Every Single Detail Revealed About Phoebe's Dark Past
Born and raised on the streets.
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Phoebe Buffay has had quite the wild life.
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When she drops something about her past (or her past life) she's known for shocking and scaring her fellow Friends (Ross, SMH).
So why hasn't she been on Oprah? Why did she live in Prague? Why did she live with a guy named Cindy who talked to his hand?
Here's everything you'll ever need to know about Phoebe's past.
PSA: It's about to get dark.
Here's Every Single Detail Revealed About Phoebe's Dark Past
Raised on the streets.
1 of 50Warner Bros.Want to know all about the dark past poor Phoebe suffered in Friends before she met the gang? Search no further. Here's everything we know. 1. She has a twin who's a waitress but they don't speak.
2 of 50Warner Bros.2. That twin sister used to do porn.
3 of 50Warner Bros.3. She was married to a gay ice dancer. (Which just sounds like a whole lot of fun, tbh.)
4 of 50Warner Bros.4. Her mother killed herself, her stepdad was sent to prison, she moved to New York alone and lived with an Albino guy who also killed himself. Then she found aromatherapy.
5 of 50Warner Bros.5. Her dad left her. :(
6 of 50Warner Bros.6. Her grandmother told her that her dad was the guy that comes in the frame.
7 of 50Warner Bros.7. Her sister stole her boyfriend, Randy Brown, she then broke his heart and Randy never talked to Phoebe again.
8 of 50Warner Bros.8. She thinks nothing sad happened to her when she was younger. But Monica reminded her that she lived on the streets.
9 of 50Warner Bros.9. Her dad subconsciously inspired the song Smelly Cat from the lullaby he sang to her as a child called Sleepy Girl.
10 of 50Warner Bros.10. Her mum put her head in an oven... and we all know how that ended.
11 of 50Warner Bros.11. Her stepdad's tradition was selling his own blood to buy Phoebe and her sister food on their birthdays.
12 of 50Warner Bros.12. Her mum worked on a barge. YOU NEVER RUN ON A BARGE.
13 of 50Warner Bros.13. When she was a child she had a barrel.
14 of 50Warner Bros.14. She used to have to run away from Satan, her neighbour's dog.
15 of 50Warner Bros.15. She never had a bike. But her neighbour gave her the box that her bike came in and Phoebe and her stepdad used to drag each other around on it.
16 of 50Warner Bros.16. Her mum had a skull that she would display at Christmas to remind her that people still died on Christmas.
17 of 50Warner Bros.17. Her mum used to not show her the end of sad movies, like Old Yeller for example.
18 of 50Warner Bros.18. She feels her mum next to her sometimes. Her ghost, that is.
19 of 50Warner Bros.19. Her mother was a drug dealer.
20 of 50Warner Bros.20. The Chelsea Reporter used to keep her so warm.
21 of 50Warner Bros.21. If you want to keep your food you have to learn how to scare people off, she learned that on the streets.
22 of 50Warner Bros.22. She hates Sesame Street because she wrote to them when her mother died asking for help and instead they sent her a keyring. Which was useless because she lived in a box.
23 of 50Warner Bros.23. In Junior High there was a period where she thought she was a witch.
24 of 50Warner Bros.24. She never went to High School...
25 of 50Warner Bros.25. Phoebe and three street friends met behind dumpsters to learn French.
26 of 50Warner Bros.26. She used to beg for money.
27 of 50Warner Bros.27. A guy once offered to buy her food if she slept with him.
28 of 50Warner Bros.28. On the day of her first pay cheque there was a cave in at the mines and 8 people died. She worked at a Dairy Queen.
29 of 50Warner Bros.29. She never had a graduation party, never had a prom and on her sweet 16th she was chased around a yard by an escaped mental patient who wanted to kill her. Her friend shot him.
30 of 50Warner Bros.30. She used to mug people with Lowell from the streets. SHE MUGGED ROSS.
31 of 50Warner Bros.31. She had hepatitis because a pimp spat in her mouth.
32 of 50Warner Bros.32. She used to live in a Gremlin when she was 18 with a guy named Cindy who talked to his hand.
33 of 50Warner Bros.33. She stabbed a cop because he stabbed her first.
34 of 50Warner Bros.34. When she was staying at The Y she beat up some men who weren't acting Christian enough.
35 of 50Warner Bros.35. She always wanted to ask "hey you behind the glass, who you looking at?" to the people who kept her in police custody.
36 of 50Warner Bros.36. She was once tortured. She handled it well.
37 of 50Warner Bros.37. She's been arrested before and never wants to go back to that hell hole.
38 of 50Warner Bros.38. She once lived in Prague.
39 of 50Warner Bros.39. She used to have a job which involved saying 'spank' on the phone.
40 of 50Warner Bros.40. She's been in trouble before for prostitution.
41 of 50Warner Bros.41. The guy who licks her neck on the subway is her friend.
42 of 50Warner Bros.42. She's dated someone with a glass eye.
43 of 50Warner Bros.43. She married someone in Vegas.
44 of 50Warner Bros.44. She once broke her leg due to a typographical error in a sex manual.
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46 of 50Warner Bros.46. She married her gay friend from Canada so he could have a green card.
47 of 50Warner Bros.47. She didn't take the job with Merrill Lynch because she believed everything that rhymed happened and she didn't want a fox as a pet.
48 of 50Warner Bros.48. She speaks Italian.
49 of 50Warner Bros.49. She's written 14 books.
50 of 50Warner Bros.50. She spent thanksgiving of 1962 on a battlefield saving soldiers before losing her arm. In a past life.
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We Asked A Friends Virgin To Watch The Pilot: Here's What They Thought
We Asked A Friends Virgin To Watch The Pilot: Here's What They Thought
Ross is bad. The End.
1 of 6Warner Bros.Ever wondered what people think when they watch Friends for the first time EVER in 2018? We asked a Friends virgin to watch The Pilot. Here's every weird thing they noticed. #1. The furniture is UGLY.
2 of 6Warner Bros.#2. Joey is very, very attractive. Like, insanely so.
3 of 6Warner Bros.#3. The outfits are like, so totally vintage.
4 of 6Warner Bros.#4. The hair is AMAZING. Also big. Very big.
5 of 6Warner Bros.#5. Ross is super annoying. Like, what does Rachel see in him? HE WHINES A LOT.
6 of 6Warner Bros.#6. When Rachel says "No I don't want you to buy me a hat, I'm saying I am a hat. It's a metaphor Daddy!". She basically invented that The Fault In Our Stars "It's a metaphor" scene.