Someone actually took the time to find out. Kit Lovelace scrolled through all TEN SEASONS of the comedy and crunched the numbers for us.


 

Admit it, when you watch Friends, you always have that moment where you wish you could be hanging out with the guys at Central Perk over a cup of coffee. As one of the main sets for the show, Joey, Rachel, Monica, Ross, Phoebe and Chandler are shown drinking coffee (usually) at least once an episode.

Kit Lovelace, a writer, decided to take the time and crunch the numbers for how many cups the Friends cast consumed during filming and even broke it down according to character, season, and approx. how much would have been spent on coffee by the time the 10th season came to an end.

 

In total, Lovelace estimates that over 1154 cups of coffee were consumed by the crew at Central Perk.

I was a little surprised that Phoebe came out #1 for drinking the most coffee. I thought it would’ve been Rachel since she worked at Central Perk and it looked like she spent more time drinking coffee than serving it. (No shade to Rachel.)

 

Also pretty impressed with how Lovelace got the math on how much was spent on coffee.

That’s some serious attention to detail.

 

That is a LOT of Friends to watch, it works out to about 90 hours of you take zero breaks. That’s a bit intense. Lovelace said that to save time, they would fast forward through everything that wasn’t a Central Perk scene to get the numbers.

Well, thank you for doing this hard work for us Kit, and for giving us a fun piece of trivia to drop the next time someone turns on Friends when there’s nothing else to watch on Netflix.

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