The remaining cast of Friends still make a heck of a lot of money from the reruns.
According to the latest YouGov stats, it's the second most streamed TV show in the UK after The Big Bang Theory as of October 2024.
It's pretty crazy considering that Friends ended in 2004 with 10 seasons and 236 episodes.
And from syndication revenue alone, the show takes in $1 billion (£820 million) a year for Warner Bros. - which means a hefty pay check for the main cast-members, as reported by USA Today.
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Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc and David Schwimmer will reportedly still make a percentage of the syndication income, while it's unclear what the situation is for Matthew Perry following his tragic passing in 2023.
The outlet claims that the main characters earn two percent of the total income, which equates to a whopping $20 million (£16 million) a year for each actor as of 2018.
However, FOX Business reports that this could be even higher after Netflix picked up the series re-runs on its streaming site.
But as millions around the world still watch the show, I guess it's only fair that the actors are still credited with bringing joy to so many households.
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Towards the end of the show, the actors were reportedly earning upwards of $1 million (£820,000) per episode.
LeBlanc - who played Joey - was asked if he felt that he was worth that kind of money, and he gave a brilliant answer.
“Were we worth $1 million? To me, that’s such a strange question,” he told HuffPost Live. “It’s like, well, that’s irrelevant. Are you worth it?
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“How do you put a price on how funny something is? We were in a position to get it.
“If you’re in a position in any job, no matter what the job is—if you’re driving a milk truck or installing TVs or an upholsterer for a couch—if you’re in a position to get a raise and you don’t get it, you’re stupid.
“You know what I mean? We were in a position and we were able to pull it off. ‘Worth it’ has nothing to do with it.”
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And more recently, Schwimmer - who played Ross - said he is grateful for Friends and called it 'the gift that keeps on giving'.
He told Good Morning America: “When I meet people on the street from another country and they say, ‘I just have to say, I learned English watching your show’, or a father stops me and says, ‘My kid was really, really ill and the one thing that kept them going in the hospital was just watching Friends', you feel really grateful and blessed to have done something that people find fun.”
Topics: Friends, TV and Film, Money
Anish Vij